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Arcade Font Writer(arcade.photonstorm.com)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I posted an ePub - https://github.com/pronoiac/explore-flask/blob/add-epub/asse... - though no pull request, because I'd already filed a related PR. Wait, should I file another?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Not bad! Did you use rst2pdf or go through TeX? I'm trying to decide where to upload my ePub to - the main Github repo, or the exploreflask.com repo. Thoughts?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Ok, I added some background on prerequisites for building HTML and ePub, and filed a pull request.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Heh - I was doing that! I tried building the HTML version under Ubuntu 12.04, failed, and I'm working on getting 14.04 up and running. Edit: I hadn't seen the email text about Sphinx, so it was news that he'd been working on
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I'm surprised there's no epub version. (It reflows more nicely on my phone.) Is this something others have an interest in, an oversight, or intentional?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
No, fail2ban watches logs for repeatedly failed login attempts, and then blackholes given IPs using firewall rules. I prefer denyhosts, which is more ssh-specific.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Coral cache should also show images: http://pandoralive.info.nyud.net/?p=3671 (Though it hasn't loaded yet)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Speaking of video, I wonder how much grain came from the camera sensor - I'd start with some denoising, just to try to knock that out.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
It really helps with accessibility! Captioning helps elsewhere, too, and there are other methods - we've gotten crowdsourced transcripts of the Metafilter Podcast by using Fanscribed[1], and it's been appreciated. [1] https:&#x2F
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Sure, network bandwidth is an issue, and getting a fast enough connection at a mall might be interesting. What's also fun: USB speeds. I found a transfer time calculator - http://techinternets.com/copy_calc - and, well
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I'd thought that being able to use different-sized drives was a selling point, for piecemeal upgrades, but the article says to never mix sizes across vdevs or spools. You can upgrade the capacity of a pool, but you have to upgrade each
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I'll say that reading about the ext3 to btrfs conversion made me laugh - it's a mad scientist thing that builds all the btrfs pointers in the ext3 free space, pointing to the data blocks as stored by ext3, and it keeps the filesys
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by pronoiac 12y ago
For comparison, Ustream announced a few months ago that they'd only retain archived video for a month for free accounts.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Did you know that Truman State University used Ada in its CS curriculum?
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by pronoiac 12y ago
I've done a bit of work building a complex Excel spreadsheet, because that was the job - and what I wanted afterwards was an automated way to turn it into a Python script. Collaborating in Excel is tricky - it was a large enough spread
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Oh! It's the author of Blindsight! That spaceship facing aliens with a vampire novel. It's memorable - it was a Hugo nominee, and I highly recommend it: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Thanks! I was just scanning the comments from your non-DupDetector account so I could provide more info here.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
If memory serves, someone built this with a semi-automated account, he got some (to him) surprisingly heated criticism from the community, and he stopped.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Check out "Most Favorited Posts in the Past 7 Days:" http://www.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorite7 There are also links for 24 hours, 7 days, 12 months, and all time. Here's the equivalent for Ask Met
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Ugh. I think it would be better if revocation covered the public key instead of the serial number. (I'll ignore CRL bandwidth costs and the questionable usefulness of revocations.)
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by pronoiac 12y ago
The "cjdns" in the headline links to: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns It looks like TOR with a GPG/PGP web of trust.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
That's a network-centric OS? But won't they typically be used in bandwidth-constrained places? I was going to worry about how much memory was required, but it looks like Android 4.4 can work with 512 meg of RAM.
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by pronoiac 13y ago
In a sibling reply, teraflop got it: it's "tranquility." The original site's down, and I haven't tried the old binaries yet. Here's a video: http://youtu.be/EbLhw_zJiFo
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by pronoiac 13y ago
Ooh, I think that's it! The screenshots aren't loading for me, though. Thanks! Edit: I checked Youtube, and you're definitely right. Thank you! Here's the video - http://youtu.be/EbLhw_zJiFo - if you l
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by pronoiac 13y ago
No, though Rez is awesome. This was a PC game, with the polygons in columns, and if you entered the columns, you'd float along. You'd have to jump from one to the next, in mid-air.
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by pronoiac 13y ago
The spinning floating brightly colored polygons is reminding me of a game, whose name escapes me. I think the soundtrack was ambient, based on your movements. I should look for that.
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by pronoiac 13y ago
I worked on an app that drew streetview-like imagery from Nokia. I think that's http://here.com , based on the company http://earthmine.com/ they acquired.
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by pronoiac 13y ago
It looks like most of the OpenSSL team[1] is outside the US, except Marquess, the businessman. It looks like OpenBSD is developed and released from Canada.[2] I tried reading the Wikipedia article you linked, and something from the Bureau o
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by pronoiac 13y ago
> In fact, a quirk of the U.S. legal system meant that cryptography was, until the late 1990s, placed on the U.S. Munitions List, alongside semi-automatic firearms and tanks. Should this be in the past tense? I thought crypto exports fro

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