rumbler

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by rumbler 12y ago
Thing is, you would know if someone broke into your house with a rock through the window. Breaking into your computer, or breaking the encryption of your data on some server, can be done without nobody noticing for years. Securing your data
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by rumbler 12y ago
Enough with the "Kansai people don't eat natto" thing, that's just not true. I lived in Kansai for years, and there were like a dozen brands of natto on supermarket shelves, everywhere. Big beans, small beans, with sauce
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by rumbler 12y ago
I had pop tarts when I was 6 years old and went on a trip to the USA with my family. It was horribly sweet and not at all delicious. On the other hand, peanut butter was an enjoyable discovery.
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by rumbler 12y ago
I enjoyed reading about breakfast while eating mine. I had pumpkin soup and toast. In my opinion, soup is highly underrated as breakfast food (in the Western world at least).
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by rumbler 12y ago
> - Wrist GPS while driving Please don't look at a screen while driving. You might end up killing people.
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by rumbler 12y ago
Came here to say this. The "pure" version of each digit should come in the middle, rather than at the beginning, of its interval.
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by rumbler 12y ago
If Amazon were to make a driverless car, I'd worry. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp
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by rumbler 12y ago
I got my kid a Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 when he was 5 years old. I bought it used for less than $200 and installed Linux Mint on it. The small keyboard of the CF-18 is perfect for little hands, the rugged construction means he probably won
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by rumbler 12y ago
If you ask old people, they will tell you the same story, but about IBM. Every generation has its great, innovative tech company turned evil mastermind story. It seems to be hard to avoid. I wonder who will be next.
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by rumbler 13y ago
With all due respect to John Carmack and Michael Abrash, this reminds me of a song by Tom Lehrer: "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun." I'm sure Face
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by rumbler 13y ago
Thank you! I did not know about SBCL, or Paul Khuong, before. This is the most interesting thing I've read this week. This kind of article is why I come to Hacker News.
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by rumbler 13y ago
That inverse square root algorithm is a neat trick, but it did not revolutionize anything. In addition to several algorithms already mentioned, I feel that suffix trees and suffix array algorithms should be there as well. They are making al
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by rumbler 13y ago
Also very important to note: being strict works only when the teacher is actually competent. I've had high school teachers whose understanding of math was basically the textbook + epsilon. They were strict in order to keep the class un
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by rumbler 13y ago
I routinely carry microSD cards filled with 16GB of random numbers.
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by rumbler 13y ago
Ted Chiang's short story collection, "Stories of your life and others", contains some of the best writing I've read in my life.
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by rumbler 13y ago
Also in the original II and II Plus. On those older models, I think you need to type "F666G" at the monitor prompt to get to the mini-assembler. The "!" command was implemented in the enhanced IIe ROM.
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by rumbler 13y ago
Same here. I went from an Apple IIe to a Macintosh SE. It was a nice computer for typing high school papers on (yay PageMaker 1.0), and the GUI of System 5 was beautiful on the little black-and-white screen. There was some hacking involving
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by rumbler 13y ago
Steve Wozniak's original Apple II Integer Basic had 16-bit signed integers, but no built-in floating point support. Applesoft (licensed from Micosoft) had 16-bit integer variables (such as A%) as well as floating point, but you are rig
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by rumbler 13y ago
> you can't really expect them to shut down Well, before a few weeks ago, I couldn't really expect my government to spy on all its citizens, use secret courts to bully companies into giving them access to my data, share it with
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by rumbler 13y ago
What depresses me is, I see how this information could be used in many kinds of amazing ways, but since I cannot control who gets it and what they will do with it, I refuse to use it for fear that it will be used against me. It is the trage
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by rumbler 13y ago
In Japan, some restaurants (not the fancy ones, but family-friendly places) have a button on the table just for that. Push it, and a few seconds later a waitress appears, just like in an airplane. If you have younger kids, you have to be ca
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by rumbler 13y ago
Read Dijkstra, read Dijkstra. He is the master of us all.
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by rumbler 13y ago
What I want is a keyboard with two big keys below the space bar, each half the width of the space bar, that I could map to Escape (the left one) and 3rdLevelShift (the right one). With Ctrl left of A, and Backspace just above Enter (aka the
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by rumbler 13y ago
That's certainly a good way for Snowden to see where his friends and his enemies are, and at the same time expose to the world how much leverage the US has with many countries.
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by rumbler 13y ago
Heh. You should see the looks I get with my Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 (running Arch Linux and i3wm). People must think I'm entering nuclear launch codes every time I use vim in public on the thing...