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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).

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.

I suggested opening a dedicated thread the last time it was brought up, and that's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119519

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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:

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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.

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...

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]

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  <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">

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Nice.

How did that happen?

I'm guessing WebKit has changed quite a lot over the past 5 years.

That makes a lot of sense.

Releasing this even without abstracted integration sounds reasonable to me - this is a system you built primarily for internal use, and you're engineering strictly atop AWS.

If the community wants support for other providers, someone else can come along and re-integrate with another provider, and maybe see if/where it's possible to collaborate with you guys on small changes that allow for easy maintenance for everyone.

The patent also details a new text-messaging platform that would detect how hard you type, and use that information to attempt to work out how you feel.

Unrelated, but are there any phone keyboards that interpret a hard press as uppercase and a soft press as lowercase?

(Relative to your average tap force)

I just grabbed the horizontal scrollbar (ThinkPad X61, no trackpad) to see what it was hiding, and slowly scrolled that part of the page over.

It felt like I'd just hand cranked a CSS animation. Kinda steampunk.

Note that I'm not dissing the author here. They appreciate the feedback they've gotten, which means they're receptive, and that's honestly a very large percentage of "this'll work out okay," which in this case means that this project will iterate until it nails something new, or the author will go join one of the other hashing efforts out there.

Ooooh, nice one. Thanks for the link!

Pretend there's someone listening who is both unconditionally neutral about and unconditionally interested in everything you say.

The idea is not to conceptualize an imaginary person, but to lower the hesitancy of "but there's noone there". Trying it in an empty house may be helpful.

I found myself pacing after a mildly stressful event a few years ago, and the practice stuck as a way to help myself wind down. I'm not actually sure when I started talking to myself too, I think it was around that point. I do both on a virtually daily basis, it's how I figure many things out.

This would actually be an answerable question, because of SO's draft mechanism.

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https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296990/what-are-the...

I've been thinking along the same lines for a very long time. Thanks for the inspiration to finally ask!

Hmm... okay, maybe my "strongly suspect" should have been worded a little less certainly.

I'm honestly not sure.

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With that out of the way: I strongly suspect that the reason this is happening is that the person in question thinks Bitcoin is about to tank.

So they're getting out of the market.

I've only observed Bitcoin from a distance as I've never needed to send or receive money online and not really been able to invest in things. I didn't learn about Bitcoin until only ASIC mining was viable, but I've never had a GPU (yes, that cash-strapped) so it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

So, I'm curious. What's a decent, low-drama/no-fuss broker I should be few issues with? Reason is obvious. :P

I'm completely ignorant of Bitcoin features I might like; I'll primarily want to export to USD (in the US), and maybe AUD (in .au).

What an incredibly good point.

That gives me hope, as someone who wants to do low-frequency data analysis that's only possible via multiple queries.

I just realized something.

- Office IT maintenance all hate printers

- I'm sure you've gaped at the control software that came with the little $40 inkjet you bought (or had to use) at some point

- Even the creator of MINIX cited "buggy printer drivers" as his rationale behind prferring nanokernel architecture (all drivers run in userspace) instead of monolithic approach (all drivers run in ring 0; printer driver sits next to crypto keyring).

So. Printers are terrible.

Remember Brinks' fireproof safes that were absolutely rock-solid but were running fully unpatched WinXP and had a USB port on the side of the keypad for "security updates"? Hackable with a keyboard stuffer that looked like a flash drive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961024

I remember reading (somewhere) a conclusion that went along the lines of, Brinks are awesome at making safes - and this safe was truly amazing - but they weren't a software company, to a profound extent.

It's clear to me that printer companies are similarly really, really bad at software design too.

So, reverse-engineering the firmware to figure out what things printers are doing use probably wouldn't be all too difficult.

The printer companies were told to write the code, not write it perfectly and make it impossible to unravel as well.

Of course, if anyone actually take a crack at this (excuse the pun) that'll make things change a bit, but printer firmware is probably at the "open sesame in a big way" stage right now, and the printer industry is huge and slow to change, which suggests reverse engineering could remain trivial for a little while, even with publishing.

Maybe printers don't just use yellow, but calculate an optimal color based on the background of where they need to print.

The person who wrote the list in the article mentions (at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14502425, in this thread) that there is a second generation of this technology that doesn't produce microscopically-visible dots.

Perhaps the use of all available colors is involved.

This can be disabled in account settings though.

OK, I asked if Magsafe will come back in a relevant subthread: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/6ezhwm/iama_foxconn_...

Assume my question hasn't been answered unless there's a comment underneath here saying it has. (I'm about to go to bed, anyone else is free to update.)