untrothy

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by untrothy 11y ago
Or you could just look at the json file where the anwsers are stored :)
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by untrothy 12y ago
Off the top of my head and according to what he meant by single number: - As a single entity: I usually think in decimal so you could write a "single" decimal number (e.g. 234) and convert it to binary and the 1 and 0 character me
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by untrothy 12y ago
I changed my port from 22 to a higher one and the user attempts are completely gone. Only nuisance is that the higher ports may be blocked, for example my uni blocks my new ssh port so I can't connect to the vps when I'm on campus
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by untrothy 12y ago
I'm guessing they used something like scallion [0] or Shallot [1]. Bench marking Shallot on an Intel 3350P@3.10GHz: time ./shallot ^a -> 0.09 sec user time ./shallot ^aa -> 0.12 sec user time ./sha
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by untrothy 12y ago
Nowadays native games usually don't have issues and for the other ones wine often works, even with a somewhat unusual tiling window manager (Xmonad). Performance is still not as good as on Windows though. For example I can't play
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by untrothy 12y ago
My primary browser has JS, cookies and plugins completely disabled, and when I open a link and get nothing but a white page it is pretty frustrating. I understand that with these settings i'm not going to see any fancy animations, menu
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by untrothy 12y ago
My distro's tor setup (arch in this case) should default to not being an exit node, relevant default lines in the torrc: ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6667,reject *:* # allow irc ports but no more ExitPolicy accept *:119 # accept nntp
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye(cacm.acm.org)
3 points by untrothy 12y ago|1 comments
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by untrothy 12y ago
This probably isn't to difficult to implement, hell I could even try to write something like that right now and put it on github. (I would have simply sent you an email but you don't have one in your profile) EDIT: You will need p
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by untrothy 12y ago
I hear this a lot every time arch is mentioned. So I decided to actually write down every time my arch install stopped working. I only managed to continue doing so for a couple of months and it's only representative of my pc so take it
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by untrothy 12y ago
Coursera has a nice course on Machine Learning[0] and the 4th and 5th week deal with Neural Networks specifically if anyone wants to learn more and get his hands dirty with octave/matlab code. [0] https://www.coursera.org&#x
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Xwayland(blog.mecheye.net)
57 points by untrothy 12y ago|15 comments
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by untrothy 13y ago
Seems like people with the appropriate qualifications have their doubts about this machine. [0] [1] [0] http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/05/tommaso-dorigo-impressed-b... [1] http://scienceblogs.com/s
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by untrothy 13y ago
While i agree that xmonad is a bit of a pain to configure the first time around (especially if you're not used to writing code in haskell) I find that you can use the mouse pretty extensively with xmonad. For example with this in my xm
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by untrothy 13y ago
Autojump : https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump "autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories m
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by untrothy 13y ago
I suspect galaxy distances are not very precise to begin with. For example, the distance to the nearest galaxy: "The team refined the uncertainty in the distance to the LMC down to 2.2 percent." [1] This kind of precision could be
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by untrothy 13y ago
I'm not an expert so take what I say with a grain of salt, but for example 1 meter is defined to be: "Length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second (17th CGPM)" [1] So if you manage to measure
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by untrothy 13y ago
Shame he didn't include xmonad, on my pc it takes about 7/8 MB, but I guess you also have to consider another 4/5 MB for xmobar.