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To avoid spoiling a 30 year old movie: ROT13 `Gur Hfhny Fhfcrpgf`

> his employees (also non-US and under no affirmative obligation to learn the laws of every country in the world just because they run a website) Employees of financial businesses …

The "surprise" is not that the agent can respond with private repository details, it's that it can receive and act upon prompts issued by someone other than the person running the …

I think OP is commenting more so on the reversal of the developer’s relationship with rules of syntax than their personal capabilities.

What on earth are you talking about Saul Kripke and modal logic being some kind of cultural studies tool for “unmooring people from the authority of math”? And your lumping of Wagn…

I was curious as well and found this video explanation[1]. The idea is that tapping on the back of the controller pushes it up into the player’s thumb which is resting on the D-pad…

I think we might be due for an update to Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment: "Every program attempts to expand until it can process _payments_. Those programs which cannot so e…

You might enjoy "Chess960" (or Fischer Random Chess): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess The order of the back-rank pieces is randomized (but identical for both pla…

Change that `except Exception:` to just a bare `except:` to catch KeyboardInterrupts as well and prevent Ctrl+C from killing any of them while it expands.

This reminds me of a passage in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter discussing the Golden Record[1]. """ [C]onsider a meteorite which, instead of deciphering the outer-spac…

Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map. An …

Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map.

Could somebody clear up my confusion with these two statements that appear contradictory? "Do four colors suffice to color any map? — took more than a century to answer (the answer…

“[A] lot of these jobs he talks about are what I call "zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.…

You can create “Routines” on the Echo (like IFTTT procedures). You could easily create one for “Alexa turn on all lights” that triggers all of your smart home lights regardless of …

If you're not asked anything after checking the box then your browser's fingerprint has already been determined to be a real human by enough partner sites using the Captcha. Try op…

Justin Guitar[1] is a great place to start! 1: https://www.justinguitar.com/

> Those guys were writers, not philosophers in the first place. It's interesting that you begin with a comment like this to seemingly dismiss Satre and Camus as not being real phil…

Bruce Schneier's security blog implements something like this, providing an on/off switch for each social network's "Like", "+1", etc. https://www.schneier.com/

Chrome's XSS filter can still be circumvented in quite a few instances. The easiest way I've seen is when the attacker controls at least two variables and can split the XSS across …

I don't know for sure about ZSH and can't test it at the moment, but Bash has -- for this purpose. It may work in ZSH as well.

I haven't seen this yet, but for anyone that's interested: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Social Network, Gone Girl, Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo, and more) provide t…