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Odysseus is our first spree killer
Recent spree shooting in the news raises number of questions on balancing gun rights and public safety. All I can do is respond with sadness, and a digression. The Odyssey Our earliest documented...
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George Lucas’ one trick pony was a camel
It’s so simple. Star Wars’ Desert hole monster, aka Sarlacc, is the same thing as inside of a Camel’s mouth. And the weird testicle-chin alien from the Cantina is the same thing as a camel extruding...
View ArticleC is now a dominant language?
According to the TIOBE index, the top programming language of 2012 is — C. Just regular, plain old C. Not sure how that’s come about – some speculate that the index limitations make it seem so...
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Attack of test3 from outer space
In this busy publishing world, it’s really impossible to take a step back and throw more fresh observers at a problem. It’s even more impossible to expect that automated publishing systems wouldn’t...
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MinecraftSquare.com is shutdown
For the past few years, I’ve been running a minecraft server, minecraftsquare.com; and as of January 2013, I’ve decided to shut it down. It’s been a great fun and at the same time, a great headache....
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Did your RepRap calibration cube come out spongy? Check your extruder for...
Almost exactly a month ago, I picked up a new hobby: 3D printing. I’ve been reading about it for a long time – years – and have only recently realized that they are now both affordable and reasonably...
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How deep are most earthquakes?
Shallow earthquake depth distribution, 7 running days This chart below shows a scatter plot of earthquakes as reported by the USGS, magnitude versus depth over a 7 day period. Most sampled earthquakes...
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Stippled Mandala of Nikola Tesla
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View ArticlePython script to remove /tmp/ files older than 7 days
For no reason at all, I needed a simple trimmer program. Rather than write a shell script in bash, thought to do it in python. #!/usr/bin/python # run by crontab # removes any files in /tmp/ older than...
View Article22 Wood logs. From spam.
Got a spam email asking me whether I’m interested in buying various types of wood from a wood exporter. For the record, I’m … probably very obviously not in any sort of industry that would use wood....
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Simple python list picker using curses
Are you writing a workhorse shell script in python? Why not curses? This class, using curses, lets a user select from a simple list of options. The return is a simple list of selected options, or...
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North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) server logs were protected by...
Sat on this for a year, and figured it’s time to publish. After a chance discovery of what appear to be KCNA’s webserver logs in late 2012, I was able to perform an analysis and shed some light on the...
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Resizing with maintained aspect ratio applet
Maybe I'm just way too old school, but when dealing with resizing anything, I like to jot down a simple fractional equation. For example, if there's a video that's 530 x 298 pixels and you need to...
View ArticleLanguage spoken at home: LANP05, LANP12 differences
When using the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS5) dataset, there are two fields on the `persons` set that stand out for me: LANP05 and LANP12. They are "Language spoken at home," except...
View ArticleInteractive form builder with physics
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Levenshtein distance between 10 million usernames and their passwords
Mark Burnett, a security researcher, recently released a collection of 10 million passwords along with their usernames. My question was, how different are 10 million usernames from their passwords?...
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Levenshtein distance between 10 million usernames and their passwords
Mark Burnett, a security researcher, recently released a collection of 10 million passwords along with their usernames. My question was, how different are 10 million usernames from their passwords?...
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Minecraft Square Moderator Application Age Distribution
Back in 2010 I ran a moderately popular minecraft server called Minecraft Square. Its niche was fast hardware with tons of ram in the days when such servers didn't affordably exist. As hosting...
View Article2016 Presidential Election Ballot Order, by State
While digging through the AP elections API feed I noticed it contained a BallotOrder attribute for each candidate, so I wanted to explore it a bit. Table below shows what order the Candidates' names...
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How we built the VOA Election Map in 2016
Despite working for a large international news organization, our digital budget is never quite what it really ought to be. Even thinking about purchasing AP election map interactives or API access is...
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