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by wtbob 10y ago
'Not worse than JavaScript' is a low bar to clear. JavaScript has exactly two advantages: it is deployed everywhere, and it is dynamic. The latter means that with sufficient pain one can accomplish whatever one needs to. It&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
It's really not hard. Generate passwords with 'pwgen -s 22' and store them in a gpg-encrypted file. emacs will prompt for your password when you open & when you save the file (there's probably vim code to do the sa
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ASCII art diagrams(johndcook.com)
1 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Is the stuff sold as drain cleaner not suitable for making soap? The 100% lye stuff is, but as the former poster indicated it isn't really the most effective drain cleaner — and there have been moves to make it illegal, because of
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ah, but the touch screens enabled an executive committee to feel important, so they fulfilled their function.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Perhaps those products are marketed primarily to meth labs. As drain cleaners, neither pure sulfuric acid nor pure sodium hydroxide is a good choice. Pure sodium hydroxide is also used in soap-making, which is both fun and legal. I re
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's so blatantly sexist and wrong it's almost funny again. Have you considered that it's blatantly sexist and right ? I.e., that perhaps no-one programmed the ad network to associate sewing kits with handbags, makeup
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by wtbob 10y ago
As a shareholder I would find that kind of behaviour to have been the exact opposite of the kind of duty my mangers owe me. I'm surprised it's legal.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Say an account gets hijacked, I want to invalidate all the sessions. How do I do it? I have no list of all the sessions that are currently out there for them. The revocation list could include entries of the form (revoke-all-tokens-bef
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Austin's goal in the law was to put controls and regulation on this industry. I'm pretty sure Austin's goal was to protect the taxi magnates by putting their competition out of business. > However, it seems that what
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by wtbob 10y ago
It is not a 'war on science' to oppose killing embryos for their cells any more than it is a war on science to oppose killing prisoners for their organs. Science can only answer the question of what will happen if one does one th
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by wtbob 10y ago
I wonder how many more lives would have been ended had federal dollars funded research using embryonic stem cells.
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by wtbob 10y ago
vt(1) [1] is a terminal emulator installed on Plan 9 which can emulate a vt100 for any program which needs it. So you have something which can give you curses if you want it. [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2ht
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by wtbob 10y ago
There's an emulator, IIRC.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Specifically, the odds of abiogenesis are ~1/2^n, where n is the complexity in bits of the smallest self-replicator. n is bounded below by ~100 or so (or it would have happened in a lab somewhere), and is bounded above by ~1 milli
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first. And … nothing is provided to indicate that said probability is higher than
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Possibility of crowdfunding McCLIM?(permalink.gmane.org)
1 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> And at a stroke the entire history of Sun, Solaris and Sun OS is brushed under the carpet as though it never existed. I don't think Sun is responsible for Apple's choice of a Unix. I was around in the late 90s, and Linux rea
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by wtbob 10y ago
> To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS. > It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today. I think the client exists: it's a web b
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Some idiot in my neighborhood tried raising chickens, and they got loose. Sounds like some philanthropist has kindly provided you with all the chicken you can eat — if you catch it.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> This whole project seems to be being treated as far more important than it really is. That's an excellent point. It does seem to have been a component of the overall exaggeration of the cost of nuclear power.
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> The point is to hide the waste. The problem is that this was during the Cold War, and the site needed to operate on an ongoing basis, not just be used once and then hidden. They had to prepare for the possibility of a Soviet nuclear a
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by wtbob 10y ago
Germans are the single largest ethnic group in the U.S., even larger than descendants of the original English founders.
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The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card(pub.gajendra.net)
123 points by wtbob 10y ago|145 comments
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Really neat idea. I'm sad that the site requires JavaScript, but I don't know how this would work otherwise.
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Facebook deletes conservative posts(nationalreview.com)
2 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> dbus is xml-based. No, it's not: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html > "XML" isn't inherently bad. Yes, it is (well, as a data format; as a markup language it's ugl
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by wtbob 10y ago
Something I notice is that the country as a whole is becoming a whole lot more like those states no-one wants to live in (e.g. New York, New Jersey, California & Illinois) and a whole lot less like those states people want to be in (e.g
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by wtbob 10y ago
Update: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/teamviewer-says-ther... IMHO this underscores the necessity of never using a memorable password on a remote service.
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TeamViewer users are being cracked in bulk, and we still don’t know how(arstechnica.com)
3 points by wtbob 10y ago|2 comments

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