throwawaybutwhy

Joined 9 years ago

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Comment · 8 months ago
Does your employer know about your promotion of inauthentic content on a social network site not controlled by your employer?
Comment · 10 months ago
Why are you rolling out your own crypto? Timing attacks, unvalidated inputs and no bounds checking.

> I am not a cryptographer. ... However I am fairly confident that this is at least safer than pass. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Translation: I have no experience in safe cooking. Please use my garlic oil, and my chicken salad. Feel free to prove me wrong - from the ER ward.

Comment · 10 months ago
What is the name of the genre of name-dropping in two or three passages and leaving the reader guessing why oh why he read this blissful snippet of wisdom?

At the very least, have the audacity to talk about congestion management in more than two words.

Comment · 11 months ago
Upvoting for visibility. Yet, why am I not surprised? In the immortal words of Claude Rains (modified): them are the usual suspects.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Reddit (and quite possibly, a few other fora) has banned online communities that unite enthusiasts of 3D printing weapon parts.
Comment · 1 year ago
TL;DR Stack Overflow poisons its data dump. Grifters gonna grift, it seems.
Comment · 1 year ago
Προσδοκῶ ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν. Καὶ ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος. Ἀμήν

'nuff said.

Comment · 1 year ago
When things like these get posted to HN, there is a plot twist... Always a plot twist.
Comment · 1 year ago
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