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Re:Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:29PM (#42627759)
The 404 article irked me a lot, thanks for writing this.
Re:Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:11AM (#26632884)
This is a really nice tool. But the fundamental reason most go for print is because its right there and that wins over other UX improvements or machinery. Python is a language where you can get a reasonably good debugger with a single line almost anywhere, still people reach for print()
Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:46AM (#25917963)
HGST is sadly just WD now.
Re:Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:08AM (#21760796)
For people like me who is confused about what this means: https://airdrops.io/stellar/
Re:Ask HN: What are some good, technical podcasts? on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:06PM (#21707722)
I am not sure what do you mean by technical,

- but 99% invincible is a podcast talks about how things (a very broad definition) work - often from a design/interconnections viewpoint.

- Beats, Rye and Type is nice but they seems to be dead

That's the central problem, isn't it? Technology only gets more complicated, and we have never bothered much about giving general population effective tools and skills to make informed decisions for themselves. A well-known company vouches for something, and that's all I'd know if I was buying a ring device.
Re:Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#20889817)
It won't be much different than what the current generation storage devices contain.

You already need to upgrade SSD firmware these days. Linux fwupmgr has support for few of them.

Re:Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:23PM (#20678924)
I don't have any solutions to your last statement, but one of the problem is that legal name of the entity matching doesn't really mean its the same entiy you think it is - the example ( also in the original page): https://stripe.ian.sh/

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