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skeeks commented on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond   voiceofsandiego.org/2025/... · Posted by u/jhunter1016
skeeks · 4 months ago
Isn't the solution really easy? Make the students show up on the first day in-person, compare.with ID and take a photo.
skeeks commented on One year after switching from Java to Go   glasskube.dev/blog/from-j... · Posted by u/pmig
pm90 · 6 months ago
The startup time comparisons may not seem like a big deal but having an app take several seconds just to start up can burn you really bad in incidents where you want to roll new application versions. And yes, it is possible to engineer around it but I think a better question to ask is why these apps take so goddamn long to start in the first place. There should be some kind of compile or runtime flag to speed this up.
skeeks · 6 months ago
There are a lot of applications where the startup time of several seconds does not matter at all. More likely, for most applications it does not matter. Of course, if you are FAANG, it does, but you should not optimize for that in the beginning.
skeeks commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker   congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium
skeeks · 8 months ago
Mouse-over over the chart is broken (scrollbar shown and hidden again and again). I believe you dont need to set x-overflow-auto on the div where the scrollbars appear.

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skeeks commented on Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery   spectrum.ieee.org/cargo-s... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
jillesvangurp · 3 years ago
Autonomous battery electrical vehicles on simple roads might be a lot cheaper, faster, simpler, and more flexible than either railway or this. This project has a high risk of being technically obsoleted by such a thing long before completion.
skeeks · 3 years ago
Switzerland has no space for additional "simple roads". It would also be extremely difficult go get it approved, as it would pass through many municipalities. You would have hundreds of objections by residents and probably also a few referendums.
skeeks commented on Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam    · Posted by u/silent_speech
heleninboodler · 3 years ago
Further downhill than secretly installing an IMAP proxy on your phone and hijacking all your email to go through it in a way that destroyed all TLS security to your real mail server? Impressive...
skeeks · 3 years ago
That is a separate, standalone app, not the regular LinkedIn app
skeeks commented on Lenovo Forums stores plaintext password as a cookie   forums.lenovo.com/t5/Foru... · Posted by u/ashitlerferad
megous · 3 years ago
As long as it's a http only secure cookie... it should not be a huge issue. Session ids are basically replacement for username+password anyway, and nobody cares they're stored in a cookie. Server knows the plaintext password already, too.

So the only remaining issues are security issues around sharing your computer with other people, or programs. I guess stealing a session id is mildly less problematic than stealing the password in case the password is re-used elsewhere.

skeeks · 3 years ago
And what if the server is compromised in the future? It is trivially to then extract all the cookies and send them to a attacker-controlled server. The attacker then uses those password to try to login on different platforms.

After initially setting a password, the database/server should only store a salted hash.

No exceptions.

skeeks commented on What science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?   allianceforscience.cornel... · Posted by u/signa11
jansen555 · 3 years ago
If there is nukes war, it will basically wipe out USA and likely UK as well. Russia probably has significant losses as well but due to its size and terrain plus population density, Russia will eke out a winning population to continue Russia as a nationhood after the war. US will be just left as a oral tradition. I don't think other countries will be affected much other than loss in trading opportunities in dollar. Russia has significantly more nukes than all western countries combined. And that is official numbers. They have their own uranium mines and even US has to import from them. So the number of nukes will be significantly more in the unofficial numbers. Plus, they have access to China as production centres for all the widget they needed. While US by their own suspicion paranoid manner wouldnt engage China for such production needs. With US and UK gone, whatever left as NATO will ceased to exist as they have very little nukes left to counter the remaining nuke countries.
skeeks · 3 years ago
And what about all the climate consequences?
skeeks commented on Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst   noteplan.co/n/3D073DDB-CB... · Posted by u/azalemeth
itsailor · 3 years ago
All information in this note is fake. Check facts. Without emotions.

Update: Look for rebuttals, not confirmations, to verify information.

skeeks · 3 years ago
The claim in this comment is fake. Check facts. Without emotions.
skeeks commented on Ask HN: Are We in a Bubble?    · Posted by u/ushakov
bobobob420 · 4 years ago
Yes we are in a bubble. The fed reserve does not allow bubbles to collapse circa 2008 anymore. There is too much income disparity between top earners and lowest earners. There is too much inflation and too low of interest rates. The healthcare system is beyond fucked, it’s become a mockery or symbol of fuck you to the lower middle class and lower. Housing prices are very high. The fed reserve needs to let the economy crash a bit so there is enough crisis to push legislation forward. We need to get rid of the federal reserve it is a cancer to American society. We also need to send a bill to China for reparations caused to our economy by covid. Having to pick between Sleepy Joe and Dumbo Trumpo can tell us all we need to know about the current state of politics. Too much infighting and polarization yet the discussion at hand is over vaccines instead of income disparity. Luckily I work in tech and have a somewhat privledged background so none or these issues even come close to effecting me so I don’t care as much. Optimistic as education increases I hope to see some good changes.
skeeks · 4 years ago
I doubt that any country could have prevented covid spreading through the world.

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