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by ksaj 8y ago
The subsequent astronaut story is something to behold. Life was clearly a lot simpler once. The barbed-wire telephone hack is pretty much an old-time 2600 or Phrack article before its time. Great stuff.
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by ksaj 8y ago
I thought we already knew that with Pavlov's dog, placebos and that study about how simply opening your eyes widely and willing yourself to be awake and aware is enough to make it happen. TV commercials play on this by making us listen
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by ksaj 8y ago
Yea, spam is going to make you boatloads of money here.
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by ksaj 8y ago
This is a good intro. But I don't understand why the author says in the Searching section: "In the image below, the colon is missing but required." when in fact the picture is correct - you don't need the colon. It works
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by ksaj 8y ago
Just like prior buzz technologies, these things often start with no clear purpose outside of their inherent cool factor. Once the novelty of version one-point-uh-oh wears off, useful ideas emerge in the form of wish lists. For example, VR&#
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by ksaj 8y ago
This was a choice that kept me on board without panicking and jumping ship like many others. I'm pretty comfortable with github, and find its search engine options and overall site responsiveness (speed) to literally quash any chance o
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by ksaj 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how does this lock-in manifest itself? I'm pretty sure all I'd have to do to move to a competitor is upload my local directories to that site. Is it the loss of revision history, or ??
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by ksaj 8y ago
And in the 90's, vis a vis cursive writing and reading analog clocks.
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by ksaj 8y ago
It's a bit like extreme student letter passing. But I don't recall any teachers in my day banning pencils and small slips of paper because of it. More like recess detentions if you got caught participating in such secret communica
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by ksaj 8y ago
It doesn't really affect your subscriptions at least. It does affect searching for anything current that isn't in your subscriptions, though. I discovered this a few days ago when a band I'm subscribed to announced an upcomin
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by ksaj 8y ago
After playing a bit more with it, I do like the instantaneous Output and Format sections. If you added an actual Lorem Ipsum generator to the Text Source section, it would be pretty useful with those settings. As far as toys go, I'm ha
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by ksaj 8y ago
While it is a fun toy, I disagree that this is somehow better. The purpose of Lorem ipsum is to have place holder text that looks reasonably like real text, but lacking the kinds of cues that could draw you away from the design. What I see
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by ksaj 8y ago
Is non-compressability a proper test for prng algorithms? One method I know of is to seed 0x00h (binary all zero) or 0x00h - 1 (binary all 1 bits), and then mapcar every sequential set of 3 pseudo random numbers to a function that plots the
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by ksaj 8y ago
I've had this happen twice in my career. In the first one, I gave my employer the option of meeting the offer since I actually enjoyed the job. They said they can only pay within a specified range for each role, which is another way of
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by ksaj 8y ago
I use that and http://lite.cnn.com/en for a good chunk of my daily news. Very Raspberry Pi friendly, whereas CNN's regular site crashes it much too often, and the speed is unbearable.
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by ksaj 8y ago
I took it as referring to the length of the speech versus the length of transcription time, and not as a comparison against prior technologies.
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by ksaj 8y ago
FWIW you already can run lisp code as a script, at least under Linux. I've been doing the following for quite some time without issue: --- xx #!/usr/bin/clisp (format t "yup") --- and then on the command line:
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by ksaj 8y ago
You are probably thinking of the WATS pins. It was a huge thing at the time to war dial entire exchanges to find them, and then publish the lists. A lot of the time people would then use unsecured bridges to hold mass group chats. Beto was
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by ksaj 8y ago
I actually enjoyed all of that, and still occasionally spend time pouring through the stacks. Right up until the "making copies" part. It goes very quickly (instantly?) downhill from there. I definitely get more out of physical pa
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by ksaj 8y ago
This was probably posted here because of the book promotion articles referring to Beto O'Rourke's hacker culture history, which is directly connected to this whistle, and the subsequent solder hacks on Radio Shack phone dialers to
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by ksaj 8y ago
And no mention of the other servings, typically being bacon and/or sausages.
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by ksaj 8y ago
The fix seems to be using some other software or whatever. I think a more important bit of advice that the article should provide is to ensure any data you need to keep should always be backed up. In truth, this bug was embarrassing and pro
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by ksaj 8y ago
Is the device actually broken, or is the image merely corrupted, where burning a new SSD image will allow you to boot the not-actually-broken device? I find it unlikely the device is actually broken. The file system, sure...
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by ksaj 8y ago
One just needs to read the comments to this question to wonder how long until this becomes another slashdot or reddit. Can people converse online without filling paragraphs of completely unrelated "witty" jokes in damn near every
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by ksaj 8y ago
A lot of Alife is fairly ubiquitous now, but mainly known by the terms used within the specific domains applying it. For example, Neural Networks are right out of the Alife playbook. There is also a surprising and huge crossover when it com