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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/penagwin; my proof: https://keybase.io/penagwin/sigs/bhcyDKI7gf-jC0q0KWEg0jl9qdejoftHLWUddp5tnmM ]
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penagwin··on Email providers – which one to choose?
They could at least accept monero as payment so there's a cost to enter without giving away my identity.
penagwin··on How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
This, although I think the 24 hour minimum set by apple kinda undermines the scalability asset.

Obviously the 24 hour minimum means you’d be better buying one for most CI uses, which I think is what most people want them for.

However I think I remember a image can that also manipulated used apple hardware for the metal api? They would still benefit from the ability to scale on at least a daily level.

penagwin··on Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page
It’s crazy to me how unreliable and slow the work on github actions has been. Their self hosted runners didn’t even support custom labels for like 8 months. And for at least a year you couldn’t trigger actions from pull requests from forks - even for private, in-org repos.

It’s truly been one of my worst experiences with any CI.

penagwin··on Starship / Super Heavy
Usually we can tell when they're preparing to by NOTAM and similar just before unless they announce it
penagwin··on New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
Why did you mention Facebook? That makes zero sense
penagwin··on Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
@dang we are in great need
penagwin··on Pandemic Villains: Robinhood
So you're saying we shouldn't trade leveraged options on margin based on what side of the yard a dog does it's business on? /s
penagwin··on Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
_Glances over at the mice in the control groups and failed experiments_
penagwin··on High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets
Some games encrypt them, but while I would normally never say this - there's nothing really to protect over the udp packets if it's just game state. And you want to keep the latency as low as possible for those packets.

You want to do everything else over tcp and encrypted.

penagwin··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
This. I believe technically just linear regression could be considered "machine learning".
penagwin··on ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266
2$ wifi bad usb anyone?
penagwin··on South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'
> Let me tell you I was in back-country Oregon recently, some of the MOST republican places within Oregon, not going to name drop the county.

Not sure the name drop matters given the other information you shared ;) I won't name drop it either but for future curious readers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Oregon

penagwin··on Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall
This is the best description of a "programmer solution" ever.
penagwin··on Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
IP addresses are assigned in blocks, and these blocks are assigned to registered companies - Long story short you can roughly determine whether an IP address is from a datacenter or is "residential" without too much issue - All DigitalOcean droplets are given IP addresses within DO's range for example.

Basically if the IP is from a datacenter - it's likely a VPN.

penagwin··on Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks?
This is actually a pretty standard question by psychiatrists. It's because the DSM-V criteria for Major Depressive Disorder is "Depressed most of the day, nearly every day..." - and it's one of several other features you have to match within a 2 week period to match it.

It's a fancy way of saying "The unusual depressive episode (which can be normal) has lasted at least two weeks (not as normal)". How that exact number was determined I'm not sure (though it was the APA), but that's the standard everyone follows.

EDIT: I believe a variation of this question is standard as part of the PHQ-9 which is a screening/benchmark quick self-assessment for depression.

penagwin··on Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
> no pesky laws of physics

To be fair we still are bound by mathematics - boolean algebra, graph theory, information theory, etc. N=NP comes to mind

penagwin··on YouTube Down
I vpn'd around, this appears to be global. While reading something unrelated my video suddenly started playing.

I think it's load balancer related for whatever is serving their videos

EDIT: Once you have a connection you appear to keep it the entire way through (at least it did for me with youtubedl). Something related to connection queueing...

penagwin··on Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development
I'm not familiar with rust or if their `unsafe` block mitigates the issue somewhat - I know that for example with memory management, you'd rather ship a game that leaks a bit of memory (since games are generally only open for a few hours at a time, not a lot of memory should be leaked) in exchange for less stutter/performance issues from the GC.
penagwin··on Don't Use VPN Services (2016)
> Kim was taken into custody on Monday—identified as one of the few Harvard wireless users who was also on Tor at the time. When interviewed by an FBI agent and an officer with the Harvard University Police Department that night, Kim admitted to sending the bomb threat emails and said that he acted alone.

Based on this it sounds like if he hadn't confessed he wouldn't have been caught. After all, it would still be on the prosecutors to prove he used tor to send the threat, instead of just using it out of paranoia or something.

penagwin··on Don't Use VPN Services (2016)
If the torrent traffic is over a vpn out of the datacenter you're fine. If the torrent traffic is going out of that vm (like a seedbox) then certain providers may ban you. Many do allow bittorrent because of things like syncthing though.

Those seeding public torrents are in trouble if they get an abuse complaint. Most providers don't like those and will boot you off real quick.

penagwin··on Mood and cognition after low LSD doses: A placebo controlled dose-effect study
I have either very volatile MDD or bipolar type 2 (I don't think it matters which one specifically).

My thoughts fundamentally change depending on if I'm up, down, or center. It'd be incredible to be able to give a "kick" to the negative thoughts a bit when I'm down.

I imagine it could be similar to klonipin for panic attacks - it doesn't fix anything, but it temporarily allows my mind to function (instead of spiraling), and allows me to work on treating the cause of anxiety.

penagwin··on Nine in ten adults think buying latest smartphone is waste of money
To be fair I'm sure Apple did lots of research and already knew these numbers. I'm curious to if they "abuse" this to get better sales of the "last gen" iphones.
penagwin··on Some onions were too sexy for Facebook
I'm guessing a 2d matrix and then a 1d matrix before single boolean value. :p
penagwin··on New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
I got an iPad specifically so I could kinda get a hybrid of both technology and handwriting. The new ios hand writing feature made it even better.
penagwin··on Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer
Removing the second CSI Camera Connector is what immediately killed it for my use case :(
penagwin··on The V Programming Language
To be fair I didn't see a ton of "CS-defying" claims as in they were impossible, however he made a ton of claims that would put his language on par with languages with huge teams of people, several with major companies backing them, with far more resources.

It was like, really? You're going to have all these features that teams of engineers have been working on for decades (in many cases)? And do them flawlessly? You're also going to beat Zig, Nim, and Go - in far less time?

I've got no problem with projects like this for fun, but it's being marketed as a full fledge project.

penagwin··on Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
I was going to say - it's a lot easier to not let them take your money (even retroactively) - then it is to get it back through small claims court.
penagwin··on We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
> so why would anyone use it

Because once you salt it (use a different salt for each hash, which solved your collision issue) and purposely slow it down (through multiple rounds,etc) it effectively ruins precomputing the hashes because of how many permutations there are.

Of course this depends on which hashing algorithm you use. Md5? You can do millions a second. Bcrypt? You can make one hash take 100ms, that’s 10a second. They also use a random salt for each hash - so precomputed hashes will only work for that hash.

The issues you highlighted are very real for md5, but there’s a reason md5 is not recommended for passwords.

penagwin··on Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal
I think it’s meant as a “check” on the judicial branch - if the head of the executive isn’t okay with the judicial branch’s dicision.

But this isn’t really clarified, and in practice it’s usually used incredibly ambiguously boardering nefarious.

penagwin··on Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
They charge a full $59.99 too. But I know the target audience would happily pay full price.
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