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How to Store Data on Paper(monperrus.net)
3 points by spb 4y ago|1 comments
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by spb 4y ago
This looks excellent - I outlined wanting something like a cross between Lua and Bash back in 2016, and at first glance, it would seem that this project by and large fits the bill: https://github.com/stuartpb/lash
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by spb 4y ago
Recent versions of Lua use this trick as well.
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by spb 4y ago
I tried to prototype my own implementation of `vidir` in Node.JS a while back (not realizing that it existed under this name in moreutils), and I ended up getting derailed after realizing how incomplete Node.JS's support was for gettin
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by spb 9y ago
This is what the Cluetrain Manifesto was saying... in 1999. http://www.cluetrain.com/
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by spb 9y ago
That's what `vipe` is for: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
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by spb 9y ago
No. See http://www.cluetrain.com/ - paid advertising is inherently unethical on a network where genuine mass interaction is free.
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by spb 9y ago
> Other than DNA sequences I can't think of a good person key. In theory, one could use 3D geoposition at time of birth, time of birth, and sibling order (for twins / triplets / etc delivered surgically), where said order
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by spb 9y ago
> But pretty much no one thought CMOS features could be made arbitrarily small. Pretty much no one qualified , maybe. There are lots of laymen (including many True Believers in The Singularity) who operate under the impression that it&#
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by spb 9y ago
While I first wrote an article about the absurdities of information security [in 2011][1], this specific extension is an idea I've had since [June 2015][2] - due to the absurd nature of the idea, I wanted to launch it on April Fools&#x
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Show HN: NilPass, the only password manager that's truly impenetrable(nilpass.com)
13 points by spb 9y ago|4 comments
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by spb 9y ago
I spent all of yesterday making an extension for this, and now HN won't let me post it as an article: https://nilpass.com/
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by spb 10y ago
Though, of course, this still means trusting the compiler : https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by spb 10y ago
I made a similar app to this for Pebble at a hackathon in 2015: https://github.com/phoneyscape We got an offer from Madrona Ventures for it that I never ended up following up on.
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by spb 10y ago
He seems to have changed his tune now that he can't behind the "that's only an imaginary possibility" cover: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148787047422954 > Do we want to migrate to another hash? Yes.
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by spb 10y ago
Holy crap, really? I've been drawing up [profiles for the user account systems of a bunch of websites for the past few years][1], and I think I've only seen that once before (on a Washington State website, no less). [1]: https:
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by spb 10y ago
Precisely - calling it an "encoding" here is more of a tongue-in-cheek nod to how simple the steganographic rule is than an intention to imply that it be used as a straightforward representation. Also, "steganography" te
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by spb 10y ago
So, this is an idea I had a while back, inspired by how ideas like [illegal primes][] are fundamentally irrepressible as free speech, due to the intrinsically fluid nature of abstract data. It's not just useful on a free-speech axis, t
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Show HN: Alphabinary Encoding(alpha.bi)
3 points by spb 10y ago|3 comments
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C – How can I use a macro, in a macro, to transform a macro's arguments?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by spb 10y ago|0 comments
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by spb 10y ago
Last time I checked, Google's tools (like the Android SDK) require python2.
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by spb 10y ago
This is why I designed the similarly-updating glyphs in surpass ( https://stuartpb.github.io/surpass/demo.html ) to only update after a half-second delay when masked.
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by spb 10y ago
Yeah, I posted an edit within an hour after posting the original article - I hadn't read the further takes mentioning that the lookups were A records. I'd only read the comments in a Reddit thread, where people were saying they co
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by spb 10y ago
There's no reason to sealion this, but here's a recent article that talks about exactly this topic: https://aeon.co/essays/you-don-t-have-to-be-stupid-to-work-h...
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by spb 10y ago
This is a phone screen - the test they make you answer before they take the time to schedule actual interviews.
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by spb 10y ago
More than half the assertions in that article are predicated on the false premise that self-driving cars would be owned by the riders for personal use , rather than commissioned per-ride from a fleet (the way ride-"sharing" servi
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by spb 10y ago
I had the same reaction: why isn't there a "rebase now" button, with a separate "merge" button you can click after CI etc. runs?
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by spb 10y ago
Sounds like a more detailed version of Mini Metro: http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/
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by spb 10y ago
Yeah, don't take it personally. Most of what I wrote there was just pent-up generalized frustration with a lot of published material out there. I regret not sufficiently framing my post within that context. The authors I really want
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by spb 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=aljazeera.com

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