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arthuliaon Astrology for Mathematicians

years ago somebody tried to add a new astrological symbol to account for this but of course astrology followers weren't having it.

https://www.today.com/popculture/your-life-lie-zodiac-has-ch...

arthuliaon Bash 5.0 released

I recommend Greg's Wiki. It's the only resource I use. It covers common pitfalls and anti-patterns.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/

arthuliaon Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

How would you point it to a data directory on your local machine?

arthuliaon Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal

You do have to verify fingerprints individually for each device that a user has. You also have to do it individually for each device that you have.

arthuliaon Project Capillary: End-to-end encryption for push messaging, simplified

Okay I Googled "foot-cannon" but didn't find any relevant looking results. Can you explain to me what it is?

arthuliaon Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me

It doesn't make a whole ton of sense because you'd still need to know when to un-indent in order to get out of a conditional block. IDEs can't read your mind.

arthuliaon Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes

I suspect most people would not consider buying a $5 loot box if there was a 95% chance of only getting duplicate items, or a 0.0002% chance of getting the item they're hoping for.

Developers will probably increase the drop rates for things so that people will continue to buy their crates.

I agree it's still gambling but this is a step.

arthuliaon India is preparing to land on moon for the first time in the country's history

The Moon has a fair bit of Helium-3. It sounds like that is partly what this mission is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraction_from_extra...

arthuliaon The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election

At the very least, maybe we would have seen higher voter turnout. I know at least a handful of 'salty' people who didn't vote at all but would never have voted for Trump.

arthuliaon No Man’s Sky One Year Later

The games aren't really about the language--which have maybe 12 instructions at most--they're about the challenge of working with an extremely limited instruction set. They're puzzle games disguised as games about assembly languages. A game using a real instruction set might be fun for some people, but it would feel a lot different, and probably have to be a lot more challenging to make up for all of the convenient instructions. At that point you're basically just programming.

arthuliaon Two years after Windows 10: Windows 7 is still threatening a 2020 EOL meltdown

It's easier for a company to maintain fewer versions of software that serve the same functional purpose.

arthuliaon Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community

Indoor smoking, 110F weather, and universally crappy, over-priced food.

arthuliaon Pass: A standard Unix password manager

But then you have to remember the counter setting for that website. So it's almost the same problem; I could just add a 1 to the end of my master password for that website.

arthuliaon Pass: A standard Unix password manager

This is pretty brilliant. My biggest concern is that if my password for a site gets compromised, it gets a lot more complicated. Presumably I'd have to memorize a separate master password for retrieving the new password for that site.

arthuliaon Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS

Could you elaborate on what you did mean by 'diminished role of the state', and what you imagined?

arthuliaon Over time, leaders lose mental capacities

It would seem some leaders are born this way.

I wonder how easily it can be passed to offspring (via nature or nurture).

arthuliaon Man to pay $300k in damages for hacking employer

Assuming this is the correct website, it appears to still be defaced:

http://www.capatrol.com/

arthuliaon “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″

Google officially dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto a while back and picked up Alphabet's "Do the Right Thing" motto, which seems a lot more subjective.

arthuliaon Stopping the False Epidemic of Adult ADHD

What if I think the DSM-IV is junk, too?

arthuliaon Ultra-low-energy consumption ultrasonic clothes dryer

Must every appliance become "disposable"?

arthuliaon For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her

Then maybe they should make the other things illegal instead of inconveniencing citizens who just want to take a shorter route home.

arthuliaon For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her

Ah yes, how dare people walk around after 10pm.

arthuliaon Kirby is a file-based CMS

Can Grav be used to generate a static site hosted elsewhere?

arthuliaon Comcast will treat Rokus like CableCARDs, not set-top boxes

> ... there were 99.44 million cable plus households, which includes wired cable, telco and satellite subscribers, ...

I have a cable subscription that I never use. It's not HD so it doesn't even compete with my digital antenna. Why do I have a cable subscription that I don't use? Comcast continuously provides promotional packages with cable that are cheaper than regular internet-only packages. I think practices like this artificially inflate that number, quite a bit.

arthuliaon Thoughts on the Systemd Root Exploit

because presumably they'd be missing init scripts...

arthuliaon DHS will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders

no it's not code. They are literally saying that.

arthuliaon Thoughts on the Systemd Root Exploit

configuring freshly installed packages must be a pain

arthuliaon The World's Least-Popular Four-Digit PIN: 8068

offline password managers are pretty good.

arthuliaon Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics

You already said "everything that can happen". I feel like that rules out things that are provably impossible.