tuxidomasx

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by tuxidomasx 7y ago
I'd like to make a case for modern hair pieces / hair prosthesis (colloquially known in the black community as man-weaves), which have seen huge improvements in function and aesthetics over the past couple of decades. Combined wit
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
This reminded me of a steganography blog post I wrote back when I was doing computer security. It should be possible to binarily concatenate compressed (RAR'd or ZIP'd) text data directly to a JPG. Then you can save it as an image
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
Southern Virginia here. Stinkbugs are EVERYWHERE right now (and have been for the past few years around the end of the summer and into fall). As I read the headline for this post I saw one slowly meandering up my wall. I also began to think
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
Well, that escalated (and got resolved) quickly.
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
Personally, the 'free tiers' offered by the big PAAS and cloud providers are good enough for small projects and MVPs-- can't beat free. If and when extra resources are needed, it's usually easier to just start paying at
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
I often hear or read about how there is a developer/software engineer shortage. And the rising salaries seem to reflect that-- supply and demand and all that... Yet it seems that there are hundreds of applicants vying for each position
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
I made it 3/4 of the way through the video, then clicked around the website in frustration looking for the download button.
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
The fact that China's government moves so decisively in areas of technological advancement may have to do with the fact that many of their government officials have degrees in engineering, science, math, etc. With so many of the Chines
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
Bonus points for landing government contracts if you can fit into one of the underrepresented/minority/disadvantaged group or small business categories. There's basically a quota that some percentage of contracts must be awar
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by tuxidomasx 8y ago
Amazon Web Services free tier, elastic beanstalk running node.js, S3 for static files and stuff or basic web page hosting or Google Cloud free tier, Google App Engine running node.js, google cloud storage for static files and stuff or basic
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
There are also vision exercises on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualExercises It is totally possible to improve your ability to focus visually using these. Just doing them on occasion, or once a day for a fe
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
"Although some of these problems may not result in symptoms under less visually demanding conditions, the high demands of computer work cause them to become manifest. " THIS. After about 7 years of staring at a screen all day at w
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
The altcoin crowd insists that people with a lot of bitcoins can and do "diversify" their cryptocurrency holdings by exchanging them for altcoins, thus making bitcoin somewhat of a "reserve" cryptocurrency. This would al
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
The new Black Mirror season had an episode about this very concept called Arkangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror) This episode explores some of the risks that monitoring and censoring children ca
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
No. My dad still calls them "bitcorns." He heard about them on NPR. It's anecdotal, but cryptocurrencies practically don't exist in my non tech-related social circles.
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
Very cool study on the loss of magic. There has always been anecdotal advice floating around about how to regain the 'magic', but it's good to have some empirical evidence on what actually works. One of the odd factors that I
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
As a counterexample, I regularly lose cash money... Sometimes money literally falls out my pocket when I fumble out a wad of cash while i'm inebriated. Other times I carelessly leave my wallet somewhere stupid and the money "walks
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
Research into the neurotoxicity would be very extremely beneficial. The usual advice goes: "You need to protect your serotonin receptors from damage. Antioxidants like Alpha Lipoic Acid are great for this, but in a pinch, a dose of Vit
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
Yup, there can be many mixed results from powder/crystal MDMA sold as "molly" that I can see why people go for pill presses much more since they are a bit more standardized in terms of reviews and experiences (e.g. pillreport
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
To be honest, the idea of universal income appeals to me because it sounds like free money. So one could simply decide not to work at all and use that UBI money for housing, food, and habits and everybody would be fine with that. I can see
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
The purpose of an MVP isn't to create a final product or even a polished user experience. The 'M' in MVP stands for "minimum" which could apply to features, UI, UX, and even developer effort. The goal of an MVP is t
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
I've found Cordova/PhoneGap extremely useful for developing mobile app MVPs. Using it on my most recent project has saved a lot of development time (which my client appreciates), while allowing us to iterate and add new features v
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
When I interviewed with Toptal, once I made it through the preliminary screenings, the final test was to build a simple web application over the course of 2-3 days in a language of my choice, and commit the code to their git repository, and
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
How will the police patrol roads when all these cars are self-driving? Police forces will either need less patrol officers or they'll need to re-assign them somewhere other than roads. Or maybe surveillance inside vehicles to prevent a
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
I've always been kind of bummed out that Hyper-V is disabled on the OS layer for basic Windows versions, even if the hardware supports it.
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
Co-sign on Google Music. I've started adding all new music I find this way, from albums (one-click torrent download), to singles (youtube/soundcloud-to-mp3 sites). The Google Music Manager can be set to monitor your download direc
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by tuxidomasx 9y ago
This is only marginally related, but I have a story about how I "hacked" Ebay way back in 200x. At the time they provided a free VIN report whenever you listed a vehicle for sale. VIN reports provide details of the history of your
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by tuxidomasx 10y ago
Nootropic supplements should be mentioned here as a way to boost brain performance in general, which could assist in learning new things both for children and adults. The scientific consensus on the effects of nootropics is kinda all over t
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by tuxidomasx 10y ago
I was also banned from AdSense a few years ago. They kept $30k that I had earned and I got no response. Still banned to this day.
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by tuxidomasx 10y ago
It seems to me that the hardest part about fasting is tolerating the cravings for food. Do people who fast resort to cheating the hunger urge (prescription pills, foods with no nutritional content, etc)? I know there is a well known and hig

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