thr0w__4w4y

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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yep, one of my friends in high school (1980s) was on my sports team. He would call his mom "collect" from the school's payphone [0] at the end of each practice (end times varied by as much as an hour) and the name was someth
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I've done the exact same trick in my mind to remember a sequence -- the "linked list" linking A to B, B to C, etc. It just seemed natural to me, I didn't read it anywhere. If you have the "head pointer", you&
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I don't know if you're old enough to have played (or heard of) "Adventure" on the Atari 2600. In 8th grade (this would have been around 1980 for me?) one kid (Tom Koester, yes Tom I'm calling you out) told me about
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Man, so sorry to hear what you went through, but your comment carries a lot of weight and meaning. Thanks for recounting this for us, even though it must have been painful. Your wife sounds like a true champion.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yeah, got the same thing and remembered reading "This will require that you have an Nvidia GPU". SOL, but still pretty cool.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
100%. For me, the music / soundtrack / audio is 80% of this demo. And to think that the audio is programmed in < 256 bytes (maybe half of that?) is mind-blowing. I always visit things like this because it keeps me humble. Th
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
As someone who's done this, I can 2nd this comment. Fire damage.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I consulted with MIPS and ARM many years ago - pre Y2K (background is microprocessor design and firmware). ARM was a little formal but easy to work with, cooperative and supportive (they opened doors and provided everything I asked for). W
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Excellent point. MIPS overplayed its hand. It's funny how this story repeats itself over and over again, yet companies never seem to learn. The flipside of this is when companies like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe, like it or not, become
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Familiar with all in your list, plus I'd like to add a few: Lawn darts, BB guns, wrist rockets, bottle rockets (I know you said M-80s, I had those too, but bottle rockets could be shot at friends), can of WD-40 (with requisite red stra
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
No https? (checks calendar: yep, 2021. Checks 5 certs of owned domains from Let's Encrypt: yep.) I'm all for non-tech people having sites like this, but in 2021 it's hard to excuse not supporting TLS connections to your web
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Interviewing someone like yourself isn't hard at all... I've interviewed hundreds of people (which isn't thin air here on HN) and I've pretty much seen it all. Generally speaking, in an interview, I'm trying to asse
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yep, until I'd done off-roading, I never understood why my uncle told me (when driving his vehicle, which had the ability to lock the diff) - "Never ever use this on pavement / normal driving". I obeyed him, but I alway
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Might have missed the point of the site here (just speculating) -- I got a lot of sarcastic criticism (hey cool, I don't care) but not a single suggestion. Spotify has helped me find lots of music that I like. This site didn't.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
You're right, but I'm grateful anyway. I used to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast sometimes (on Overcast, which is awesome)... since he moved to the vastly inferior Spotify platform, I don't listen to him at all. The plat
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
My first modem was a Hayes-brand 300 baud modem. Atari 800 computer. So I'll kindly ask you to get off my lawn, whipper-snapper. (BTW I listen to a lot of ambient / noise / drone music, and a while ago, some artist took thos
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I'm always learning. I truly thought that the term was probably centuries old and had something to do with family legacy, old rules being followed to keep tradition, etc. You live, you learn. I often hear people use the phrase "
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
That is a great explanation. I remember you, or somebody else here on HN, provided a similar explanation when this general topic came up within the last year or so... and I thought the same thing then -- finally this makes some sense to me
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Stop beating around the bush, come on just come out and tell us how you feel! ;-) BTW I'm dumping YTV after this move, but I haven't had a quite the same horror show w/ the app etc. At $40 it was worth it, I felt the hike t
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
That looks like a good series to watch, thank you. Totally unrelated, but the first time I saw that technique with writing on the glass and then flipping the video L-R was about 4 years ago when F5 did a good video introduction on elliptic
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Not sure if it’s what you are/were referring to, but somebody else a little lower in this thread mentioned Steve Brunton’s control boot camp series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-Vpz
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
yeah exactly; if I'm with a vendor factory and hear, "Whatever you do, don't print any 349s!" you can damn well bet I've convinced myself what the winning number is.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Serious question: does anyone here know specifically what data is transmitted such that the filter authenticates correctly to the refrigerator? Guessing it can't some kind of challenge-response (no processing element on filter)? I kno
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I hear you on that. But for me, the jealousy dissipates quickly once I realize that even if I had /lots/ of time, I don't think I would come up with this.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Many people have said this many times, but love him or hate him, Steve Jobs did a good job of keeping this kind of stuff from deteriorating. (Sure there was AntennaGate and "You're holding it wrong", that wasn't Apple&#
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
I can’t improve upon your recommendation, but I’ll second it, from the point of a firmware / security / reverse engineer-er.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Agreed. Also Christof Paar's book [1] and 25-episode YouTube series[2] do an excellent job of explaining not only elliptic curve cryptography, but also RSA and a lot of other cryptography, including symmetric ciphers and cryptographic
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Also not a lawyer, and US-based in case it varies by country. Do you know if a waiver is needed in this case? My understanding is that I can walk down a sidewalk, around Disneyland, around a resort, and film anyone / anything in plain
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yes indeed. Outside of work, I'm an endurance sports person, so basically performance is correlated strongly with training hard and suffering. There is a saying, "Pain is weakness leaving the body", I first heard it in high
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yes there's a psychological principle at work there, when you ask a serious of "softball" questions that are intended to get the respondent to agree, blatantly so, the respondent's "radar goes up", so to speak.

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