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uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

I think the GP comment had a point, before you get to a gate you are scanned/x-rayed, searched and pass by chemical sensors. This is not to mention other technologies that are baked into the surveillance system.

I think fretting over a bag past that point is a little much. Frankly, the crowded snaking lines leading up to the TSA are where one should be concerned.

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: YAML: Probably not so great after all

I learned some of the intricacies of yaml the other day when refactoring a docker-compose project. At first glance, it's brilliant... Until I started running into limitations, edge cases, and issues.

I like the _idea_ of yaml, but: - it's overly complicated in the wrong ways - common/simple use cases aren't supported and require post processing (i.e. Merging block maps/arrays, string interpolation, etc)

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?

Betteridge's law says no [0]

> But just as quickly as he blows my mind, he puts a damper on the excitement. So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors

> An even broader doubt is whether the epigenetic changes that Izpisúa Belmonte is reversing in his lab are really the cause of aging or just a sign of it

> Wholesale rejuvenation, then, is still far off, if it will ever come at all. But more limited versions of it, targeted to certain diseases of aging, might be available within a few years.

Like battery tech, there's some progress and exciting results here, but no where near crossing that last mile to market.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: FunctorFlow – An attempt to re-imagine Python libraries

I was hoping this would combine the best features of existing package managers, but instead this seems to have been made in a vacuum.

While making a good package manager/community around it is hard, there's plenty of hard earned knowledge that's been completely ignored here.

This seems to make dependency management harder (imports spilled all over the code base, versioning seems non-existent, documentation for this/plugins? Twitter is not documentation).

How does plugin authoring work? How does distribution and trust work?

What problem is this supposed to solve that isn't addressed by other package managers (or what does this do better than said package managers)

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US

There are other people that aren't Americans on the net.

That aside, what are you doing to oppose this? People may not be commenting because they dont know how to go about stopping it or simply don't think it can be stopped; leading by example is more powerful than an appeal to pathos.

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer

>>[[ 9 July, around 0100 UTC: @doolse identifies [email protected] is the cause. See purescript/npm-installer#12 (comment) @doolse opens an issue on the load-from-cwd-or-npm repo pointing out that the package is breaking the purescript npm installer (although at this stage, none of us spot that the code is malicious). This issue is later deleted by @shinnn. ]]

Hmm indeed. A hack is possible but the timeline of events is dubious.

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)

The amount of energy to vibrate 25-25000 tonnes for any extended duration of time would be staggering. Then you have to manage forces this subjects the ship to... maintence would be a fright

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data

Right, that's what raising an issue with the software maintainers are for.

Aside from anecdotes, there's little value in further discussion beyond the PSA that is the original post; save for prevention/recovery of such events.

uponcoffee | 6 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

"target every cookie that belongs to a specific IP address"

That shouldn't work if the GP uses a VPN, as theg'd have a perceivably different IP address.

More likely they are logged into youtube, and their account has been associated with their girlfriend's account (location data from gmail/android phones/maps/etc, probably not using the VPN 24/7, etc)

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