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rootVIII··on Why Nuclear Power, Not Renewables, Is the Path to Low-Carbon Energy (2020)
The only reason reactors are dangerous is because everyone was still using the disaster plan from the 1960s. Cooling a melting reactor can be done very safely now if people put the effort in. This is a much cleaner solution than solar; wtf are we supposed to do with all of the solar cells every 10 years or so... landfill?

I completely agree with you

rootVIII··on Funny humble beginnings, 12 Feb 2004 snapshot of thefacebook.com
the page source is also kinda funny too view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/http://www.thefac...
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
Hi TheDong. I put most of the changes you recommended and I am much happier with the overall project. I decided to remove the Python part though and went back to the Imagick bindings. There's probably still some things to fix but thanks again for taking the time to look and advise.
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
okay have some of these fixes in progress. Thanks again for taking the time to look at my code! Very appreciative
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
Hmm okay. I'm going to start fixing that part and also attempt some CGO/objective-C to replace the python dependency. I had figured that removing any possible directory that could be seen as an application directory (at app-startup) would alleviate the issue you described. Thanks for the feedback though and also taking the time to look.
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
Well any old working directory that exists at startup is removed. So an attacker would not be able to create the directory before the user runs the program. And they would have to be logged in as the user in order to edit the pngtopdf.py file as it is created with 0700. Also, I would rather specify the actual bytes directly and force a lazy programmer to look at the ASCII table over using []byte(" "). These are just some of my after-thoughts.
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
That's a fantastic idea. I actually looked into it because I really didn't want to use Python to create the output PDFs. I have experience making C bindings in Go, but had issues with Objective C (I also don't know Obj-C). If you are able to remove the Python dependency with a CGo please open a PR! Thanks for the feedback too...
rootVIII··on Show HN: PDF Inverter for macOS (In Golang) Darken Your PDFs
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah the Python part is definitely a bit hackish. Do you have any other recommendations on other problems? I'm still learning Golang and would like to improve. Thanks!
rootVIII··on Any other vets floored by this?
Hmmm interesting... thanks
rootVIII··on Any other vets floored by this?
I learned to play that game in bootcamp... actually from a buddy of mine that was definitely not white. And it definitely had nothing to do with racism. However it had everything to do with punching the person that looks! :)
rootVIII··on Show HN: Space Invaders in C
really cool
rootVIII··on Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
This line is pretty funny: "C++ is still the most common language for writing games, and not without reason. I still do almost all of my contract work in it. I dislike it intensely." hahaha poor guy
rootVIII··on VSCode tools for JavaScript developers in 2019
funny... I literally just downloaded that for Ubuntu today and made my first Go app... I'm actually considering using it for C and Python as well. I typically use Netbeans for C and Pycharm for Python, but both have a ton of features that I don't use, sometimes slowing me down. I like the sleek feel of VS Code and it has been running flawlessly on Linux. Also a big fan of the Abyss theme.
rootVIII··on Proxy Web Crawler
Ah... well I used to run a mildly popular website... I originally wrote it to "bot" my site 24/7.... it can be used to see the index of your site depending on keywords. Also you can drop payloads with it... use it for brute force password guessing... or you can use it for SEO as well... even though it searches with Bing, Google may know about the visits if you use Google Analytics... many use cases may present themselves with very minor modifications to the code... enjoy!
rootVIII··on Ask HN: Is getting banned on Stripe many years ago a death sentence?
I had troubles implementing that... due to the fact that it is not a direct transaction which didn't fit into things: https://gendal.me/2013/10/21/lessons-from-bitcoin-push-versu... ... and crypto isn't really all that anonymous either. The most anonymous is stolen credit card numbers. Not that we condoned that or anything:)
rootVIII··on Ask HN: Is getting banned on Stripe many years ago a death sentence?
I used to run a website called roboshout.com... at one point was making almost $1000 a week... I used Stripe to accept payments. The user could send/receive anonymous texts, send 1000 texts, custom robocalls etc... 2 years into a happy partnership with Stripe and decent income... I got a letter pretty much saying the same thing except it was in regards to "telemarketing". Lost the API and my website functionality overnight with no warning!
rootVIII··on Ask HN: How to Bootstrap a Startup Effectively?
do all the coding yourself... do it in Python... use Stripe as your checkout vendor:)
rootVIII··on Multi-process vs. multi-threaded port scanner – I like threaded better I think
The multiprocess one runs faster on local loopback... however when scanning a host on my private LAN the threaded version runs a lot faster!
rootVIII··on Amazon releases a no-cost distribution of OpenJDK
I always thought it already was free hence OpenJDK hahah. Guess I was wrong...
rootVIII··on pip install proxy-requests
Does not leak your IP
rootVIII··on Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python
The page seems to be updated every 10 mins or so. Any time a request is made, the newest procies are scraped:)
rootVIII··on Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python
Bug fixed! It will not leak anymore
rootVIII··on Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python
Fixed a slight bug... it should not ever leak your IP... And you do not lose HTTPS with this module whatsoever