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Re:Essential Image Optimization on Sunday March 24, 2019 @05:07AM (#19475291)
Until recently I had 100MB mobile data per month. This is in a first world country. Just linking to your page could have DoS'd me for weeks.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:36PM (#16968637)
> 12 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks of fully paid paternity leave

Just out of curiosity: why the difference between maternity leave and paternity leave?

Re:Don't Buy Anyone an Echo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:23PM (#15853359)
I'm not sethhochberg, but if I had to guess: Government regulations.
Re:Do you need a VPN? on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:58PM (#15587878)
A relevant detail to that story is that he admitted his guilt under questioning. Had he continued to deny any involvement, they would not have been able to prove that he was sending the bomb threat, as it could have been from someone who wasn't on campus.
Re:Shared thoughts after 6 years in Pentesting on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:56AM (#14635460)
Is it really? That's 16 hours of work 5 days a week. If you sleep for 8h you don't do anything but work or learn for all of your waking hours.

A more reasonable person would probably put a fair amount of learning time on the weekend, but even then you leave very little time for a social life, physical exercise, eating, relaxing.. things that most healthy people, if not everyone, requires.

From what I heard Ensure doesn't aim to be nutritionally complete. It's designed to replace unhealthy snacks with a healthier alternative.

Soylent on the other hand can replace most (possibly all) of your meals, if you want that. And if you don't get a moldy batch.

This website shows all popular products that were spawned from the Soylent "craze": https://www.blendrunner.com/

Personally I use Joylent (I think it's the most used brand in Europe; also they now call themselves JimmyJoy/Plennyshake) and as far as I am aware they never had any issues like Soylent did. It's also a bit cheaper than Soylent, but sadly doesn't offer a liquid version. Just powder that you have to mix with water and a snack bar.

Re:Unconventional way of learning a new programming language on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:18PM (#13996686)
So how does one go about finding open source projects with easy tasks?
As the article states, the top 100 chess players in the world are male. The field is incredibly male-dominated and even though women and men should be equal, the reasoning between splitting it tournaments by gender is that women would otherwise get discouraged.
Re:Anti Patterns Catalog on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:27AM (#13290135)
The worst part is: it doesn't even look good/modern now. They should have gone with this:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

(excuse the profanity)

Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @04:36AM (#13269497)
> That's not saying that borrow checker is worthless but it does add overhead

It's important to emphasize out that this is compile time overhead, not run-time overhead.

Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:47PM (#13126974)
You might want to be careful with that. The Myers Briggs test is most likely pseudoscience and you shouldn't base any important-ish life decisions on it.

Mediocre source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5pggDCnt5M

Re:Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @06:23AM (#12486799)
What prevents people from withdrawing all their money in 500€ notes from the bank, trading them in for 550€, exchanging the money for 500€ notes at the bank and repeating this until they're filthy rich?
Re:Inclusivity Is a Joke on Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:18PM (#12425855)
I had a similar experience with the Rust board, so (anecdotally) it might not be related to the low barrier of entry.
Do similar games exist for other languages? I like the concept but my C++ is rusty at best.
Re:What If the Future of Technology Is in Your Ear? on Sunday April 24, 2016 @05:16AM (#11559061)
If you send the input through the eye it would still appear in your regular field of view, right?

But what if you want to keep looking at whatever you're currently looking at without obstruction?

If you project the input directly onto the brain you could have two separate images, similar to how you can create a picture of, say, a bear in your head while still looking at your computer screen.

A prominent example is the mastermind behind DotA, Icefrog. The public has no idea who he is despite the fact that he has been quite famous for several years.
Re:Rust via its Core Values on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:51AM (#11420105)
Is Rusts concept of ownership any different from C++ unique_ptrs?
After some contemplation I must say I agree with you. Using technicalities like "well I didn't ACTIVELY say anything!" to get around the law shouldn't work in any situation - your example makes this very apparent.

At the same time, companies should not be forced to try and circumvent the law with cute tricks. Preventing companies from informing their users/customers that their privacy has been breached by a 3-letter-agency should be illegal.

We shouldn't be arguing about the legality of canaries, we should be arguing about the legality of gag orders. Arguing pro canaries is fighting a losing battle; it's fighting the symptoms instead of the cause.

The thing is: if encryption is illegal and you encrypt your illegal material so law enforcement can't convict you for it, they can still convict you for using encryption.
Re:Caffeine use disorder on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:44PM (#11285806)
How many cups of coffee did you drink per day?

I limit myself to one cup a day and I feel like it has very little impact on my alertness and energy levels. Do you think just one cup a day already makes your body build a tolerance?

Re:Python 3 in 2016 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @05:39AM (#11124874)
Noob question: What's so difficult about deploying/distributing python?