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by arh68 12y ago
Only because you didn't mention it: Vimperator [1]. It's what I used to use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator
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Well that's certainly interesting. I was about to say, it reminds me strongly of a zeta function, in a way. But it turns out Dedekind's eta function was what I was thinking of [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Do you think the game would be more interesting if it were continuously rebalanced (always adding units, omitting old ones every year or so) or should a near-perfect version just be frozen for competitive play?
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by arh68 12y ago
Now this is a text editor. Somewhere between Emacs and MS Paint. Not sure how I'd want extraneous whitespace to show up (where are my newlines? or can you only select rectangles). The execution looks refreshing.
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If Bruce Schneier became aware that a drug cartel was using one of his crypto algorithms, isn't he too an accomplice? In what world is someone who willfully helps the cartel conceal their activity not an accomplice? Do you really th
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by arh68 12y ago
The paper really isn't _that_ secure. A large fire in a paper archive is only really a once every 50 years phenomenon, tops. Besides, look at the already-existing boring-as-hell absolutely-paramount-to-nat'l-security nuclear
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Great visual effect, great typesetting, very inspiring layout.. but is that guy really smoking a cigarette at the gas pump? I can't believe that's legal there..
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> What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into
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by arh68 12y ago
Thanks for your comment, it really helps piece it together. I'm familiar with semiconductor/transistor theory but the article was light on details. Also, I was mostly lost reading Wikipedia. What I've found: there's q
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> A hunting rifle at a few hundred meters is going to be a heck of a lot cheaper, more reliable, easier to use, and more difficult to trace than some drone with a mounted weapon. Perhaps, but you've still got to pay the guy holdin
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by arh68 12y ago
I loved dropbox, it was very useful. The Rice appointment was totally surprising, and the drop-dropbox page was fairly well-written, so I dropped Dropbox. It became immediately clear the company I thought they were and the company they
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Was this part of the first crypto war? [1,2] I must not have been paying attention. It's interesting to me that some claim the software didn't work at all : > Now during all of this Jones and crew simply couldn't get th
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> Could we have a solution which would keep ints unboxed but have fast arithmetic operations? Wait, is the answer not floating point? Using 64-bit IEEE 754 means the lower 52 bits (51-0) are significand, and bit 52 is implicitly 1, so
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by arh68 12y ago
Had to double take at reading Robert Morriss (surely no relation..surely) > Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss If it's just an unknown one time pad we're lookin
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by arh68 12y ago
Less big data, more ML: you could build a rudimentary shazam, for either audio or images. Use small samples (~1sec clips, or 10~20% image crops) to match against an existing corpus. Bonus if the audio is distorted &/ the image is
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by arh68 12y ago
Amateurs all around. Obviously the DHS can't trust him: who hacks gift cards at night then rolls into work at General Dynamics ? It's not like anyone else can trust him, either: he's obviously dumb enough to be an informan
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Oh Unicode, Why Are You So Frustrating?(thegrumpyprogrammer.com)
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I never really considered the importance of that. It always seemed like some weird crotchety UNIX thing to default to /bin/sh, and usually my first 30 minutes on a FreeBSD box are portsnapping, cd /usr/ports/shells
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by arh68 12y ago
Shine On is incredibly on-point here, since Syd Barrett himself went "crazy" to a degree and dropped out of the band. It's not a adoration of the person, it's an appreciation for Syd's inspiration or work. I&#x2
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Honestly I think you miss the point. The author tries to tie the body of the article to their conclusions at the end, but they largely fail: Marine corps use hellish group training regimes to create unity , street gangs employ death-defy
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Wow. I met Fabiano in an elevator once. I watched a couple of his games, too. Unfortunately he was so far above my level I struggled to comprehend what made his game work. At a certain point it just looks devoid of even the slightest mi
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by arh68 12y ago
Wow, what a crazy review. No mention of materials, which seems odd for a 'watch guy' review. I have to go to apple.com to read: A new aluminum alloy ? "that’s 60 percent stronger than standard alloys"?? No mention
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by arh68 12y ago
Well that's kinda crap. Didn't it have the largest capacity? The HDDs came bigger than 128GB. Whoa, we're down to 64GB now?! [1] That's the maximum? We had 160GB iPods in 2006. This is the future? The 201x's k
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If I ever get confused, I'd check one of these two: the Spiral Rule: http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html the ksplice test: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/the_ksplice_pointe
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by arh68 12y ago
(: thanks. Your comment helps put [1] in perspective for me, helps place it in the zeitgeist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
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> Just as personal computers transformed the '80s, this latest generation knows that the Net is going to transform the '90s. With the same ethic that has guided previous generations, today's users are leading the way with
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by arh68 12y ago
I agree seeing the /16 and /8 would be very interesting. Perhaps just list those posts inline, with a smaller/greyer font. How hard is it to reliably extract an area code from an IP address? Now that would be nice. Kind
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At least it doesn't tell you it's deprecated . (: $ man whoami DESCRIPTION The whoami utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equiv- alent to ``id -un''. The command ``
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by arh68 12y ago
I'd just like to point out the simple fact that veterans do get one certain type of benefit coming home, and it's that they get automatic preference for any federal job placement they apply for. The preference doesn't ex
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by arh68 12y ago
Yeah, math! I like this explanation. I'm not a mathematician, but I was reading about the reals, the hyperreals, the surreals on Wikipedia last week, and the Dedekind cut [1] just seemed like a mind-blowingly simple way to look a t

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