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The post* READS like a MARVEL COMIC BOOK.

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* last ish.

The way the article uses RSA is no better than a simple substitution cipher. Both the "l"s in "hello" are enciphered to 2575. It's a newspaper cryptogram.

You're supposed to concatenate all the input numbers, to create a message that has hundreds or thousands of digits; then RSA-encrypt that number.

Isn't the first code sample pasted in there twice?

tinnitus

We all only speak two languages: English and bad English

The iOS app is long-unmaintained and has bugs. It needs a new maintainer, but they need some kind of Apple developer account to actually get it in the app store.

I'm the original author of this content. I wrote it on the internal wiki at Google in 2007. Someone copied it and posted it at nohello.(something) after I left Google. It's made the front page of HN multiple times.

The discussions always split between the people who just want to get on with the conversation and the people who can't bring themselves to do that because they consider it unforgivably rude. The second group never seem to take the hint that the first interruption is an imposition in itself.

"[verbs] get forked and hooked until you go insane trying to track it all"

J comes with a Qt IDE, which has a function "dissect" that displays a graphical parse tree of an expression.

load 'debug/dissect'

dissect '(+/ % #) ? 10 $ 100'

This story is entirely based on the idea that "computer programmer" is different from "software developer", which the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers different occupations. It's as though "lawyer" and "attorney" were considered separate professions. If you want to see how moronic this is, look up the definitions and see where the definition says people with these occupations work. Where do software developers work? "In companies that develop software" Where do computer programmers work? "Indoors, in offices."

I think this article was written by AI. It claims Amy was a WWII character, when she was actually a modern one. Also it has the usual preamble paragraphs that read like a sixth-grader's term paper.

These could be Battlefield 2042 screenshots of the "Discarded" map