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Any chance of a Firefox extension? I'd love to play with this, but I don't allow Chrome on my personal devices.

To be fair, lots of people don't like to comment on sites. So imagine you read HN for a while, but never register a nym because you don't really like to do social media. Then, you are inspir…

They recently started offering lossless, could you get down to the equivalent of 320kbps? I grew up on sites like Suprnova, and quickly found I could not discern the difference between 320 mp3s and lo…

>Audio fingerprinting? Bought a spotify card with cash, email was registered on public wifi. Who cares? :-)

I play poker. I buy in for 500 and can make 1-200 a session. But a session is ~8 hours, so I stopped and use that time to study or work a job outside my field that has health benefits that is less fun…

then how do we predict anything? (not being sarcastic)

>I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this. What's stopping someone from sticking a microphone next to their speaker? Slow, but effective…

I remember similar discussions back when it was called "machine learning". Sooooo... no. (Also, look at what the smart guys/gals who found this topic before me said about profits vs inc…

>Sadly so, students often associate their self-worth with research and academic achievement, so if things go south, for whatever reason, they are in crisis. A lot of people also are doing research …

>I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academ…

And?

>I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers. The legal indust…

You're not running it as a credit card, and it's not a credit card -- you can't do a cash advance on a gift card. But they sold ones that were accepted anywhere visa or MC is accepted r…

iCloud is overrated, it was not encrypted at rest for ages. I much prefer using Time Machine and keeping the passcodes in a PW manager, and maybe a safe deposit box as a backup.

I did this ages ago to build up airline points and take a nice trip to the EU. Back then, the trick was to get a generic Vanilla Visa or other prepaid credit card. A recent legal ruling meant they had…

I've been doing all my personal notes etc that I want a rich text format in .ODT for decades now and don't regret it one bit. I do regret being overly paranoid in my 20s and not writing do…

>Countries that have nuclear ambitions but lack the capability have more than enough scientists of their own that could do it given the permission. Source?

>Ya’ll read too many conspiracy theories. What makes you think other countries were interested in recruiting him, specifically? I want to see the logic behind this assumption. You don't unders…

>He is a nuclear scientist so he might have been working for some country's nuclear program? Or "some country" tried to recruit him and killed him when he said no to maintain the (no…

key exchange imo

> Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active) Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era? >Reddit's niche programming subreddits…

>I've read at least two articles authored by historians that thought this book was full of factual errors and misunderstandings. Feel free to provide these citations if you dislike the book &g…

> Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. Great example of how perception and reality can differ vastly

>Liquid Glass is now mandatory if you care about security. Sigh. Long live frutiger aero

Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police https://search.worldcat.org/title/39256274 This book going into extreme detail about the East German surveillance state. …

I feel like what's interesting to the technically minded will stay evergreen? (You mentioned Neuromancer for example) "A Brief History of Time" was one of my favorite books as a pre-tee…

I normally dislike LinkedIn but this might be a great example of something to post there if you have a lot of academic contacts.

I hate to be "that guy", but why do you insist on a phone? I used to have an EeePC back before decent mobile hotspot plans were affordable, I'd love to just use a dumbphone as a hotspot…