juloo · HackerTrans

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On this bug-tracker, every discussions are called "bug".

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I've been using Vimium since I use firefox (for around 3 years). It's annoying that Vimium can no longer control the browser UI and is limited on some pages (New Tab, mozilla.org) but this is necessary for security.

juloo

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Surely a Dyson sphere would not emit what we naively expect. Look at us, we can speculate about these and even try to spot them but are millennia away from building one.

What if the external shield of the sphere would be artificially heated to 4000K or higher ? Completely invisible.

juloo

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An other way is WebGL.

juloo

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Numberphile has a video on exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceaM2_zQd8

I love this channel :)

juloo

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Or 6 Gigameters.

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What does low tech means in this context ? It's still a computer, with complication on top: solar panels, battery.

All the hardware they use requires some energy to be built, the network consumes a lot of energy too.

How does this compare to a VPS server at a cloud provider or using the grid electricity (no solar panel) ?

I'd expect individual VMs to use less energy compared to a decicated computer.

Is it really greener to stop using the grid electricity but instead buy a small solar panel ? Surely that'll be less green than the grid 20 years in the future.

The article contains many sources but doesn't compare other solutions. 2.5 watts is impressive, though.

juloo

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Most ? I mean, I have a single outdoor light, above my front door.

juloo

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The server could hash again the hashed password sent by the client. Especially if the client use an insecure hash algorithm (no secret salt for example).

I feel like if the client always hash passwords as soon as it is typed (the javascript never sees the unhashed password), no one would notice. (except some with crazy password rules that would disallow a hash-looking password)

juloo

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The actual reason is to make you practice your password so you don't forget. You might scratch your finger or the sensor might get dirty or break. Biometric in (current) phones is convenience, not security.

juloo

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2020. They just make a virtual 3D model of you from all the data they collected and stream it directly to the device. 2022. They can now engrave fingertips on paper.

juloo

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> despite arguably being a physical state change and not chemistry per se.

It remove salt from the water but more importantly move it to the top of mountains, which adds energy into the system. Chemistry happens when the water disolves sediments and carry them back to the oceans.

juloo

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There's https://bonkersworld.net/ with a working feed. Last entry Nov 2020.

juloo

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I would have preferred links labelled "next" and "prev" so I could navigate with Vimium's >> key.

juloo

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Wikipedia can be browsed offline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Of...

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Printf is type-safe in Haskell and OCaml. The format-string is not a regular string, it must be literal and is type-checked specifically.

juloo

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* on Ethereum

There are probably much more content added to IPFS, zeronet and other projects I don't know about. (yes we can host websites on IPFS: https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/dnslink/)

juloo

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I always try to write a comment that say "why" the following code is needed or what concept it implements rather than what it does in details.

I would do

    // We allow scrolling in two directions
    hScrollBar = new JScrollBar(scrollBar, HORIZONTAL);
    add(hScrollBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    vScrollBar = new JScrollBar(JScrollBar.VERTICAL);
    add(vScrollBar, BorderLayout.EAST);
    caretX = 0;
    caretY = 0;
    caretMemX = null;

(I don't have much inspiration in this specific example)

juloo

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One of the things that hype me about IPFS is that URIs can't change. Resources are immutable and the URI is only the hash of the content.

https://ipfs.io/

juloo

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I wonder how many things are still stored uncracked waiting for future measuring instruments.

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