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by pronoiac 11y ago
It could up to 3 gigabytes per VHS tape! Wow! Someone else in the thread posted a link to screenshots of a Linux port: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10246531
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Note, Paperback has over twice the density of Optar. Not that I'm complaining. I bookmarked both because I think they're nifty, despite "media abuse" being the best tag I could think of.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
From the Internet Archive, here's the Elmore Leonard story, 'Squad 7 - Impressions of Murder' - https://web.archive.org/web/20120502011501/http://www.detroi...
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by pronoiac 11y ago
That graph of "comparable algorithm strength" would be great if it included the key length of the symmetric cipher. It was discussed for 2048 bit RSA, but not for 4k or 8k. It seemed like an oversight.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Are you logged into Gmail? Just click "log in."
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Secret? It was talked about a lot here for a while. It started with a secret IP address in a trailer for The Imitation Game. Here's a later discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8589835
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I'm looking forward to great speech-to-text technology. I help run fan-driven transcripts for a podcast, and I recently tried using Google's; it returned something like the hosts were concussed, or Markov models of themselves. Edi
578.
by pronoiac 11y ago
There's an Ask Metafilter question about what you'd say to your 30-something self: https://ask.metafilter.com/224770/The-timetravellers-advice-... And also forty-something: http://ask.metafilter.co
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I've considered this problem before. If I remember my research, I'd investigate using bash's built-in echo or printf, and paste encoded versions of binaries into the terminal. To speed up the terminal work, get uudecode, base
580.
by pronoiac 11y ago
In the ext2 days, an incident put a lot into lost+found. I had a Tripwire database with file checksums, and wrote a script to checksum the files and move them back into place. I think a handful of files were corrupted, but I got it bootin
581.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Oof, I recognize one of those, from an email today. I'd thought I was talking to an internal recruiter... Incidentally, you have some duplicates.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Infinite Jest is a really brilliant book, but I remember the start of it seemed deliberately hard to read. Then I read enough to follow the rhythms and it became a compulsive read.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Ah, then I wouldn't expect concurrent connections to be on the menu, for a shared workspace.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Huh, I thought I'd read something from jwz on handling wealth, but I only see a bit on not becoming a creepy asshole.[1] I think I've seen the advice, either: * surround yourself with people with more money than you OR * get back
585.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Huh, the whois hasn't changed. I think Wired's shifted it to the "buy this domain" thing before, and shifted it back, so perhaps this isn't permanent?
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by pronoiac 11y ago
New trailer for The Martian. It was a compulsively readable book, and I'm looking forward to the movie.
587.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Things I want to see: * the game of life * someone blowing smoke rings * Robert Patrick from Terminator 2 * maybe a waterfall
588.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Here's one that offers fewer graph papers, but allows for customizable grid size: http://gridzzly.com
589.
by pronoiac 11y ago
It's been deleted. Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052336/https://blogs.ora... - and while it's full of cringeworthy analogies, such as breaking a contract is just li
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Ah, that's one way to handle the cert issue. I think the article alludes to kinda brute forcing another sha1. That's pricey, but potentially worthwhile, I suppose. As for the routing: you have seen BGP issues crop up, right? I t
591.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Huh, this comes up blank in Mobile Safari.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I've used them before. I ran a Squid proxy and connected it to the NLANR cache hierarchy[1]; despite the name, it's more of a mesh with siblings. For the best speed, you can use bloom filters (or cache digests, in their terms[2])
593.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Hey, the author's here! Were you in the area when Iben Browning predicted a big earthquake from New Madrid, back in 1990? Did that pique your curiosity about it?
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by pronoiac 11y ago
It's plausible; I've been at a talk where they suggested checking the local cache and requesting it across the network in parallel. I'd thought maybe they were talking about, say, both people on a fast network, but digging in
595.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Huh. 1. In Chrome, the "Audio Narration Off" was offscreen. I had to resize the browser to hit that button. Then it wouldn't show any content. 2. It worked just fine on my iPad. So maybe try a mobile device instead.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
The author's from the area, so he probably was around when Iben Browning[1] made predictions of a 6.5-7.5 magnitude earthquake in December 1990. The predictions made international news, and then punchlines. [1] https://en.wi
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I love his writing voice! His writing at idlewords.com has appeared here a few times. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?query=idlewords.com&sort=byPopularit... ). I'll miss his sarcastic tweeting though.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
On a Mac, it worked to a point: unzip it with a double-click, mount the .iso with a double-click... but the links break because they're on a case sensitive filesystem. Meanwhile, if the Internet Archive viewer kicked in, we'd be a
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by pronoiac 11y ago
The download's a zip file, with an iso file, with a lot of html files within a few folders. It's a bit tedious. I remembered that the Internet Archive has tools to simplify it, so I sent it over there... and it's not working!
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I was distracted by this: including .* at the start or end of a regex feels like a pathological anti-optimization by itself.

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