double122

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by double122 15y ago
For Linux backups, you might be interested in this article, if you haven't already read it: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ The combination of cron, rsync and hardlinks, makes for incremental backups with versioning an
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by double122 15y ago
a pesudonym is somewhat unprofessional Thanks, I think this is what is swaying me more towards just putting things under my own name.
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Ask HN: Online presence: pseudonym or real name?
7 points by double122 15y ago|11 comments
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by double122 16y ago
I love python (I did this in python): https://github.com/d122/Murder-Mystery But you are both correct, the indentation, circling etc. may be important, but I just wanted to get the letters down initially. Start with the basics and work up
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by double122 16y ago
Ahh great, thanks for sharing. I've added a few bits to a git repo: https://github.com/d122/Murder-Mystery Just some basic python code in there for now. I'll have a look at the differences in our transcriptions when I get back from work t
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by double122 16y ago
That's a valid point. I appreciate that it may be nothing, but that won't discourage me from having a little play with it. Here's a CSV containing the frequency of all words from 2 upto 10 letters http://d122.com/murdermystery/words.csv i
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by double122 16y ago
It's just a frequency count of the letters in the transcriptions I did. Obviously my transcript may not be perfect, but I was pretty confident with most of the letters. This was just my first observation and I thought it was interesting eno
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by double122 16y ago
I thought this could be a fun 'challenge'... I'm inclined to believe that this is potentially ciphered in English, due to, what look to be stiking similarities between the alphabetic character frequencies of the notes: http://d122.com/murd
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by double122 16y ago
NP. Is there "beer for bug reports" too?
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by double122 16y ago
Nice idea, but: "We're sorry, but something went wrong." http://www.beerfortextbooks.com/results?brand=bud&q=ISBN...
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by double122 16y ago
Articles like these make me wish HN had a TL;DR option. Something like: How ~75% of PirateBay traffic is seeded by 100 people driven by profit "Seeders put links in their content requesting that you visit their Adsense driven site" Click to
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by double122 16y ago
There was a question about this in a formal exam, in my first year at uni: "RFC 1149 was release on 01/04/90, but what was it about?" Some lecturers do have a sense of humour!
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by double122 16y ago
Could you maybe add: alias ln='ln -s' to your .bashrc? A quick test of this in my terminal and the alias takes precedent over the ln command. Although, I guess it'd be worth doing a few tests to make certain!
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by double122 16y ago
I sympathise entirely with this post. I too didn't realise that it was a common way of thinking until I saw this a while back: http://xkcd.com/616/ One day they'll expose me!