lordelph

8 ms·

31.
by lordelph 9y ago
Way back in 1988, I was in the sixth form of a school in the UK (that's for students aged 16-18). We had a bunch of BBC Micros networked together using Acorn EcoNet. Very detailed manuals for everything were just on a shelf in the cl
32.
by lordelph 9y ago
The booster footage was amazing. Incredible to see just how much it flies through its own exhaust on the re-entry burn!
33.
by lordelph 9y ago
For a book which explores this, and similar ideas, try "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood.
34.
by lordelph 10y ago
That's why such projects will use their vast artificial intellect to name themselves things like "Just Read The Instructions" and "I Thought He Was With You" :)
35.
by lordelph 10y ago
If you don't name a Docker container, you get a name composed of a random adjective and scientist/hacker, e.g. "gifted_turing" But you will never get a container called "boring_wozniak" Not sure why they didn&#
36.
Steve Wozniak is not boring(github.com)
2 points by lordelph 10y ago|1 comments
37.
by lordelph 10y ago
I don't think I have that many interesting stories, it was just the time involved with dealing with emails from irate individuals, companies, and (occasionally) law enforcement agencies!
38.
by lordelph 10y ago
I like this, but be ready for 'questionable content' like dox and password lists. Dealing with that crap was why I stopped running pastebin.com :)
39.
by lordelph 10y ago
I am so sorry.
40.
by lordelph 10y ago
This looks like a handy tool, certainly for puzzles and exploring encodings. It makes decoding puzzles like this very quick! 11100111 10111011 10011101 11100100 10111000 10001101 11100100 10111100 10011010 11100110 10010100 10111110 1110010
41.
by lordelph 10y ago
Mildly interesting: when I played the sample pink noise in the article, my dog went mental.
42.
by lordelph 10y ago
heartberries :)
43.
by lordelph 11y ago
If you grew up anywhere rural in the late 70s/early 80s there is one public information film you never forget: Apaches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0GyRz_lOQA Over the course about 20 mins 6 kids playing on a farm
44.
by lordelph 11y ago
Similar to the Jerry Seinfeld "Don't break the chain" advice - http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se... EDIT: Wait, what? He never said this at all? https://www.reddit.c
45.
by lordelph 11y ago
There's an interesting and detailed rebuttal to the question of whether they had properly considered the future archival from a team member here: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.44.html#subj7
46.
by lordelph 11y ago
A licence like a Creative Commons cc-by-sa is not exclusive, and allows the copyright holder to do what they like with their work. What they can't do is revoke the licence terms from anyone who chooses to exercise them. At best, the
47.
by lordelph 11y ago
I remember getting involved in this when I was at school. It was part of the inspiration behind http://www.geograph.org.uk/ where we set up a free archive of geographical-themed pictures of the UK. Back in around 2005 I co
48.
by lordelph 12y ago
...although I don't run Yosemite, so I can't. Any plans for a purely online service?
49.
by lordelph 12y ago
I like it - I think your pricing is about right for the time saved. I'll probably use it myself in a few weeks!
50.
by lordelph 12y ago
The more interesting part for me was how they made it http://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ TL;DR version: they made a font with custom ligatures, so that the sequence of glyphs that make 'synergy&#
51.
by lordelph 12y ago
I was trying to describe how to manage blue-green deployments but running on a common data store with zero downtime. The TL;DR version is that you deploy a 'turquoise' intermediate version which is forwards compatible with schema
52.
Blue-Turquoise-Green deployment – zero downtime during database schema changes(blog.dixo.net)
1 points by lordelph 12y ago|1 comments
53.
by lordelph 12y ago
This, then, is the price of adblock?