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by getsat 16y ago
I have a script that mounts a tiny ramdisk, fetches a statically compiled shred binary I've compiled, and proceeds to shred each disk attached to the system up to 25 times. I generally use this when decommissioning servers not under my di
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by getsat 16y ago
It's explained by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier in Practical Cryptography in section 22.10.2, "Magnetic Storage". Overwriting does not completely destroy old data. You can think of it as repainting a wall with a single coat of paint.
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by getsat 16y ago
This explains all the advertising on their site that I've been ignoring for the last decade. Mind = blown
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by getsat 16y ago
But see his latest comment about it: http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/25785161895383040 Quoted below: CubeDuel was hilarious for a couple minutes. Then: horrifying. Deactivated account. Advise you to do same. Teamicidal.
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by getsat 16y ago
Hah! My Russian tutor says that my accent (which is mimicry based on Russian from songs, films, etc.) sounds almost native EXCEPT for how I pronounce ы. I can't quite get it down correctly. :(
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by getsat 16y ago
Yeah, like I mentioned in a reply below, I've started filtering the subreddits shown and it's helped the signal/noise ratio a lot.
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by getsat 16y ago
I agree. I've been filtering certain default subreddits (e.g., AskReddit) from the front page because the signal/noise ratio is terrible. As an example, I like the fact that /r/coding was spawned from the fact that 90% of the articles in /r
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by getsat 16y ago
I think the growth was more at Reddit's expense. There was a drastic downturn in the quality of material hitting the front page in 2010. The comment quality has gone down significantly, too. (Yes, I know you can decide which subreddits appe
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by getsat 16y ago
I actually had a MySpace account back in the day, and I had completely forgotten about that deletion process. I agree that it's far from the best UX.
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by getsat 16y ago
Hey, I didn't say it was awesome, I was just reporting what actually happens. :)
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by getsat 16y ago
You would get a SocketError exception from getaddrinfo because HTTParty (which uses Net::HTTP) can't lookup the hostname. If the hostname is already resolved, you'd get a Errno::EHOSTUNREACH exception from connect because there is no ro
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by getsat 16y ago
"have the jailbreak and any information about the jailbreak removed from the web" Thanks for the morning laugh. The horse left the barn a while ago. Sorry, Sony.
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by getsat 16y ago
That is rather obtuse, but some sites don't even let you delete your account/profile at all. (Like the one we're currently on.)
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by getsat 16y ago
Do I really need to have been born in the USA to be able to read published statistical data about the population? That seems to be an odd dependency. As I said, my intent was not to belittle, nor is it to "win" any kind of contest. The desi
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by getsat 16y ago
Sorry, my intent was not to belittle or enrage. I was merely pointing out the fact that, based upon provided data, you, as a developer, are quite far removed from the lower end of the income spectrum. Your comment seemed to give a vibe of "
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by getsat 16y ago
This coming from someone who lives in a city (Milford, NJ) with a median family income of $62,167 USD that is 97% white. Ouch. (Also, today I learned about HackerNewsers from your profile. Very cool site!)
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by getsat 16y ago
It starts to get more difficult around level 40 or so. I made it to 51: http://i.imgur.com/McY0g.png When there's a lot of large words coming down at the top of the screen, the app definitely began missing input. I'd type a word correctly
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by getsat 16y ago
Wow. Take note, people. This is how you present your product. Not with pages of lame marketing copy, show it in action! Great site! I'm using the "rainbow on black" on my secondary cinema display now. Correct resolution and everything. Than
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by getsat 16y ago
That is a really interesting observation (about skipping dead-end technologies). I wonder how many business opportunities there are like that that are unexploited, even in first world countries. I've added it to my brainstorming list. Thank
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by getsat 16y ago
If you're feeling nefarious, 301 their requests to a static, empty RSS feed. If you can figure out who's actually running it (does the user agent say?), simply sending them an email and asking them to throttle their script may be the simple
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by getsat 16y ago
I'm glad to see more projects starting to accept Bitcoin. :)
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by getsat 16y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I'm part of Amazon's affiliate program. :)
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by getsat 16y ago
Too true. :/
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by getsat 16y ago
I probably wouldn't use the fact that my software has higher throughput and responsiveness than Apache as a selling point. That also describes almost every other webserver out there (especially nginx).
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by getsat 16y ago
This is correct. If you don't present the exact information someone is looking for but provide links that look like they will, they will click those links.
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by getsat 16y ago
If you ever see an injustice being committed without the perpetrator being caught and punished, keep this in mind. I know I will be.
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by getsat 16y ago
You might like the book "A Lodging of Wayfaring Men."
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by getsat 16y ago
Did you know that Philip Morris is now operating as the Altria Group?
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by getsat 16y ago
They're good for Goldman Sachs.
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by getsat 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

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