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forgotmypassw··on High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
Probably because sysadmins aren't willing to push updates to their Windows machines because they tend to change system settings nowadays.
forgotmypassw··on CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs
You can use the --standalone option to get just the certificate files, so you can keep your nginx config files as-is however you configured them and just update the privkey.pem and fullchain.pem files wherever your nginx config points to look for them. And the --standalone option actually requires sudo but I guess that's because it puts the certs in /etc/letsencrypt~.

Caution though, the file paths you get after obtaining the certificates are actually relative symlinks for some reason so if you just copy these symlinks over they will most likely not point to the correct path so copy the original files instead.

forgotmypassw··on Flatpak: Standalone apps for Linux
So how does that differ from either static linking or dynamic linking and providing the .so files combined with LD_PRELOAD startup script?
forgotmypassw··on Uvloop: Fast Python networking
Unless you're working with legacy project, in which case you wouldn't be replacing the lib for such stuff anyway, I don't see any reason why you would want to use 2.7.x over 3.x unless you desperately need something like gevent.
forgotmypassw··on Never trust the client
I thought it was a common sense to treat the client as merely the data representation and nothing else, sad to see that multi million dollar companies make rookie mistakes.
forgotmypassw··on Simple voxel explanation
You might want to take a look at Craft[0] which is a simple clone of Minecraft implemented in C, that should get you the basic idea of a voxel engine since the codebase is quite minimal for the available features.

[0] https://github.com/fogleman/Craft

forgotmypassw··on Visual Studio Code 1.0
I'm quite surprised by how much smoother VSCode is than Atom despite being built upon the same platform, I just wish it had tabs and split tab groups, then I could give it a go for a full day and decide whether I like it or not.
forgotmypassw··on WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device services to the web
This is madness.
forgotmypassw··on Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
Even though I'm not using CloudFlare myself, I always enjoy reading their blog posts, these guys are amazing hackers.
forgotmypassw··on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
The difference being that distro packages are distributed in a safe matter (signing and verification) whereas a website could be hijacked and the script replaced or you could get MITM'd if you access it over HTTP.
forgotmypassw··on DO Not CLOSE THE ISSUE ASSHOLE
Despite his rude tone he's got a point, perhaps he'd be taken seriously had he approached it in a civil manner.
forgotmypassw··on Ask HN: How do you debug your code?
GDB and some fprintf calls cut it most of the time. The worst kind of bug is when the program segfaults into oblivion and works fine under GDB but in 99% of the cases that's related to uninitialized memory, which might be a bit hard to find but is quite simple to fix (it's the worst because it sometimes takes a while to figure out where you forgot to initialize variables when it's unrelated to a new change and happened to just not occur during previous changes).
forgotmypassw··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
JavaScript was a mistake.
forgotmypassw··on iPhone SE
The same reason why you pay $600 for 32 GB of RAM with Apple.
forgotmypassw··on Mozilla Pushes the Web to New Levels as a Platform for Games
>I'm really disappointed with how slow publishers are being to adopt these technologies.

And for that, I'm grateful.

forgotmypassw··on Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case
Nothing but a PR stunt.
forgotmypassw··on How we use Slack in our family
Absolutely yes (aside from visuals).
forgotmypassw··on How Cigarettes Tax the Poor
Building tolerance and addiction is highly dependant on the individual, and so is quitting. Besides there's a difference between "a couple packs" and a long term smoking (at which point you're not yet that much addicted but smoke due to different reasons and get addicted in the meantime).
forgotmypassw··on How Cigarettes Tax the Poor
People should stop liking what you don't like, right?
forgotmypassw··on Atom text editor 1.4 released
I'm on the same boat, as much as I'd love to love Atom, I keep installing it anew with every release only to get disappointed by the performance. Shame because it's an otherwise great editor.
forgotmypassw··on Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Hacker
forgotmypassw··on You can't trust Amazon Underground
Because the moment you willingly let an application collect your data, you're no longer the user of the application, you're now a product of the company that owns the application.

Also what @pipermerriam said:

>People have a right to privacy and shouldn't have to provide a reason why they deserve it. Tracking should always be opt-in.

forgotmypassw··on Tabs or Spaces? The Top Starred Repositories in GitHub Analysed
Personally I prefer tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. Also what's wrong with these charts? They keep shrinking and expanding you can't tell what's going on.
forgotmypassw··on Show HN: Really fast webserver for kdb
I'm sure that C code is maintainable.
forgotmypassw··on Show HN: Wsq – WebSocket task queues
FF Nightly on Windows, I also checked on my laptop running Linux and the same thing happens so I guess it's related to the browser specifically.
forgotmypassw··on Show HN: Wsq – WebSocket task queues
The animation makes the browser tab so jaggy I can barely scroll down to read more.
forgotmypassw··on I hate the C++ keyword auto
I guess he wouldn't get along with members of the "almost always auto" religion.
forgotmypassw··on I bought HitTail (a SaaS app) in 2011, grew it, and sold it last week
You never know which installers will get hijacked so as a precaution it's a good idea to block SF globally.
forgotmypassw··on Leaving the Mac App Store
That's why we should promote DRM-free software distributions - like GOG.
forgotmypassw··on Every app developer should move config to the cloud
Magic numbers are bad, now that's a news flash.
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