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thirdreplicator commented on How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history   glennf.medium.com/how-we-... · Posted by u/ingve
thirdreplicator · 2 years ago
Hehe. That's lifetime funding if you go buy some Bitcoin.
thirdreplicator commented on Loneliness is stronger when not alone   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/hirundo
thirdreplicator · 3 years ago
So much discussion of loneliness on this forum makes me think y'all are in the wrong country. Feeling lonely? Come to the Philippines! Sunnier, family-oriented, cheaper, everyone wants to have a relationship with foreigners (both men and women), waterfalls, sandbars, diving, cheap food and housing, and recently 200 Mbps internet. Been married to a Filipina for 14 years. So far so good. I came here from Silicon valley as a digital nomad and still here as a father and a husband. (Been back and forth though over the years.) Being a programmer and an introvert with a family of 3 children, creates the opposite problem of having too much social interaction and not enough alone time. Recently I've been able to negotiate more alone time with my children as my youngest is 8 years old, and they have lots of cousins to okay with. Overall, I think humans need to be with each other. Living in our little boxes by ourselves staring at screens is not natural.
thirdreplicator commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?    · Posted by u/l2silver
thirdreplicator · 3 years ago
I made a password manager in Rust. It just encrypts and decrypts a file from/to ~/passwords.txt <-> ~/passwords.ryp (the encrypted form). Because the the file names are fixed it's easy to use. Just type:

ryp

If ~/passwords.txt is there, it will be encrypted. If ~/passwords.ryp is there, it will be decrypted.

The cool feature is that it checks to make sure that the password you typed in the nth time you encrypt it is the same as the 1st time. This protects you from inadvertently encrypting it with a typo if you check/update your passwords many times.

thirdreplicator commented on QwikTape: Do calculations, annotate like you would on a paper   github.com/4silvertooth/Q... · Posted by u/stareatgoats
thirdreplicator · 3 years ago
Sounds interesting. Can you make a tutorial video on YouTube?
thirdreplicator commented on Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?    · Posted by u/Archipelagia
thirdreplicator · 3 years ago
I have been experimenting with different cell phone policies over the past few years with my kids and here is what we settled on.

At our house, we have 6 children ranging in ages from 7-12 (3 of them are mine). No cell phones allowed Mon-Fri, but on Saturday and Sunday, they can have their phones from 2pm-9pm. We sleep at 9pm everyday. Sometimes during the week I'll let them watch a movie. Also, if they want to use their phone for learning something new like oragami, a piano tune or how to draw, then I let them use it for an hour or however long they need it as long as they are responsible.

The result is lots of imaginative play time like fashion shows, disco parties and pretend school. There is a lot of time for studying and playing instruments. All the kids were "A" students this last quarter.

thirdreplicator commented on Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?    · Posted by u/warent
thirdreplicator · 4 years ago
I wonder if a crypto-based email system would solve these problems. With crypto, you have cryptographically secure identities, and if you had to pay for sending emails, this would deter unlimited indiscriminate spam.
thirdreplicator commented on Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)   hypothesis.works/articles... · Posted by u/GregBuchholz
thirdreplicator · 7 years ago
The article would have been more compelling if he showed at least one example where floating point errors blew up to the point where one would care.
thirdreplicator commented on Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?    · Posted by u/perfect_loop
thirdreplicator · 7 years ago
UserLeap would probably hire you.

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