burgeralarm

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by burgeralarm 5y ago
I can 100% recommend this. Using O'Reilly like a library instead of a bookstore makes me a better developer no question.
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by burgeralarm 11y ago
According to the engineer who tested the cable: "Most devices with a well-specified connector will not have any reverse bias protection in them because both it shouldn't be needed and for the technical reasons of power loss and sp
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
Fortunately, probabilities for birth control methods aren't presented in this way. Generally, when an organization like Planned Parenthood says that the symptothermal method is 99.6% effective, what they really mean is: "Of 100 co
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
Hooray for trivializing _actual_ issues in tech. Oh, and a rape joke thrown in for good measure. Jesus.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
I don't think that's what happened. The article talks about a security audit using a fake FedEx box after the fact, but it sounds like this guy just got a hold of some keys or passcodes.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
They're preying on our desire for instant gratification, no doubt.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
This reminds me of a small project I tossed together: http://git-fortune.bclune.org It grabs a random commit message from a github repo and displays it. By default, it pulls from a repo containing the original debian fortunes as
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
I agree, the presentation is fantastic! Well done.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
The testing methodology is quite flawed (at least for the reading speed test on the site). It asks you to read a passage with BeeReader to start out. When you're done, you're presented with questions about the passage before readi
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
Odd, must have been some caching thing. Changing the language caused it to show up.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
The acknowledgement appears to be gone now, unless I'm missing something.
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
Similar to the mysql-semicolon cluster: http://jvns.ca/projects/unix-command-survey/graph.html?cente...
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
When using ln to link files, I tend to recite: ln -s "what you want," "where you want it"
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by burgeralarm 13y ago
This is pretty cool. Simple but extremely useful. I've written a quick and dirty port to Python, for anyone who'd like to take a look: https://github.com/bclune/rubber_bullets
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by burgeralarm 14y ago
For a 12-character password, a computer with 2 decent GPUs (16000M hash/sec for MD5) can crack the numeric password in just over a minute. Once that's known, the real password can be recovered in around 25ms.
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by burgeralarm 14y ago
This is way cool, though I can't help but think that the results might differ from actual A/B testing because the testing context is explicit. Have you done comparisons to backend A/B testing to see how well the two align? It would seem tha
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China's nine-day traffic jam(google.com)
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