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New comment by turdnagel in "Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN"

turdnagel — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:39:30 +0000

I was curious about the use case of using a YubiKey to unlock 1Password.

New comment by turdnagel in "Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN"

turdnagel — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 03:46:59 +0000

Can you use the Yubikey as a keyboard on iOS?

New comment by turdnagel in "The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago"

turdnagel — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:14:10 +0000

Hackers is a fun movie. It has a fantastic time capsule soundtrack, fun sets (the arcade, the computer room) and some fun little performances (Matthew Lillard! Fisher Stevens!) It's interesting what the show gets right (little bits of phreaker culture, social engineering) and what it gets wrong (almost everything about how computers actually work). From a realism perspective, Mr. Robot blows this out of the water, but it's still fun.

New comment by turdnagel in "Investors sue Treasury Department for blacklisting crypto platform Tornado Cash"

turdnagel — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:20:07 +0000

This is definitely a pandora's box type issue. I believe it is different from the "code is speech" series of arguments around PGP because a deployed smart contract is not merely source code / compiled bytecode, but also a wallet containing funds. Of course, you still need the Ethereum "world computer" to make it run, and Tornado Cash is not very helpful without a significant amount of liquidity to sufficiently provide cover for people who want to obfuscate the source of their funds. These issues are likely to arise in court and I don't believe the conclusions will all be favorable to crypto supporters because I don't think the situation is as clear cut.

New comment by turdnagel in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

turdnagel — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:25:49 +0000

Why does it require macOS 12? Is it going to require a driver?

Films about Hypnosis

turdnagel — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:55:17 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_hypnosis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32473010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by turdnagel in "Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown"

turdnagel — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:42:39 +0000

Betteridge’s law response to headline: no.

Short answer: not any time soon.

Long answer: Maybe, in the long term. Node is really entrenched in orgs and 99.999% compatibility is probably a must have before they’d would consider switching. Also, don’t underestimate the strength and persistence of Google’s V8 team. Year over year incremental performance improvements may prove to be enough to ensure Node’s dominance for another 10 years.

New comment by turdnagel in "Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image"

turdnagel — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:42:11 +0000

There was a tool that could find the "equilibrium" called Translation Party. I don't think it works anymore. I'd love to see one that goes back and forth between DALL-E and an image description algorithm.

New comment by turdnagel in "Spent $15 in DALL·E 2 credits creating this AI image"

turdnagel — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:40:49 +0000

My current move is creating initial versions of images with Midjourney, which seems to be a bit more "free-spirited" (read: less _literal_, more flexible) and then using DALL-E's replace tool to fill in the weird looking bits. It works pretty well, but it's a multi-step process and requires you have pay for Midjourney and DALL-E.

New comment by turdnagel in "Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)"

turdnagel — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:32:58 +0000

I've actually found some of Ken Rockwell's info on analog cameras (especially Leica & lenses) to be super helpful, but I can't speak to his digital knowledge. Also, his photography itself isn't great.

New comment by turdnagel in "Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)"

turdnagel — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:32:44 +0000

Imagine a world where every product category had someone dedicated enough to build a site like this and keep it up to date. I'd specifically love one for cameras, lenses, and for the analog shooters out there, film.

New comment by turdnagel in "We're improving search results when you use quotes"

turdnagel — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:03:58 +0000

I miss when you could jump to the cached version of a page which would have all your search terms highlighted in different colors on the page. Peak Google search.

New comment by turdnagel in "We don't do that here (2017)"

turdnagel — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:53:17 +0000

I'm generally in agreement with you, but what I don't agree with is the author's assertion that it is a "magic" phrase that "ends the conversation". Realistically, it's very easy to imagine someone saying "why?" afterwards, leading to the exact kind of debate the author is trying to avoid. Anyway, I think it's a useful tool in the toolbelt, just not magic.

New comment by turdnagel in "We don't do that here (2017)"

turdnagel — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:36:14 +0000

I'm not sure "we don't do that here" is any more neutral than any other way of telling someone to stop doing something. It has the added weight of "we," which implies a shared set of cultural values, which in turn may help get the message across. But it does nothing to defuse someone feeling defensive about their actions.

New comment by turdnagel in "Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems"

turdnagel — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:36:23 +0000

Jeez. I'm starting to think the people on this thread want it to get a C&D.

New comment by turdnagel in "Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems"

turdnagel — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:26:53 +0000

To begin with, you've got a very narrow set of people who would even discover this project. Now intersect that with the people who will reliably miss context clues ("shitty network connections") to get a joke, and the set becomes even narrower.

New comment by turdnagel in "The case against CS master’s degrees"

turdnagel — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:17:54 +0000

My experience: I got a master's degree from a pretty weak school about 10 years ago. There was rampant cheating on tests and I didn't learn that much. While I'm not sure it helped me land any jobs, I do think it did help me get a higher salary at a few places.

New comment by turdnagel in "I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives"

turdnagel — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:29:46 +0000

Well, edge caching would almost certainly be enough with a decently high TTL. You don't need all that other junk :)

New comment by turdnagel in "Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent"

turdnagel — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:26:16 +0000

I'm not sure why someone would do this just to start a physical altercation which seems more likely to get someone in trouble for seemingly no reason. What I've actually seen in NYC is people offering something like a "mix CD" and then ask you for money once you take it.

New comment by turdnagel in "James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live"

turdnagel — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:21:01 +0000

This kind of stuff is really awe-inspiring. I have a couple of questions for anyone who is knowledgeable on the subject:

1. Looking at the light from the tiny red-shifted galaxies that are ~13 billion years old... would the Milky Way appear the same to an observer ~13 billion ly from us?

2. What is the cause of the star pointed artifacts (specifically, having 6 major "points") for particularly bright objects? If you zoom in closely on any one of the points, you can almost make out a hex grid, as if the shape of the telescope's mirrors is the cause. Is that correct?