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by schoen 3y ago
You might enjoy Regina Spektor's song "All the Rowboats", which seems to posit (maybe like your game) that art objects don't enjoy being kept in museums, and would like to "escape". https://www.youtu
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by schoen 3y ago
Probably this one? https://kerberos.org/dist/historic.html#CNS
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by schoen 3y ago
As far as I know, NSA still has an Information Assurance Directorate, they just seem to focus on government, military, and government and military contractors' information security, rather than the general public's. A big contribu
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by schoen 3y ago
It's his married name, and would conventionally be hyphenated, but he decided not to (I think because he thought it would be funnier without the hyphen).
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by schoen 3y ago
You have a chance to see them in northwestern Lousiana or western Arkansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas#Map_of_broo... You might want to double-check with a local. The ones closest to you in Dallas
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by schoen 3y ago
> I don't expect to get access to all the data that is sent back - though - as it is from the public purse - I think it should be made available. You can indeed get the actual data from this instrument! https://wispr.nrl.
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by schoen 3y ago
Here's an article by the scientists who created the camera that took this picture, introducing it and describing its design. https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/200751/1/The%20Wide-Fi... It's
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by schoen 3y ago
In my grade school we were asked to donate money to buy part of the rainforest in order to stop it from being cut down. I thought this was a brilliant idea, and it wasn't until the first time I visited Brazil (which is, somehow, 20 yea
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by schoen 3y ago
This feels ripe for an aphorism like "you can take the cat out of the home, but you can't take the meow out of the homeowner"!
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by schoen 3y ago
> Noël, aïoli, and naïve All three of those were borrowed from French, which uses the diaeresis, so this is "just" keeping the original French spelling. > I don't think you'd ever use a hyphen with zoological, but
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by schoen 3y ago
For non-native English speakers, it's something like /ku:p/ for chickens /'koʊ.ɑp/ for cooperatives People sometimes spell the latter "co-op" (as an alternative to the New Yorker 's "coöp&q
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by schoen 3y ago
If you want to be more precise, you could say "a root certificate that Let's Encrypt will be able to use to build an unexpired trust path after September 2024" (because of the fact that Android doesn't enforce expiration
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by schoen 3y ago
More underlying details from the Let's Encrypt side: https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.htm... (There are Android compatibility changes that will affect anybody using Let's Enc
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A. K. Dewdney has died(lfpress.remembering.ca)
175 points by schoen 3y ago|44 comments
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by schoen 3y ago
That ferry isn't currently operating. (If you follow the link, the operator's site has been replaced with a domain squatter site.) I've read a number of articles about the Darién Gap, and they all indicate that there have bee
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by schoen 3y ago
"Has collapsed" isn't passive voice; it's a compound past tense.
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by schoen 3y ago
It occurs to me (after mentioning collation order, in a different part of this thread, as one reason that we would want to distinguish scripts) that it might be unclear even for collation purposes when scripts are or are not distinct, esp
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by schoen 3y ago
Heh, in deduction systems there is something called proof erasure, I believe asserting that any two proofs of the same proposition are equal. Maybe your mind's inference is working on something like a proof erasure principle? :-)
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by schoen 3y ago
The reverse of this is "severely deficient autobiographical memory", which has been in the news recently as well (and I think discussed on HN too). I think it's interesting that I consider myself to have a good memory but it
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by schoen 3y ago
One argument would be that you can apply functions to change their case. For example in Python >>> "Ᾰ̓ΡΕΤΉ".lower() 'ᾰ̓ρετή' >>> "AWESOME".lower() 'awesome' The Greek Α
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by schoen 3y ago
Previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955264 I guess the November update wasn't discussed on HN though.
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by schoen 3y ago
On Vernor Vinge's connection to free software: https://lwn.net/Articles/310463/
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by schoen 3y ago
DCSS does; NetHack sometimes does but there are very many cases in which you observe some effect and are then asked "Call a milky potion:" or "Call a scroll labeled ANDOVA BEGARIN:".
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by schoen 3y ago
Some, but not all. For example, "Call a white potion:" or "Call a scroll labeled VE FORBRYDERNE:" prompts. These often appear after observing an effect where an experienced player or one consulting spoilers knows what th
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by schoen 3y ago
I agree conceptually, and I think it's sad that we don't have anything more absolute. (I was a fan of HPKP, which has been deprecated as a "footgun" because apparently users often didn't understand what it was doing
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A. K. Dewdney has died(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by schoen 3y ago|3 comments
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by schoen 3y ago
Inventor of Core War, author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations", The Turing Omnibus , and The Planiverse .
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by schoen 3y ago
Currently CT logs: https://certificate.transparency.dev/ Monitor CT for your domain name and if you find an "obscure CA" misissuing for your domain, report it! This may result in the obscure CA getting explicitly
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by schoen 3y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting overview.
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by schoen 3y ago
The Prop 65 warnings are probably unhelpful even when accurate because they don't show anything about the level of risk or how typical or atypical it is for a given context. (I'm thinking especially about warnings on buildings mor

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