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by dunham 6y ago
That project sent me down a rabbit hole learning about CRDTs. I'd love to learn more about the history of the Notes implementation. Who did it? What background did they have? Their "topotext" construct is similar to RGA, but
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by dunham 6y ago
If the author is here, thanks for writing this up. I did something similar years ago, but I neglected to write it up. My process was essentially the same as yours, although I used some thrown-together python code to analyze the protobuf dat
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by dunham 6y ago
I didn’t know there was a web mode. I’ve been using my iPad for zoom, because it’s the only way I could think of to sandbox it.
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by dunham 6y ago
I’ve still got mine. I should replace it with something newer, but I’m not sure what, if anything, is safe and secure.
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by dunham 6y ago
The 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 number disregards the orientation of center tiles. You'd have to multiply it by 4^4 or something to do the faces. (I can't remember if there is one face or two that are determined by the others, but
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by dunham 6y ago
I do the edges first and then the corners. I changed it up for novelty and to force myself to come up with a different solution. So I've got permutations to manipulate edges that also mess with the corners, followed by ones that manip
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by dunham 6y ago
Yeah, I've had good luck with pdftotext -layout in the past. And in one case I've used pdftohtml -xml (plus some post-processing), which is useful if the layout is complex or you want to capture stuff like bold/italic.
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by dunham 6y ago
Also sqlite3's encryption seems to be a byte swapped AES. E.g. look for a byte swapped AES key schedule in dropbox process memory and you should find its sqlite3 encryption key.
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by dunham 6y ago
There is another small lisp that targets both Lua and Javascript called "lumen"[1]. Small enough that you can easily tinker with it. I added clojure style {} literals to the reader and paired it with hyperapp to write a toy web a
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by dunham 6y ago
If the person living there is so inclined and successfully forges the signatures on the ballots. At least in WA state, a signature is required on the exterior of the envelope, and it is validated against the signature on the voter registrat
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by dunham 6y ago
Thanks, I did not know about that last one. I've been instinctively using Cmd-Shift-Tab for that, which is a little awkward to execute.
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by dunham 6y ago
Yeah, I went on there a year or two ago, looking for census records for my house and found that they'd listed my grandmother as deceased. The person who made the record found birth/marriage records and presumed she was dead becaus
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by dunham 6y ago
In a previous job, we had a server room with double doors protected by a keypad on the outside and a capacitive touch plate to open from the inside. There was at least a good quarter inch gap between the doors. I opened it with a coat hang
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by dunham 6y ago
Yeah, being able to get my data back out is a hard requirement for me too. It's one of the things that put me off of OneNote. A few years ago I wrote a few python scripts to export the Notes.app database to html and bear formats. I ha
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by dunham 6y ago
> But why does Airbnb care? Maybe they’re taking a cut and their other revenue streams have dried up?
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by dunham 6y ago
I moved here about five years ago, learned about the museum about a year ago. I now regret not finding time to visit, I'd assumed it'd always be there.
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by dunham 6y ago
I haven't touched it in a while, but I wrote some code to extract data from apple notes and export to html, quiver, or bear formats. (bear is markdown-like, it looks like I targeted HTML for quiver.) It could be adapted to your needs
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by dunham 6y ago
It's much simpler than weak bits, but I remember one of the Ultima games for DOS had a track with a small sector embedded in the middle of a long sector. So from the point of view of the controller after decoding, there were more secto
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by dunham 6y ago
Yeah, if I remember right the first block is the root of the master table, listing all the other tables. (Name, schema, root block id.)
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by dunham 6y ago
Years ago, I wrote something like you describe in the blog (regex to match ingredient lines, looking for imperative verbs, filling in the gaps). Recently I revisited the subject and learned that almost everybody has decent jsonld data now.
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by dunham 6y ago
I don't know the exact details of how jailbreaking tweaks code-signing. But as I understand it apps are signed and have an entitlements file bundled inside. That file determines whether the kernel will allow stuff like changing pages t
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by dunham 6y ago
Additionally, JIT would need a special entitlement to be able to change a page of memory from writable to executable. This is a little dangerous from a security perspective, and even Apple only grants it to apps the specifically need it.
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by dunham 6y ago
Yeah, they’ve been doing the pre-linked mega archive thing for years. It’s in /var/db/dyld. The only difference here that I see is that they’re not shipping the originals and not rebuilding it all the time. And I’m guessin
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by dunham 6y ago
The company I work for cut salaries either 25 or 50%, depending on the employee. Non-exempt employees had their hours cut either 25 or 50%. A few were furloughed. (We have about 1000 employees.)
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by dunham 6y ago
Still? Siri has actually gotten worse. In the last year or so it's gone from correctly handling "add red salsa to the shopping list" to consistently adding two items "red" and "salsa". (It also fails on &
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by dunham 6y ago
I did pair programming on XEmacs in the 90's by opening a new frame on a second X server. It worked surprisingly well as long as both people stayed out of the minibuffer.
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by dunham 7y ago
Yeah it was a IIc - I had overlooked the plus because I didn't even know the IIc+ existed.
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by dunham 7y ago
Weird to hear it described as "rare" because it was the only Apple that I had as a kid, but there were a _lot_ of Apple IIe/II+ around at the time. (I remember that we had a 300 baud modem, actual Bell equipment, hooked up to
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by dunham 7y ago
Many years ago there was a browser plugin out of MIT called "piggy bank". It included a browser for exploring RDF data (longwell), and the ability to define scrapers of RDF data on a per-site basis. (I think it was javascript and
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by dunham 7y ago
I'm not familiar with South Korean church practices, but there is an instance of a choir practice in the US that spread COVID-19 fairly effectively. This suggests that singing, a common practice in US churches (in my experience), sprea

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