born2discover | 1 year ago | on: Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
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born2discover | 1 year ago | on: Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap
I would assume Russian military would not be relying on GPS but use GLONAS[1] instead.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Framework Laptop 16 Review
Same question but for Switzerland.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?
This actually depends. If you need something specific, tailored to your needs and operational niche, then obviously you can not forego a visit to a lawyer. However, for some documents, a reputable template is more than enough. (As even lawyers rarely draft "bespoke" documents for every client and happen to use a templated text more often than not).
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
My apologies for hijacking the thread, but could you please elaborate on your noscript/(x)html map setup ?
How would one even handle zooming and paning in such a case ? With forms ?
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
And ad a bonus, you get to be tracked everywhere for a tiny monthly fee ! Who wouldn't want that ! /S
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Daily Driving FreeBSD
Funny but Chrome on Android opens the website without any issues
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)
Your comment is based on the premises that Meta/Google... are there to help you shop/find the best result once you've made your mind. For that purpose, an optimised search engine is indeed very useful.
But I don't think that's why intent profiling exists. What if, instead of helping you find quickly what you are looking for, they forced you through a less perfect system that, while leading you to your result, suggests you other, somewhat similar articles... Maybe you'll buy more? That incentivises ads and thus increases profits for the AdTech.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Scandinavian spy drama: An intelligence chief who came under state surveillance
The Guardian seems to have covered that as well here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/04/ex-danish-defe...
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
According to the lore a goldfish has an attention span of about 3 seconds, are you sure humans nowadays have one *that long* ?
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Security Vulnerability of Switzerland's E-Voting System
Yep, that pretty much mirrors my own experience as well, and I am also Swiss.
Sadly, IT companies in Switzerland aren't serious about security. Even big, reputable firms have been shown to be sub par when it comes to it... One of such incidents involved a highly reputable firm in Geneva that had many federal contracts. They got a data breach and their dirty laundry got aired out in the open: passwords to client networks/accounts/... were stored in clear text, contracts and other confidential information barely protected...
So I'd say, while in Switzerland we do some things right, IT ain't it.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history
That's a really interesting project !
One pet peeve, though. Some entries have "Arbitration Award" listed as an action. However, these usually mean that the physician won an arbitration case (i.e. the ruling was in their favour). Listing them without any differentiation can potentially negatively bias a person's opinion against a perfectly honest doctor.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: America’s Afghanistan war devastated the environment, may never be cleaned up
Too many to count I'm afraid
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: Towards HTTPS by Default
That sounds intriguing, could you please elaborate?
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
And yet Australia voted not to become a republic in 1999. Seems like it did survive a simple popular vote at that time.
born2discover | 2 years ago | on: UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
Police does not hold any discretionary powers on whether to enforce a law. In a functional State, Police is a subordinate of the executive branch, not it's willing accomplice. It can't enforce laws it deems "ok" and turn a blind eye on those it deems "meh".
born2discover | 3 years ago | on: Switzerland Weighs Full or Partial Credit Suisse Nationalization
Credit Suisse is indeed one of several globally systemically important banks.
The list is annually established by the Financial Stability Board [1].
[1]: https://www.fsb.org/2022/11/2022-list-of-global-systemically...
born2discover | 3 years ago | on: Switzerland Weighs Full or Partial Credit Suisse Nationalization
There is no such thing as a "constitutional right given to Swiss citizens to banking secrecy". Swiss constitution does not provide anything of sort [1]. The "Banking Secret" is defined at art. 47 of the Federal Law on Banking [2] and it has a rather narrow definition.
So there is no such thing as "banking secret" for Swiss residents. Hence even if Credit Suisse is nationalized, it won't change anything for their customers, except perhaps an increase in trust.
[1]: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1999/404/en [2]: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/51/117_121_129/fr#art_47
born2discover | 3 years ago | on: Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
IMHO that greeter function of yours is unnecessarily complicated. The same could be achieved in an easier way:
"""python
from functools import partial
def greeter(name):
print(f"Hello {name}")
greet2 = partial(greeter, "Sue")
greet1()
greet2()
"""
born2discover | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?
Could you please elaborate on the "..., and have a fake first MX record" ?
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I am not a military inclined person, but asking for missiles that are purposefully built to target air missiles as well as their delivery mechanisms seems reasonable to me.
Am I missing something ?