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"Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. Lots of popular music mapped to a lounge act. Instant classic." [
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"I don't have much advice. Only an anecdote.
It's not inevitable that they'll have sex. I've been the boy with a very cute flatmate and a girlfriend. The flatmate was occasionally flirty to me but nothing ever came of it, in the year we shared..." [
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"Speaking of utterly lame injection protections.
That should be Oh, ampersand, pound, 1 4 5, semicolon Cee oh en en..." [
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"If you're willing to blow away your machine, then I humbly suggest spending 20 cents on a burnable CD and a full day trying Ubuntu. You may just may salvage your machine, save $1500 not buying a Mac, and never have a virus again, all in one go --..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dancestoblue
2 months ago
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"Eh, a caveat: Those who worship the idol of virginity may have different premises than I have. Grain of salt, dude.
The metaphysics of virginity are tenuous or imaginary. If there are absolutely no consequences of an event, then there's no..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by mynameismandab, Adelwolf, tmcw, fvox13
2 months ago
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"Basically, how can I have people generate the keys at my house?
What a terrible idea. Anyone who is willing to make a key in an untrusted environment is not worthy of trusting to keep their key safe in other ways. In fact, this is a good way of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nicwolff, dmd
4 months ago
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"Harbison and Steele's "C: A Reference Manual" is the best reference there is. It is not a tutorial, but when you have a question about some facet, this is The Book to pick up...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whir
4 months ago
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"*sigh* I hate to be the voice of reason in a sea of mystics.
You'll be happier if you throw away all the preconceptions about relationships that you got from watching and reading fiction and from listening to pop radio. The only place those..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by chicainthecity, Baud, lioness, sutel
5 months ago
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"I write software from home. I have two points to make. The first, you asked for, the second is more important.
Look at the clock to know whether he's at work or not. Think of certain hours as just as distant as physically being miles away...." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by kalessin, zeek321, tomboko, roombythelake, lia, ejaned8, jeanmari, carbide
5 months ago
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"How were you copying it over the network?
one$ ssh two.local "netcat -l -p 5000 |zcat > newfile" #listen on the far end and write to a file
one$ gzip -c oldfile |netcat two.local 5000 #send this (compressed) file over the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misterbrandt
6 months ago
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"- Plug them in, and look for link lights to come on.
- Then, for each interface, give it a unique address that's close to the other. (If you have IPv6 turned on, you need not assign an address.)
- When you try to reach one from the other, be sure..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by General Malaise
6 months ago
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"I think I'm somewhat similar to you.
There's no Platonic "everyone else" to compare yourself to. You're probably not like anyone else, but that's saying almost nothing, as almost no one is.
If we could plot all the factors that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
6 months ago
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"You can't be sure of anything unless you start over from scratch. She could tell the software to lie to you about whether there's anything installed.
IF you want to learn what's there, you need to get outside the stuff that may be modified; you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
6 months ago
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"Ooo! Ooo! I just registered a project to do this a month ago. It uses rsync in the back end. If you use a filesystem that supports file "links", then you get full numbered snapshots but you only use additional disc space for files that..." [
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6 months ago
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"* bandages
* fork, spoon, chopsticks
* one or two inexpensive, untagged, wrapped gifts for office birthday parties you forget
* a change of clothes" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
7 months ago
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""You can also get the same effect by importing the file into a spreadsheet app and re-exporting it as tab-separated."
+1" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
7 months ago
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"Don't ask him a Relationship Question. Do touch him casually. I he seems to like it, then when alone, grab him and snog him one good." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jkl345, MillMan
7 months ago
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"No, Computer Science isn't a science at all. It is the bastard child of Mathematics and Philosophy.
...and Engineering.
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You can "see" the ones with a {volt,gauss,micro,...}meter. That's all a one is, presence of electricity..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by doowod, rokusan
8 months ago
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"Don't encourage her, of course.
Kids of that age do that all the time. She's exploring those new emotions, and it's probably not personal at all. You're a fad. A "phase". Repeat that to yourself whenever you're annoyed or concerned,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wfrgms
9 months ago
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"You're not a jerk. They are. You're afraid of violating a social norm to someone who is violating a social norm?
How can I exploit this with you? Maybe you'd feel sorrow about being a tattle-tale if I steal your car. How rude would I have to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pinback
10 months ago
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"Submitter, stop thinking of it like it's a game. Tell the truth. Communicating truth is more important than saying (or hearing) temporarily-comforting lies...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yeahme2, oneirodynia, tristeza
10 months ago
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"You should realize that it's not your state's troopers calling you. It's a club that has some official-sounding name. It's not the government calling you. It's some private schmucks who want to use the name of their day-job to get money out of..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by LobsterMitten, BeerFilter, Boobus Tuber, dbiedny, chimaera
10 months ago
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"This isn't much of a substitute for a "real" setup, but if you want to experiment, try holding another lens backwards in front of your current lens or just reverse your lens and hold it against the body. Open up the aperture on the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
10 months ago
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"This can be a pretty big brainfsck if you really understand it, but most pipelines could span any number of machines.
The third parameter to "ssh" is a command to run there.
$ grep nomi /usr/share/dict/american-english |ssh falme..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
10 months ago
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"Most people don't know that GIGO, and interpret anything that comes out of a calculator as inviolable Truth. Math don't lie, does it?
Add: It adds a layer of politeness in discussing the price. Only cretins would say a number out loud. (What,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
10 months ago
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"You could do it in not-a-lot of Python.
import zipfile
import BaseHTTPServer
z = zipfile.ZipFile("wikipedia.zip", "r")
...
# listen for requests, for each,
page_source = z.read("path/PageName")
output...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fishfucker
10 months ago
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"I don't have a book to point you to, but I think one of her axioms is wrong: There are no conflicts of interest between rational beings who do not demand the unearned...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by amtho, albatross5000
11 months ago
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"Not what you asked for, but you might try OpenOffice if all else fails." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 4ster
11 months ago
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"Three things to try:
First two, take your house wiring and devices out of the equation.
- Unplug the phone lines of everything else in your house. While they're listening for rings, they're degrading the strength of the electricity. Ma Bell..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vitrum, damn dirty ape, the number 17
11 months ago
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"You needn't carry something new. You have a cell-phone, yes? Sign up with Jott (free), and when you have an idea, hit the speed-dial number on your phone, and speak for up to 15 seconds. A transcript and MP3 file will be emailed to you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dsaelf
11 months ago
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"There's was a little girl in the news lately who has painted things that rivaled "the masters" in terms of quality, according to experts and academics and historians in the field of art appreciation. Many people took that to mean that she..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
11 months ago
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"For software programmers or for people who need to think about security theory, Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography is the shiznit." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by finite, phrontist
11 months ago
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"States with in which you must be registered in a party to vote in its primary election: (Those are called "closed primary states")
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Illinois..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by AdamOddo, nooneyouknow
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"GregX3, you said,
It seems to me that all the XSS exploits involve loading another page/resource. So perhaps I could just detect all the top level domains e.g., .org, .com, .ca, etc and not offer to preview HTML in a browser if any of those are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
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"You'll still get spam, even if you don't give out your address. Spammers try random user-parts.
a
aa
ab
ac
ad
ae
b
ba
bb
bc...
and smarter methods, to get your name. The only way to avoid it is to use a email address that is so long..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jofus
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"Crushes are little monsters that feed on their own energy. You don't like /him/ exactly, you like your idea of him, and what you know of him, but from this distance that isn't a lot, and your optimistic imagination fills in from the edges.
I say..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jetskiaccidents
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"I was always under the impression that Bourne created that himself.
He didn't know he would lose his memory, but there are other reasons to store some information on yourself that you might not be able to remember or you might not want to be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Gungho
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"#!/bin/bash
for i in *; do
mv $i /path/to/where/you/want/your/files/$i
done
That's the same as
$ mv * /path/to/where/you/want/your/files/" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rabarberofficer
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"I like the notecard idea. Include things she'd probably like to say but are too reserved or shy to say. And, some off-the-wall things.
- Sorry, I an unable to speak today
- Thank you
- Yes
- No
- I don't know
- I refuse to say
- Please..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lioness
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"A further note about I want Sandy: You normally work with it entirely through email.
http://iwantsandy.com/guide
"To: Sandy
Subject: Remind me about my license sticker in 3 months
Go to the DMV and blah blah blah. It'll cost $50...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
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"You can learn to program something in a year, but it will take years to be a good programmer. It's like sculpting in that it is easy to get started, and takes a while to be good at it.
You don't need a degree. The education that comes with a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
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"A cheap-o hack that should work on any browser is to set the proxy server settings to be the host in question. Assuming the host doesn't proxy, then it will return "What? No!" responses for anything that isn't that very site...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davejay
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"Regex can get close, but it's not a very good state machine for most SGMLish text. If the text contains comments, ("<!-- .... -->") then all bets are off. Let's assume that's not a problem, though.
Dump it into a text file...." [
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