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For more (great stuff) in this vein, check out Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions.


A perfect illustration of how limitations can push an artist to think in new ways


very good. you could take it a bit further and allow arbitrary 6-12 letter words. #impacted, #gullible, #traumatized, #mediocre, #obsequious, etc..


Promises made, promises kept! Just dropped an update on the tool—now you can add your own custom text and play around with colors. Go ahead, make your banner pop!


Yes, I'm working on that feature, and I'll have it available in the tool very soon.


To save someone a search: POSIWID = The purpose of a system is what it does

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...


If the pagers had been equipped with lasers that caused blindness, there is a Geneva Convention protocol going back to 1995[0].

I would like to think that the spirit behind that protocol is that the intent to cause permanent blindness in your opponent should be considered a crime. And not that it's not a crime so long as you don't use a laser to do it.

So you can put me in the camp of "this should be considered a war crime", even if it's not in any books yet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...


If the pager was sent a message that would encourage the soldier to bring the pager to their face, it would certainly fall under an intentionally blinding attack.


Of course that's a bit of a troll comment at the end there. There are plenty of Linux distros still not using systemd. https://www.devuan.org/ as one example.



here's an article with examples in Python and Julia:

https://medium.com/@AlexanderObregon/how-pythons-multiple-di...


Welcome to Karma Club. The first rule of Karma Club is: you do not talk about Karma Club. [With apologies to Chuck Palahniuk]


Also see: "Safeware: System Safety and Computers"

and the work of the author, Nancy Leveson:

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/


good question. they have a good product, but it seems like their marketing folks haven't figured out selling to engineers/geeks


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