➔ [4] Recommended Reading: The Art of UNIX Programming

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By FORMAT “The Art of UNIX Programming” by Eric Raymond is available here: https://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/ “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook” by various writers is available here: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf Also see this: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html This recommendation is different from the others, as it recommends two works this time. The former, TAOUP, isn’t being recommended for its merit, but, instead, as a work to be glanced over and reviewed while reading the latter, TUHH, which is the main subject this iteration.
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➔ [4] Set Theory

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By popefucker What is Infinity? That’s a really hard question to answer. If you ask people on the street, they’ll probably tell you it’s a number. Many people use it that way; a lot of us remember telling our siblings “Oh yeah? Well I have infinity plus one!” Luckily, our ape-brains tell us, you’ll never need to comprehend infinity; it’s so vast that you’ll never see all of it, no matter what you do.
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➔ [4] Sidestepping Wifi Trials

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By Vixn Introduction You’re at the airport and need some Wi-Fi. Luckily for you the airport provides you with some, but only for an X amount of time. When that time runs out, you’re off the net. You’re scanning for local Wi-Fi networks in your neighborhood and you happen to live in a city where a company such as C0mc4st has happily commandeered your favorite neighbor’s router to provide a hotspot that you can use for a not-so-small fee.
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➔ [4] Trip Report

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By Anonymous Substance: 4-AcO-DMT Dosage: 20 mg (approx) Route of administration: Oral This trip report is a description of my first experience with 4-Acetoxy-DMT. This was my first experience with psychedelics in general. A couple months before the events described here I had becomes very interested in psychedelics. I had almost no experience with drugs of any sort other than alcohol and opiates, so psychedelics struck me as being very exotic and interesting.
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➔ [4] Upgrading Physical Security Without Spending a Cent

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By Nils Iwakura Physical Security You may have good security on the Wired, but that won’t help you when someone breaks into your base of operations and steals/breaks your setup. This is how to modify your locks to better resist lockpicking, without having to replace your keys. Tools you will need are: A dremel/high speed rotary tool with collet for the diameter of the pins (Fig.1) Something to hold the dremel in place (I used a vice, you can clamp it to a table, just get it stable) A pin tray (I made mine out of cardstock that I accordion folded to give me ridges in which to distinctify which set the pins were from (Fig.
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➔ [4] Web Scrapers, a Guide and a Horror Story

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By raxmur A classic website can be thought of as a program that takes a set of information from its server, assembles it as needed and sends it back the browser. A good API (Application Programming Interface) is one of the most useful features a website could possibly have, because it exposes the raw information instead of wrapping it in its own UI, so that you get to decide how to assemble it and what to make of it.
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