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Re:Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:26PM (#38747853)
"Medlife Crisis" has an interesting video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k (Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?)
Does 0 ms = "at compile time"? Seeing that the impl. just computes

    ((long) upTo) - from + last;

I would think it just takes less than 1 ms on first execution.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/caa841d9a52352a975394e55...

Re:Cached Chrome Top Million Websites on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:32AM (#34197263)
If I am not mistaken, 8310 sites offer http and https:

    grep -o -E "://.*?," current.csv | sort | uniq -c | grep -v "1 ://" | wc -l
    8310
Re:The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:28PM (#32333809)
I thought of ulfheim too and it redirects to the new site.

Author's reasoning:

> A few years ago a hate group started using the "ulfheim" name for their own purposes. It's useless trying to reclaim a word, so I'm moving to the domain "http://xargs.org".

https://twitter.com/xargsnotbombs/status/1538227164599812096...

Re:GnuCash on Sunday May 01, 2022 @02:56AM (#31222813)
I create most of my transactions with a script reading my bank and card statements. The description in the statements are usually good enough to map them to the correct account. I also added snippets to my editor for adding entries (I use a text-based accounting system).
Re:Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks? on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:25PM (#29740390)
Yes, I listened to a podcast that describes an attacker getting access even though the victim's account had a PIN (https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/97/):

>MILES: [MUSIC] They were able to get ahold of T-Mobile and manipulate their way in through either doing it in person or doing it over the phone, and convince somebody to change out the SIM for them.

Re:SpeedCrunch on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:54AM (#29672529)
Based on this issue https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/746 (2017) it could also be re-highlighting the entire history when a new expression is evaluated.
Why not compare it with t.rotate(rotateBy, around)? Could a,v used for many purposes and this example allows us to indicate their role for this specific call?
I am using these:

    google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest.*"])
    google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:upward(1)
Re:Your Phone Is Your Private Space on Sunday September 05, 2021 @01:21PM (#28425931)
Can't do this indefinitely in some countries :/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law)
Re:CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:00AM (#27649266)
>The files in question are, from a formal verification standpoint, the interface to CompCert. They are licensed under the non-commercial license (NCL) so that they can be used together with the rest of CompCert (the implementation of the compiler, so to speak), which is NCL-only.

>Additionally, the interface files in question are also licensed under the GPL so that they can be used in other, open-source projects such as VST (http://vst.cs.princeton.edu/) that connect with CompCert.

at https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert/issues/140 (2016); GPL -> LGPL in a later commit.

Re:Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:00AM (#27568069)
>Insurance companies (same as betting companies) always need to bill you more than the chance you get your big payoff.

In theory, couldn't they charge less if the ROI of the premiums was large enough?

The HN api includes the timestamp (unix time). For instance: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?pri...
cryptography or cryptocurrency?
I only read the comments anyway.
Re:Why ranking employees by performance backfires on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:49PM (#26714184)
(some?) ft articles are readable if you are coming from a google search. At least it works for me when I search the article by title.
Re:The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:57AM (#26487448)
Is the conclusion to just use use SameSite=None?

I did some research while back and found that shibboleth supports local storage for sessions [0], unfortunately the IdP+SP I'm using do not support such a thing.

[0] https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/IdP+SameS...

Re:Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989) on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:56AM (#26366385)
Is "electron hopping theory" same as the hopping transport mechanism in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_transport_mechanisms?

I'm trying to read up on it because I realized my knowledge about electricity is very basic (only first year physics lecture on electricity & Maxwell's equations).

Re:Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name on Saturday March 06, 2021 @03:15AM (#26365993)
It shows the apple logo on some fonts. See: https://codepoints.net/U+F8FF?lang=en
Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:11PM (#26228999)
Source on the 40%?

Quick search yields

> “Between 10% and 15% of those vaccinated may have side-effects from this vaccination, but it is only a feverish state, fevers, nausea and within 12 hours it goes away.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-europe-as...

Re:The endless browser wars on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:47PM (#26040981)
A killer feature for me is opening the history & download list in a tab instead of a window. This way I don't have to alt+tab twice to switch to the next application. Opening the history in the same tab (ctrl+h) isn't good enough because I usually need the time of visit and there is no shortcut to open the download list in the same window.

Perhaps this is just muscle memory and I would think oppositely if I never switched to chrome.

I've been seeing the same even in English language.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger on Friday September 18, 2020 @03:08AM (#24513810)
It confuses me because the accents are 'missing' (prêt-à-manger). I wonder if people more familiar with French are better at interpolating accents.
Re:July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:16PM (#23813944)
In Germany there is "Antragsdelikt". Such an offense cannot be prosecuted without a complaint by the victim.

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

Re:Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:47PM (#22871233)
From the same company (Riot games)