sundaysailor

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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   Also I admire the engineers having developed the firmware for these machines in the eighties under God knows what conditions. It was flawless.
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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   >Man that was a lovely little machine. Indeed. There even was a little dot matrix printer peripheral by Casio. It printed on silvery rolls of aluminium-coated paper, I think by electrically burning out dots from the coating. I did ASCII
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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   Mike Bennett, podcaster extraordinnaire of "Underwood & Flinch" fame, isn't bad either. Edit: typo
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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   There was a startup called Resolver Sytems pursuing this. They meanwhile abandoned it in favor of a different project but did open-source it: https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet
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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   Christopher Cherniak, The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution (1978), http://themindi.blogspot.in/2007/02/chapter-17-riddle-of-uni...
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   by sundaysailor 9y ago

   Attacks like these can be easily dwarfed by employing a nonstandard virtual keyboard which displays a randomly permutated key layout during PIN entry. Some online banking web apps did this already ten years ago as a defense against "mo