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New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:40:39 +0000

the first part of the article was interesting, but I couldn't finish it because it reads so heavily in claude's 'voice'

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)"

occams_chainsaw — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 05:35:07 +0000

Any tips for what DD is looking for outside of what's mentioned explicitly?

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "The Reddits"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:06:09 +0000

kuro5hin, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Nginx Security Advisory"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 01:12:58 +0000

Why are they enabled by default while this page says otherwise?: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138444

  Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental.

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

occams_chainsaw — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:10:25 +0000

There's _a lot_ in the article that existed in the 00s. Now imagine a programmer from the 70s...

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Rue de l'Avenir"

occams_chainsaw — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 01:34:29 +0000

Same for me just in October for some stretches

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "The One Billion Row Challenge"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:07:32 +0000

...very relative

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Ship of Fools"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:01:49 +0000

yup- in florida, you need to leave the AC on, even if just at a higher ~80f temp while on vacation

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:54:53 +0000

It's definitely on the expensive side, but the form factor on the newer fi collar model is _much_ better than before (important for me, having a small dog). Battery life is about as good (it dropped ~3-5% with a dogsitter as I was away for a week).

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "OceanGate CEO Told Videographer to Sleep on the Titan Sub After the Battery Died"

occams_chainsaw — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:58:00 +0000

> Neither the student interns nor OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and its employees have commented regarding this report.

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 07:43:14 +0000

For that matter what do regular (amateur) boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm on the open ocean?

They footage IS very cool, for that matter what do EXPERIENCED boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm?

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 07:36:54 +0000

are you speed reading?

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:03:45 +0000

There's a place for both- you need the devs who care more about adding business value quickly, and you need the devs that lean more towards perfectionism in how it's built.

Too little of the former, and nothing valuable gets done. Too little of the latter, and you end up drowning in technical debt, preventing the business from adapting as quickly as it needs to

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:49:13 +0000

I think people would more likely associate "boom" with the times planes not-so-spontaneously explode

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "The Electric Ford F-150 Can Power Your House for Three Days on a Single Charge"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:21:50 +0000

Article says it's not manual: "F-150 will seamlessly transfer its stored energy back into the home and automatically notify the owner via a push notification sent to their phone"

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study"

occams_chainsaw — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:47:58 +0000

In my case, at least, I try to get more direct statements even when I understand the intent, to hopefully reduce misunderstandings in situations where I fail to pick up on the real intent

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track"

occams_chainsaw — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:17:27 +0000

I want to play it.

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Fuck You Sunday"

occams_chainsaw — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 06:41:08 +0000

COBOL?

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Street View of 1940s New York"

occams_chainsaw — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 03:36:01 +0000

If you're on mobile, zoom in to see the photos. If you zoom out, or (in my case) the default zoom is too far, you won't see the dots and boops will have no effect.

New comment by occams_chainsaw in "Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)"

occams_chainsaw — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:27:51 +0000

Easier:

  no_duplicates = set()