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"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


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...


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


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


I've stumbled upon a so called "acoustic neuromodulation" treatment option, which in theory rewires the faulty brain circuitry by only using sound (non invasive), but not sure where can I actually enroll in this.

https://med.stanford.edu/kbplab/research/recent-publications...

https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01435...

https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01541...


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


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.


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


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


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.


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.


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.


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 Stripe unless you are an accredited investor.


Many private companies are staying private for longer, with an average time from launch to IPO creeping up toward 10 years or more. Most unaccredited investors are missing all of those substantial early gains.

Does LTSE have any plans to help speed the path to IPO and let more unaccredited investors participate in early growth and success?


It is my hope that we will be able to reverse this trend by making the experience of being a public company dramatically better. It will take time to see this play out, just as it has taken time for us to get into this mess.

But in the long run, it's important that the broad public be allowed to participate in growth investments, and I think the public markets could once again be the best place to enable that to happen. Frankly, I think it's immoral that at a time in history when we are pushing more and more of the responsibility for people's retirement onto individual savers, we have also made it illegal for them to make most growth investments. If we don't correct this imbalance, I fear the backlash to tech will only worse and intensify.

Tech didn't cause this problem but we will bear the brunt of the backlash if people feel left behind.


So, do you anticipate startups being able to IPO on LTSE at some point?


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