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by dfboyd 16d ago
The post* READS like a MARVEL COMIC BOOK. --- * last ish.
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by dfboyd 6mo ago
The way the article uses RSA is no better than a simple substitution cipher. Both the "l"s in "hello" are enciphered to 2575. It's a newspaper cryptogram. You're supposed to concatenate all the input numbers,
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by dfboyd 10mo ago
Isn't the first code sample pasted in there twice?
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by dfboyd 11mo ago
tinnitus
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by dfboyd 1y ago
We all only speak two languages: English and bad English
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by dfboyd 1y ago
The iOS app is long-unmaintained and has bugs. It needs a new maintainer, but they need some kind of Apple developer account to actually get it in the app store.
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by dfboyd 1y ago
I'm the original author of this content. I wrote it on the internal wiki at Google in 2007. Someone copied it and posted it at nohello.(something) after I left Google. It's made the front page of HN multiple times. The discussions
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by dfboyd 1y ago
"[verbs] get forked and hooked until you go insane trying to track it all" J comes with a Qt IDE, which has a function "dissect" that displays a graphical parse tree of an expression. load 'debug/dissect'
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by dfboyd 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180477 -- HN discussion of "Seeing like a Bank"
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by dfboyd 1y ago
This story is entirely based on the idea that "computer programmer" is different from "software developer", which the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers different occupations. It's as though "lawyer" an
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by dfboyd 2y ago
https://dfboyd.github.io/hw/index.html A clickable version of the original heatmap
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by dfboyd 2y ago
https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html still as relevant as the day it was written
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by dfboyd 2y ago
I think this article was written by AI. It claims Amy was a WWII character, when she was actually a modern one. Also it has the usual preamble paragraphs that read like a sixth-grader's term paper.
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by dfboyd 2y ago
These could be Battlefield 2042 screenshots of the "Discarded" map
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by dfboyd 2y ago
5 points by dfboyd on March 11, 2022 | parent | context | next [–] | on: Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) 46 points by dfboyd on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) I
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by dfboyd 5y ago
46 points by dfboyd on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) I am the original author of the document this document was based on. It was an internal Wiki page at Google writt
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by dfboyd 5y ago
In the early days of word processing (runoff, troff, IBM script etc.) when people used line-oriented editors like ed, it was considered good practice to split each sentence across lines at the boundaries of clauses and phrases, for ease of
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by dfboyd 5y ago
What really matters is how much carbon you can capture per unit electricity used. Presumably you're going to run the carbon-capture plant on renewable electricity. If it can't capture more carbon per watt-hour than your dirtiest
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by dfboyd 5y ago
Where did this crazy list come from? Has the guy never looked at an actual telephone? The following mapping from letters to digits is given: E | J N Q | R W X | D S Y | F T | A M | C I V | B K U | L O P | G H Z e | j n q | r w x |
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by dfboyd 5y ago
What I really like is that a lot of the time it's obvious the number isn't prime, because it's either even, or ends in a 5!
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by dfboyd 5y ago
Die Ball ist rund. Der Spiel dauert 90 Minuten. So ist alles klar. Alles anderes ist Theorie. -- Sepp Herberger
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by dfboyd 6y ago
If it had been authorized, presumably they'd have kept my name on it, no?
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by dfboyd 6y ago
I am the original author of the document this document was based on. It was an internal Wiki page at Google written when I was an SRE. After I wrote the original page, someone put up an internal shortlink at "go/nohello".
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by dfboyd 6y ago
Is this project's name a pun on "gnusto"? That's the spell in the Infocom game "Enchanter", which copies a spell into your spellbook.
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by dfboyd 6y ago
Perpetual motion machine.
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by dfboyd 6y ago
Just the plain .ms macros. Plus "pic", I like that a lot.
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by dfboyd 6y ago
I use troff (groff) under Linux. The really freaky thing is that you already have groff on your Mac -- it's installed by default.
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by dfboyd 6y ago
The post has annoying little errors that make it harder to read. The figure says BA286, and the text says "BA287 means British Airways flight 287". So does that mean you always add 1 to the flight number shown on the screen, to
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by dfboyd 6y ago
Crappy copy-editing. Sentence 1: "and" should be "on", sentence 3: "air" should be "are", and more like that throughout the article. I think it was voice-to-text and never corrected.
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by dfboyd 6y ago
I think this is just an IBM PR piece. It ticks all the boxes: quotes from IBM customers, quotes from IBM staff, mentions the "Master the Mainframe" contest. You can tell because when it says "mainframe" it doesn't

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