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by aaronem 13y ago
Dibs! Melanoma runs in my family; it never occurred to me to build something like this, but I can certainly see the benefit. Thanks for the idea!
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by aaronem 13y ago
When transaction malleability kills.
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by aaronem 13y ago
What is a "motion-sensitive sleep alarm"? One of those widgets that wakes you up at the most advantageous part of your sleep cycle that falls within a given bracket of time? ISTR seeing one of those a while back, in production, wh
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by aaronem 13y ago
The only part there that seems like it's actually hard (ooh er) is encoding information about the content of a given video or image file; I don't see any better way to do that than tagging by hand, which is going to take a while f
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by aaronem 13y ago
> "Hacker News" doesn't allow even basic HTML? I think that's to try to keep the focus on content rather than presentation, and also because parsing user-submitted HTML to pick out the safe bits is a pain in the neck.
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by aaronem 13y ago
> A way to submit any legal document, and for a fee have it returned but explained in plain english. SNARK: I understood this to be called a "lawyer". NOT SNARK: Legal language is so recondite, complex, and heavily dependent on
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by aaronem 13y ago
I counted everything from my single-digit Applesoft BASIC years onward. (After all, the question wasn't "How long have you been programming professionally? ")
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by aaronem 13y ago
I used "charitable" as shorthand for "in accord with the principle of charity", and did not consider the possibilities for misinterpretation thus created. I think it reasonable to hope that the principle applies nonethel
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by aaronem 13y ago
It reads a lot better in a column width which can't be measured in positive integer miles. Unmaximize the window and you no longer need the color-cuing extension at all. (And the people responsible for the BeeLine Reader website know
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by aaronem 13y ago
I'm no scientist, but off the top of my head, I'd say you would start by finding a group of women who experience simulator sickness with the Rift, and a given simulation, at a significantly higher rate than do men. Then you'd
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by aaronem 13y ago
Normal mapping provides exactly the sort of shape-from-shading cue boyd describes. Stereopsis isn't required for normal mapping to be beneficial; indeed, in the fifteen years since boyd did the work she summarizes in her article, norma
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by aaronem 13y ago
It would be nice if the article under discussion had anything to do with the technology that goes into the Rift, but, as I detail elsewhere in this thread and in an as-yet-unmoderated comment on boyd's blog, it appears to be based on r
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by aaronem 13y ago
I think men in the industry would be more willing to default to your more rational, and also more charitable, approach, had they not so much experience of feminists telling them they are evil. After a while, anyone will get gun-shy. Exagge
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by aaronem 13y ago
Spoken like someone who's never had a particular software stack and methodology forced on him, and then been hamstrung by it. The genius of the friend I mentioned is evident, as much as anywhere else, in the way he has placed himself b
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by aaronem 13y ago
This is bad enough on its own, but especially disturbing in light of the blog post linked by calibraxis, elsewhere in this thread, in which Dryden advocates 1950s-style industry blacklisting.
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by aaronem 13y ago
Private lists of toxic people are one thing. Public, crowdsourced lists of people who should not be permitted to earn a livelihood, in the industry where they have built their entire careers, are quite another. The disclaimers of advocacy,
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by aaronem 13y ago
[Preface: dang, thanks for overriding the flags on this HN posting. The discussion thus far seems to be mostly worthwhile, unless it's gone to hell in the twenty minutes or so I've just spent writing this comment, and I'm gla
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by aaronem 13y ago
[Edit: Removed discussion not relevant to parent's question for reposting as a top-level comment.] I've been assuming that this bit about "eye flickers" is boyd's way of describing for a general audience the phenome
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by aaronem 13y ago
> evidence-free chatter Dryden deleted the tweet not long after posting, but see http://archive.is/GhW8N for substantiation. In all fairness, I must note that Dryden herself didn't introduce the word "blacklist
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, hey, Ashe Dryden! Last I ran into her, she was busily advocating an overt hiring blacklist because some people on 4chan made fun of a blog post. I'm surprised to find her quoted in such a relatively even-handed article on the subje
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by aaronem 13y ago
"Apex predator" doesn't mean "eats everything", but rather "eats what it please and has no predators of its own". By that standard, we're the most spectacularly successful predatory species this plane
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by aaronem 13y ago
Next time you're in the DC/Baltimore area, look me up! In exchange for a laugh like that, the least I can do is buy you a beer.
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by aaronem 13y ago
But the attacker didn't yet control the DNS when he sent the link to the exploit; he needed the exploit in order to compromise the router and put the DNS hijack in place. So I'm not sure how the hell it worked.
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by aaronem 13y ago
That's an excellent question, especially since LinkedIn publishes an SPF record specifying both the IP ranges and the second-level domain name of legitimate MXes for its mail; prior to the DNS hijack, I'm not sure how it would be
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by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, I see what you mean. I wish I saw a way for that to happen in the Windows ecosystem, although I suppose the "Windows Store" might drive evolution in that direction.
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by aaronem 13y ago
That scales better than the eccentric design, but not as well as separate connectors. Suppose, for example, you want to be able to assemble, from the same components, a flat-hexagon station, and an "asterisk" station like what you
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by aaronem 13y ago
Sure, but if you're MITMing DNS, you just serve a copy of the Notepad++ download page (or whatever) whose listed checksum matches that of your backdoored executable, so that's not a problem in this scenario.
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by aaronem 13y ago
The article author mentions sleeping under a duvet encased in a sheet; perhaps that serves the same role as does a sheet between body and comforter -- I assume the encasing sheet he's talking about is removable for washing in the same
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by aaronem 13y ago
That was more or less what I had in mind. On the other hand, it might be more cost-efficient in general to design the cylinders to connect endwise and form a hexagon; it'd increase travel time for the station's inhabitants, but re
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by aaronem 13y ago
You take arachnids outside? But they keep insects down! I'm perfectly happy to cohabit with them, so long as there's a clear and evident understanding that where I go, spiders don't, and vice versa -- I mind me of my childh

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