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by Luyt 13y ago
There's a Skeptoid episode about the WoW Signal: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4342 The podcast starts with: "It was August 15, 1977, when astronomer Jerry Ehman was examining data coming from Ohio State Univ
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by Luyt 13y ago
Also, even if the credentials are 'admin/admin' or 'admin/password', by default the administration interface is not reachable from the WAN side of the router. Or at least, I've never seen a consumer grade
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by Luyt 13y ago
Spells vary in casting time. Many spells are instant.
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There is a skeptoid episode about the Voynich manuscript: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252 "A famous analysis done in the 1970's by US Navy cryptographer Prescott Currier found that the Voynich manuscript i
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by Luyt 13y ago
Indeed, ESR wrote this about it: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5211 "This is a brief heads-up that the reason I’ve been blog silent lately is that I’m concentrating hard on a sprint with what I consider a large payoff: ge
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by Luyt 13y ago
Microsoft publishes a free 'Remote Desktop Client for Mac', which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1814...
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by Luyt 13y ago
Do you mean the "Network Diagnostic" application?
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by Luyt 13y ago
xor rax,rax I used this construct often to zero a register, in the time that memory and CPU cycles were scarce. But nowadays, my time is a more valuable resource, and I tend to write: mov rax, 0 It takes a somewhat longer
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by Luyt 13y ago
Now that we finally have effects like shadows, gradients, and rounded corners in CSS, the trend is towards flat design. Some webpage layouts I made ten years ago look surprisingly modern again.
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by Luyt 13y ago
It is impossible to read and understand text when there is something moving in the corner of your eye. The human brain was trained to do that for millions of years of evolution on the savannah. The moving thing might be a predator...
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by Luyt 13y ago
In his defense, the author makes the following disclaimer: "As before, note that I’m a beginner in these languages."
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by Luyt 13y ago
I'm collaborating with some people on an application, too, which also consists of a few components that have to work together. And all of those things have to talk to each other and be set up to run on your personal dev environment.
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by Luyt 13y ago
I also found 'The Blub Paradox' (part of Beating the Averages) eye-opening. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by Luyt 13y ago
"After five years in one place it is amazing how much stuff gets collected." Indeed! And it's hard to stay organized. Paul Graham wrote an essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html , which I found
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by Luyt 13y ago
xxd is on OSX, but not on FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD, I always use 'hd somefile.bin'.
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by Luyt 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! This seems to be an interesting alternative to MSSQL Server Studio.
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by Luyt 13y ago
I wish SequelPro could have multiple SQL Query tabs open.
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by Luyt 13y ago
PRE-formatted code fragments show up in monospaced font in my browser, which makes it stand out sufficiently against the body text, which is a proportional font.
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by Luyt 13y ago
A few related skeptoid episodes, with a few excerpts: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4239 "Are gluten free diets really good for your general wellness?" Gluten free diets actually are necessary for some people
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by Luyt 13y ago
You are absolutely right. I owned a RC sailplane (wingspan 2 meter), with an electric motor to get it up in the air. That motor had a sharp propellor on it, and was incredible powerful for its size; it was fearsome. It probably had enough p
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by Luyt 13y ago
Looking at the examples, I cannot see why a Glass would be useful for me. I remember ingredients for something I want to cook. I can remember where I parked my car. I have a paper map for driving directions to unfamiliar places. However, a
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by Luyt 13y ago
A video of TempleOS (formerly known as losethos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MsDl39UL0 That's really weird stuff.
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by Luyt 13y ago
I wouldn't call it insane, neither brilliant. I use this function to split a sequence into pairs (or triplets, or fourths, etc): def paired(t, size=2, default=None): it = iter(t) return itertools.izip_longest(*[it]*size, fi
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by Luyt 13y ago
Begin lines with spaces to indicate code: def luyt(): return "Hello, Luyt" if main: print luyt() Easy does it ;-)
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by Luyt 13y ago
In Firefox, I often use View/Page Style/No Style, in such cases.
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by Luyt 13y ago
This immediately reminds me of pg's essay on 'Stuff', http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html "...once you've accumulated a certain amount of stuff, it starts to own you rather than the other way arou
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by Luyt 13y ago
And how Hollywood thinks about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0iDL3pAhE (The scene where Cohagen gets exposed to the martian atmosphere and dies).
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by Luyt 13y ago
I found BLINK and MARQUEE so infuriating irritant that I used to binary patch them out in the browser executable. This was before the era of signed executables.
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Feedfetcher is still polling as if nothing happened(rachelbythebay.com)
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A similar silly unit is used to measure 'green' energy: "This windmill can power 10.000 households". As if we're too stupid to understand a kWh figure.

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