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baccredited commented on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? · Posted by u/fuzztester

web007 · 2 years ago

Heh... I have several variants on this. My most-recent version is basically the diametric opposite of yours, make the least-readable passwords possible.

https://github.com/007/dotfiles/blob/439ba7ff1d1f6dc01c4b792...

baccredited · 2 years ago

Love it! I like the bash implementation for bare minimum on the dependencies

baccredited commented on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? · Posted by u/fuzztester

baccredited · 2 years ago

"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password

I use it all the time, at least a few times a week.

I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination

baccredited commented on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city nytimes.com/2023/06/20/ma... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

faeyanpiraat · 2 years ago

I've just recently got a new headphone, and was so enthusiastic about it I listened to it for a day on loud volume, and got Tinnitus because of that.

The scary part is that it did not hurt, so my body didn't notify me that I'm doing something wrong!!

It's been over a month and the ringing is still not gone, it may never will.

PLEASE be careful about your hearing guys, doctors CANNOT DO ANYTHING about it if you screw it up.

baccredited · 2 years ago

there are some TDCS treatments for tinnitus that seem to work https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30359234/

But I'm pretty sure they are only available in the EU for now, not the USA

baccredited commented on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built? · Posted by u/rafiki6

baccredited · 3 years ago

I wrote the code that puts headers on USA federal court documents (PDFs). I see them all the time in the real world and still get a kick out of them

baccredited commented on Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs reuters.com/article/us-in... · Posted by u/prostoalex

baccredited · 5 years ago

This year Instacart hired Goldman Sachs banker Nick Giovanni to be their CFO. He led multiple companies through a direct listing IPO, all from the banker side.

Interesting, right?

I'm surprised the Reuters article didn't mention this. I guess everyone is busy.

baccredited · 5 years ago

Goldman Banker Nick Giovanni to Join Instacart as CFO Ahead of IPO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/goldman-b...

baccredited commented on Instacart mulls direct listing in snub to IPOs reuters.com/article/us-in... · Posted by u/prostoalex

baccredited · 5 years ago

This year Instacart hired Goldman Sachs banker Nick Giovanni to be their CFO. He led multiple companies through a direct listing IPO, all from the banker side.

Interesting, right?

I'm surprised the Reuters article didn't mention this. I guess everyone is busy.

baccredited commented on Ask HN: Are there free APIs for Financial trading? · Posted by u/mister_hn

baccredited · 5 years ago

tradier.com API is free if you keep an account there. I do this and it is handy for many things.

baccredited commented on Ask HN: How do you send custom notifications to your phone? · Posted by u/rococode

modinfo · 5 years ago

I use Pushover (pushover.net)

baccredited · 5 years ago

I've used pushover for this as well. Nice perk: on iOS at least you can easily define a custom image and sound to go along with your message. This is FUN to use.

baccredited commented on Ask HN: Why Isn't Paulgraham.com on HTTPS? · Posted by u/LouisLazaris

baccredited · 5 years ago

My company spent precious developer hours this week 'fixing' old intranet websites that recently started giving Chrome 'insecure' warnings on internal links. HTTP is definitely not a risk in this scenario. And PG's website is not a risk either.

Google's war on http is misguided, dumb, and wasteful.

baccredited commented on Ask HN: How to buy shares pre-IPO? · Posted by u/tinyhouse

baccredited · 5 years ago

One way to do so via a public company is to invest in: TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (TPVG)

They make late stage investments in private companies. Read a few of their quarterly reports to get an idea of their recent deals.

There is no reliable way I know of to cherry-pick individual companies like AirBnB unless you are an accredited investor.

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