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by jloughry 13y ago
Thank you! I'll begin with a traditional key, and listening. My keyboard is an IBM Model F [1] through an interface from Hasgstrom Electronics. It has the Control key and Escape key in the old places, essential for vi. [1] I bought the
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I encourage any hacker to take a look some time at the beautiful 'bugs' still (!) made by Vibroplex [1]. I have wanted to learn Morse ever since I read The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage [2]. I know people use keyboards nowa
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by jloughry 13y ago
It was The Hunt for Red October, with Sean Connery.
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The post reminds me of BYTE article from 1981, in the Smalltalk special issue. It was the first time I had ever seen recursion illustrated graphically, on a bitmap of Mickey Mouse's face [1]. Lots of good articles in that issue, and th
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by jloughry 13y ago
This topic was explored further in a recent article [1]. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1618 [1] Cham, J. G., Slackenerny, M. A. and Smith, B. S. Coffee Security: A need-based analysis for infering
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by jloughry 13y ago
We did. See the Navy's A-12 stealth bomber, a design that never flew [1]. [1] Stevenson, James P. The $5 Billion Misunderstanding. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55750-777-5.
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by jloughry 13y ago
NSA is really two organizations in one. One side of the house is tasked with Information Assurance (IA), i.e., protecting the U.S. government's information. The other side of the house is tasked with interception. Cryptanalysis folks a
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by jloughry 13y ago
I keep hearing that the US student loan situation is a 'bubble' that is going to burst soon. Fine, but...what will that look like when it happens? I've read Michael Lewis's books---if you haven't, do!---and conseque
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by jloughry 13y ago
Randall Munroe published some relevant calculations recently on the ability of humans to throw things high: http://what-if.xkcd.com/44/ Summary: a professional baseball pitcher might be able to reach fifty metres but t
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by jloughry 13y ago
The thing that comes to mind is the C idiom for copying strings: while( dest++ = src++); "...their notion of repetition was so tightly connected to the idea of an associated controlled variable to be stepped up, that they were mentall
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by jloughry 13y ago
Doorways, access hatches, and the like are designed for human-sized and human-shaped entities to pass through them. Stairs are problematic for wheeled locomotion.
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DUCK DODGERS: Whoops! Had the silly thing in reverse.
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> I wonder if the test pilots wore parachutes. They did, and the test article has a special escape hatch installed (good photo here): http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/06/test-pilots-discuss-a35...
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This 'Foxtrot' comic is relevant: http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2009/01/25/
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by jloughry 14y ago
Here's where you can go to find your actual address: https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction_input There are, occasionally, errors in the database. I'm trying to get one corrected now. If you find one, go to your local Post Off
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by jloughry 14y ago
It happens in chemistry too. In his book The Green Flame , Dequasie told the following story: "The salesman had been selling hydrochloric acid, sometimes known as muriatic acid. The industrial grade usually had a green tint caused by cont
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NIST statement on Daylight Saving Time (DST) problem(nist.gov)
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I'm in south Denver. I think we worked across the hall from each other, but in different closed areas. February would be good for me. I'm trying to get a thesis submitted in January...
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I had no idea they needed money until I saw this here. I went straight there and gave them some.
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'The Road Not Taken' by Harry Turtledove.