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by billpg 2y ago
As King Æthelred II "The Unready" learnt, once you pay the Danegeld, the Dane leaves you alone and never bothers you again.
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by billpg 2y ago
I've seen enough reports of ransomware gangs failing to return their victims files even when they do pay up, that it's probably best to consider those files irrevocably lost and not pay.
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by billpg 2y ago
Not the point of that article, but I prefer the full sized SD cards. You could comfortably hold them and there was space to write on a label. MicroSDs are too small and fiddly to handle.
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by billpg 2y ago
"We've built X. It allows you to run graphical applications over a network." "Here's an optimization for when the X display is the same machine as the process." "We've built Wayland. We all run applic
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by billpg 2y ago
Pick Two. A. A day is divided into a fixed number of smaller units. B. Each smaller time unit is of a fixed physical duration. C. The day cycle corresponds to the cycle of the solar day on Earth. TAI picks A and B, allowin
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by billpg 2y ago
I'm seeing FreeDOS mentioned here, but I do wonder what practical use it is being put to. I only ever see it as something computer makers write into the hard disk because they have to put something there, which gets promptly wiped and
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by billpg 2y ago
North Korea has the Internet?
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by billpg 3y ago
My 80s era BBC Micro came with a 6502 assembler as part of BASIC built into ROM. It was a little quirky in that it was a two-pass assembler only if you put it inside a FOR loop and turned off unknown-identifier errors on the first pass. I w
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by billpg 3y ago
"ID numbers start from 2^53 and are allocated sequentially including odd numbers that are not compatible with "double" types. Please ensure you are reading this value as a 64-bit integer."
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by billpg 3y ago
Odd that Swedish courts are settling the matter. Wouldn't that be a matter for the Niue legal system?
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by billpg 3y ago
Don't vote for him then?
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by billpg 3y ago
A website from French Antarctica? Cool.
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by billpg 3y ago
That's great news, but I'd only say that IPv6 has actually made it when HN switches off their IPv4 address.
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by billpg 3y ago
I configured my github to only allow commits with an anonymised email address. Time passed and I used another machine on which I had already opened that repo before. I pulled my recent work successfully, wrote stuff and then committed and p
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by billpg 3y ago
HTML can already have CSS and JS embedded with little ceremony. You can sorta embed images with data URLs, but I kinda wish you could instead add blocks of base64 encoding to the end of the HTML and reference it with a special IMG attribute
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by billpg 3y ago
DOS: "One of our commands allows separation of filenames with a + symbol, so we need to prohibit that character." "Couldn't we rework that command to not use + separators?" "No, far better to take that characte
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by billpg 3y ago
Thank you. I'll have a look at that API and see what I can learn from it.
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by billpg 3y ago
Thank you very much for the thorough answer. I hadn't considered that angle, that someone might not want to reveal their player logic to me. What you suggested was my "plan B" where instead of communicating over stdin/st
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Ask HN: How can I run untrusted Python code?
1 points by billpg 3y ago|5 comments
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by billpg 3y ago
Did we have web forums back then? I know Usenet was a thing.
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by billpg 3y ago
"What shall we call our company?" "Let's go with a word that looks a bit like 'Insolvent' when you glace at it in a hurry."
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by billpg 3y ago
Bye Tosh.
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by billpg 3y ago
I tried this two decades ago. We just had broadband for the first time and I installed some web service application on my Windows PC. My ISP had what appeared to be a static IP so I manually set up a free DNS service with that IP. The exper
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by billpg 3y ago
Good. Can the regular roadworthiness tests be updated to fail cars that don't have physical buttons or dials for essential controls? These cars need taking off the road.
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by billpg 3y ago
Did they get an entire Python interpreter into JS? Yes, I know all Turing machines are equivalent so it shouldn't be surprising it was possible but still, cool.
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by billpg 3y ago
Good. That's half way to my ideal way to deal with email. 1. Emails from everyone (including you) go into the spam folder. 2. I identify senders I do actually want to receive messages from. The industry isn't doing item 2 v
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by billpg 3y ago
Are numbers ever really brand new, as in you are the first to ever have that number?
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by billpg 3y ago
That does sound useful. I'd need a camera on each level with the amount I pack onto each shelf.
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by billpg 3y ago
Innovation.... I saw a fridge that had an app so you could control it from anywhere. My requirements for a fridge are remarkably simple, to the point the only practical use I could think of an app was alarm that I'd left the door open
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by billpg 3y ago
<link rel="next" href=" http://example.org/index.atom?page=2"/> That's fantastic. Anyone developing ATOM/RSS, please use this mechanism. (I'm looking at you, podcast with over 10

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