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Logged on just to upvote this.

Lest one person out of a thousand that read this actually try the things mentioned in the article, I'd like to point out that the topics in the article such as summoning demons and dabbling in magic is ultimately not desirable.


Anyone know what the fastest-loading password manager might be?


Not really "fastest-loading", but you can search for "pass" in the full results to see which have the least performance impact: https://www.debugbear.com/chrome-extension-performance-looku...

In terms of additional on-page CPU activity on example.com (and therefore likely on every page):

  1Password +3 ms
  ThinkVantage +5 ms
  Enpass +15 ms
  Bitwarden +25 ms
  KeePassXC +28 ms
  Dashlane +80 ms
  Norton +88ms
  RoboForm +121ms (also delays render by 115 ms)
  LastPass +127 ms (also delays render by 105 ms)
  NordPass +156 ms
  Keeper +206 ms
  Avira +219 ms


Do you mean fastest-loading in the browser (from initial key press to auto-fill-in)? or just fastest loading app of its own?


KeePass and use it's password pasting feature.


The one built into your browser.


How do I access that from my phone or in native apps or store encrypted notes?


If you're in the Google ecosystem (Chrome, Google account, Android), then it syncs to your phone and works in native apps. No encrypted notes as far as I know however.

I would guess Apple's ecosystem (Safari, Keychain, iOS) would have similar functionality?


That becomes a problem when you work across both ecosystems. I use devices in both ecosystems so an independent password sync utility is necessary for me to be able to access the same set of passwords on my macOS, Linux, Windows and Android devices and within Firefox (on all 4 underlying platforms). I personally use Bitwarden which seems to have good performance in Firefox at least. The Android Bitwarden app also supports password auto-fill in native apps on Android as well (and it works on iOS as well when I had an iOS device).


I think for that use case, you have to suffer the performance penalty of a third-party password manager (original post was looking for the fastest password manager, which will almost always be the first-party one, and be tied to the one platform).


Out of curiosity, how much would you pay for a password manager with decent performance?


Bitwarden is free, so zero? I would be happy to make a recurring small donation though like I do for various projects on GitHub.


Bitwarden hangs for multiple seconds every time you unlock the vault. It loses state when you click outside of the popup, alt tab, etc.

AFAIK it also leaks the list of all your logins (or rather the sites) through their favicon caching server. To turn this off you first have to login (wtf?).


> AFAIK it also leaks the list of all your logins (or rather the sites) through their favicon caching server. To turn this off you first have to login (wtf?).

Do you have more info on this?


There's nothing unfortunate or that needs to be done about women leaving the workplace to take care of their kids and deciding to continue.


> There's nothing unfortunate or that needs to be done about women leaving the workplace to take care of their kids and deciding to continue.

But if those women stay home, they won't be liberated to find fulfillment by satisfying the needs of capital! Day care is an ideal solution for society, because it increases the market participation of all members of the family. /s


One might anticipate a racing sequel featuring alphabet agents that glow.


It's all three


>This is a ridiculous caricature of women. Most women aren't spending their time building IG brands, counting lavish gifts, and petulantly demanding millionaires. This sounds like a cartoon villain or something from a reality TV show.

yes but this accurate in describing what the last couple women I was with were like. they were both women who approached me first, whatever that might tell you.


Always wondered when this, removing the path after the domain, would be put in. It's visually simpler and would probably improve the metrics recording perceived sleekness of user experience.

But removing the path would be a burden to those discovering how the web really works.


Why not just take out the address bar altogether.


The purpose of removing the path and subdomains is that some people think it will help stop phishing. Does anyone think removing the domain name will help stop phishing?


Removing the URL didn't seem to stop phishing. I was just being obtuse.


>The world’s current and next innovations depend on a single country: Taiwan. It’s probably one country you might never hear about, or perhaps confuse with its neighbor, Thailand, or even think it’s a part of China.

>I’ve been living in Taiwan for 3+ years, and am baffled that I never pay attention to semiconductors.

I can't imagine how baffled he's going to be when he discovers Taiwan considers itself part of China.


This is misleading. The two dominant parties are the KMT, the descendants of the post civil war military dictatorship that wants political union with the People's Republic of China, and the DPP, which wants to preserve Taiwan's independence as its own liberal democratic nation.

The DPP has won the last 2 elections, so it is fair to say that more Taiwanese believe Taiwan is an independent nation than not.


To a large degree, KMT supporters don’t even want unification. They’re happy with a de facto independent ROC. Only a disappearing fringe consider themselves to be a province of China in 2021.


Taiwan has really changed rapidly in this millenium but the average Western perception of its politics seems locked in the 1970s.


Afaik Taiwan considers (or considered) itself to _be_ China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China#Background_and_a...


Maybe back in the 70s. I have KMT friends who openly say that there’s no likelihood of unification with mainland China. For the most part they like the status quo, they love their Chinese cultural heritage, and don’t really care that it’s confusing for the rest of the world as to whether they are Taiwan or ROC.

The reason that ROC still de jure claims 20th century territory (including Mongolia) is because redrawing the borders would upset the status quo and signal independence to PRC which is a red line for missile attack. In every practical way, the Taiwan province has been streamlined away and the ROC _is_ Taiwan.


KMT certainly for a time nursed hopes that eventually they will "retake" mainland, atleast during the time that CKS was in control.

CKS looked down on the possibility of "settling" for Taiwan alone.

Subsequent ROC/Taiwanese governments have not renounced that line of thinking. Even DPP officialy endorses "Status Quo".


Taiwan is split politically on the issue of whether or not it is a part of China or a unique independent nation.


It is also a status quo not really worth rattling at the moment, since all indications are that when Taiwan changes its mind the PRC will start treating it like a breakaway province and start the invasion.


That’s not what GP means. He means they consider themselves to be the “true” China and the “true” ruling faction of China.


That's not what I mean. The political party that won the last 2 elections, DPP, disagrees with both of your points. They believe the Taiwan government is "true" Taiwan and People's Republic of China is "true" China, and their is no overlap because Taiwan and China are separate, independent nation-states. It's the minority party, KMT, that maintains, along with the PRC, that Mainland China and Taiwan are inseparable constituents of the same "Chinese motherland."


> Taiwan considers itself part of China.

China, not the CCP. They view themselves as the rightful leadership party.

This is very historical though. When polled on whether Taiwan would want to become part of China, remain independent, or become part of the US (!), the majority wants US Statehood.

I'll go look up sources and cite them in just a bit.

Edit: Wikipedia cites https://web.archive.org/web/20090326142909/http://www.tvbs.c...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state


Wouldn't be surprised. Taiwan only exists as an independent entity because of American actions in Asia.


Yet it was American actions that handed over Taiwan's seat in UN and Security Council to PRC.


Yep, at the end of the day the whole fiasco between Taiwan and the PRC isn't really about Taiwan. It's about US-PRC relations and who gets the final word in Asia. Taiwan is just a game piece.


Assuming the respondents were not answering in jest, the odds of this ever happening round to 0.


The blog post seems to have good logic reasoning regards semiconductors, but it is wired to open with statements that involves political views.


I think you have it backwards; China considers Taiwan to be part of China. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-taiwan-relations


The current govt of Taiwan held the China seat on the UN Security Council until 1979. The history on this issue is complex.


The Cross-Strait issue is explicitly mentioned in the preamble of the PRC'S constitution.

>Taiwan is part of the sacred territory of the People's Republic of China. It is the lofty duty of the entire Chinese people, including our compatriots in Taiwan, to accomplish the great task of reunifying the motherland.

http://en.people.cn/constitution/constitution.html


Taiwan also claims the entire mainland as their territory, and KMT especially continuing to claim Taiwan as the "true" China.


Use the phone's web browser, open eBay and buy a laptop


If you're retiring with a small farm, why are you concerned about the market prices of what you're producing? You're just eating it yourself / giving it to neighbors, right?

If you intend to sell it, well the differences of economy of scale of a small farm versus a large farm and the resulting cost difference alone should have been obvious. You wouldn't have been competing well in that market either, right?


No way. You need income just to pay the ever increasing property taxes, the equiptment costs, etc.

The idea is to produce higher margin products, such as organics, honey, ir niche products.


You can grow 100% of what you need / want beside grains on less than 5 acres (really 1 acre can suffice depending on what you want to grow). Growing your own grains is quite frankly ridiculous. It will likely cost you close to 100x what you could buy them for (if you include your time), and importantly the quality in taste is minimal.

You don't need a ton of equipment to feed yourself. You might WANT some to make life easier, but even then, I'm pretty sure you don't need to pay yearly tax on a tractor in most states...


You probably aren't paying tax on the tractor, but you are paying thousands in tax on your land and house. Then you do have equipment costs of the tractor, capital expenditures, etc. So you also need to produce enough to sell to cover some costs.

Also, you can't grow more than an acre of wheat for self-use legally in the US anyways.


>Also, you can't grow more than an acre of wheat for self-use legally in the US anyways.

I find this very surprising, especially considering this should vary by state (although I know this might be the kind of thing the Commerce Clause could get up into).

I can't find any information that there's a cap on wheat production in the US. Got a source?


An acre of wheat is almost 2k pounds! What could you possibly do for personal use with more than 2k pounds of wheat?!


You're really looling at about 1000 lbs of flour per acre. I think I was mistaken about 1 acre. I think its actually 1/4 acre, which is about 250 pounds, which should be enough for most families. But still, you need to produce excess yo pay for costs and provide an income.


> You need income just to pay the ever increasing property taxes, the equiptment costs, etc.

The whole concept of retiring is that you've factored those things into your savings. If you can't afford to pay property taxes for the rest of your life you can't retire.


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