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by dmbaggett 6y ago
It did.
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
If you’re looking for a fresh roguelike rabbit hole, check out Cogmind. It’s PC only but takes RL in an interesting new direction. (Not affiliated with it other than begin somewhat addicted.)
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
That is super cool. At the time -- I was like 12 -- all those horizontal and vertical blank hacks on the Atari 800 seemed like total black magic to me. I had no idea you could even hook the VBLANK or HBLANK interrupt on PS1. Wow.
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
That is me, yes -- thank you! Actually the password save capability was mandated by Sony. At that time they wouldn't approve your game if you didn't offer a card-less save mode. I guess they thought requiring people to have memo
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
What a great video. Beyond the slick presentation with all the cool animations, it really captures what Andy's like as a person. Amazing talent of course, but also an almost perverse joy in doing things you're not supposed to be a
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
Kudos for making one of the most impressive pieces of software ever. The level of optimization you achieved is truly rare these days.
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
Absolutely right! While we did suggest that applicants try to solve one of these in whatever language they liked, the main purpose was to attract curious and smart people. And it worked! These puzzles brought us a ton of great candidates al
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
You might be interested in Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark. He tries to argue that, fundamentally, the universe is "just math." In other words (glossing over enormous complexity here) if the basic axioms of math are tru
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
Phishing is frankly an embarrassment for the mainstream security community. The temptation is to "blame the stupid users" -- but the truth is that even a script kiddie can take a real email from a mainstream brand, "Save As H
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
You mentioned there are NUCs that have AVX-512, which surprised me. Those looking for such a NUC: search for NUCs with the Core i3-8121U CPU. This is a cheap AVX-512 entry point if you want to experiment. (~$400 for the NUC).
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
It's many miles farther -- but I then don't get stuck at the airport for two hours Friday night. Also, DCA is great when you're inside while IAD is the usual huge-airport security nightmare.
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by dmbaggett 7y ago
I've definitely experienced this at DCA, and it's worth nothing as well that it sometimes take hours to get out of the airport due to the insane traffic jams right around the terminals and in the parking garages. DCA has gone fr
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
Fun fact: Carl actually implemented the Turing machine construction on slide 28 as a proof of concept and used it to do simple arithmetic (very very slowly) -- you can read the details towards the end of the talk, with screenshots.
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
If you look at the letter from Thomas M. Saunders, Esq. towards the middle of the page, you'll notice a handwritten reference to Skip Paul. This is the same Skip Paul who championed our game, 13 years later, while a senior executive at
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
That is so awesome! Thanks for making my day. :)
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
Not really. The GOOL code was used for character logic and things like the load/save screen. The majority of the code was written in C and MIPS assembly.
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
Well I know, because I wrote (approximately) half of it. :) It was written well in that it was a technically innovative and beautiful game that pushed the boundaries of the PS1 hardware. It was written well in that the shipped code didn&#x2
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right: 2FA makes things harder for the attacker but doesn't really solve the problem. But in practice, at least circa 2018, most phishing sites are very primitive. Attackers do OK victimizing people without
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
Like phishing awareness training, this is a good practice. We actually offer URL rewriting to our customers, but there are some UX downsides to it so not everyone wants it. One big issue with GSB, Phishtank, OpenPhish, etc. as "the sol
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
We don't do this kind of thing, but some companies do offer "take-down" and related services. Not sure if credential-DDoS is one of them though. :)
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
2FA would also help, but people don't want to mandate it. And even if you require 2FA for your own employees, the third party "pay this invoice" request may not be gated on 2FA -- because that's up to the third party to
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
A couple years ago at Inky we pivoted away from general improvements to email to focus on phishing prevention using ML and computer vision, and this has been tremendously successful. (This pivot was motivated primarily by Google Inbox, whic
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by dmbaggett 8y ago
This comes up on HN periodically. Here are few points to keep in mind: - In 1994, when Andy started on GOOL, the tools around C/C++ were far more limited. Basically all we had was GCC; there wasn't even a decent debugger in the be
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by dmbaggett 9y ago
I've ranted here before about the complexity of email and the difficulty of even existing as a startup in the email space (see my bio). The single team that has navigated the insanity of the email space well as a small company is Fastm
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by dmbaggett 9y ago
Adding to the comment about links to other services, I'm a big fan of Classical Archives as well, so links to their content would be great. Subscription is about $100/year and they have a huge amount of stuff. https:/&#x2F
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by dmbaggett 9y ago
>As I understand it, Voynich has a too low information content to be an alphabetic. Natural language can be very surprising. :)
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by dmbaggett 9y ago
There are many crank analyses of the Voynich manuscript floating around out there. The only thing I've seen that has any believability (I'm a former linguist) is this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4cRlqE3D3RQ http
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by dmbaggett 9y ago
Very cool! We did some possibly relevant stuff at ITA way back in the day -- ping me. :)
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by dmbaggett 10y ago
It's only a pain if you're still trying to use PGP. You can download Inky ( http://inky.com ) for any platform and use any email account to exchange S/MIME-encrypted email simply by checking a button. We're foc
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by dmbaggett 10y ago
As alluded to in the stack overflow comments, Carl de Marcken (ITA Chief Scientist) wrote some code to determine the longest possible shortest path between two airports with scheduled flights. At that time (circa 2000) the answer was Wasu,

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