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by wiml 11y ago
I've always wanted to incorporate it into a mural or graffiti. Or car paint. There's a Gibson novel, I think, where the protagonist at some point obtains t-shirts with a pattern which is recognized by the universal DRM-enforcement
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by wiml 11y ago
I use claws on some machines (it has a different set of annoyances than Thunderbird) and it has the feature to pull senders' images from https://www.libravatar.org/ . The occasional mailing list participant gets an ima
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by wiml 11y ago
Dave Farber's long-running (over 20 years now!) mailing list is a bit like this, moderated by Dave Farber of course.
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by wiml 11y ago
"Hipsters all look alike because we have defined hipster as people having a specific look."
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by wiml 11y ago
> the MO for said agencies to compromise OSS projects is to play the long game of making numerous benign commits Are there examples of this actually happening— that is, a nominally trusted committer intentionally adding a backdoor to a w
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by wiml 11y ago
Until the last few years, anything newer than TLS1.0+SHA1 was considered crypto-wonk neckbeard territory. Sure, it was standardized, but asking a vendor to implement it would get you an eyeroll and a "sure, we'll get right on tha
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by wiml 11y ago
Interestingly, I have never seen "emaces" suggested as a plural of emacs, despite emacs-era hackers' propensity to play with plurals (and other affixes).
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by wiml 11y ago
Also along these lines is https://github.com/kuba/simp_le , which is quite a lot larger than acme-tiny, but still much closer to something I'd want to stick in a crontab.
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by wiml 11y ago
That applies to trademark cases, but I don't see why it would apply to this. It sounds like legal folklore.
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by wiml 11y ago
The hardware is essentially an ESP8266 + support. The MicroPython port to the ESP8266 isn't terribly complete, but it does exist: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82...
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by wiml 11y ago
I may be missing something, but since the error accumulation variable "c" is also of finite width, isn't this the same as simply computing your sums in double precision and then truncating? A pessimal input can still cause ca
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by wiml 11y ago
In C you can use scalbn(), which a good compiler would hopefully optimize to something equivalent to what you wrote. Java has scalb(), presumably based on the C function.
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by wiml 11y ago
cesium.js is kinda in that direction (for the specific case of visualizations on a globe).
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by wiml 11y ago
I think the analogy is pretty good. I've used the political example as a way to think about Roko's basilisk without the extropian/singularity mysticism that attaches to the original formulation. Recast, you could say: At some
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by wiml 11y ago
As Matthew Green pointed out a few years ago ( http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re... ), if you can recover your iMessages after losing your device and resetting your password, then that d
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by wiml 11y ago
Have you considered simply contributing to the service at http://www.hostip.info/ ? They seem to be doing what you describe, and have been around long enough to have reasonably good information (in my experience)— I'm
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by wiml 11y ago
OOP encourages this kind of memory layout, but I don't think it requires it. I don't think there's anything preventing, say, a JVM or a CLOS implementation from storing "hot" members/fields in compact homogeneo
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by wiml 11y ago
There're some similar thoughts in the setting of Karl Schroeder's Permanance , which you might also enjoy if you liked Blindsight .
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by wiml 11y ago
That was Usenet. How many people even remember when there was real discussion and community on Usenet?
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by wiml 11y ago
I do because I've been running it since before gmail was a credible option, and it's really not difficult or very much work to run a small mail server for a few people. I also don't like being dependent on a free service that
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by wiml 11y ago
The speaker cones are made of resublimated thiotimoline.
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by wiml 12y ago
> Duolingo, but for Cooking That's… not a terrible idea actually.
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by wiml 12y ago
Not the first Apple certificate-parsing bug that will crash any application that touches it: I found this one a few years ago: http://www.openradar.me/11043986
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by wiml 12y ago
They may expect nothing, but that shouldn't keep them from asking. Lots of crimes that are solved are solved because of a random mistake or oversight. Maybe somebody used a 1-hop route, or something, who knows. They're just doing
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by wiml 12y ago
"Anom users is a recipe for disaster", says someone known only as "marvel_boy". I've always been pretty skeptical of the "anonymity causes bad behavior, non-anonymity causes good behavior" theory, especial
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by wiml 12y ago
Interesting to read this right after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399307
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by wiml 12y ago
> only issue certificates for a short period of time, like 10 days (but renewed every 7) That's essentially the situation we're in with OCSP stapling, if you consider the certificate plus OCSP response to be the certificate. (T
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by wiml 12y ago
I always understood this saying to be referring to the difficulty of fixing bugs once known. Some bugs are really hard to understand, reason about, and figure out how to fix. Given a large number of contributors, someone is likely to have
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by wiml 12y ago
I think our time would have to be slowing different amounts w.r.t. objects at different distances from us. This would imply a Universe-wide effect on the rate of passage of time which is coincidentally centered on Earth, or at least on our
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by wiml 12y ago
I have to agree that one of the things that made Metafilter's moderation more successful was being able to moderate without alienating the users. Moderation often devolves into simply ejecting all but one "tribe" from a forum

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