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by dickfickling 12y ago
What he's saying is that a salt should be a no-brainer. FTA: "Storing passwords as unsalted hashes is a grievous mistake of course, and breaches disclosing poorly stored passwords are still too common." He's simply sayin
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by dickfickling 12y ago
While still much more than 100 per acre, they're actually only planting "three to five saplings per square meter."
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by dickfickling 12y ago
Are you specifically referring to the "and/or upvote" part of that quote? I understand why asking for upvotes is not allowed, but linking to the HN post is still okay, correct?
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by dickfickling 12y ago
This is actually one of my favorite things about riding a motorcycle. It removes the 'safety net' of the car and forces one to pay full attention to the road. Texting is simply out of the question.
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by dickfickling 13y ago
Looks like you've actually now surpassed your Readability API limit... oops! Great bookmarklet, by the way
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by dickfickling 13y ago
I think the idea is that, switching to a decimal system, we would no longer have a use for 7pm - we would just do things at 0.8d
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by dickfickling 13y ago
While I don't think she ought to have been charged as a criminal, calling this "an unauthorized science experiment which lightly damaged an eight ounce plastic water bottle" is blatantly dishonest. As others have said in previous threads, t
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by dickfickling 14y ago
I put Arch on my MBA a while back. I used it exclusively for a while, but ended up going back to OS X. The trackpad drivers just aren't there yet, and with such a limited keyboard I really need the support for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-finger gestu
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by dickfickling 14y ago
Just a note for the author of this piece - FM-2030 played in the Olympics in 1948, not 1984.
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by dickfickling 14y ago
The spokes of the GTI wheels often didn't appear to rotate on my screen because the frame rate was too high - I added a change to make the spokes change after every 5 ticks. https://github.com/dickfickling/gti Maybe even just every two ti
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by dickfickling 14y ago
I'm not trying to be difficult here, just genuinely curious: why disable the arrow keys? Is it simply the speed boost you get from using hjkl on the home row vs moving your hand to the arrows? I use Colemak, so hjkl is very counter-intuitiv
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by dickfickling 14y ago
I had to create a modified keyboard layout, starting from one in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. Use the showkey command to find out what keycode the caps lock key generates (mine is 58), then add a line in your layout file to the effect of keycode
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by dickfickling 14y ago
The article was written in August 2010; who knows how long ago the video was pulled.
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by dickfickling 15y ago
Looks like they forgot to un-blackout their info page. Whoops! Edit: And... fixed.