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by waltbosz 5y ago
This is a incidental comment about illegal drone flights that I thought some may find interesting. I live near Joe Biden's house. His neighborhood is off of a major road. Near the entrance to his neighborhood, there are LED road signs
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I've heard of electricians who will change a live receptical. I even found this video exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERqtFfgcyo
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Can someone explain the joke to me?
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by waltbosz 5y ago
That's a fun thought experiment: imagine you're a police officer tasked with helping a woman being anonymously threatened. I suppose for the police officer, solving the problem of "a stranger is making death threats" is
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I have found myself increasingly interested in understanding the reasons behind what motivates the people making these threats. My interests aren't really in the threats per se, but rather, the hostility towards science. Do they have p
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by waltbosz 5y ago
Agreed that the center of galaxy is the best place to put up a billboard. Ha, what if that's all it was, an advert, "Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine." Galactic trolls, ha. Is the signal's data available publicly? I wonder
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by waltbosz 5y ago
> "... the most likely explanation for this is that some people who got their hands on a treasure trove of information and code about Twitch's inner workings are now abusing the site's functionality for fun." I was wo
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I'm curious if this extended outage will do anything to curb the dopamine addition caused by facebook. For example, will FB addicts experience a day of repeated failed attempts to get their FB fix, which will then condition them to sto
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by waltbosz 5y ago
I too hearken for access to the Internet of ole. When content was real content , and love was poured into every keystroke. I spend the occasional free mental cycle pondering the reasons for the downfall of Internet quality. It's hard
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by waltbosz 6y ago
Ah ZZT, I spent so much time playing and coding ZZT games. So much fun. I still have my original ZZT 3.5" floppy disk, along with the cardboard map it came with.
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by waltbosz 6y ago
I have a theory that states "monetization ruins everything"
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by waltbosz 6y ago
I apologize for the strange formatting. I'm new to HN posts, I thought I added enough new-lines. I'll try again, since I can't edit the original post. ===== I'm shopping for a new checking account. My only requirements
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Ask HN: What Internet based checking account do you recommend?
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by waltbosz 6y ago
I forgot that the binary was named tim.exe
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by waltbosz 6y ago
Did anyone else spend hours of their childhood playing The Incredible Machine ? Anytime I read about a 2D physics simulator, I can't help but think of that game.
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by waltbosz 6y ago
What I miss most from the early days of the Internet is the content. It was all created with love. My theory is that the high barrier to entry of online publishing kept all but the most determined people from creating content. As a result,
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by waltbosz 7y ago
That sounds about right.
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by waltbosz 7y ago
I remember receiving letters in the mail to remind me it was time to renew my domain name. They were sent around the time my domain was set to expire, except they were sent from a different registrar. It was written in a way that made it ea
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by waltbosz 7y ago
I should explain ... the extent of my knowledge of data compression is pretty nil. I could tell you how run length encoding works, but that's about it. More than anything, it's a fantasy compression scheme. I was originally inspir
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Hi Pete, Some questions: 1. Is the price $5 for life? Or is that monthly fee? 2. Do you get to switch buddies if it doesn't work out? Also, I enjoyed your interview on the IH Podcast.
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by waltbosz 7y ago
For years I'm been thinking about something like this in terms of data compression: Would it be possible to have some sort of cellular automata program that generates the uncompressed data after so many generations. The compressed data
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Yes, I agree with you there. Don't overwrite my browser's shortcut keys.
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by waltbosz 7y ago
If reddit is your only use case, there is always https://old.reddit.com/ ... until they take it down. I've see web apps with infinite scroll that will capture your Ctrl+F keypress and provides their own in-page text se
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Does anyone remember Netrek ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Reminds me of a book I read to my children about the woman Temple Grandin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin ) the book described her ability to think in pictures, and how it differed from the minds of others
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Unless it's able to read it from the paper I magnet to its face, there's no why I'd ever tell my fridge my wifi password.
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by waltbosz 7y ago
Unless the fridge remembers the IDs of each filter, and won't let you reuse the same ID after 3 months (or whatever the service life is of a water filter). Maybe disabling the RFID reader hardware will make the fridge bypass the lockou
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by waltbosz 7y ago
I was really into ZZT for several years. I played and made several games. I liked MegaZeux for it's technical improvements over ZZT (sound, music, graphics), but I didn't like the programming language. It felt inconsistent and unf
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by waltbosz 7y ago
I stayed at a hostel in Montreal 7 years ago and the owners warned me about something like this. They said local thieves used scanners to tell which cars in their car park had electronics inside and were worth breaking into.
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by waltbosz 7y ago
I learned to code on GW Basic in the 1990s. My first programs were simple games like: try to guess which random number the computer picked, you'd input a guess, and the computer would respond with higher, lower, or correct (IF-THEN-ELS

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