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Re:Review of James Cogland’s Building Git on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:29PM (#35647937)

Love it and would buy but I don't know Ruby and I feel like it would take me too much work to learn ruby syntax to make it worth my while.

Note: I think there should be a blurb somewhere on the sales page that it's written in Ruby, it was hard to figure that out.

Ask HN: How to avoid USB firmware attacks

Posted by bla54321 on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm aware of USB firmware attacks where a bad actor will leave a stray USB around with the hope of a target using it and compromising their computer.This basically can be avoided by not plugging in a USB stick you don't own. But what precautions can one take when buying a USB device on a website like amazon?It's not beyond the realm of possibilities that a potential attack target could be to...

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Re:Launch HN: Artemis (YC S22) – Use comments to give code an interact... on Thursday August 25, 2022 @06:28PM (#32600748)

Cool! Thanks for sharing. There's always complex nuances to problems like this, it's interesting to see what the design considerations were and why this approach was taken.

Re:Launch HN: Artemis (YC S22) – Use comments to give code an interact... on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:33PM (#32599609)

Interesting app.

I'm curious about your choice of using comments, was there an advantage to using this approach over something like decorators?

As it is currently, commments are often a bit weird to debug / view (grayed out) I'm sure there's some advantages to using them here, just thought I'd ask.