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by paulannesley 7y ago
Honestly, reading the glossary gives me Urbit [1] vibes :( > bork: A setting generator called by sundog to generate the random seed for updog, determining where the host falls in the update order. [1]: https://urbit.org/d
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by paulannesley 7y ago
BI = Basic Income?
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by paulannesley 7y ago
Not really. Unless they completely hijacked all DNS resolution under .org to IPs they control, fraudulently gain TLS certificates (using DNS-based proof), and proxy the traffic to the true IP. Not a realistic scenario at scale.
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by paulannesley 7y ago
"The tech industry"; maybe. "Hacker culture"; no.
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by paulannesley 7y ago
> He saw the thing the shell of gray paper had concealed. Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In
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by paulannesley 7y ago
Perhaps, like me, your serial port was driven by an older UART chip like an 8250 [0] which could be a bottleneck for modems faster than 9,600 baud. I remember in teen years phoning the local computer shop every week asking if they had the 1
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by paulannesley 7y ago
Toy projects are my favourite HN content. It's the H in HN.
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by paulannesley 7y ago
> The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824 From the linked wikipedia article on Greenhouse effect
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by paulannesley 8y ago
Building products/features and then killing them when they don't work is generally fine. And renaming/merging/consolidating them isn't really killing them. But… > Sparrow was an email client for OS X and iOS. The
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by paulannesley 8y ago
The article touches on that: > Sub-lethal exposure to lead in humans has been linked to increased aggression, with people who grow up in high-lead neighborhoods having a higher probability to be incarcerated for violent crime. They also
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Keyboardio Kickstarter Day 1278: A startling discovery(kickstarter.com)
192 points by paulannesley 8y ago|85 comments
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by paulannesley 8y ago
I wonder if this integrates with AWS Certificate Manager to provision HTTPS certificates so that traffic can be end-to-end encrypted. That's one of the reasons I've stuck to Application Load Balancers in front of services instead
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by paulannesley 8y ago
Thanks, that led me to http://www.interstation3d.com/portfolio/16-bit_memories.jpg and more of his work at http://www.interstation3d.com/
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by paulannesley 9y ago
Fingerprints are not passwords, but I don't think it's useful to think of them as usernames either. This is a much more pragmatic take on it by Troy Hunt, the person behind “Have I been pwned?”: https://www.troyhunt.com
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by paulannesley 9y ago
> let this taint your opinion of Amsterdam Why taint? The judge gave good reasons for disallowing trading. In particular; if students know they can trade places later, they'll pile onto the most popular schools (rather than their tr
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by paulannesley 9y ago
> So he's currently using about 10TB of 60TB of usable space. Other way around; he's using ~50TB of ~60TB with ~10TB free.
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by paulannesley 10y ago
> one thousand feet above Are the imperial units of measurement an aviation thing, or an American thing, or a bit of both?
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by paulannesley 10y ago
> you just start working with a guy, giving him basic isolated tasks, and as he successfully progresses with his work, task are getting more and more complicated (salary, permissions as well). After few months of such freelance-ish work
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by paulannesley 10y ago
That effect drives me nuts too; but it seems to bother a minority of people. I've always assumed/guessed it's in the order of 50–100Hz; the 500–1000Hz mentioned may be fast enough to appear continuous to sensitive humans and
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An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding(99designs.com.au)
5 points by paulannesley 10y ago|0 comments
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by paulannesley 10y ago
> 1Password apparently works fine with WINE, but I haven't used it myself. I run 1Password in Wine in Docker on my (secondary) linux ThinkPad with Dropbox sync. It works, but it's clunky. Part of that is that I don't like
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by paulannesley 10y ago
SD cards implement a simple four-pin mode (SPI) for which there's public documentation, and a proprietary mode parallelizing data over more pins. I know more about the former than the latter, but it's probably a similar situation.
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by paulannesley 10y ago
I somewhat agree; TL;DR can seem dismissive and certainly discards most of the value of the actual article. In this case I did it because the title made me wonder if this was the article I read years ago about implementing an ARM emulator f
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by paulannesley 10y ago
Very cool (TL;DR: it's an ARM emulator for 8-bit AVR which can slowly boot Linux). Could do with a [2012] tag in the title.
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by paulannesley 10y ago
This link from that 1991 thread is still available 25 years later: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html I'd guess it hasn't been continuously available, but certainly must be one of the olde
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by paulannesley 10y ago
> Stricter and more expensive ticketing might help. I doubt it, and… please no. Demerit points maybe. Fines disproportionately punish the less affluent and incentivise the wrong attitude to enforcement.
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by paulannesley 10y ago
The ones that ship with OS X 10.11: $ otool -L /usr/bin/nano /usr/bin/nano: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0) /usr&
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by paulannesley 10y ago
> But would an account where an attempt was made, and failed, also count? I wouldn't think so. There must be countless incorrect password attempts all the time. > What if the userid and password are correct, but 2FA stopped the a
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by paulannesley 10y ago
Sequel Pro (free open source, despite name) is a native application which is much nicer to use than phpMyAdmin. So, yes there's benefits other than security.
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by paulannesley 10y ago
If my death warranted coverage, I'd rather a fairly recent photo of me healthy and charismatic.

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