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by schoen 3d ago
(2013)
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by schoen 3d ago
This behavior is fairly general to Unix! A cute thing on Linux is that there are also references to open files under /proc, including synthetic kernel-generated filesystem links to the files, even if they've been deleted. So if yo
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by schoen 4d ago
There are a lot of examples of this in the book The Secret of Our Success (which argues that human cultures have a lot of culturally-evolved knowledge which individuals would be very unlikely to develop in a single generation, and which o
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STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by schoen 6d ago
Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing its flight path in real time in response to an engine failure during ascent). The overall mission continued, accomplished i
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by schoen 6d ago
I see, so there is a marginal cost to the owner of the machines but not necessarily to a medium-term customer renting them.
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by schoen 6d ago
In the sense that the company paying to reserve a certain quantity of computer time isn't the owner or operator of the machines providing it, and has paid for that time by the hour, or something?
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by schoen 7d ago
I'm confused by this because I was involved in various distributed computing projects from about 1997 to about 2001 (as a person running compute notes for them) and from about 2001 to 2019 (as a person helping to administer a distribut
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by schoen 9d ago
When I worked at EFF, I read a lot of news coverage (and forum discussions) of litigation, sometimes including litigation that I was working on. It was often very hard to get people to see larger context about issues like * in the course of
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by schoen 14d ago
I assume you linked to this because a new result was apparently just found (today?!), a factorization of RSA-260.
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by schoen 15d ago
Well, it translates to "God is my Help", it's just that the angel called that is identified with the Angel of Death!
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by schoen 16d ago
I was assigned to read some of his work in high school. Among (many) other things, he wrote a fair amount of criticism of technology and computers. https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/be... I
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by schoen 17d ago
Absolutely! Unfortunately for me, I probably wondered about this 35 years ago and learned the answer 15 years ago. Otherwise, I could be one of today's lucky 10,000 in the xkcd 1053 sense.
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by schoen 17d ago
I remember using WordPerfect in that era and never understanding what that feature was. It seemed implausible to me that it was actually protecting human widows and orphans, but I couldn't imagine what it had to do with text layout!
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by schoen 18d ago
I wish I hadn't hurt my knee playing Stepmania. I was in the best aerobic condition of my life while I was playing!
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by schoen 19d ago
This claim was new to me recently, but I've seen it's become widespread. From other HN threads, it sounds like it's based on what Judge Alsup wrote in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which Anthropic's destroying scanned
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by schoen 19d ago
Cases apply only to nouns; the present and past perfect are called tenses.
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by schoen 19d ago
I was part of an event called "Windows Refund Day" in 1999 (I think) to draw attention to this issue. We had a march to a Microsoft office to ask for refunds (unsuccessfully). It was fun, but it's 27 years later and it's
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by schoen 20d ago
We lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,... . I'm not sure if this doctr
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by schoen 21d ago
Is there a legal basis for the president unilaterally telling private companies what kind of equipment they can use? (Maybe there is, as part of existing formal energy industry regulations, and I'm just not aware of it.)
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by schoen 21d ago
Cliff, I'm not sure if you're still reading and responding to this thread, but I'm just wondering if you heard back about how the pope enjoyed the Klein bottle that you sent him via Guy Consolmagno!
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by schoen 21d ago
I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 Spoiler: gur jbe
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by schoen 27d ago
It's not necessarily doctrinally that crazy in copyright law. Some courts have considered AI training on copyrighted works a "transformative" use (traditionally more protected in fair use analysis), while providing human bein
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by schoen 27d ago
That speech is expressing an awesome idea: Juliet is saying that she loves Romeo-the-person, but she is terrified of her bad luck in that he happens to have a certain surname ("Montague") which will automatically cause her family
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by schoen 29d ago
GNOME used to give software applications names of common nouns that were usually not strongly related to their function: Nautilus, Palimpsest, Totem, Tomboy, Seahorse. At some point I think they decided to move away from this because they f
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by schoen 1mo ago
Can you find a citation for this? I have heard this claimed rule recently from other people, and I haven't seen this decision (nor do I know what level of court or jurisdiction it might be). This is not a rule that I heard many years a
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by schoen 1mo ago
You can prove that you possess a digital signature from some authority over a statement that says that you are 18 or that you have $1,000,000. However, you don't have to reveal that actual statement or signature. Typically, that would
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by schoen 1mo ago
There's a big asymmetry where creating a proof is usually dramatically more expensive than verifying it (which is often extremely cheap!). That might be OK for some applications but still rule out other applications.
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by schoen 1mo ago
(2013)
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by schoen 1mo ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_from_the_Sky (a 1988 art project based on intentionally making up ghost characters by hand and printing a whole book with nonexistent but aesthetically plausible Chinese ch

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