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I remember using PHLAK (Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit) that I'm pretty sure was based on Knoppix. I don't know if PHLAK actually had any pedigree heading into Kali, but Ka…

Oh my. I had a GBA that me and my dad modded to be backlit. Boktai was so good on that system. I didn't think about how lucky I was that I could play the game pretty easily.

Into the Breach. It's an excellent tactics game where each mission only has about five turns, and every move matters.

Microsoft to buy a communications platform? I guess today's Microsoft isn't the same one that bought Skype but this comedy video of the "Skype CEO" is terribly relevant. https://ww…

Absolutely agree. What's your preferred terminology? I like "Forward" and "Reverse" for positive and negative number and "Lateral" for the imaginary unit, since it is just perpendi…

> How can you cut 10% of the workforce in Huntsville when the representative sits on the Armed Services committee? (I don't know that, but just for example...) Close. Alabama Senat…

Interesting. Python is my go to teaching language. It beat the snot out of learning programming with Java. As a newbie, what does "public static void main" mean? So what's your cho…

This paper might be useful [0]. It measures the thickness of a tissue. If you do that over time you can detect the parts that aren't moving. I studied under Yezzi for a while. Cool…

I find it fascinating that in that ad the schlubs that are sitting there watching the television are Fortnite default skins and not say, replicas of the characters that hold the sa…

I have some friends in the employ of the federal government, who was raised Catholic. One time we were having a conversation that started about the Catholic church. He said is that…

Also in math, you spend a majority of your time not understanding things. As soon as you understand something in math, you immediately move on to the next thing you don't understan…

Toki Pona. It it's a constructed language that has recently hit the front page of HN a couple of times. It's been fun. Helps reorganize your thoughts a little bit and it's good pra…

Ada as a language is super cool. It's tasking model is neat, and was built into the language in 1995. You can use arbitrary Enums to index arrays, it has bounded numerical types, i…