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New comment by postoplust in "Eat Real Food"

postoplust — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:35:22 +0000

Indeed, chickpeas don't supply sufficient essential amino acids[1]. But sesame is[2] and goes well with chickpea! See falafel or hummus.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512000797

[2]: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14194079

New comment by postoplust in "Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones"

postoplust — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:33:35 +0000

Site seems down, try https://archive.is/gW1rO

New comment by postoplust in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

postoplust — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:35:19 +0000

https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... (https://archive.is/RE0pz)

> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.

New comment by postoplust in "CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects"

postoplust — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:44:39 +0000

Also see https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status which I've used happily for a few years.

It's a shell script (#!sh) and therefore easy as copy/paste to install.

New comment by postoplust in "Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever"

postoplust — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:51:43 +0000

For example: IPFS URI's are content addresses

https://docs.ipfs.tech/

New comment by postoplust in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

postoplust — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:22:24 +0000

If TikTok turned out to be State sponsored spyware, would you reconsider?

I support your slippery slope argument. I wonder where your red line is relative to "state sponsored spyware" and "typical advertising ID tracking" or "cool new app from company influenced by an adversarial super power".

New comment by postoplust in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

postoplust — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:28:41 +0000

mid-block crosswalks exist[1] and can placed where people already "jaywalk". To me it's like installing sidewalks on the desire paths[2].

[1]: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/mid-block-pedestrian-c...

[2]: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desi...

New comment by postoplust in "Debugging Python with VS Code"

postoplust — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:04:58 +0000

this is timely and useful to me -- thanks for sharing

debugging with this method is much nicer than my previously methods: lots of `logging.debug(f"{my_list}")` and parsing pytest output

New comment by postoplust in "Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring"

postoplust — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:56:26 +0000

I use and highly recommend this framework as the starting point for any technical documentation. It helped me learn how to keep the detailed technical explanations out of the how-to documents. Before I learned of Diataxis, my how-to docs were much longer and hard to follow when things go right (because I had lots of, "if this doesn't work, investigate A, B, C...").

New comment by postoplust in "Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck"

postoplust — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:32:47 +0000

The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes. I wonder how the seat height in the NGDV compares to the Grumman LLV.

New comment by postoplust in "Poisoning the Day"

postoplust — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:28:33 +0000

(not OP) Yes, the quoted strategy is from The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss 2007)

New comment by postoplust in "How the square root of 2 became a number"

postoplust — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:00:25 +0000

That's also the definition given in the article, attributed to Richard Dedekind.

New comment by postoplust in "Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)"

postoplust — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:40:19 +0000

> Hard Mode: Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses

As implemented, hard mode doesn't count gray letters (letters nowhere in the solution) as hints. You're allowed to reuse gray letters, but true hard mode should prevent that.

New comment by postoplust in "Introducing Lock and Key: A New Measure to Secure Subscriber Accounts"

postoplust — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:52:59 +0000

> Lock & Key references stolen username/password lists shared publicly on the internet and cross checks them against your account.

Does this mean they don't salt stored passwords, or they're testing compromised passwords with all stored salts?