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by waltbosz 5y ago
I've had success looking up the book recommendation lists of people who I think are intelligent. For example, Bill Gates publishes a list of recommended reading. I know that Bill Gates isn't the sort of person who would waste his
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I'm on an Asimov binge right now. Just finished Foundation and Earth . So I jumped to the scifi section of the list and saw Ready Player One on there. I found that book mildly entertaining, but not a work of great literature, and ce
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by waltbosz 5y ago
It's not that simple. The video files are chopped up into pieces for streaming, so what you would download (assuming wget would handle the stream) are thousands of tiny files. You could reassemble them with ffmpeg, but first you'd
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Exodus time? Or rather time for the predictions of exodus?
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by waltbosz 5y ago
This is true to an extent, but I find that reddit culture seeps its way into all subs. There is a overreaching lack of seriousness. It's my observation that the average redditor is more interested in gaining upvotes via silly class-clo
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I disagree. Half the population will always have above average intelligence.
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I've always had insomnia, and I often observe myself entering the N1 state of sleep. Like you, it makes me happy because it's how I know I'll soon be asleep. immediately.
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Do you have a recording of the song online? You story reminds me of a video by Jack Conte and his wife about their experience with lucid dreaming. They talk about how he wrote a song while dreaming. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I also noticed super deep div structure, and weird random class names. I assume it's to prevent automation and scraping. They're really hard to run querySelector against.
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by waltbosz 5y ago
How about an extension that disables video elements until you click on them ... Like how Internet Explorer treated Java applets towards the end on their days. You could add a whitelist feature to the extension for YouTube et al. Sure, it wo
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I describe coding as similar to game of chess, in that it requires you to think several moves in advanced. Both involve filling up your mental stack.
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I'm working on a userscript right now that colorizes the UI for added visibility around usernames and thread indents. It also adds some extra navigation tools. I'll be sure to submit a pull request to this repo once it's read
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by waltbosz 5y ago
This reminds me of the time that I obtained my original cleartext password for my old tripod.com account by simply emailing their tech support from an email account not associated with the tripod account. The email address from which I cont
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by waltbosz 5y ago
> Initiatives like in the OP give me hope that at least some generous people would take a look and say "hey, that makes it easier for me to donate / fund efforts"... but I am not holding my breath. Our current society does
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Totally off-topic observation: I find it curious that OP changed headline from "8000" to "8k". My scanning eyes converted 8k into a measurement of money/data, instead of one of time.
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> ... stranded energy, which would otherwise be unused. Flared gas in Texas, for instance, could provide more power than the network currently uses. I do like the idea of using energy that would have otherwise gone to waste. Or the conce
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> See if you can spot the spyware Looks like it starts at line 1122. The obfuscation is interesting. But XMLHttpRequest and atob are dead give-aways. defaultLength.tipPublicKey is suspicious. It decodes to this: "iDays: $1|<3ri d
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Do they love Star Trek, or are they just skilled at poking fun at the silly previously unacknowledged parts of the Star Trek universe? For example, the holodeck cum filters joke. I like the show so-so, but I feel like the non-humorous writi
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Does anyone maintain a list like this one for vulnerabilities in open source router firmware ?
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Max password lengths make no sense to me. > just long well randomized passwords, or more aptly, passphrases. Interesting idea. I could imagine a new password prompt with an algorithm to reject passwords that were not random enough. How i
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I want to build a community with the breadth of topics of Reddit, the communication skills of HN, and the non-nonsense rules of StackOverflow: some levity would be ok, but the goal is serious conversation, not karma. I hate how reddit'
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I read that at the start of COVID when sports teams were still playing games in empty stadiums, there were no screaming audiences, and the players reported better focus on the game. I wonder if the deaf team has an advantage in that regard.
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I didn't really imagine any sort of incentive to join the pact. The motivation to join would be something akin to a protest against facebook's product. The goal would be to make it more difficult for facebook's product to exi
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One of the recent thought experiments I've been pondering: "What if there was a blacklist that you would join by taking/continuing employment at facebook?" The idea being that companies would agree to a pact in which the
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by waltbosz 5y ago
For me, the priority is not open source, but rather the growth of my own creative invention. What I want is to get paid to grow my own vision, not that of someone else. For me, creating software is an expression of Creativity. I to be able
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That's the thing I don't get about open source. Where do these maintainers find the time to volunteer ? I wouldn't wish super success for my project if all that means is more unpaid work. sure, there are growing platforms tha
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I first learned of Grace Hopper from a children's book I read to my kids. Recently, I've been wondering what kinds of Hopperesque ease-of-coding advancements are still left to be invented. For example, are there advancements to ma
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I wrote the original Windows client, created quite a file sharing revolution back in the day. Ahh Winamp, good ole days before AOL ruined it.
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Anyone remember ezpics?
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I'm a bit disappointed the tool wasn't for Doom WADs.

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