jbermudes

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by jbermudes 1y ago
I think you did enough due diligence by putting the random part first, but I suppose one way to stop someone from putting in a real BIP39 mnemonic would be to use a completely different set of words than those allowed in BIP39.
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by jbermudes 1y ago
Many of the things the author accuses Amazon of doing are troubling, but the logic the author used in the Chris Brown music buying example to tie it all together shows of a lack of distinction between types of cooperation with evil. When an
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by jbermudes 4y ago
This is a great point because it presents the question of the relationship between one's perspective/emotional approach to a task and whether or not an act is intrinsically "playful", or "fun", and I'd hav
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by jbermudes 4y ago
> And yet... if you don't have fun, it will never get done This was actually accounted for by the system of thought the parent comment is discussing. Since virtue is the median between two vices, there is a middle ground between foc
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by jbermudes 6y ago
The Japanese slang terms for the NES/SNES are "Famicom" and "Sufami" respectively. HAL Laboratories may not have felt that those terms would make for a good protagonist name, especially since the characters are supp
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by jbermudes 6y ago
Large websites, large skyscrapers. Still private property.
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by jbermudes 6y ago
On the contrary, that is exactly why it was created. Dog lovers forums aren't supposed to be compelled to allow cat lovers a platform to voice their opinion on the dog lover's private server. Private servers are not public forums
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by jbermudes 6y ago
I'm glad people are realizing that all this social distancing is merely a pause button on the virus. Once we press play on society, exponential growth will happen again and we will have effectively rolled back the clock until we reach
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by jbermudes 9y ago
Google Drive
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by jbermudes 9y ago
The comments in the reddit post from professionals stated that the sprinklers were not very useful for that purpose and advise against it: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5ymk35/homeowner_turn...
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by jbermudes 9y ago
One of the more frustrating aspects of some clients like Gajim is that you can be in a multiparty chat, but there's no way to tell why OMEMO isn't working. You're probably missing somebody's keys, but unless you go spelu
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by jbermudes 10y ago
You can start your own! https://repaircafe.org/en/start/
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by jbermudes 10y ago
Regarding #2, there's some circumstantial evidence that there was an attempt to hide emails either through deleting them or not turning them over: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9272#efmBA7BOJ
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by jbermudes 10y ago
That may work, but then you're in the same workflow as the more traditional IRC clients with their .txt logfiles and needing tools external to the IRC client. Ostensibly the point of moving away from the human-readable logfiles to some
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by jbermudes 10y ago
Quassel is awesome, and has a really interesting idea in wanting to store logs in an sqlite db for better searching, but ironically in the current client implementation this seems to make it harder to search for stuff. While searching for t
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by jbermudes 10y ago
> Isn't "the way computers actually work" at a fundamental level about electrical engineering, or at least about machine instructions? I agree, which is why sometimes I think perhaps a toy assembly language might be a neat
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by jbermudes 11y ago
Since the company seems to be a hardware company, I'm curious, is any of the software open source?
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by jbermudes 11y ago
btw... whatever plugin that was, it was also disabling page up/page down from working
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by jbermudes 11y ago
As someone who grew up in the 90s where GIFs became popular for their use in looping animations, I don't understand why these files became popular for this kind of use case of step-wise instructional material (or even worse, as general
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by jbermudes 11y ago
Now that vim is on github, I think it'd be cool if eventually the vim logic/model could be abstracted into a library that could then be used by any text editor to instantly provide the basic vim experience without all the edge cas
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by jbermudes 11y ago
The page seems to only say 10/100. Is there a correction somewhere else?
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by jbermudes 11y ago
The page mentions that it only responds to the first push until the order is delivered, but you're right, you could still end up with unwanted orders. "Billy, did you order 1 of everything again?"
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by jbermudes 12y ago
If I understand correctly, the DRM system consists of a special ink on the lid of the cup. Therefore, some people have figured out that you can simply cut off that piece and tape it to the detector so that it will always think you have an o
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by jbermudes 12y ago
If he says they were anonymous people who set it up, what guarantees are there that the money would actually go to him?
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by jbermudes 12y ago
Wouldn't it still be susceptible to replay attacks?
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by jbermudes 12y ago
> No, not just decline. The rails were purposefully ripped up, mostly at the behest of the tire/auto/oil lobby. This is a popular explanation of the fate of the Pacific Electric system, but like anything in history, it seems t
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by jbermudes 13y ago
Should I parse it as tossing the same coin 10 times, or choosing from the jar 10 times?
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by jbermudes 13y ago
I always wondered, would it be possible to design a custom cartridge with its own CPU/memory and only use the Atari for drawing on the screen and therefore have more complex screens? In other words, use the special hardware to calculat
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by jbermudes 14y ago
While we're on the topic of K-12 CS Education, does it strike anyone else as insane that the state with Silicon Valley does not have a proper credential process for CS? Last time I checked, there were a few ways to be authorized to teach CS
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by jbermudes 14y ago
It amazes me how easily this whole thing could have been prevented if they had just made the Amazon results show up in a separate shopping lens instead of the default lens. Then even if it's pre-installed there'd be some reasonable expectat

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