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Re:Password managers less secure than promised on Saturday February 21, 2026 @05:51PM (#47105752)
Save you the click.

The researchers demonstrated 12 attacks on Bitwarden, 7 on LastPass and 6 on Dashlane

Re:FEDAnet Project on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:03PM (#46395634)
How do i get compensated for my infrastructure that i need for this project and how is this different from Tor?
Re:What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones? on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:37AM (#46095543)
Gummy bears?
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:59AM (#45964129)
Is it DNS? I went to check the isitdns.com but got a cloudflare error
Can you include more prices? It would give me an idea of the cost even if it is in USD. What i found most annoying about my latest search is that it is hard to find something not named raspberry or Arduino for a reasonable price. I was looking for a simple gigabit board with usb 3 to attach a removable drive to. The only one i found was raspberry pi orange 3B . Nobody else seemed to have gigabit nic with usb 3.
For most electron apps, you should put the above in ~/.config/electron-flags.conf. Note that VSCode is known not to work with it.

Seems like a deal breaker.

Re:Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status on Sunday July 06, 2025 @07:04AM (#44479637)
I love and struggle with the second point. It's taken me half my career to realize that people would very much prefer the complete and right answer slowly or later than the '90% sure' answer right now. Being quick doesn't make you look smart
Re:Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes on Thursday April 24, 2025 @09:33AM (#43782544)
You have to be able to get new keys made without having an original to read. A database of vin, key would be too big of a target and would have to be shared with dealers anyway so they could program new ones. I'm not a security expert but it seems like it would really shorten battery life on the fob if you wanted to protect against replay attacks by adding a time sensitive value.
Re:Liberux: The Linux Phone You Have Been Waiting For on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:36AM (#42803835)
Starting at $1,999
Re:Institutional memory and reverse smuggling on Friday November 29, 2024 @09:38AM (#42274167)
Needs (2011)
I would rather this than a hard paywall. I think this is the future of the internet. The masses get their data harvested and the rich and smart can opt out.
Re:Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:20PM (#41458658)
How is this company still in business? 20 years ago i worked supporting an isp and even then they were crap and looked like they were on the way out.
Re:Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:00PM (#41447306)
I read Embassytown and Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez close together. I find they have an interesting theme throughout regarding the role of truth and manipulation. I would not recommend the sequels to 3 body problem. If you like big picture space opera, Existence by David Brin and Exultant by Stephen Baxter are better.
Re:Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:52AM (#41447222)
I enjoyed 3 body problem. I found the sequels more of a collection of sci fi tropes than a good coherent story. You will get better original thoughts from David Brin, Stephen Baxter and Vernor Vinge
Re:Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:48AM (#41447166)
In the same vein as Vernor Vinge, I would recommend Stephen Baxter. Stephen's writing always gives me the same feeling as when I look at the stars at night and am reminded that where I am is just a small part of everything. The manifold trilogy as well as the long earth series he did with Terry Pratchett are very good. The first is not anthropocentric, which I found was a refreshing change.
Re:Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet? on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:54PM (#40940002)
The fact that I am not a smear at the bottom of a tall building is a direct contradiction to your statement and shows that they do for some people. No, I was going to 'get better' without help. Yes, I fed trolls.
On Windows you can open windows media player and play a silent track on repeat.
Re:Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:18PM (#39705840)
I am not a physicist or cosmologist so i won't pretend to understand all of your answers but this has given me a great starting point to learn more and i greatly appreciate you taking the time to write it. I had a pretty theory that we were seeing galaxies accelerate away from each other due to the rate of expansion being greater outside of gravity wells. I will reread your answer a couple of times until i get off there is any support for it but my initial reading suggests it's up there with light needing a medium to travel.
Re:Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:17PM (#39694346)
I've wondered: Do we know that the balloon has always been inflating at the same rate? Do we know if the dimples on the balloon expand as fast as the rest of it? Do the areas around the dimples expand faster?
Re:Mounting research shows that Covid-19 significantly lowers IQ on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:25PM (#39557045)
If I get COVID one more time my IQ will be negative :(
Interesting. That area would be roughly one million Sunjammers[1]. One Sunjammer is 1200 m^2 and wights 32 kg. To lift all this would be 32 million kg or 32000 tons. One Starship launch is designed for 250 metric tons when expendable so it would take 128 launches. Add in some fudge factor for orbital burns and I figure 150 launches would do it. Doesn't seem insurmountable.

Edit: Seems I misread the Starship capacity. This is probably only to LEO. Its hard to estimate but going by the geostationary payload, it would be one third of that, so triple the amount of flights. At a cadence of 2 launches per week it would take 4.5 years to launch all of it. ( 450 launches / 2 launches per week / 50 weeks a year)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer_(spacecraft)

Re:The internet used to be fun on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:58AM (#39345449)
That's because it used to be young
Re:Finding a new software developer job on Sunday February 11, 2024 @06:03PM (#39339696)
I would have had to ask if it was load balanced. If it is, i would have said half the time for the requesting service minus 10 percent. Gives the query time to retry with some margin. This would be my opinion, not something I've read up on.
Build more american LNG generators
I wonder if it's because of the decline in neuroplasticity as we age. We take a week to learn a new video game and expect that peace to continue when we get older. It can be a hit to the ego that it may take a little longer, that we aren't quite as 'smart' as we thought.
I feel personally attacked
Re:Ask HN: Which subjects do you plan to learn in 2023? on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:57PM (#34303619)
Chances are they were 350 lbs and gained 50 and would like to lose 150 to get to a healthy weight

Is low code a dead end?

I'm considering specializing in low code applications, like salesforce or dynamics 356. If seems like it's not 'real' Software development and I'll eventually got a dead end in terms of career progression.

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Re:IvorySQL: Open-source Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:17PM (#34007746)
This is amazing! Thank you so much for doing this!
Re:Ask HN: Where are the good platforms for contract work? on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:24AM (#32838507)
I feel the same having worked for a couple contracting companies. I think if I job hop in the near future, which is unlikely given the recent layoffs, I'll go for a company that is building a product. I'd rather the golden handcuffs than the freedom of mobility.

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