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Building a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
8 points by eddyg 9y ago|2 comments
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by eddyg 9y ago
Note that I was unable to submit the actual one-word gTLD URL to HN, so I used the .com...
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Yes, http://lamborghini/ is a valid URL(lamborghini.com)
6 points by eddyg 9y ago|8 comments
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by eddyg 9y ago
http://blog.flowblok.id.au/static/images/shell-startup-actua... "To read it, pick your shell, whether it's a login shell, whether it's interactive, and follow the same colour through the diagram. Wh
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by eddyg 9y ago
The "Eye in the Sky" episode of Radiolab is definitely worth a listen. http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
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by eddyg 9y ago
Turning off animations in the preferences (it's under "Accessibility") has done wonders to the energy impact / CPU usage of the Mac Slack client. Much more tolerable now. I am _more_ than happy to not see animated part
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Custos is using Bitcoin to turn digital pirates against each other(qz.com)
63 points by eddyg 9y ago|61 comments
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Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names(crossing.us)
164 points by eddyg 9y ago|93 comments
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by eddyg 9y ago
Screenshots here: https://pterodactyl.io/#gallery (one of the first things I always look for, so figure there may be others who do the same)
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by eddyg 9y ago
Drawing of printer's "upper case" and "lower case" (although unfortunately it does not show titling and old-style figures in the different cases): http://imgur.com/gallery/fAvUg
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by eddyg 9y ago
For reference, here are links to the first four parts: http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-1-ethernet-ar... http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-2-ipv4-icmpv4... http://www.s
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by eddyg 9y ago
I wish more people were vocal about gratuitous (and especially slow!) transitions. For example, the animations at https://getfinal.com (for the Final credit card) are very annoying. You can't even select the "Sign In&q
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by eddyg 9y ago
This[0] video from Apple's WWDC gives a nice overview of how Differential Privacy is being used in iOS. Basically, Apple can collect and store its users’ data in a format that lets it glean useful info about what people do, say, like a
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by eddyg 9y ago
I listen to the SANS Internet StormCast ("daily 5-10 minute information security threat updates") every morning: https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html Many of my other favorites have already been mentioned, but I also
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by eddyg 9y ago
Typing sluggishness in editors is definitely a real / noticeable issue. See https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
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by eddyg 9y ago
You may be interested in this recent HN discussion on converting ASCII drawings to SVG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777
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by eddyg 9y ago
Earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14600073
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by eddyg 9y ago
HN discussion on this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14586390
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by eddyg 9y ago
Just add /amp/ after the domain name...
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by eddyg 9y ago
This is definitely a pro-tip! Using a dot instead is a great idea and much less likely to be "auto-removed" by a smart harvester that strips "+" extensions.
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by eddyg 9y ago
Is the "computer vision" on Tesla good enough to ignore this false "lane marker" and use the actual yellow lane marker, not the "fake" one caused by the sun/shadow/pavement interaction? http:/&#
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by eddyg 9y ago
This is cool. It lets you write a file in Markdown that has codeblocks containing vimscript, which can then be used as your ~/.vimrc file. Especially in situations where you want to share your vim config, being able to explain things i
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by eddyg 9y ago
Heads up for Safari users: > There is currently a bug in Safari which prevents our page from running correctly. So please choose another browser like for example Chrome or Firefox.
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by eddyg 9y ago
It's almost as if people commenting here haven't even watched Ivan Krstić's Black Hat video...
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WOW mystery signal from space finally explained(phys.org)
5 points by eddyg 9y ago|0 comments
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by eddyg 9y ago
Previous discussion (718 points, 262 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421
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by eddyg 9y ago
Thanks to AMP (pretty much the only good thing about it!) this works: curl -s https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/exclusive-test-data-many-colleges-fail-to-improve-critical-thinking-skills-1496686662 | sed -n &#x
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by eddyg 9y ago
Thank goodness there's one good use for AMP pages then, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389986
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by eddyg 9y ago
Why is everybody blaming this on the current administration? from June 2016: Agency Information Collection Activities: Arrival and Departure Record (Forms I-94 and I-94W) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization [1] Comments were acce
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JFK Centennial Celebration: Lessons in Leadership(apple.com)
2 points by eddyg 9y ago|0 comments

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