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moj

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About moj

iOS app developer, ex-apple, dinosaur (40+), student of mysticism (shamanism, buddhism, sufism, .-ism it's all good)

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    I'll share my experience, too: I live near Glen Park and was in Bello that day, taking up one of those coveted seats, as all this was happening. I recall being aware of a lot of po…

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    Comment #37105745

    Loved this film for ages. First the Wally character, then decades later the Andre character. Film-wise it also took me ages to realize how carefully crafted it was; it comes off as…

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    Comment #29517110

    I experienced such states on several occasions, usually randomly once every two or three years. I resolved to explore it if it happened again, and sure enough I was ready when it d…

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    Comment #29481186

    Try getting there without the drugs, it's not difficult. It might require a weekend workshop or two, but it's quite doable. Of course, this will also open up new horizons for doubt…

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    Comment #27428917

    Yes, async/await will be terrific. It's been a long time coming though; I've been expecting it 'real soon now' for over 3 years: https://gist.github.com/lattner/429b9070918248274f2…

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    Comment #23362454

    And famously Martin Luther King Jr, even Hemingway. TL;DR: His friends were disturbed by his paranoia that the FBI was following him. But years later it turned out to be based on f…

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    Comment #21710239

    Reminds me of a strange story of mysterious 'modern art' arrangements, of leaves and twigs, that appeared every morning on a workshop stoop (spoiler, it was a fieldmouse): "Elena's…

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    Comment #20519185

    > Science simply hasn't FOUND [...] I personally believe in time we will Lets call that Scientism. Beliefs about what may be discovered later are just beliefs, something that shoul…

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    Comment #18670050

    > jailbreak [...] iPhone Also used in voting machines which "aren't connected to the internet" (!) e.g. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/22/are-voting-machine-... Some of thes…

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    Comment #18669948

    ATS11=50? 25? Yes, I think I typed that before every dial.

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    Comment #18665199

    Several billion are being carried around right now in people's pockets, actually: the baseband processor in mobile phones use ATDT/Hayes commands to talk to the host processor(!). …

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    Comment #16909192

    "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is excellent. The terminology can feel alien or intimidating, but if you're receptive you can see results quickly.…

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    Comment #14507767

    > part of the platform, requires no external libs [...] Sadly this also means Apple will only update it in subsequent versions of the OS. This is a big deal when choosing a target …

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    Comment #10969227

    Looks like this is the house on streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.8038344,20.4722595,3a,75y,37...

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    Comment #8666014

    It's a lower-level c-api, so perhaps it's slightly harder to scan for in the submitted binaries? Its overdue blocking/nerfing, and you can start the countdown for that now. (As oth…

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    Comment #8665802

    There is also sysctl(), which returns running process info. Not the full installed app list, but arguably more useful and bonus it doesn't rely on app urls. A (mostly old) discussi…

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    Comment #7684220

    As a mystic that sounds right. I have no knowledge of schizophrenic phenomenon, but it seems to be adjacent territory. The only difference may be that mystical experiences are deep…

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    Comment #6618367

    An ios app to make roadtrip timelapse movies (video + gps = fun). This idea has been on my mind for ages so I finally sat down and built it. This video, the very first upload, show…

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    Comment #6440686

    Looks like that's a picture of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and not even the whole boneyard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and... https://maps.google.co…

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    Comment #3028308

    I'm the author. I wrote an iOS App Store crawler, and have been picking through the results for the last few days. In this blog post I share some of the oddities and curiosities I …

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