555 karma · joined May 3, 2010
Not sure which of these you meant, but here's links for those who haven't read them:
The one blog post that got removed when match-dot-com (InterActiveCorp) bought OKC in 2011-Feb:
https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldneverpa...
The other OKC data analysis posts (archive link to 2011-Jan):
https://web.archive.org/web/20110126012317/http://blog.okcup...
The .PDF basics vid was the first in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6KgFezu8tw
Is your blog intentionally blocked from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
https://livinglifefearless.co/2020/features/queensryches-emp...
Might as well be a Telegram/Discord channel, or a Futaba Channel site. At least vBulletin could be archived.
Looks like there's a page on https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Bluesky for it though.
Fun side effects: Apps on your phone which, when you're on wi-fi, can connect to other apps on the same wi-fi, can't.
Terrible performance getting to streaming services, when apps running on the device itself talk to them fine.
MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant
Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2024/1275
author: Philippe Teuwen
> CockroachDB will remain source available under a new license. While the new license is a proprietary enterprise license, the source code will still be available for viewing and contributions.
The word you're looking for is "yes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Early_hist...
https://ia601407.us.archive.org/9/items/pgpguide.-lst/PGPGUI... (35pp, .txt) https://web.archive.org/web/20201205180542/https://www.tech-... (same, .pdf)
A: "Yes, there are a bunch of easter eggs in Mozilla; so? By and large they're pretty small, but that doesn't really matter, because they serve a very important purpose: first, they're entertaining to find (I love it when I stumble across them in other programs, and judging by the amount of mail I get about these things, so do a lot of other people.) Programs should be fun to use. But by far their most important reason for existing is that they are fun to write. Hackers get a kick out of puzzles, and you know what? If dropping in an easter egg allows a hacker to blow off some steam and consequently stick around the office for a few hours longer, and put in a 20 hour day instead of merely a 16 hour day, then those are resources well spent. The hacker's happy at having been creative; somewhere down the road, some users will be amused by it; and the program ships faster, and is a better program because the people who wrote it cared about it. Everybody wins.
Yes, such toys are "unprofessional." I wear my unprofessionalism as a badge of honor. Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. If that's what you need, you've got options...
Sure, Mozilla could be leaner, and still do all the things it does today; and that's a noble goal (and, need it even be said, one that you can finally help out with if that is your concern!) But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla. It was not interesting to spent years designing and a decade implementing. The goal was to ship useful software, and to ship it quickly. Along the way we happened to come up with what is probably the most portable piece of software of its size that has ever existed, and what is reportedly also the second most widely used piece of software in the world (after Windows itself.)
I think that's not too shabby an accomplishment, and if part of the price was a bit of bloat, oh well. Nothing comes for free."
https://web.archive.org/web/20110901064746/https://wikileaks...
(2004) https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_problem_with_john_ti...
(2011) https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/what-the-new-york-t...
Lucky Is He Who Can Accept His Broken Sword From Fate The Conqueror, With A Manly And A Humble Heart. —William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis https://www.online-literature.com/thackeray/history-of-pende...
Trust in God, but keep your powder dry. —William Blacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_in_God_and_keep_your_pow...
And I if I be lifted up from the Earth, will draw all men unto me. —John 12:32
No great man ever minds stooping. —John Ruskin, The Two Paths https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7291/7291-h/7291-h.htm#:~:te...
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. —Proverbs 22:1
Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty —Leonard H. Courtney https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Courtney
Let your light so shine that men may see your good works. —Matthew 5:14
The Sun Shines Alike On Beggars & Kings —Sundial engraving, allegedly from "Inter Caesarem et Galbam Sol Ministrat Umbram" https://archive.org/details/bookofoldsundial00unse/page/45/m...
Hitch your Wagon to a Star —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Civilization https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hitch_one%27s_wagon_to_a_star
Fellow-Citizens: God reigns, and the government at washington still lives. —James Garfield, after Lincoln's assassination (alleged) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Disputed
Experience is the mother of science. —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes#:~:text=Ex...
LET US STRIKE THE iron while it is hot. —Chaucer, Canterbury Tales https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/6236476310
It would be nice to see ELi5 explanations for items like this akin to Monty's 'A Digital Media Primer for Geeks' ( https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/#:~:text=Xiph )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic#PlayStation_2
https://www.theregister.com/2000/11/07/sony_adds_basic_to_pl...