lthemick's comments

On: Space Colony Art from the 1970s

[lthemick]

Probably not, unless those rotors we're spinning really slowly; you wouldn't need nearly as powerful a helicopter in such a weak gravity...

On: Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

[lthemick]

Thanks for sharing this post!

I installed maps.me to give it a try... Very surprised that one of the settings is "Use Google Play services to determine your current location"

[sabas_ge → lthemick]

Because the location provider from Play Services is an alternative to having the GPS turned on and gives an approximate location. There are some replacements like this by Mapzen https://github.com/lostzen/LOST

[Tsubasachan → sabas_ge]

Depending on where you live (like the US) your telco is happily selling of data. So unless you have your phone in airplane mode your location is out there.

On: Two Kinds of Tech Debt and How to Pay It Down

[lthemick]

> EDIT: just to be clear I'm very skeptical there are only two kinds of technical debt...

The author acknowledges this in the article:

  "Of course, there are more than two types of tech debt, but I think the two we talk about here cover a lot of ground."

On: CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed...

[lthemick]

I read it the same way

On: What did Earth look like X million years ago?

[lthemick]

And geochemistry.

[dotancohen → lthemick]

The geochemistry goes without saying.