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Comment on Monte Carlo simulation in Python #1 by On Certainty: Wittgenstein and Taleb | Niall's Weblog

On Certainty: Wittgenstein and Taleb | Niall's Weblog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:37:14 +0000

[...] I’ve written a little bit about Nassim Nicholas Taleb before. In particular, I posted a short snippet to implement Monte Carlo simulation in Python. [...]

Comment on Python Fun: SILC TinyURL chat bot by beefsprocket

beefsprocket — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:10:53 +0000

tinyurl have an api e.g. http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://google.com

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by OpenBSD’s omalloc: Bug and buffer overflow detection | Niall's Weblog

OpenBSD’s omalloc: Bug and buffer overflow detection | Niall's Weblog — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:36:38 +0000

[...] has made OpenBSD’s malloc even stricter. I upgraded my home machine over the weekend to the latest snapshot with these commits, and I’m currently running a bunch of Unworkable BitTorrent download [...]

Comment on Hand strength, RSI, weightlifting and the Captains of Crush by Cheap wrist strength toy: Power gyro ball clone | Niall's Weblog

Cheap wrist strength toy: Power gyro ball clone | Niall's Weblog — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:44:01 +0000

[...] probably be much better off spending $20 on the Captain’s of Crush no. 2 gripper (which I wrote about here), now that I can close the no. 1. Still, I’ll give it a go some time. Share this on a [...]

Comment on Recipe of the week: Spicy anti-oxidant lamb burgers by Juliana

Juliana — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:12:06 +0000

Hey you. It’s been a while! Just catching up on your blog. This sounds like a great recipe. I’ll try it. Keep posting these!

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by niallo

niallo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:17:33 +0000

This script doesn’t do any upgrading, it just downloads and checksums things.

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by Artis

Artis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:29:40 +0000

Err, it mangled the URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade/

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by Artis

Artis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:28:32 +0000

Pretty much like Han’s OpenBSD-binary-upgrade: . I’d consider rsync mirrors over http://ftp.

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by chris

chris — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:25:41 +0000

Just a suggestion: you could write it in Perl, since Perl is in the base system and Python is not.

Comment on Automatically fetch and checksum OpenBSD snapshots by niallo

niallo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:50:36 +0000

Snapshots are effectively the same as running -current. Sometimes patches can be in snapshots which have not been committed, though.