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GnuPG is not a library(mrmekon.tumblr.com)
54 points by morpher 14y ago|48 comments
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by morpher 14y ago
I stopped reading when I saw the 70 million number. The grants in question were 1.2 million. So, if that is a representative number, then that is ~5 double dipped grants per year. Hard to be concerned about.
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by morpher 14y ago
IIRC, Freakanomics had a section correlating legalized abortion with a drop in crime ~18 years later. Also plausible. But, of course, not necessarily causal.
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by morpher 14y ago
I agree with this mentality. Its best to just ignore the #1-types out there. Of course, that doesn't remove the sting. I don't use node, so this doesn't fit in my toolchain. However, I wanted to commend the author on the nice simple interfa
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by morpher 14y ago
This looks like an interesting app for logging in "without passwords" by scanning QR codes using a smart phone and entering a passcode. (I consider a passcode to just be an insecure password, but we'll let that slide for now). Unfortunately
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by morpher 14y ago
In addition to the developing world, page weight is a big concern for those of us with limited data plans. When a single log post weighs in at 2-3 MB (which is common), the day's allotment of a 200MB/mo plan disappears really fast. I often
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by morpher 14y ago
The article states that the lighter page was opt-in. Thus a bias towards people for whom the heavy page was unusable is not surprising.
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by morpher 14y ago
The National Acadamy of the Sciences is not just some random "independent" group. Of course, the article states that it's still unclear as to whether they will take more data, or simply review existing studies. Likely, they will do a revie
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by morpher 14y ago
For a nice gpg-encrypted password store, see "pass": http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/ Many programs that require passwords (e.g., mutt, offlineimap, msmtp) let you specify a command to retrieve the password, which is really easy
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by morpher 14y ago
They have links for specifying image categories and even specific images.
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by morpher 14y ago
They have some set of categorized photos and simply crop them to the size you request after selecting a random one.
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by morpher 14y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned [LabView]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVIEW ), a visual programming environment used by many scientists to control data acquisition systems. Although the "language" makes creation of functional user in
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by morpher 14y ago
If you have collaborators that aren't fluent in latex, it can be useful to generate an output file (e.g., pdf) that contains marked changes. I really like latexdiff[1] and a script[2] for making it easier to use with git. The generated pdfs
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by morpher 14y ago
This article[1] by David Mermin does a good job explaining why the second particle couldn't have always been a ~k particle. [1] http://www.phy.duke.edu/undergraduate/physics-articles/mermi...
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by morpher 14y ago
Many, but clearly not all. If you added "to certain users" and "from certain hosts" you'd cover more of them.
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by morpher 14y ago
There is some good information here (e.g., the fairly comprehensive list of methods to deter brute-force attacks in #16). However, it looks like the majority of the options mentioned here are the default settings for current versions of Ope
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by morpher 14y ago
Almost all software I've custom built over the last 13 years of using Linux has, by default, set the prefix to /use/local. I don't know if ruby is for some reason different, but installing software outside of /usr/local is not something to
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by morpher 14y ago
Throw-away laptop? Wouldn't a liveCD and changing you MAC address suffice?
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by morpher 14y ago
This looks nice. I've been doing something similar by hand for e.g offlineimap and msmtp passwords that I didn't want to store in plain text. I had planned on writing a similar utility to manage things, and it looks like now I won't have to
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by morpher 14y ago
I agree that the non-monetary aspects were missing from the article. However, the point of the article that, even if you purely look at the monetary value, most people get it wrong by overestimating the value of their time. This, along with
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by morpher 14y ago
I find this (apparently fake) story interesting for the reaction that it created. I found it surprising (disturbing?) that anyone (even a fictional character) would equate losing a lawsuit for patent infringement with having an identical pr
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by morpher 14y ago
As another child who grew up on koala paint and the warm blue glow of the C64 basic prompt, this article was wonderfully nostalgic for me. Thanks for sharing!
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by morpher 14y ago
I was surprised no one else had mentioned wargames. There are several at http://smashthestack.org/ that cover a wide range of exploits (from simple buffer overflows to format string exploits and md5 collisions). My favorite one was to dev
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by morpher 14y ago
Be careful not to conflate special (SR) and general relativity (GR). SR has nothing to say about gravity, and, as you point out, has already been successfully merged with Quantum mechanics to form relativistic quantum field theory (Dirac's
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A great latex math typesetting reference(elevatorlady.ca)
2 points by morpher 14y ago|0 comments
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by morpher 15y ago
Looks like he gets there somewhere around step 1.5E43. Infinite patience indeed...
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by morpher 15y ago
python's base64 module works fine ;) and yes, this is very inefficient (in more ways than one). First, the outer xml is actually gzipped twice (once by the web server I'm guessing). The base64 decoded data is yet another xml file. (Which is
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by morpher 15y ago
I have ~60 apps installed. So, hardly a large number. The 30K is actually 83K that has been gzip compressed. The uncompressed file is a plist containing some encoded data. You can see the form at: https://gist.github.com/1855135 But, sinc
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IPhone Nightly Data Usage -- Culprit found?(rephorm.com)
6 points by morpher 15y ago|4 comments
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I got tired of copying colors into vim, so I made this.(youtu.be)
4 points by morpher 15y ago|0 comments

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