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by pdkl95 5y ago
> Hillsborough disaster The "We'll There's Your Problem" podcast had a interesting episode[1] about the Hillsborough disaster. > a large fluid mass Apparently mosh pits are an ideal gas. From [2]: >> ... we e
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Feynman, in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out": > The first way in which science is of value is familiar to everyone. It is that scientific knowledge enables us to do all kinds of things and to make all kinds of things. Of co
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> Well, because it simply doesn't work for them: returning from a function does not trigger the EXIT signal. It doesn't trigger EXIT, but it does trigger RETURN. Just trap both: #!/bin/bash foo() {
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by pdkl95 5y ago
[the 8km wide fireball created by the Tsar Bomba] https://web.archive.org/web/20081117095628im_/http://www.ato... Depictions of the Tsar Bomba usually focus on the huge mushroom cloud, which is awesome
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> It’s all ethanol I used to believe that. It seemed obvious to me and a phd chemist friend of mine that - as you say - the different reputations were a cultural/social creation. The drink itself was just different amounts of ethano
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by pdkl95 5y ago
I still would urge caution before taking any amount of SSRI[1]. They are very useful tools that work well for many people, but some people do get very serious side effects. They can also be difficult to stop, sometimes requiring very slow d
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The FBI Framed Him with Science(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
A friend of mine had one of these (1998-99): https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-j... > The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, that houses a 1-m
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Thinking about designing a scene in a fragment shader is already mind boggling. Writing a new shader from scratch live in front of an audience within a 25 minute deadline is insane. The demoscene calls this a "Shader Showdown" com
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That's How You Get a Dystopia(youtube.com)
10 points by pdkl95 5y ago|1 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
"How a plan becomes policy" http://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm This poem is my favorite description of this pattern, because it focuses on the the bad communication that creates the problem.
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> Oracle hates giving error details > Oracle even prints malicious error messages From the ancient humorous internet textfile hacktest.text [1] ("THE HACKER TEST - Version 1.0") 0241 Is your job secure? 0242 ... D
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Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems and the Game of Life(youtube.com)
5 points by pdkl95 5y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Impressive! Their technique reminds me of Dual Photography[1], except using the target object's motion over time instead of multi-dimensional lights ("projector") and/or sensors ("camera"). I wonder if these te
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> The goal for the revamped funding system, which also includes a higher gas tax rate and lower baseline vehicle registration fees, is to make sure drivers contribute their fair share to the costs of maintaining the roads they use The &q
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by pdkl95 5y ago
An informative comic would be great. I have unsuccessfully tried to create a video game mechanic (ludonarrative) that demonstrates how data aggregation can be exploited. Giving people a little bit of personal experience on the other side tr
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by pdkl95 5y ago
You are only "just [a] number" for a very brief period. As soon as you generate enough data points[1] to establish a recognizable subset of your pattern-of-life , the not-signed-in account can (and probably will) be correlated wi
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> a singular device is needed to interact with society Not only are we racing towards that future extremely rapidly[1], you have described what will happen when everything works correctly! Risk is transitive, so we are also creating a
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by pdkl95 5y ago
The technical details vary a lot, but the basic idea that data can be meaningfully separated is extremely common belief. Most people - even many people with technical backgrounds - don't have personal experience using powerful modern
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> And when taken very literally, the promise is true [...] focusing on the term “sell” is essentially a sleight of hand by tech giants The other "technically true" sleight of hand frequently used by tech giants is "We don&
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> but that doesn’t happen Doesn't happen yet . Entire industries are trying to bypass basic property law so you "own" your purchases in name only and the manufacturer has control de facto . The video game industry has be
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by pdkl95 5y ago
What happens when the traditional "analog" alternative is no longer commonly used? Digital, network dependent "upgrades" to traditional protocols and infrastructure are obviously convenient, but what happens when the net
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by pdkl95 5y ago
It took a while to setup, but fixing the problem in the font rendering layer has worked really well. Several years ago - after being annoyed by blurry/bad fonts, extremely bad hinting, and other font problems - I spent a few weeks inve
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by pdkl95 5y ago
5th option: Apple (or whomever) could sell a "backup box": a simple embedded device with RAID 1 (mirroring) storage and the usual data/charging port(s). First time you plug an iphone into it you are asked to verify using the
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by pdkl95 5y ago
In addition to the reason already mentioned, one of the most important reasons privacy is necessary is how people - especially children - discover new aspects of their own identity, personality, and interests. Children will experiment
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)(philzimmermann.com)
422 points by pdkl95 5y ago|181 comments
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by pdkl95 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQ0utQyFw5KCcj1ljIhE... You may be interested in this series on SNES hardware features and how they were exploited. The videos have very informative visual representations of memory&#
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by pdkl95 5y ago
A useful reference for magnitude of "1MB" is that a typical (english) novel contains around 0.5 to 1 MB of ASCII text. Neuromancer is just under 500kB; Snow Crash is ~900kB. So 1.7MB/user/day is roughly equivalent to 2-
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by pdkl95 5y ago
> relies on sys-calls No, the rely on POSIX [1][2]. Syscalls are an implementation detail handled by the compiler. Programs (like 'ls' and the rest of coreutils) that conform[3] to the POSIX standard should continue to work in
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by pdkl95 5y ago
Bryan Cantrill: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft... >> software does not wear out. That isn’t to say that software never breaks (or isn’t broken to begin with), but

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