maxymoos | 1 year ago | on: ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
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maxymoos | 1 year ago | on: The Joy of Nand2Tetris
It's complete enough, yes. I played it up until the "main quest" was done (building a TC machine).
It took approx. 20 hours and I loved it in a very similar way as the blog post author describes Nand2Tetris, so I'll have to look this one up too.
maxymoos | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
I was cleaning up some stuff on an old but still pretty important prod server and not paying enough attention on that day.
Turns out in retrospect that accidentally deleting ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the main user account was not a good idea.
As the panic was starting to sink in, I managed to find out that an unprivileged user account was still available for SSH login. Once I got a hold of it, I then tried my hand at running several privilege escalation exploits... until one of them worked (what a relief) and I could finally restore proper SSH access on the main user account.
It was both a proud and a pretty embarrassing moment.
maxymoos | 6 years ago | on: ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
If I was that concerned, I'd get a burner phone with a prepaid SIM card and create my account from a public computer while covering my face.
Plus, as somebody else already said: having JS enabled seems pretty much mandatory if you want to be able to decrypt your emails client-side.
maxymoos | 6 years ago | on: ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
You can pay with Bitcoin or cash apparently, though the latter will require contacting the ProtonMail team & arranging terms.
https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/payment/
maxymoos | 7 years ago | on: 42 (school)
For comparison purposes, tuition fees in a French public engineering school were around 700€/$800 per year when I was there about a decade ago, and I wouldn't expect this to have changed much.
maxymoos | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
There is indeed: I tried the same way as in Sublime Text and hurrah, it works.
Go to Preferences > Edit Settings, then add a new setting to the dict: `"dpi_scale": 2.0` (or whatever float value works for you)
I think you need to restart Sublime Merge then.
maxymoos | 8 years ago | on: Tesla Roadster
2-3k miles. Not 2-3 miles.
maxymoos | 8 years ago | on: Keyboard latency
Or if you're on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), switch to one of the default virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (and Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back to your X server console on my machine) to experience the delight of low latency keyboard-to-screen typing.
maxymoos | 8 years ago | on: How the Beatles Wrote ‘A Day in the Life’
Arguably, A Hard Day's Night's opening chord is the most iconic of theirs.
maxymoos | 9 years ago | on: Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)
Not everyone who voted for Trump is anti-intellectual, but if you are, it's very likely that you voted for him.
maxymoos | 9 years ago | on: How to Be a Stoic
Finally read them a few months ago. A fantastic read.
maxymoos | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
To me, the main difference is that you know about Google's automatic parsing of your emails upfront and it can therefore be a factor in your subscribing/unsubscribing decision.
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This being said, a problem with blood tests is that a layperson won't know right off the bat if a value outside of the normal range is ok or a life-threatening issue. I understand it might introduce a lot of complexity for labs and that there's some level of "big picture analysis" involved that will require some human intervention, but even just a color-coded line for WBC/RBC, hemoglobin and platelets could already go a long way, as OP's case demonstrates.