gknoy

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by gknoy 10y ago
> [W]e quickly sent you a DMCA takedown requests and waited patiently That makes it sound like the DMCA takedown was the first response -- I'm surprised that a gently worded e-mail wasn't tried first. "Hey guys, it looks
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by gknoy 10y ago
I realize this is a completely selfish request, but is there a chance that the challenges and games you made will continue to be available, or self-hostable? :-D I now regret not having participated in the CTFs that you three built.
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by gknoy 10y ago
> Ban [something] because it's not effective. In the case of antibacterial soap, it's somewhat harmful: those antibacterial chemicals get in the water supply, and exert extra evolutionary pressure on bacteria, leading to increa
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by gknoy 10y ago
Their tasking, though, is to break into foreign ones. They see breaking into domestic ones as necessary to do that (and I can see why they might feel that way, even if I don't like the result), but I don't believe it's part o
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by gknoy 10y ago
If you use `import ... as ...`, you can rename them to nicer names (full gist at [0]): from attr import ( s as AttributedModel, ib as attribute, ) @AttributedModel class Bar(object): x = attrib
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by gknoy 10y ago
> you'll need... two (really one, but you'll want a trainee/backup) I'm amused that the canonical Sysadmin humor series (BOFH) always had two, the master and the apprentice, er, PFY.
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by gknoy 10y ago
The historical nature of soldiers of armed guards with the authority to kill you lends credence to his suggestion that it's not an unreasonable expectation to believe that they _could_ shoot you. Local mileage and laws may vary, but er
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by gknoy 10y ago
I find it amazing that the law prohibits a judge from saying, "The statute of limitations period means that this cannot be valid," and throw the case out, but rather requires one of the lawyers to do so.
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by gknoy 10y ago
It's a completely different word, though. "retard" (pronounced "RE-tard") is the derogatory term, but the context used in this sentence (to slow something down) is pronounced "re-TARD". The only people wh
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by gknoy 10y ago
I still laugh about the chapter in the middle of Les Miserables where the author spends something like 20-30 pages talking about the battle of Waterloo. It was interesting, and very detailed, but had nearly no connection to the plot of the
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by gknoy 10y ago
I think my biggest questions are on the line of, "How is this even possible!?" I felt like nearly every part of what you said you just did blew my mind, a little bit, in different ways. How do you get your designs? How did you se
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by gknoy 10y ago
I don't know if that's true, but I imagine that in order to get redress for such a claim, one would need to take them to court.
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by gknoy 10y ago
Most services, but especially Gmail, promote themselves as something you can safely go all-in on. I recall an advertisement for Gmail where a father left messages to his just-born child, with the idea that when they were an adult they woul
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by gknoy 10y ago
I'm a fan of named parameters, too: # python self.executeAfter(func=myCallback, delay_in_seconds=5) # or self.executeAfter(func=myCallback, after=delay(seconds=5))
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by gknoy 10y ago
Wow. That's pretty cool! I had wrapped ipython in a helper that would always have the Right PYTHON_PATH, but it's neat to see just how much of ipython I have not been using. Thank you for sharing that.
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by gknoy 10y ago
Note that if you're doing this in a terminal, you MIGHT need to first do `%cpaste`: https://gist.github.com/gknoy/97de793db43ff7ea4d4bfd1bab96b4... It seemed to work fine when I didn't use `%cpaste`, though,
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by gknoy 10y ago
Oh come on, surely there's no such agency. ;)
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by gknoy 10y ago
I was quite surprised at how often copy-paste-modify operations resulted in subtle bugs that weren't immediately obvious. I now strongly encourage explicit loops for everything, and hope the compiler unrolls it
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by gknoy 10y ago
I just read that! It was a very interesting read.
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by gknoy 10y ago
I felt similarly about Sun, but then Oracle bought them.
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by gknoy 10y ago
I don't think you're allowed to have metal near an MRI. ;)
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by gknoy 10y ago
I no longer feel that believing such things to be in the realm of the NSA's capabilities is an indicator of craziness.
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by gknoy 10y ago
I didn't realize you _could_ do a git commit without a message. Interesting, even if I can't think of why I'd ever want to.
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by gknoy 11y ago
You might recall that the NSA has a curious definition of "collect". They use "collect" where most of us would use "search the existing massive database that we already collected".
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by gknoy 11y ago
> 10, 8 Me: "Sweet! I rolled 18." Friend: "Er, that's 9." Me: "... shoot." I'd have noticed it sooner if it had been one of the other sides. :)
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by gknoy 11y ago
My memories of precious moments (first hours with my son, etc) are fragile and fleeting, and already mostly gone. Most of the time the pictures I take are not very good at capturing the essence of what I want to remember, but other times .
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by gknoy 11y ago
It worked for the TSA.
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by gknoy 11y ago
Because eastward launches net you more delta-V, you also benefit a lot from not having anyone to the east of you on whom to drop spent stages.
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by gknoy 11y ago
The lines with soft line breaks (double spaces at the end) appear to have had their trailing whitespace trimmed, which ends up looking like: Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet rather than: Roses are red
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by gknoy 11y ago
> See all the graffiti everywhere? Laws aren't protecting that art, au contraire. Is that really true? I would have thought that the art itself is still copyrighted, but the artist is unlikely to pursue redress as that would effect

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