andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 14y ago
i used to use logitech/squeeze, but recently switched (it's dying, as far as i can tell, and certainly wouldn't run on the latest opensuse) to audioengine D2 - http://audioengineusa.com/Store/Audioengine-D2 it's more expensive (i think),
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
does it require an external port to listen on? i started the client but it doesn't seem very happy (i am behind a firewall with no way to open a port).
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
uff. doesn't this depend hugely on context? we regularly eat at lomitz which is a traditional chilean/german place, with the same long menu every day. the items are all famous, traditional dishes that everyone knows (i guess for americans
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
the first doesn't work correctly for all strings (those with duplicate characters). the second is the right way to do it.
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
how does "try to use less X because Y" become "don't use X"? and why is this considered good? to clarify: my question "why is this considered good?" isn't about "if-less programming", but about taking ideas to dumb extremes.
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
well, i don't feel like a loser. but then i've never thought of comparing myself using $$ job and status. i'd suggest growing up a bit. get some more perspective on life. do something different. broaden your outlook. you might also cons
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
not the abstract. something more "explain it to a 5 year old" - so not exactly compressed, but simpler, with more background. i don't think that this is so different to a blog, really. the hard bit is going to be consistency.
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
sure, i would be interested. i'd like a short (3 sentences?) summary explaining why the paper is interesting and a pdf. you can often find preprints on people's web sites even when the final paper is behind a paywall. and sometimes if you
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US to probe Autonomy sale to Hewlett-Packard(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by andrewcooke 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
more exactly, it's an option you can disable.
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
anyone else see the strangest mess on view source for that page? (chrome on ubuntu) [edit: i guess it's confused by the line break characters. i reported an issue.] [edit2: whoa, wget seems to show the same thing when i look at the source
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
>>> from heapq import merge >>> def kmerge(*lists): ... return merge(*map(sorted, lists)) ... >>> list(kmerge([1,2,3],[6,5,4],[2,2])) [1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
for some reason the "bayesian reasoning and machine learning" (which to my eye is the most readable - perhaps because it is assumes the least from the reader) link is directly to the pdf. the site is at http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Ba
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What is the progress on the MIT LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
1 points by andrewcooke 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
parted magic looked interesting, but doesn't seem to add a coherent interface to everything. has anyone who has used it also used yast's partition manager (from opensuse)? if so, how does it compare? because i'd love a simple, standalone
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Inventing My Own Alternative Medicine(acooke.org)
1 points by andrewcooke 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
they certainly existed; i used to know someone who used one. see also http://www.cykey.co.uk/ (same people; available now)
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
it's hard to read that without feeling the huge weight of criticism (all the kow-towing and talking about experts). and then i come here and 2 out of 4 posts are complaining. really, can't you just go somewhere else? ubuntu is fine for my
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Why and How Writing Crypto is Hard(acooke.org)
1 points by andrewcooke 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
is elitism really the right word? it sounds like you're mad at something and using the word "elitist" because it's the first thing that comes to mind. what i would suggest doing is sitting down and thinking very carefully about what has ha
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
oh lucky you! the others are so much better :o) they don't need to be read in order or anything, but i'd suggest trying to do so. i remember thinking that some of the later ones tended to "explain" in a certain way some of the earlier on
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
no, you're misunderstanding me (i think?). what you describe escapes strings - it sounds correct, but it is not what i am asking about. for example, when using postgres you might want (for some crazy reason) to have a table called "select"
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
do any of the wacom alternatives work with linux?
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
i like the cute embedding approach (let users write sql directly in an sexpr and then transform it to sql in a macro) but i am wondering if there are any corner cases that break. for example, in postgres, names are quoted using (if i remem
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
just want to warn others - this is by far the worst of murakami's books. above all, it's way too long. if the three volumes were edited to one, it would be much improved. i wish i had googled for reviews (which were generally negative) b
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
more technical again? good. but has he learnt to portray real people and emotions yet? i guess i will try it anyway...
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
quick update (i need to review the code some more, but this is slipping down the page and i need to go do some errands) - i have fixed all the above, i believe. the salt is now 128 bits of random data, included with the message (and covered
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
whoa. thanks. about to go to bed(!) but will address that (dual hmacs) tomorrow am. thanks again! edit: on the wraparound counters, i can replace it with a nonce (prefix) and smaller counter (and no wraparound). i thought they were equi
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
ok; in my case i was confused by the way pycrypto handles ivs for ctr mode (it ignores the iv and expects an explicit offset or prefix to the counter). so initially i had the same encryption every time. but anyway, ignoring that red herrin
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by andrewcooke 14y ago
Clickable links: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig... (not me!) https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-crypt (main page, inc example) https://github.com/andrewcooke/simple-crypt/blob/master/src/... (source)

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