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cryptofistMonk

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cryptofistMonk··on Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo
Ah I found this https://ctrl-c.us/posts/test-goarch I guess it's qemu-user-binfmt registering the alternate bin formats to automatically run under QEMU, that's pretty neat
cryptofistMonk··on Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo
Wait is go test automatically running it under QEMU or what's going on here?
cryptofistMonk··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
Hah, got it in 4 even though my first guess started with 'a' because I didn't know this was binary search yet
cryptofistMonk··on Hacking a Virtual Power Plant
"They’d switch to a 4096 bit RSA key, but not only was I no longer able to mint my own API tokens, the legitimate ones I’d initially generated still worked."

I wonder how the old JWTs signed with the 512-bit key still work safely, isn't that 512-bit key cracked??

cryptofistMonk··on Deliberately optimizing for harm
This is not really that worrying IMO - we already have weaponized toxins, viruses, and enough explosives to blow up the entire planet. So what if an AI can come up with something a little bit worse? It isn't the existence of these things that's stopping us all from killing each other.
cryptofistMonk··on The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
> sounds like you're in a place where an EV doesn't make sense. They don't make sense for everybody, but that doesn't mean they aren't fine for the majority of people who drive. So don't buy an EV

Sounds great, the problem is when law makers get involved - BC is banning the sale of ICE vehicles within the next 10-15 years, the law is already on the books. Plenty of real cold places here, not to mention the fact the our electrical grid will never be able to keep up

cryptofistMonk··on Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method
Damn, unfortunate that you will revoke all these certificates if there is truly no security risk. This is likely going to break a lot of our users, or require manual intervention within the next 42 hours.
cryptofistMonk··on Apple broke up with me
Seems like a very simple email filter would do the job, for internal emails at least
cryptofistMonk··on Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
Very often unpaid
cryptofistMonk··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
Presumably order numbers are easily guessable, so the md5 really offers no protection at all in this case and is no better than just using the order number
cryptofistMonk··on Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device
You don't even need to store multiple hashes, just check both versions of the submitted password against the one stored hash
cryptofistMonk··on Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device
Not necessarily, it could simply be checking both versions of the password against the hash
cryptofistMonk··on Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal
It really depends how you define automating. I tend to think of writing higher level languages and even libraries and functions as automating the repetitive low-level parts of programming
cryptofistMonk··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
Forests are basically carbon neutral once they're mature, peat bogs would probably be much more effective as carbon is continually sequestered underwater.
cryptofistMonk··on Apple Maps vs. Google Maps
This article just showed me an ad with my exact last name embroidered on a t-shirt... Bit ironic
cryptofistMonk··on Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?
Top 10% in the world is not very high... Top 0.01% is still only top 100 in a city of a million, seems a bit more aspirational
cryptofistMonk··on San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%
Exactly the point - when apps charge too much, people will complain and alternatives will arise.

From your second source: > "Dozens of locally owned services are proving there's a better alternative"

cryptofistMonk··on San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%
And they will become irrelevant if there are no good restaurants on their platform
cryptofistMonk··on San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%
Delivery is expensive and network effects are valuable.

Price-fixing is already illegal

cryptofistMonk··on San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%
The restriction may have made sense during a pandemic, but long term this really seems like something for markets, rather than governments, to solve
cryptofistMonk··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
Airpods Pro.

Not traditionally an apple guy so didn't expect to like them, but the guy talked us into them while we were upgrading my wife's phone.

Wow. These things are just way better than any other earbuds and so much more convenient and comfortable than headphones. The Bluetooth just works even when switching between my Android and MacBook. The noise cancelling is great as well, way better than my Sennheisers.

cryptofistMonk··on Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
> Often trade deals do include agreements about subsidies.

Yes but it's complicated when you're dealing with China where the govt is heavily involved in many "private" cos

cryptofistMonk··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
Yeah that's something I definitely need to do... Most people really can't afford it though
cryptofistMonk··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
If you even have a main doctor (many Canadians can't find one) sure - then you wait 6 months to see the specialist who may/may not know what to do. My wife was recently in a car accident and waited 3 months to see a podiatrist who said "maybe your foot's broken, go get another x-ray".
cryptofistMonk··on Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
Right. Other governments are always going to subsidize though (unless you work that into the trade deals I suppose).

Obviously any barriers to the success of US fabs should be removed, but it's not clear if there's a market for more expensive US chips - if there were, you'd think someone would build it without the need for a subsidy

cryptofistMonk··on Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production
> The reason these items are not produced at home is because of government policies.

Which policies? I believe you, genuinely curious

cryptofistMonk··on New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up
Does this make him a better or worse con man?
cryptofistMonk··on My Favorite One Liners
For this to work on the command line, the json-pipe command would need some heuristic for parsing arbitrary input, could be tricky.

Interestingly enough, the Arista CLI actually implements something like this, but it's not a real pipe or a separate command - each command implements it's own `<command> | json` handler.

cryptofistMonk··on So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain
> You have to do it yourself. You have to research things yourself. You have to hunt for doctors & specialists yourself.

That's true everywhere, though. Just because basic stuff is paid for in Canada doesn't mean we've got crack teams of doctors tracking down your diagnosis.

cryptofistMonk··on Canadian property bubble nears systemic failure
All these articles assume median incomes with 10% savings for a down payment, which to me seems ridiculous and is simply never going to be enough to buy a detached home in a major city.

Here's the income data for 25 to 34 year olds in Vancouver: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111002...

We're talking about incomes of only $46k CAD. Is the author really expecting a young couple saving 9k per year to come up with a down payment on a detached home in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

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