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by pirateking 13y ago
The Stripe (and other) CTFs should eventually converge with the future developments of this concept. Along that possible future, all system administration and network operations work will be like playing some sort of MUD/RTS hybrid. Se
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by pirateking 13y ago
I remember John Carmack saying something along the lines of game engine development being harder than rocket science.
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by pirateking 13y ago
Humans have done just fine for a long time managing their own mental namespaces. Paper already means different things in different contexts before either of these apps - "I am writing a paper", "have you read today's pap
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by pirateking 13y ago
I'd shut it down and give the products back to the engineers.
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by pirateking 13y ago
I don't have any of my work related to this topic online yet, but I will post something, someday, maybe. I agree that game-ification and tangential devices will not directly improve understanding of a topic, if at all. I grew up playin
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by pirateking 13y ago
I read Mindstorms after Bret Victor recommended a couple years ago, and find myself going back to it quite often as I research learning systems. In it, Seymour Papert mentions emotion and feeling as important concepts in mental model buildi
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by pirateking 13y ago
King might have thought it was taking Candy from a baby, but now they must prepare to play Legal Saga and Negative PR Saga.
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by pirateking 13y ago
The only fix to our information, privacy, and security pop culture is destroying the whole system, and building a new one holistically with a focus on security and education at the lowest levels of the system. This almost certainly means de
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by pirateking 13y ago
Sometimes, I wish I kept my rather comprehensive collection of Squaresoft games, Nintendo consoles and games, and rare Capcom imports. I got about $2000 total for all of them a couple years ago on eBay - much less than what I thought they w
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by pirateking 13y ago
Thank you for the book recommendation. I will check it out!
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by pirateking 13y ago
As someone who grew up in the Golden Age of video games, this makes me sad. You are no longer the player and the thing in your hand is not the game. The player is the company the game is you. Maybe it was always like so, and I was young and
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by pirateking 13y ago
Hachi Ju Hachi for Japanese. Kebab and Curry for Indian.
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by pirateking 13y ago
All of those places were somewhere on my list of good places (but not at the top) at some time in the past and have fallen off as I have discovered even better places. Hoshi is still great though and one of my favorites, but definitely not
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by pirateking 13y ago
Yes, I agree. It is a difficult topic to reason about, but I would say that freedom can only be reasoned about relatively, and only by exercising it can its limits be discussed. And then those limits themselves must be exercised for the not
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by pirateking 13y ago
Few have tasted this mythical freedom the web provides. What extremely tiny percentage of people own their own web site, let alone own any of their digital property (and these days even the hardware it lives on)? I would say AOL and Compuse
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by pirateking 13y ago
It's just like the La-li-lu-le-lo[1]. By the 21st century, the Patriots had achieved immense political power, effectively controlling America as a totalitarian regime. The organization would select who would serve as the President of
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by pirateking 13y ago
The last CTF was super fun. I have been waiting for this announcement, and am happy to see it will be a whole new kind of game. I am sure it will be great given the high production values of the last one.
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by pirateking 13y ago
That's really interesting - radio spectrum steganography. I would think that compromise of the software network stack would be enough for such an attack.
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by pirateking 13y ago
I look forward to well designed Nest competitors that support connections and logging to user specified endpoints.
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by pirateking 13y ago
Definitely. It is just a handy multiplexer - I have a habit at this point to append every query with a bang. On the occasions I forget, the DDG results seem to be improving. However, ~90% of my Google queries are computer related, and DDG (
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by pirateking 13y ago
I have been using DDG as my starting point for all desktop searches since 2011. I use Safari as my main browser and use the hosts file method to set DDG as my default search[1]. I wish iOS had an option for similar. Using DDG started off aw
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by pirateking 13y ago
Your mistake is in assuming that it is about things like "running", "kicking", and "throwing". Sport is about the subjugation of human, by another human. It doesn't do anything for the development of human
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by pirateking 13y ago
I highly recommend the 1994 film Hoop Dreams[1]. It provides a look into the world where school meets sport. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Dreams
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by pirateking 13y ago
I am not sure if I would call Jack Nicholson's Joker a goofy prankster. Well he was, but... he was just a different flavor "all out sociopath" than Ledger's Joker. I say this as a huge fan of both Batman (1989) and The D
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by pirateking 13y ago
I prefer using my interface to design my interface, using a continuous feedback loop. Paper, pencil, and Scheme are high level tools I use to plan and lay out the interface. Objective-C/C, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Illustrator&#x2
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by pirateking 13y ago
The security film is an interesting solution. It seems like it only protects the glass and not the mechanism for opening the window. I am interested because I have actually had an apartment broken into via first floor window many years ago
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by pirateking 13y ago
What about your windows?
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by pirateking 13y ago
"All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power." - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
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by pirateking 13y ago
Under what definitions of "foreign" and "domestic"?
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by pirateking 13y ago
It is possible to "see" the simple forms only by many studies - including those of great detail.

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