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gboudrias commented on Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California   latimes.com/politics/la-p... · Posted by u/pseudolus
gboudrias · 7 years ago
As long as it also applies to juice. It's usually the same amount of "bad sugar" but since it says "orange" on the bottle, people think it's healthy...
gboudrias commented on Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to 8-Bit Home Computers   hackaday.com/2019/05/22/z... · Posted by u/petethomas
justin66 · 7 years ago
Stopped reading here, right at the beginning:

> Zork, a text-based adventure game, was the Fortnite of its time.

gboudrias · 7 years ago
And what's your objection? Zork good Fortnite bad?
gboudrias commented on Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices   zapier.com/blog/free-drop... · Posted by u/doppp
awill · 7 years ago
they did what many other companies do. Use the freemium model to gain users and publicity, then try to reduce costs and convert free users to premium by destroying the free tier.
gboudrias · 7 years ago
This seems... Unsustainable?
gboudrias commented on Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API   nest.com/whats-happening/... · Posted by u/cek
GiorgioG · 7 years ago
Man, Google is the new Microsoft of the 90s. Fuck them. I have 3 Nest thermostats (bought prior to the Nest acquisition.)
gboudrias · 7 years ago
Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model.
gboudrias commented on The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup   cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepe... · Posted by u/jashkenas
mft_ · 7 years ago
Out of (genuine) interest, which alternative tools do you recommend?
gboudrias · 7 years ago
The MMPI-2 is the big reference right now. Legally you'll probably need a licensed psychologist to administer it (depending on your state/country), but that would be true of most useful tests.
gboudrias commented on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/xvector
lvh · 7 years ago
Many cloud providers will make this process pretty much entirely automated. But let's say you don't want to do that: when is the last time the way you run caddy changed? Or the last time python-certbot-nginx changed?
gboudrias · 7 years ago
This was a few years ago, so things may have changed by now. But as they say, once bitten twice shy, and the wisdom of "just cron it" doesn't work with highly experimental tools like LE was for what I estimate to be the majority of its lifetime.
gboudrias commented on The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup   cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepe... · Posted by u/jashkenas
ww520 · 7 years ago
Myers-Briggs personality test?! Isn't that like horoscope? The last time I took one in a company was administrated by a consultant paddling some psycho analysis things to HR. We all had a good laugh, like reading our palms to pigeonhole us into artificial compartments.
gboudrias · 7 years ago
Hi, psychology student here. It's not very good in a psychometric sense, but its validity problems aren't really a concern when it comes to idiographic data ie: "helpful tools for getting to know the people with whom she was creating a new company".

It's not the devil we memed it into, there are better tools for categorizing and rejecting candidates based on objective-ish traits but this wasn't the purpose according to thr article.

gboudrias commented on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/xvector
lugg · 7 years ago
Security tends towards the lowest common denominator. I'd rather you just figured out how to run a cron job.

The problem comes if your keys ever get compromised or cracked all your historical traffic becomes vulnerable instead of just the most recent window.

gboudrias · 7 years ago
Yeah "just" a cron job except the implementation changes several times a year. Somehow this automated process was more time-consuming than the previous, manual one.
gboudrias commented on Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit   spectrum.ieee.org/aerospa... · Posted by u/starmanaj
gboudrias · 7 years ago
For the life of me I can't parse that title.
gboudrias commented on Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India   factordaily.com/richard-s... · Posted by u/nfrankel
paavoova · 7 years ago
You can do this by putting a phone in a faraday cage. A quick search shows various wallet-sized poaches available, but I can't vouch for their effectiveness. I wonder why they're not more popular, nor even mentioned, among all the talk of "hardware switches".
gboudrias · 7 years ago
Not a radio engineer, but it's the shape of the Faraday cage that matters I think, not the size. The required shape most likely depends on the wavelength, as the idea is to distort the waves... Basically if your grid is too tight (ie a sheet of metal) the waves keep their shape, but if the grid is too loose, the waves just pass right through.

That's what I've been told by fellow meshnet hobbyists anyhow ;)

u/gboudrias

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