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deg4uss3ron Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens

If this was "Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at books" would that also be a bad thing? To me and my work/reaserch/fun it's the same...

deg4uss3ron Marvel introduces two new superheroes, Snowflake and Safespace

"Hello, fellow kids!"

deg4uss3ron Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)

My only problem with this article is there is no such thing as "Legos". Jess is brilliant and explains things super well here.

deg4uss3ron Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Bid

Shit.

deg4uss3ron Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs

I use cloud nine because I dont' like CF: https://dns9.quad9.net/dns-query

deg4uss3ron iOS Screen Time setting blocks searches for “Asian”

Sounds like their recognition model wasn't tested for false correlations...

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?

My dad worked in a plant growing up, right before college my summer job was cleaning the washing ovens to "make sure I value my education and don't drop out." Amazing to see the aluminum pucks and machinery and get up close and take it apart to clean it, I don't think my dad was worried after the foreman asked him if I was going to be mechanical engineer.

deg4uss3ron Thank You, Guido

Why did this take so long to load?

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?

> how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?

The majority of criminals caught in transit doesn't warrant me giving up my privacy. They will still be caught in the same manners they are now, and it still offers them little protection over what law enforcement typically does.

deg4uss3ron Why Go and Not Rust?

Contrary to popular belief there is not one ring to rule them all.

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?

I take the bus every day to/from work (live and work inside the city) and am able to get pretty much anywhere with the bus, I don't really see a problem with it.

Pittsburgh would not work with a lightrail the city is a triangle with crazy ass intersections and "tiny" streets, not a grid. A lightrail would be very ineffective (see Baltimore's that just runs pretty much one line in the city to the airport), or would require the city to pretty much destroy all existing streets and try again.

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live in?

Not fully remote, but my wife is.

We enjoy Pittsburgh, big city feel (not massive though), decent public transit, gigabit ethernet.

Decent airport (well kinda we have to do a lot of connections when flying to SF or Europe). Easy to get to DC, NYC though via plane or car. Everyone is pretty nice here (bias I did grow up around here, though I can tell you driving has gotten worse..still far better than DC).

Edit: Given the chance to live anywhere we'd probably go back to Europe, lived there for about 4 years with my previous job. It fit our lifestyle a bit better than the US does. Probably pick a place like Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam-area.

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: What tech skills did you use to make organising your wedding easier?

A spreadsheet (and stored on something you can access away from your main computer e.g. Dropbox). Seriously, keep it simple you'll probably have to pass information to people frequently and you don't want to waste extra time formatting it for them because they don't know how to use what you sent already.

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?

There's musenet[0], but it seems like there's only an API to the web generator[1] that might work for what you need?

[0]: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/ [1]: https://github.com/bmckalla/musenet-api

deg4uss3ron The maker of AdBlock Plus is also an ally of online advertising

It's okay to show me ads, it's not okay to use those videos/images to track everything I do for your own profit without my explicit consent.

deg4uss3ron Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation

Yes, very much so. In addition stop using RSA[0] and use ed25519 with `ssh-keygen -t ed25519`

[0]: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/

deg4uss3ron Google – My Activity

Achievement unlocked: No Activity.

deg4uss3ron Grumpy Cat has died

I'll miss GC, but she was very well taken care of and had a great life. Go hug your cats/pets and loved ones today life sucks and is short.

deg4uss3ron Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)

Ah thanks, that makes sense!

deg4uss3ron Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)

Huh, 271K on MacOS using debug (268K using release)..

Edit: 1.34.2

deg4uss3ron Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

Anyone want to buy a nest? It came with the home and I'd rather use it as a hockey puck than a thermostat/spy.

deg4uss3ron TeX Live 2019

> Current release: TeX Live 2019 is available over the Internet and on DVD. It was released on 29 April 2018 ...

Wait was this released yesterday or a year ago yesterday?

deg4uss3ron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2018)

Location: United Kingdom (US Citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (preference for UK/Europe) Technologies: Rust, Network protocols, Networking, Cellular, Python, Bash, Linux, MacOS, Elastic Stack

Résumé/CV: Please email for more Email: ricky <at> hosfelt <dot> io PGP Key: https://hosfelt.io/ricky.asc

I have been working for the same company for 7 years, during this time I rose from junior to subject matter expert. I want to focus on a more development heavy role and continue expanding my knowledge. I am good a thinking outside the box, leading, and research.