paulannesley

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by paulannesley 11y ago
The Whistleblower (2010 film) is one example of a film about one of the many forms of modern slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistleblower
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by paulannesley 11y ago
I'd presume child processes would inherit the same restrictions as the parent process. I guess a root process could remain privileged, the main restricted process could be a child of that, and that main process could ask the root proce
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by paulannesley 11y ago
Presumably they were optimizing for CPU cycles rather than RAM, and the 256 bytes that it does consume isn't much in the scheme of a game like Doom. This must be pretty fast (and compact) code: rndindex = (rndindex+1)&0xff; return
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by paulannesley 11y ago
TL;DR: rand() loops through a fixed set of values, but unpredictable user input leads to unpredictable sequence of rand() calls (e.g. an animation calling it before or after a sound-effect selector), providing an unpredictable output from r
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by paulannesley 11y ago
Related: http://jmtd.net/log/deterministic_doom/ Via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9429889
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by paulannesley 11y ago
Very cool. I'd love to see the ability to tag and filter 256-color schemes, for `TERM="xterm-256color"`. And some ranking metric (e.g. stars on the GitHub repo) would help surface the good ones that a lot of people use. Perso
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by paulannesley 11y ago
Line Status Register http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/8250_UART_Pr... Had to look it up, my brain was coming up with Logical Shift Right.
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by paulannesley 11y ago
The answer to the title question seems to be: > Inside the building, on those top floors, the oscillation is what unnerves us. A forty-story building may sway a foot to the left, a foot to the right. The span of that period might last ar
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by paulannesley 11y ago
> between the Arduino,RPi,etc. and your vanilla laptop or PC RPi is closer to a vanilla laptop/PC than it is to an Arduino. Arduino describes an ecosystem of microcontrollers, traditionally 8-bit AVR and more recently 32-bit ARM. Mi
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by paulannesley 11y ago
> For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her no
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by paulannesley 11y ago
Related from 2006: Schneier on Security — Hacking Computers Over USB https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/hacking_compu... The block-quote incorrectly mentions DMA over USB, but the described a
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by paulannesley 11y ago
> But unfortunately, laptops have ports that have direct memory access, or DMA, including FireWire, USB, and others. USB doesn't exposes DMA. “Examples of connections that may allow DMA in some exploitable form include FireWire, Exp
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by paulannesley 11y ago
That's what `git rebase --interactive` does (which has been described as being “a bit like git commit --amend hopped up on acid and holding a chainsaw–completely insane and quite dangerous but capable of exposing entirely new states of
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by paulannesley 12y ago
Sounds similar to http://www.norvig.com/speech.html which mdonahoe quoted shortly after your post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9371086
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by paulannesley 12y ago
> “It’s nothing more than collecting and utilizing data. We may not like to admit it, but the truth of the matter is that those that own and operate motorcycles are 67% more likely to be involved in illegal or criminal activity than thos
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by paulannesley 12y ago
Task-Relevant Maturity is a management term which recognizes that maturity (the scale that “newbie” is one end of) is fairly isolated to particular tasks/contexts. Somebody can excel in their comfort zone (e.g. C++ for Carmack?) but be
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by paulannesley 12y ago
I'd much rather the tools I use on my computer _didn't_ phone home to report every time I use them incorrectly or they emit an error for whatever reason. Edit: you could say “record the error and give the option to report it” but
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by paulannesley 12y ago
> The problem is the touch pad in front of it. Inevitably, my palm will brush against it, and the software will assume I'm clicking on something, and something random will happen. Has that ever happened on MacBook? It seems that bet
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by paulannesley 12y ago
I've been waiting for the Arduino Zero[0], seems like a really good collaboration between Arduino LLC and Atmel to get 32-bit ARM platform to the same price-point and form-factor as the Arduino Uno etc. But it seems to have stalled aft
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by paulannesley 12y ago
HN breaks that link — the trailing period is part of the URL. The path is “/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accolade,_Inc.”
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by paulannesley 12y ago
That page has a meta description for different vulnerability: <meta name="description" content="POODLE Attack and SSLv3 Support Measurement" />
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by paulannesley 12y ago
Meanwhile, Australia is about to legislate mandatory data retention :( https://stopthespies.org/
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by paulannesley 12y ago
This is really cool. Initially from the photo I thought it was just a big FPGA emulating an 8086, but then I saw the chunky DIP chips on the other end. The TP3465 SPI chip mentioned sounds useful — I've been building a single-board 650
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by paulannesley 12y ago
I had to look up “rude health”. It counterintuitively means “excellent health”.
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by paulannesley 12y ago
Some other relevant quotes: “For years, I used to run Debian sid (unstable) on all my personal machines.” “Sometimes things broke. But it wasn’t a big deal, because I could always get in there and fix it fairly quickly, whatever it was.” “I
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by paulannesley 12y ago
In the “born programmer” theory, surely the trait begins latent and could manifest at any age depending on exposure / triggers / mentors etc? And university seems a likely time for that to happen; not everybody had access or was g
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by paulannesley 12y ago
I suspect the `....` isn't part of the canonical URL, despite the site serving the same content either way. URL should be http://pandoralive.info/?p=4488
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by paulannesley 12y ago
They'll only see 5GB from www.example.com:443, the request path is protected by HTTPS. With some kind of DNS security they'd only see 5GB from 12.23.34.45:443.
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by paulannesley 12y ago
> Did another bookstore just close? Did you read the latest report on Americans’ reading habits? To the laptops! followed immediately by this inline ad: > Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week … deliberate or accidental irony?
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by paulannesley 12y ago
Article looks familiar, and was published March 1, 2013.

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