ddp | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
1112+, plus 25 in Microsoft Authenticator w/ cloud backup enabled, and a Yubikey 5c FIPS for every device I care about.
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ddp | 3 years ago | on: nvALT 2 (2021)
Thanks for positing this, I was using nvALT, I love this app.
ddp | 3 years ago | on: A synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2: What we know, and what we don't
ddp | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which books can help one become a better programmer in any paradigm?
After SICP, I would recommend The Little Schemer
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780262560993
ddp | 5 years ago | on: Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader
Mine works fine too (Windows/Chrome).
ddp | 5 years ago | on: Most tech content is bullshit
This site is one of the reasons.
ddp | 6 years ago | on: A list of computer languages with release year and category
Thank you!
ddp | 7 years ago | on: What are good linux laptops for 2018?
I haven't used it enough to know what its limits are but there's a lot to like with Windows Subsystem for Linux running either Ubuntu or Debian. Compared with macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date. I really like what Microsoft is doing here.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers
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ddp | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
I switched to this: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Now, if I could just find something as brilliant for this Surface Book 2.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower
Well, when it shipped it didn't support Fusion Drives, which were the default when High Sierra shipped. Time Machine backups fell over and quit working (somewhat different issue, agreed) and before I got them working again, FileVault 2 ate both of the disks on both of my MacBook Pros causing me substantial data loss.
I also had two macOS Servers running on mac minis and they announced that they're discontinuing it, leaving Apple with no server offering. I also removed the discontinued Apple Airports from my network.
I plan to stay on iOS and Watch for now, though I only use my iPad Pro for music synthesizers and basic chat/browsing.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm being absolutely harrassed typing in my iCloud password on all my i-devices. In contrast, I think I've typed my Microsoft password less than 10 times in the last year.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower
I helped build Apple 1's. I had a Lisa. I've owned nearly every generation of PowerBook and MacBook and I've had enough. I bought a loaded Surface Pro tablet last summer and I ordered a new 15" Surface Book 2 w/ Nvidia GTX 1060 to replace my MacBook Pro. Not the new one with TouchBar, that one was so bad I sold it back to Apple for a substantial loss. It was a good run.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: 8th-Gen Intel Core I7 CPUs Are Quite a Bit Faster
I'm sure they're just as bad as every other Intel chip has ever been.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Apple Looks to Expand Advertising Business with New Network for Apps
was
They also used to make stuff that was fun to use and had a great UI.
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
My dad ran into him on a plane once. I still have my dad's business card that he signed along with a coffee table book of his artwork. What a live he lived!
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
I love my AirPods too but I'm still waiting for the wireless charging mat that works with the iPhone 8 and Apple Watch. Remember that? They announced it a year ago...
ddp | 7 years ago | on: Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with a massive new funding round
Oh, that's nice. Can it land on a barge?
ddp | 8 years ago | on: Trump signs bill to shut down websites that facilitate prostitution
ddp | 8 years ago | on: Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?
The point is that ':=' evolved in Algol 68 to solve the ambiguity inherent in '='. C is simply from a less thoughtful and primitive language family and modern languages still seem to be copying C's horrible syntax. It's also probably why technical papers are written in Algol-like pseudocode using the '<-' symbol in LaTeX for assignment.
ddp | 8 years ago | on: Stormy Daniels’s 130K Payment and the Probability of Disbursements Matching 130K
reminder that she has a legal defense fund here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stormy/
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