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jaaames··on The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Can you expand on what middleboxes are?
jaaames··on Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
This is key I believe.

A lot of successful entrepreneurs had no safety net, and have been through significant adversity.

Those that have been coddled and never held accountable have worse coping mechanisms and drive than those who have dealt with it and overcome obstacles the majority of their lives.

jaaames··on Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt
That quarter below the poverty line is probably a little misleading in the way it's calculated.

Students there are all living off parent money so their disposable income is much higher than hard data would suggest.

jaaames··on Console.table()
There are a bunch of other console logging utils that are worth checking out. time and timeEnd are one of my favorite.
jaaames··on Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
They had a relationship with Bitfinex, so they could easily convert to other shit coins and dump those to avoid tanking the BTC price when they dumped it.
jaaames··on Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
Correct. There's also a strong relationship between Tether and Bitfinex directors. It's suspected they were using margin loans to leverage their fake money further, while denying fiat withdrawals to real customers.
jaaames··on Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
Be careful, you have to use Tether as a currency, which by their own terms of service is worthless.

In addition to this you have to do it on margin, and most exchanges have a history of dubious liquidation of margin positions.

jaaames··on Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home
This is excellent.

Combined with some basic rules like no meetings on Fridays it can quickly become a simple and effective company culture.

jaaames··on What's in those mysterious cabinets?
I only found out about these a few months ago because there was always a cop leaning against one outside a ballpark before and after games with a radio plugged into it.

I asked what he was doing and he gladly showed me that he was just manually cycling the lights, basically on a longer delay where required to clear jams and work with another cop directing traffic.

jaaames··on JavaScript Pattern Matching Proposal
Pattern matching is very common in ML languages and is a core part of Rust.

As another commenter said, it's like conditionals on steroids.

jaaames··on Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract
So it's purely for risk free investing? Investors are after a high reward but don't take on the risk?
jaaames··on Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract
It's not. The Ethereum foundation will continue to merge EIPs like this that benefit them and their cronies.

The whole ETH/ETC fork was because they messed up the DAO contract, which set a precedent for "code is law, except when it doesn't suit us".

jaaames··on Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
Ditto. It's brilliant and one of the things stopping me switching to linux at this point.
jaaames··on Why are diapers so expensive?
Autonomous demand.
jaaames··on Look for the duct tape
Literally an example of pave the cow paths.
jaaames··on Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic
I know that's a typo, but let this comment age a few years and it may not be.
jaaames··on Show HN: WebGL Demo in ReasonML
Is this supposed to work at all on Chrome mobile?
jaaames··on MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images
Yep, I had an APFS volume that I couldn't even health check. I was pretty sure it was filesystem corruption as it'd hang and shut off randomly then come back up without issues, same as when the SSD died the first time. Also am r APFS time machine volume would never finish encrypting, even after being plugged in for days.
jaaames··on Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
Did you consider that this maybe not be representative of a systemic bias against women across all demographics, rather, the demographic that searches for video meme makers on the internet is skewed towards horny rude teenage boys that bask in anonymity?
jaaames··on Australia’s new real-time banking payments platform
Interesting bit is the 280 characters of test data you can include, enough for a small amount of JSON.

I worked on a hackathon for NAB where we proposed banks could be an auth provider for payments that require ID, e.g. Buying a SIM card, signing a waiver etc at the point of sale

jaaames··on Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]
Follow the money.
jaaames··on Meltdown patch reduces mkfile(8) throughput to less than 1/3 on OS X
Ok so I'm not completely insane, everything felt like molasses this week and that's why.
jaaames··on MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple
Last card in Texas Hold'em, after a final round of betting, if two players have not folded the winner is determined at showdown.
jaaames··on Browser-Wars History: MD5-Hashed Posts Declassified
Sort of, in PDF form, by inserting invisible images/data crafted to create the collision.

I haven't seen a collision demonstration with plain text that could be a practical attack.

jaaames··on Darktable 2.4.0 released
It's a shame open source projects with great features still have astoundingly bad copywriting.

No one cares about it having a database behind the scenes or the upgrade/downgrade process, tell me what it can do and how it compares to the real alternative, Adobe Lightroom.

jaaames··on Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage
Also Bitfinex uses Tether tokens, not USD, which are by their own terms of service worthless, and it's dubious as to whether their actually backed by any real USD.

This arbitrage exists because of the huge counterparty risk of exchanges

jaaames··on Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz
Had the same sentiment about casual.pm
jaaames··on Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved monitor for programming?
+1 for spectacle, keyboard shortcuts are now muscle memory, can't live without developing on a single 28" 4k monitor.
jaaames··on Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework
Glad I'm not insane, spent a long haul flight digging into Solidity docs and truffle and it seemed like a minefield of trouble to build crippled applications.
jaaames··on What's Happening with Bitcoin Prices
Yes, I've recently exited a large position, while an alarming number of acquaintances who have limited or no investment experience are getting each other into Bitcoin off of Facebook hype, in some cases ridiculing each other for "missing out".

This won't and well.

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