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by techtalsky 13y ago
I thought there was a word for this: proprioception. The fact that this could bleed into visual perception does not seem surprising. Your brain has a sense of your body's position in space.
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Intuitionistic: a new kind of programming language(intuitionistic.org)
2 points by techtalsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by techtalsky 13y ago
That sure doesn't stop them from doing it though. I've threatened to report them before and although you can threaten them it sucks to have to do it. I'd rather just let them roll and wait for another cab in all but the mos
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/dev/random is not robust(eprint.iacr.org)
15 points by techtalsky 13y ago|13 comments
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Seems like you could make more than .60 a day doing Mechanical Turk jobs. It'd be a little less mind numbing than watching commercials every day.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Kind of recently, a close friend of mine took a picture of him and his wife explaining something to their dog: http://i.imgur.com/bfpOGYK.jpg They're the sweetest, coolest, most open-minded people and I adore them. Th
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I'll always love all the comments that came to light when a significant hunk of Win2k source code was leaked, especially: * The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt. http://www.kuro5hin.or
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by techtalsky 13y ago
The book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is an astoundingly good illustration of this. He follows characters as they use work, tennis, video entertainment, and even addiction recovery itself as addictions. I feel as if my understand
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Sounds like another way for apps to drain my precious battery life.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I guess I'm in the minority, but I genuinely enjoy Facebook. Sure, it has its annoyances, and ads are a much more prominent part of the experience. However, it lets me connect with my friends back in Seattle (I live in Brooklyn now)
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by techtalsky 13y ago
The best coffee I've been able to make at home is with a red plastic #4 cone filter holder and a large mason jar, slowly pouring boiled water over the grounds until the jar is full. Now they have those fancy looking chemex ones for $60
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by techtalsky 13y ago
That's true... but I haven't had to do real work on a system that didn't already have Python installed on it in a long time.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
The problem with encryption in this case when it comes to US companies is that the US can compel US companies to install custom backdoors while pretending they are still secure and not notify their customers that this happened.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
He RISKED his whole life. He was fortunate and his plans turned out OK, and for the moment he remains beyond the reach of US power. He could have very easily ended up in US custody.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I'm probably a little late to the party, but I think it's worth mentioning that some of the "XML" looks like this: <tr style=" -uslm-lc:II22; "><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; bor
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I wonder how he managed to be "financially secure for life" without any merchandising. Just from book sales and syndication money? That seems amazing.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
That is true. I was recreating there two days ago, and New York's public interactive art festival, Figment NYC is held there.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I absolutely agree with you but I think keeping it important here is a part of keeping it in the consciousness of people here who have the power to take action. This is an absolutely red alert level problem where even the insane powers pro
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Thanks for writing this post so I didn't have to. The readers of HN for the most part belong to a sort of protected class and do, in fact, have some political power. It's the time to beat this drum as hard as we can. I think it
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by techtalsky 13y ago
My opinion about it is that it's ONE way for them to take the temperature of the people. Of course 100,000 signatures alone isn't going to create meaningful action but it does allow for a certain amount of visibility into what&#x
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I've actually suspected this for years and my simple and polite response is, "No, thanks." or "I don't give it out."
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by techtalsky 13y ago
This is a very small comfort when the government gets to have "classified" interpretations of the law.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I'm feeling extremely impotent at this point to cause any meaningful change on this issue. It seems like the deck is stacked. We have the ACLU and the EFF but it increasingly seems like a war that can't be won. We're being
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by techtalsky 13y ago
To call it "dated" would be kind.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Just make a quick, loose, all-text-fields schema and dump your data as a CSV: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ImportingFiles Then you can run SQL queries against it using the SQLite commandline tool: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite.ht
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Great story. I suspect there are about a million single user applications out there running oracle and paying huge license fees for db's under a million rows that would have been orders of magnitude easier to set up and faster using SQLite
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I think WordPress just tries to cut complexity by using MySQL only so it doesn't have to deal with support for arbitrary RDBMS's.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I like to take every possible opportunity to sing the praises of SQLite, which is one of the most widely deployed RDBMS's in the world. Not only is it open source, but it's public domain, and it's an incredibly stably developed and well-te
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by techtalsky 13y ago
D. Richard Hipp, the inventor and primary developer of SQLite considers the rock-solid reliability of SQLite of primary importance, which is one of the reasons everything from iOS to Skype uses it. (The fact that it has a public domain lic
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Agreed, that was not a fantastic pitch.

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