justeleblanc

> Do you and people you know have a safe?

Yes. I'm not taking about a safe like you can see in the movies. Just a locked box.

> Where I'm from, we generally don't use safes.

That's on you.

> Do you consider your safe to be... safe? I'd imagine it to be relatively easy to get into, by picking the lock or sawing through the safe.

That's not the point. 2FA is about thwarting password leaks. If someone has physical access to my house and knows my passwords, I'm screwed, yes.

But since I don't live in a Jason Bourne movie, my threat model isn't a ninja who steals my passwords then comes into my house to hack my tiktok account. My threat model is breaking my phone and knowing that my backup passwords are in a minimally safe place where I expect them to be and weren't carelessly thrown away with old documents; and deter casual "attackers" like a niece who could be inclined to plunder my papers for coloring material.

And if I did live in a Jason Bourne movie, I'd expect the ninja to just beat me up when I get home and unlock my safe for him, assuming I had bought an unbreakable safe.

Nice to see it catching up. It feels like competitors (MS authenticator, 1P, the iOS thing...) have had it for ages.

> And how are you supposed to handle the 2FA for your Google account? I mean I have U2F tokens which remove that concern, but that is far from the typical case. If you have the 2FA for your Google account in the Google Authenticator, which is probably a very common case, how does this entire thing work then when you need it, which is when you lose your phone?

You open your safe and you use one of the recovery codes that you wrote down when you setup 2FA.

The only reference in that wiktionary article is a Polish dictionary. The Wikipedia one has no references. I'm French, and I can tell you with confidence that someone saying "bon viveur" would be met with laughter and contempt.

The GP is bashing Europe for "recycling its long tradition of aristocratic affluence" but is at the same time using fancy foreign phrases -- "bon viveur", "nouveau riche"... What is be the reason? Well, to show off and lend credibility to the bashing: "see, I'm part of the circle too, I know the shibboleths; my criticism has more weight because it comes from an insider", is the subliminal message. Using the phrase wrong just looks foolish in these circumstances. Like a child who learned a complicated word and tries to impress with it, but uses it wrong.

Using foreign language phrases to show off your knowledge and savvy would work a lot better if you had them right. It's "bon vivant", not "bon viveur".

   $ ip addr show eth0
   2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
      link/ether 00:15:5d:23:d8:89 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
      inet 172.27.50.201/20 brd 172.27.63.255 scope global eth0
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
      inet6 fe80::215:5dff:fe23:d889/64 scope link
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
   $ ls /dev/eth0
   ls: cannot access '/dev/eth0': No such file or directory

And besides, what would it even mean for eth0 to "be" a file? What happens when you try to read it, what happens when you write to it?

It's called research. Someone has to do the R&D afterward to implement it concretely.

That's not the case in the latest versions of powershell.

And after that "DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth" to make sure everything is fine and dandy.

> Instead, just get on WiFi when you arrive, take your pick of cheap offers, and download the eSIM directly to your phone.

Or before you even get there.

> god forbid you from buying something of historical significance in Europe -- then you can't change anything inside or outside and you are responsible for it.

What an exaggeration. Do you think such hyperbole strengthens your point? At best it makes you sound ignorant.

Do you buy movie tickets, or do you rent them?

The fact that they're successful doesn't mean that they're right about every single decision they make. This kind of reasoning is inane.

Pretty sure you should read "for every task there exists a setting".

This whole thing is an environmental disaster.

I didn't insinuate anything, I said flat out what I meant. And it seems I guessed right. Your experience is clearly not the usual way it goes.

I'm sorry, have you ever been involved in the process of publishing a scientific paper as an author or editor? Because it clearly doesn't sound like it from your description in that linked comment. The numbers you write are just nonsense. The assistant editors also don't interact with submitters - that's typically handled by the online platform. They interact with authors when it's time for reviewing proofs, signing documents, etc. But all that only occurs after papers are already accepted.

They're just people running the peer review and production systems (think the online submission system, solving technical issues, writing emails, etc). It's in the name: assistant. They're not the people looking for peer reviewers or doing anything scientific.

This is getting less and less relevant.

Anyone used to scripting languages knows there's a difference between single quotes and double quotes for escaping.

I don't know what to tell you. You gave two examples that aren't actually issues. But if there's no convincing you, I won't bother. Have a nice day.

Uh... You can escape these sequences. But the escape character isn't the backslash for obvious reasons (it's the path separator). It's the backtick.

    > ni '[abc]'

        Directory: C:\Users\<user>

    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    -a---          21/04/2023    12:23              0 [abc]

    > gi '[abc]'

    # no output - would have matched files named a, b, or c

    > gi '`[abc`]'

        Directory: C:\Users\<user>

    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    -a---          21/04/2023    12:23              0 [abc]

    > gi -LiteralPath '[abc]'

        Directory: C:\Users\<user>

    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    -a---          21/04/2023    12:23              0 [abc]

    > gi -lp '[abc]'

        Directory: C:\Users\<user>

    Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
    ----                 -------------         ------ ----
    -a---          21/04/2023    12:23              0 [abc]

As far as I know that's been in powershell forever.

Just put them in quotes. PowerShell is infinitely better than bash/zsh/... at handling spaces. You're spreading nonsense.

I have dabbled in woodworking. I still stick to metric. You can spend all day rationalizing why the system you've been immersed in since childhood is more intuitive. In the end, it's more intuitive to you because it's what you're used to.

Your example is a prime one. I'm not used to measure things with my thumbs, so if you told me that something is ten thumbs wide, I'd have to think some time before I could make a mental picture of it, and an inaccurate one to boot. I'm used to measure things with centimeters, so I immediately know what 10 cm looks like.

> Fractional centimeters aren't as intuitive to work with and conceptualize.

To you they're not. To people used to it, they are.

I'm also French and I live in the US. What a load of crap. You're telling me it's easier for you to double "6 and 3/4 inch" than "17.14 cm"? I balk every time I have to do the mental gymnastics.

"Okay, 6+3/4 inches doubled, that's 12+6/4 inches. But 6/4 is 1+2/4 which is 1+1/2, so 13+1/2 inches, or 1ft 1+1/2in".

"Okay, 17.14cm doubled, that's 34.28cm".

Really, for you the first one is easier?

With this definition of success, they couldn't have possibly failed. That's called PR.

Not a very interesting nitpick then. I guess I should have written "knows that you should have the knowledge to find the answer". If we could teach and be sure that students had learned, we wouldn't need to test them.

I don't quite see how that's relevant to what I said.

I'm a professor in a big university in western Europe. Students don't want to be led to thinking of the solution. They want the same exercises that they did during the tutorial, and they want to know in advance how to solve all the exercises. Any attempt to digress from this is met with vitreous eyes.