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by mormegil 6y ago
I have found there is a Scratch extension using Scratch Link to communicate with the train (see https://scratch.intelino.com ) , and I guess it should be easier to reverse-engineer that, I guess.
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by mormegil 6y ago
I bought a set as a Christmas gift for my pre-school daughter. Good first impression, works fine, the app seems quite good (but the train is usable without it), the color "programming" works nicely and is quite funny to watch a tr
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by mormegil 6y ago
There is a funny chess variant on F-Droid called Open Chaos Chess < https://github.com/CorruptedArk/open-chaos-chess > where the players choose what piece should be played but the move is chosen randomly. The first
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by mormegil 6y ago
Oh, I use it as my daily driver mobile browser. And I agree it has improved quite a bit (so that it is now usable, though with a lot of bugs/missing features/inconsistencies).
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by mormegil 6y ago
XKCD has a mobile version?! You learn something new every day!
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by mormegil 6y ago
Thank you for this inspiration, I've created my monthly payment now. I cannot imagine being forced to use anything else than Firefox... (Even though the Android version is barely usable after the rework...)
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Google faces $417M claim from Czech search engine Seznam(reuters.com)
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by mormegil 6y ago
The point is they either need to filter the served content, or serve it from a different domain (e.g. githubusercontent.com), otherwise you have XSS-like problems.
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by mormegil 6y ago
For me, reading about a zamboni causes always a short thinking pause to identify its meaning, as in Czech, we call a zamboni a "rolba", because of... a name of a Swedish company. (This process is called genericization or apellativ
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by mormegil 6y ago
Definitely. And with today's vast amount of information and stories available, it's not difficult to do so. It's nicely explained in https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin.
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by mormegil 6y ago
Just a few weeks ago I found a guide to computer education for children at https://github.com/xsuchy/programovani_pro_deti (sorry, Czech only) which mentioned GCompris. So I tried it and my children love it! Thanks for
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by mormegil 6y ago
GPS does not use leap seconds. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Leap...
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by mormegil 6y ago
Wasn't that _exactly_ the OP's point? That GDB is a fine C debugger but its logic and UX choices do not make much sense for debugging assembly code (e.g. there are no asterisks in assembly addresses, so no consistency there, etc.)
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by mormegil 6y ago
Well, that's the point, isn't it. The RFC basically says "while the JSON grammar allows for arbitrary-precision numbers, don't expect anything larger or more precise than a double, unless you know the recipient uses a mo
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by mormegil 6y ago
> I've mentioned it before, but JSON Numbers are arbitrary-precision floating-point. They can't be naively stored as JavaScript numbers in all cases, since JS numbers are IEEE754 double-precision floating point. Well, RFC 8259
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by mormegil 6y ago
Scott Alexander: > The latest development in the brave new post-Bitcoin world is crypto-equity. At this point I’ve gone from wanting to praise these inventors as bold libertarian heroes to wanting to drag them in front of a blackboard an
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by mormegil 6y ago
> Though I don't think I'll complain to Google Don't. Google has nothing to do with it. Complain to the services/companies sending e-mails to unconfirmed addresses. It is unfortunately fairly common.
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by mormegil 6y ago
[Hardin:] ‘Then why rely on him? Why not go to Arcturus and study the remains for yourself?’ Lord Dorwin raised his eyebrows and took a pinch of snuff hurriedly. ‘Why, whatevah foah, my deah fellow?’ ‘To get the information first hand, of c
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by mormegil 6y ago
Yeah, they are complicated. Like, seven different protocols for different things. But it is workable. My WIP fork of Gadgetbridge (partially) supporting Garmin Vívomove HR is at https://github.com/mormegil-cz/Gadgetbrid
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by mormegil 6y ago
Exactly the same here, except I got Vívomove HR. My fork with WIP implementation for Garmin is at https://github.com/mormegil-cz/Gadgetbridge/tree/garmin-wip Basically everything (time, FIT data sync) is work
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by mormegil 6y ago
I guess I have read this already, but did not remember it very much. Halfway through, I thought it was written by James Mickens. So, if you liked this, you might also like Mickens' essays like The Night Watch < http://scho
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by mormegil 6y ago
But some people expected that: "The observers set up a betting pool on the results of the test. Edward Teller was the most optimistic, predicting 45 kilotons of TNT (190 TJ). [...] Others were less optimistic. Ramsey chose zero (a comp
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by mormegil 6y ago
They even had (almost) this feature and disabled it, right? Originally, your Dropbox folder came with a Public folder which had content accessible (directly) from the web. You could host your website there. Some time later they found people
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by mormegil 6y ago
Yes, this. Well, in this case, the solution is obvious: you need to have two separate concepts for center. But… When I first learned about the OmegaWiki project (called WiktionaryZ then, I think), I was thrilled. It tried to represent lexic
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by mormegil 6y ago
Lexical content on Wikidata is (unfortunately) separate and independent of Wiktionary. Same topic, different execution (and much smaller coverage at the moment). https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_dat
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by mormegil 6y ago
If you liked this article, I believe you might find this game interesting (if you find a browser with Flash still working): http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl... (no relation, I just liked to play
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by mormegil 6y ago
Oh, sure, the authentication itself is fairly usable for the given usecase, the hashing is security theater. I advocated not hashing those PINs, but you know, standards, auditors, etc. "Passwords must be hashed", security theater
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by mormegil 6y ago
Not necessarily. You could store $10 \choose 5 = 252$ hashes for each user. We did something similar for call center caller authentication (you don't want the operator to get the whole PIN of the user, so he asked only for e.g. two cha
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by mormegil 6y ago
Why would you want to hash random bytes? The only thing you could theoretically achieve by that would be decreasing entropy. Just do openssl rand -hex 20 (or any other number of bytes as needed, or -base64 for another encoding).
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by mormegil 6y ago
When I type upd, Windows Update comes first, then I type a, it gets replaced with Dell Update, then I type t, and Windows Update comes back. They are trying to keep us vigilant, I guess...

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