jlv2

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by jlv2 7y ago
I'm also have a similar background (although the first computer I used was my school's PDP-8i via a teletype). I still have my Model I and all the assorted accessories. I remember moving from EDTASM to Microsoft's Macro Ass
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by jlv2 7y ago
"The sample received in our lab was vbs script which has multiple embedded js scripts. On execution, it creates a directory “GFp0JAk” at location “%userprofile%\AppData\Local\”." Why is this even possible?
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by jlv2 7y ago
In my case, I noticed many driveways were rendered when I did my town.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Really nice idea! I added a few. But one that I added didn't make it to the list and I don't know why: Spaceteam https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepingbe... It has no ads. The IAP i
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by jlv2 7y ago
He was amazing. This video is a favorite of his playing. He breaks a stick and replaces it without losing a beat. It's hard to notice! Neil Peart Breaks a Stick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UweV2Av7RE
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by jlv2 7y ago
For my first 15 years of using UNIX on PC keyboards, I had to use xmodmap to remap the ~` key back to the correction location the right side of the keyboard... and move ESC to the key labeled ~`. Similarly with swapping Control/CapsLo
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by jlv2 7y ago
People keep making that "joke" thinking it's funny.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Consider building it as another puzzle in this collection, rather than a separate app. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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by jlv2 7y ago
I don't. But I like the statement.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Not dead yet .
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by jlv2 7y ago
Long, long ago. 3com.com wanted to exist.
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by jlv2 7y ago
In the video you can clearly see just the rear wheels spinning on the F-150; e.g., it was RWD.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Maybe you mean "all non-Native American land-owners in America". I'm not sure why you single out white .
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by jlv2 7y ago
Back then I wouldn't use a DEC terminal newer than a VT-100 because of the lack of an ESC key. The 220s were physically great terminals, but the keyboard layout was horrific for using vi . Around 84 we started evaluating a purchase o
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by jlv2 7y ago
LOL. I created a similar page lock up back in 1996 using the first Netscape with JavaScript. Back then no one took that seriously. "JavaScript exploits continue to plague all browsers" was something I wrote in 2002. Will it eve
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by jlv2 7y ago
Or the engineer that designed it.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Found a copy: https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/bin/true
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by jlv2 7y ago
/bin/true on a v7 UNIX system. A zero byte file with the execute bit set.
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by jlv2 7y ago
That's actually not the last line! It's only the last in the screen shot posted to twitter. The PDF contains more of the email, and it gets worse (if you can believe that).
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by jlv2 7y ago
Because many decades of stability based upon simplicity are not good enough for today's world.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Are all these licensed images?
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by jlv2 7y ago
> In a world before multi-core processors, these threads weren’t actually running simultaneously, as the underlying processor could only execute one instruction at a time. This is not true. Before multi-core processors there were many
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by jlv2 7y ago
But they've got an awesome animated logo, so it must be serious.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Why, after 20 years, are signatures still experimental?
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by jlv2 7y ago
> Don’t worry, we’re not sharing any of your private information with anyboby and not asking for it except for your Email address. Typos and bad grammar?
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by jlv2 7y ago
Massachusetts created Gerrymandering yet we are not represented by a single glyph. Rewrite them! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-did-term-gerrym...
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by jlv2 7y ago
Informative thread, with some details on the 501(c)(3) being funded with the profits: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102138.h...
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by jlv2 7y ago
Perl 6 has been coming for almost 2 decades. Whole other language ecosystems have risen and fallen in that time.
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by jlv2 7y ago
Jon Hall's desktop shows exmh running. I did a bunch of work on that long ago (90s). His two screenshots highlight two of my contributions (both of which live on today). I wrote the folder display in the upper pane (I'm really p
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by jlv2 7y ago
I'm not so sure that a click on "Who Created Pigeon" and then a click on "Area 120" counts as "dig pretty deep".

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