firefax

Random Walk Down Wall Street

The venue I published in before dropping out of my PhD purposefully alternated between the US and international locations for these reasons. (Some folks would complain that Canada "didn't co…

>I presume you're trying to read the news in another language for language learning purposes, not for diversifying your information sources. Both :-)

>Firefox auto translate is great from a technical perspective, and I think it's awesome to see it translate sentence by sentence, but the actual quality isn't great. It tends to keep word…

why is your username green, out of curiosity?

I keeep forgetting there's a front page to this site... it's my Slashdot replacement. Imagine if Commander Taco had been funding Myspace, what a world that would have been :)

This sounds noncompetitive, and bad, but can I just say I don't see the appeal of these watches? I much prefer a simple casio. I got around Europe with a CA-53W. I did currency conversion, and ha…

>I still can't understand how YC funds competing companies. Where is the efficiency in that? I thought that's a core tenet of angel investing? Maybe not purposefully funding rivals, but f…

script kiddies don't use buffer overflows, script kiddies try the top 20 most popular passwords and deface your wordpress. AI might learn to code in rust or whatever, but you'll forever have…

It sounds like there were witnesses to the major events mentioned, which makes things simpler than 1:1... but in general people don't tend to make these kinds of things up, in my experience.

Firefox auto translate is super useful for pages like this where there's no EN equivalent, thanks for sharing. > If a cow or similar cattle ship outside the slaughterhouse by lightning, fall, …

Upvoted, but no reply. It was a sincere question ;_;

>Nobody buys apple because of privacy they buy it because its a status symbol and stupidly easy to use. I had a friend who used to joke "Linux is free if your time has no value" -- when I…

Since when? Currently, I back up all my TOTP generators in KeePass to avoid this. (It's simple to throw the file onto a usb or other data store) I like that solution better than pushing my seeds …

Yeah, I'm mostly posting this for folks who might not have access to ISO, but if you do, that is the best solution.

Slightly off topic, but if you ever write on a whiteboard with a sharpie, you can write over the text with an erasable marker and then wipe it away.

I've made a lot of comments on the internet about folks like Mark Zuckerberg, but to be fair, I've never caught him outside my window ;-)

Well unfortunately, if the backup method is SMS MFA, and that SMS # is now behind Google's cloud, you can become locked out. Really terrible, from a UX perspective -- I managed to go decades with…

>iOS backups are consistent in backing up everything sans stuff in the Secure Enclave Do they now back u TOTP generators? I lost access to an account I had since my teens because when restoring fro…

>People don't really care about privacy Then why are they willing to pay a premium for Apple Products, which do as much locally as possible? (Without going into detail, I know this because a v…

What's your favorite taqueria?

To quote Steven Colbert: "reality has a strong liberal bias" (Not enjoying how folks on HN conflate liberalism with "the left" when they are two VERY different things)

>flirting with the C suite It sounds like one of the issues was that the C-Suite flirted with her >Wynn-Williams also writes that Kaplan, as her boss, made inappropriate comments to her, includi…

>FB was a much better product FB used to have granular privacy controls and no "feed" -- you wrote on someone's wall, they wrote on yours, and people had to actively click on your pr…

Tor bridges are more bandwidth intensive than CPU intensive, but thanks for the thought.

Maybe you got better at posting? :-)