Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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434 | Extra Ordinary Comics
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I'll eat the third option, please
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Why GNU grep is fast
I am the original author of GNU grep. I am also a FreeBSD user,
although I live on -stable (and older) and rarely pay attention
to -current.
However, while searching the -current mailing list for an unrelated
reason, I stumbled across some flamage regarding BSD grep vs GNU grep
performance. You may have noticed that discussion too...
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The Queen of Code
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I Want to See a Gender-Swapped Version of Every Movie. Literally Every One.
In case you haven’t heard, Splash – the 1984 fantasy romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks as the man who falls in love with a mermaid Daryl Hannah – is being remade, with Channing Tatum as the mermaid.
I like this.
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When your headline takes up half the page
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History of the browser user-agent string
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing...
WebAIM
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How Learning To Be Vulnerable Can Make Life Safer - Empathy increases Shell oil workers' safety by 83%
Men who worked on oil rigs lived by certain rules. They were tough. They worked under any conditions. They didn't ask questions. It was this way as far back as Tommy Chreene, 60, who started working on rigs in the Gulf of Mexico back when he was 15, can remember.
Back then, it wasn't unusual to … -
NISTs new password rules what you need to know
It’s no secret. We’re really bad at passwords. Nevertheless, they aren’t going away any time soon.
With so many websites and online applications requiring us to create accounts and think up passwords in a hurry, it’s no wonder so many of us struggle to follow the advice of so-called password security experts.
At the same time, the … -
Ellipse
Oglaf -
The Asexual Succubus
Discord Comics -
Breaking https' AES-GCM (or a part of it)
The coolest talk of this year's Blackhat must have been the one of Sean Devlin and Hanno Böck. The talk summarized this early year's paper, in a very cool way: Sean walked on stage and announced that he didn't have his slides. He then said that it didn't matter because he had a good idea …
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The network is reliable
In the spring of that year, my travels brought me upon a previously undiscovered civilization. The people called themselves Ossians, and they lived in an isolated collection of villages in a remote part of South America.
Being remote as they were, their level of technology was understandably primitive. But I was surprised by the locals' recent … -
20 Ways To Slice A Continent
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The Illusion Of Truth
Veritasium