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Comment · 9 years ago

I apologize, That wasn't my intention.

I completely understand how what I wrote could come across this way now I reread it. I guess today is one of those days I'm not able to articulate what I'm thinking (happens a lot sadly).

Comment · 9 years ago

Headsup to anyone who wants to reply:

While the black bar is not a "banned topic" or anything, bringing it up tends to produce heated disagreements, and at the worst possible time too (since the conversation ends up in the thread of someone who's no longer with us).

Devolving into meta flamewars is quite disrespectful, and creates extra work for the moderators as as well.

Here's the last time the black bar was discussed in a thread it was used. You'll need showdead turned on to see all the offtopic discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290

Comment · 9 years ago

I think it's because I'm tired, but I'm not following.

I login to $app with my password. $app bounces me to SMS. I then go back to $app with the SMS code.

So I needed my password with $app and the code from the SMS.

Comment · 9 years ago

> Yes, one is a GeekBench 3 score, the other is a GeekBench 4 score. Scores of 3 and 4 editions of the GeekBench suite are not comparable.

Ah, that's what I was missing. Thanks.

Comment · 9 years ago

Question. There are several mentions of $gigantic_resolution either providing the same or less display area than $smaller_resolution.

Are there any hacks that can convince macOS (or the older versions of OS X described in this article) not to treat the display as HiDPI? Yeah, I realize the machine will abruptly feel like it needs a magnifying glass to use, but in a pinch (laptop on lap <2ft from eyes) it might work for some (insert standard disclaimers here about eyes being non-replaceable and needing to last the distance).

Also.

The late-2015 21″ iMac is ~$1.5k+, and "has a multi-core Geekbench score of 5623."

Then the late-2011 17″ MacBook Pro which is ~$1.3k checks in with a "9240 Geekbench score".

Is there some datapoint I'm missing here?

Comment · 9 years ago

It's EXEs and JARs for the Internet.

Sure, it has a text format, but it's the equivalent of Lispified Java bytecode. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst... (uninformative but current), http://loyc.net/2016/lesv3-and-wasm.html (2016, from when wasm wasn't finalized, but has some good concrete examples that look like the wasm in the first link))

With this being said, it may actually be easier to figure out wasm than frameworkified JS since you can apply IDA-style reversing to it.

Open question: what existing tools and research are good at inferring the high-level behavior of stack machines? Eg, research papers, or (preferably open source) tools for reversing eg Java code. I want links I can throw at Ph.Ds.

Comment · 9 years ago

Someone posted a reply to my comment a few minutes ago then deleted it. Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531411 / http://i.imgur.com/HcU8NgS.png - yes, looks like Arc completely hides newly-posted-then-deleted comments, very probably for aesthetic reasons.

In a nice bit of timing, HN Replies (my HN notifier) grabbed the comment before it was deleted! It was interesting, so I'm anonymously adding it below:

> I have seen first hand a large VoIP carrier reach out to an ITSP because one of their end subscribers was scanning the 710 number space either manually or not. And it was within a few minutes after the scan started. This type of activity (and others too) will set off all kinds of alarms at phone providers.

Comment · 9 years ago

I came here to say exactly this, and before doing so thought to ^F first. Heh.

The other two comments I see in this subthread are practical and pragmatic, but I also agree with your view as well. I would far prefer to pay the fees and have all transactions processed via the blockchain.

Although at the end of the day, pragmatism makes money...

Comment · 9 years ago

Unsure if you can answer this, but this info is not utterly impossible to find by trial and error, so it's not concretely private.

Are you saying there's more than one 710 number? [Just Y/N]

Comment · 9 years ago

  data:text/html,
  <style>img { opacity: 0.5; position: fixed; left: 0; top: 0 }</style>
  <body><img src="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/vck/share1.gif">
  <img src="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/vck/share2.gif">

Of course, I did this via the domtools^Wdevtools before experimentally trying the above, which happily works as well.

I think the reason the images loaded was because I was on a data: URI? Or am I misinterpreting CORS?

Comment · 9 years ago

I see. I was curious what elegant ways you were going about getting the pieces of paper :)

Comment · 9 years ago

So, I'm trying to do what you do, entirely using browser tabs. It concretely doesn't work.

After 200-400 suspended tabs open and a browser chewing molasses, I tend to export all URLs to a list for One Day In The Magical Future™, kill my session and restart.

So yeah, I'm very interested to find out what rule system you use - is this bespoke, or using standard email client features?

Also, what email client do you use? I've been trying to find a medium between "old computer becomes unusable after >10 tabs are open" and "fast, native information-presentation applications (like terminals) are text-only and don't support images" for 15+ years.

I use Gmail's basic HTML mode 99% of the time. It... I can't say I like it. I want something that doesn't use Qt and GTK+, because I perceive more lag with applications that use these toolkits than I did with lightweight WinAPI apps I ran on Win98/Win2K machines with half the hardware capability.

Comment · 9 years ago

FWIW, I do note the usernames comments come from sometimes, particularly if they're insightful.

Regarding the numbers here, I'd say there are multiple thousands, possibly 5 figures. The top article about Apple refusing to publicly backdoor the iPhone (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274) got 5667 points. And sometimes my comments will attract a reply chain but not get upvoted, which shows that some proportion of people doesn't upvote here.

Comment · 9 years ago

Objectively, yes, but in practice, doctors sometimes work 12 to 30 hour shifts, all while the medical establishment actively tries to educate that tired driving is worse than drink driving...

Comment · 9 years ago

Nice.

How did that happen?