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Re:The Dating App Paradox on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:37PM (#39362512)
I'd like to bring back an article, more analytical on this paratox (the title, Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating, speaks a lot), from the old and now dead OkCupid blog. Funnily, this post was deleted just after the acquisition from the Match Group in 2011.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100821041938/http://blog.okcup...

Latest discussion on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33163930

Re:Definitely Do Not Put Plastic in the Microwave on Saturday September 23, 2023 @03:46PM (#37626750)
> “Personally, I avoid heating food in any plastic with an automatic default to glassware.” Beyond never microwaving food in plastic, Vandenberg hopes people simply stop using it. She says, “The market will provide us with alternatives if we just don’t buy plastic.”

I find really astonishing how the article demonizes plastic and ends recommending glassware use, placing a product referral that have PLASTIC lids. Shouldn't we stop using it?

Yes, on a small scale, but they do exist! Just look up at Riseup, Disroot weho.st, or Autistici/Inventati.
Re:Rust 1.53 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:10PM (#27544014)
I'm a little OT (sorry), but I am wondering if is there a way to learn Rust while keeping up with the changes made from last edition (Rust 2018, which is 1.31)?
Re:My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot on Sunday April 18, 2021 @06:22PM (#26857054)
First off, good work! It is always nice to help people deal on this (sicked and badthought) platforms.

Anyhow, you should check also if a "tessera sanitaria" is considered a PHI since it includes the "codice fiscale" (and if I recall correctly, it is used often in "fascicoli sanitari" to identify an individual).

But well, I'm not a lawyer either.

Re:Ask HN: How to build empathy? on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:32PM (#26526202)
> You know and have experienced things they haven't.

They also know and have experienced things you haven't.

I'd say that listen their description of the problem is the first (and maybe easy) part. But then you don't have to provide your solution, but rather find it together with that person.

Treating the other person as intelligent as you helps sharing the problem solving part instead of doing it individually.

Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:02AM (#25526288)
I know what you're saying, but the question is interesting, perhaps poorly phrased, but interesting. And complaining about HN not being the right forum where to question seems something that I could read on reddit, not on here.
Re:Ask and Show HN: Ever coded for love? Willing to share? on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:51AM (#24092007)
Wow, did you get something insightful from that?

Also, would like to say how you made all that?

Re:Ask HN: What is your password management solution? on Saturday July 15, 2017 @12:44PM (#14777539)
Just a follow up: what do you use for secrets files, like ssh keys?

Everytime I find my self in some mess with too many keys to manage. :\

I always loved gmail for this. Still, I'd love also in my private email. How can I setup this?
Generally I agree with most of the submissions, but this one is the most important.

I really love debian because of its principles (and I would love to contribute), but I feel that new contributors (like me) have problems because of the many (and some old) tools and outdated and non-friendly documentation.

Also, I don't know how many contributors come and stay, but even in unstable I see some outdated packages in weeks, and also some useful software that is not packaged.

OpenSecurityTraining[1] videos are also a golden resource for beginning reverse engineers

[1] http://opensecuritytraining.info/Training.html

Re:Network Protocols on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:37AM (#14469751)
I really hope that's not my bias; I really like the format, but I find them lacking of some background information, or sometimes going.. stupid. ._.
Re:Hacker, Hack Thyself on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:08AM (#14469553)
> Amazon's problem.

Delegate to someone else™ isn't always the answer to your security problems. It only adds more complexity, no more or no less security.

Re:Steam is not healthy for gaming on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:35PM (#14361434)
I don't agree with this. NGOs are primarily meant to do (morally) good things to the society where we live (usually help helpless people), where corporations pursue profit, which is usually not a bad thing unless they break the law (with a misleading behavior with the customers, antitrust, tax evading, and I'd like to say also lobbying).

Anyway, Steam users are also paying to consume the game, even if they don't own it. And I really doubt the 2% of their users read even the first paragraph of the EULA contract (where they do specify the above, yep I read it.)

Re:Storyboarding in UX Design on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:07PM (#14233840)
I'm pretty interested in this, but wasn't able to find it online. Was it released publicly?
Re:MP3 for Image Compression (2006) on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:09PM (#14135522)
Curious enough, years ago I've seen a blog post where the author used PNG lossless compression for FLAC audios. Guess there should be a lot of room for improving both image and audio compression, even because we're still ending up using jpeg and mp3.
It does look like marshmalllow[1]. How does relate Kim with it?

[1]: https://github.com/marshmallow-code/marshmallow/

Why so pessimistic? Maybe when writing a blog you won't get more than a handful regular readers, but keeping it public stimulates you to talk about you, your job, and the solutions you got when encountered a problem (sure, you won't talk about how much you love your dog, I hope).

I'd also say that a well kept blog may be more important than a CV since you can actually tell how good you are in your job.

To answer the question: I used to blog with pelican, and now hugo.

If this is a concern, you should be asking in the right place. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg/issues/new
Re:Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:57AM (#9715102)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/2/7963577/google-ads-get-thro... http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4496852/adblock-plus-eye-go...

I was using Adblock Plus, but this made me think a lot about this. Now, I'm using Privoxy + NoScript with custom filters.

Re:Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains on Monday June 30, 2014 @05:16PM (#7967766)
I guess this is a shortcut to solve some problems. No-IP domains are used only by who hasn't a good infrastructure to support his infected network.

And especially, why don't Microsoft take care of making his OS more secure?