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ziikutv··on Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
What's funny is... my Bank does not allow me to use any special characters and for the investor accounts numerical only. They do not have 2FA either.

CIBC Canada

Addendum also several of my purchases were flagged as hacked purchases by them and I had to call them three times so far this year. All purchases from same Amazon account, same IP too. So I do not think they have a good services team.

ziikutv··on Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation
Originally I was being sarcastic, but aren't you also a stranger? We are all strangers. The fact that his response was gray doesn't make him more of a stranger than you not being gray. Perhaps they made an account to voice his opinion?
ziikutv··on Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation
Fair point. I generally think edge cases are still a good indicator. How do you treat those not worthy than those who are. I bet they just hired someone else so did not bother following up.
ziikutv··on Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation
Because one is enough. It tells about their hiring practices does it not?
ziikutv··on Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation
Wow I'm sorry to hear this. I am not applying anymore thanks for saving me time.
ziikutv··on Houzz raising $400M at $4B valuation
Yeah I hate these sort of "protections". Twitter also does it. It's fine, a simple Tanpermonkey script is enough.
ziikutv··on Ask HN: I don't want to be a founder anymore
Okay, I was trying to not put my experience on this website. But here goes

I did some in the first year of uni with a floor mate. Two sober.

When I was on it. I got the feeling as if I was in a prison, and started feeling like I was being experimented on. I got super paranoid and I'm bought I can fall asleep. Tripped for hours in my bed and my eyes were open, though they felt as if they were closed. I was told every now and then I would sit up like the undertaker from WWE and ask how do I get of mushrooms. Lol

Then apparently I went down and upstairs like 10 time. Reaching bottom I, I'd want to come back up. They wanted to get me out of the room but it just made me feel like I was being taken out for an experiment.

After a while, they tried to make me realize I was just tripping. We got downstairs and I yelled okay.. I get it.. I'm tripping balls.

I left out a lot of the details but, it was embarrassing that entire year since people knew I had a bad trip. I felt as if I might have said or done shit I did not remember too.

So, in summary, place, people, time, mental state and stability are all factors to be considered.

Btw on the comedown I was super introspective but could not differentiate it from a placebo.

The point of the original message of mine is to realize that there are no Soma pills (Brave New World reference). Nothing works for everyone. We just need to realize this and not suggest something potentially dangerous to someone who is clearly in a bad mental state at the moment.

OP you'll get through this. Diet, exercise, jogs, meditation will take you a long way. Also, tell your wife everything. She is your wife, you oughta be in it together. Also... if she doesn't get it then don't be upset; anger starts from an expectation.

I wish you the best of luck.

P.s I am going to delete this message after a couple of days since my story is too specific and I want to maintain some kind of annonymity.

Edit: so from my description it should be obvious that I am a socially awkward, introvert who is super self conscious. This is one reason it did not work for me. Think of psychedelics as breaking a mirror of the existence. It is really really ducking intense. I was better off doing it though. My point still stands. I am going to try microdosing when I can.

ziikutv··on CEOs Want Their Offices Back
Who said I want to read them? Most people will not pay a subscription fee to read the article. So it does little use to that demographic. I am not implying they are not credible source of information. It's just that we will be restricted. That's all. But thanks for the downvote, reminds me that I should have given this reasoning before.
ziikutv··on CEOs Want Their Offices Back
Thanks. People should just stop using WSJ as source now...
ziikutv··on Not Hotdog App
DANM! I wanted to start learning NN and write an app after watching the Silicon Valley episode. You beat me to it. Congrats.
ziikutv··on Magic Leap Could Be Looking at an $8B Valuation
This is what I call a 'Valuation bubble' :)

They release a conceptual video, throw some jargon, have yet to release an MVP even, but have high valuation because it is very promising. I am not saying they are evil or they are doing something unethical.

ziikutv··on Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
find/grep/awk/ag get me a long way to be honest. However, I think this is a cool project because it makes filtering of file attributes (such as size) so much easier. No need for splitting strings and using regex. Cheers.
ziikutv··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
possibly, but I am just contempt on updating. I don't do anything illegal on this computer. I use it for browsing and playing games on steam, I think I am pretty safe.

You can really avoid like 90% of the shit by...

* Not going on shady sites

* Not getting scammed via Phishing

* Not pirating (you know, its really funny how most illegal 'patches' say, oh yeah patch is detected as trojan and its a false positive)

ziikutv··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
I have Windows 10 Education version, completely legal. But I have been "restarting to apply the patch" for the past four days and it always reverts itself. I am stuck in a loop.. This is why I turned off updates.
ziikutv··on Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
Yeah, I am pretty sure all governments do this. Why would they release it if their goal is to get unrestricted access to the public. They don't want those holes patched, so to speak.

I wonder how much of their efforts are deterred when good minded infosec persons find vulnerabilities and report them; remember Heart bleed.

ziikutv··on Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack
Something like this also happened at Carleton University, but they did not pay the ransom. I assume they just used backups. They have really good (and super nice) IT people.
ziikutv··on Interactive Mind Map for learning
I think Mindnapa are better for this. The information is associated. For example you will need maths for some fields. Table of contents would mean duplicating links.

But... I also agree that everyone learns and parses information differently.

ziikutv··on Amazon Echo Show
:)
ziikutv··on Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
That sucks. I have said too many silly things on Facebook. oh well.
ziikutv··on How Heat Kills Cells
To add to this...

Saunas and ice baths don't damage cells but actually have benefits. Don't quote me as this is a rephrase that makes it sound like bro-science, it actually activate some heat shock proteins and also leads to hormone release.

Better, sound science can be sourced from Dr. Rhonda Patrick a la Tim Ferriss podcast or Google Scholar

ziikutv··on Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
Up until the last paragraph about Udemy courses, I thought you were being sarcastic.
ziikutv··on Amazon Echo Show
This is my biggest beef, thanks for pointing it out. All of this is great, but it adds to separation of market. In an idea l world, all of the 'big players' would sit together, and come up with a way to unify their services.
ziikutv··on Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to code internal tools?
That kind of sounds like an ORM no?
ziikutv··on I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users
I guess we can say, its To be Determined or entirely scrapped.
ziikutv··on I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users
What did you end up calling the new crate?

Edit: I suggest "terminated"

ziikutv··on Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (2014)
That's likely.

I on the other hand would never want to live downtown. I like the suburban feeling. Love it. I commute for an hour and third. Downtown areas just feel too busy for me; congested, noisy, claustrophobic.

Edit: Addendum, Toronto native.

ziikutv··on Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable
Totally unrelated to the article, so I understand this might be down voted...

If I used a bot to delete all of my posts (and literally everything else) after which, I deleted my account... is that actually deleted? Edit: It's been a year or more since doing this.

It was such a time waster, and I felt that... if I remove some of my data, it might be a good idea. It is a bit tinfoil-y, I admit but the less data that is out there, the better since Facebook is going into a lot of other markets.

Edit 2: Reason for deletion was that I noticed some of my very old posts were not created by me but said they were. I assume it was either a virus or, more likely, some of my friends xD... I am sure the teenagers can relate.. people go on your screen in labs and write "HACKED" (NOT REALLY SILLY!!!)

ziikutv··on Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to code internal tools?
Selling a magical pill without providing pharmacology is no different than selling snakeoil. Share your solution please, unless that part in your question is just a digression; (addendum) does not seem to be the case from the last paragraph.

To answer your question, it depends. Anecdotally, we created custom solution for analytics for our Robot, and then moved it in as a solution. You can think of it like 'internal-pivot'.

Additionally, in-house tools, if designed correctly, are usually small pieces of software that do just what a company needs. Tailored solutions, if effectively created, are sometimes better than something out of the box. It also lets the developers stay stimulated when there is not 'actual work' to be done and adds potential for features to be implemented for their product; if not providing with something they can pivot and sell separately.

ziikutv··on Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
Which of the two do you think would function better for moving objects. I got a crappy off the shelf camera to put on a robot I made to do some work while moving horizontally.... it moved too fast to acquire anything.
ziikutv··on Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
For anyone wondering, this[1] is the Skittles sorting machine.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceGlMV4sHnk

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