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The way the article uses RSA is no better than a simple substitution cipher. Both the "l"s in "hello" are enciphered to 2575. It's a newspaper cryptogram. You're supposed to concat…

Isn't the first code sample pasted in there twice?

tinnitus

We all only speak two languages: English and bad English

The iOS app is long-unmaintained and has bugs. It needs a new maintainer, but they need some kind of Apple developer account to actually get it in the app store.

I'm the original author of this content. I wrote it on the internal wiki at Google in 2007. Someone copied it and posted it at nohello.(something) after I left Google. It's made th…

"[verbs] get forked and hooked until you go insane trying to track it all" J comes with a Qt IDE, which has a function "dissect" that displays a graphical parse tree of an expressi…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180477 -- HN discussion of "Seeing like a Bank"

This story is entirely based on the idea that "computer programmer" is different from "software developer", which the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers different occupations. It…

https://dfboyd.github.io/hw/index.html A clickable version of the original heatmap

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html still as relevant as the day it was written

I think this article was written by AI. It claims Amy was a WWII character, when she was actually a modern one. Also it has the usual preamble paragraphs that read like a sixth-gra…

These could be Battlefield 2042 screenshots of the "Discarded" map

5 points by dfboyd on March 11, 2022 | parent | context | next [–] | on: Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) 46 points by dfboyd on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | prev | next [–] …

46 points by dfboyd on Jan 23, 2021 | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) I am the original author of the document this document was…

In the early days of word processing (runoff, troff, IBM script etc.) when people used line-oriented editors like ed, it was considered good practice to split each sentence across …

What really matters is how much carbon you can capture per unit electricity used. Presumably you're going to run the carbon-capture plant on renewable electricity. If it can't capt…

Where did this crazy list come from? Has the guy never looked at an actual telephone? The following mapping from letters to digits is given: E | J N Q | R W X | D S Y | F T | A M |…

What I really like is that a lot of the time it's obvious the number isn't prime, because it's either even, or ends in a 5!

Die Ball ist rund. Der Spiel dauert 90 Minuten. So ist alles klar. Alles anderes ist Theorie. -- Sepp Herberger

If it had been authorized, presumably they'd have kept my name on it, no?

I am the original author of the document this document was based on. It was an internal Wiki page at Google written when I was an SRE. After I wrote the original page, someone put …

Is this project's name a pun on "gnusto"? That's the spell in the Infocom game "Enchanter", which copies a spell into your spellbook.