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by TomNomNom 8y ago
The 8-Bit Guy has a fantastic video on YouTube comparing a few different methods of restoring yellowed plastic, including the peroxide in the sun method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZYbchvSUDY :)
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Author of the tool here. The output is designed to be valid JavaScript, which doesn't allow certain characters in unquoted object keys, like the dash in User-Agent. Using JavaScript's rules for quoting keys makes it a lot easier t
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Thank you so much! That really means a lot! :)
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Author of the tool here. I can definitely see why you might think that, but I don't think it's fair to bring my presumed lack of understanding of the command line up as a reason; especially when some of the documentation[0] is a b
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Author of the tool here. I think you raise a good point; and I don't think it overly nit-picky. Personally I don't find myself using the built-in HTTP client at all (and pipe the output of curl instead); but I know people who do.
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GitLab fixes security issue that let anyone hijack custom domains(zdnet.com)
7 points by TomNomNom 9y ago|0 comments
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Very cool! It would be awesome if it had a mode that used the unicode box-drawing characters too [0]. It can get a little tedious copy and pasting them and drawing things manually. - [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Don't run this on EC2; you'll probably get your metadata stolen. Also: if (!validUrl.isUri(url)) { // Also protects against file://... It does? ▶ cat valid.js var validUrl = require('val
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
The durability has been really good. We've just got a regular Kindle Fire with a Kids profile on it; it's taken a real beating and shown no issues. The Kids Edition of the tablet is more expensive, but comes with a very rugged cas
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
My 3.5 year old loves Monument Valley. It's not something I thought he would have been capable of playing - and he does sometimes "need some help to win" - but he downloaded it himself on Kindle Fire for Kids Unlimited and ju
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
I've been following this series for a while now and it's been fantastic. In particular I recommend the videos on making an EEPROM programmer with an Arduino. To help me understand everything better I've been writing a kind of
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
I used Levenshtein distance for a similar thing some years ago: https://tomnomnom.com/posts/methinks-it-is-like-an-incestuou... It worked very well!
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by TomNomNom 9y ago
Why? I'm confused as to why using PHP would be relevant to how much it costs.
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
Even on a solo project, `git bisect` by itself is more than enough reason for me to use source control. I could script something similar that ran against my daily backups, but then I'd have to recursively diff two backups to find out w
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
Yes! Although I am obviously biased.
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
That is something we're working on at the moment. It is read-only from the web servers' perspective, but it's definitely not without its problems.
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How We Release So Frequently(engineering.skybettingandgaming.com)
201 points by TomNomNom 11y ago|50 comments
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Monitoring Virtual Sports(engineering.skybettingandgaming.com)
3 points by TomNomNom 11y ago|0 comments
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
This guy's YouTube channel [0] features videos of him making stone tools, cutting down a tree, digging up clay, making a kiln, roof tiles and huts; all from scratch. His videos are a great watch, and even with heavy editing it's p
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
A good read. One thing I thought of as a little weird is this: > But remember, we aren't decoding anything since our instructions are just given to us raw. So that means we only have to worry about fetch, and evaluate! The 'dec
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by TomNomNom 11y ago
I have a similar workflow already that may be of use to vim users. I pipe file lists (from grep etc) into vim (using a '-' to tell vim to read from stdin): grep -nri searchterm * | vim - You can then use 'gF' ove
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
In some places that's a good way to get fired. I get a lot of sensitive information in my work email; if I forwarded it all to a second account where my employer couldn't enforce things like two-factor auth I'd be in a lot of
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
> The hacker first set up an anonymous Gmail account, then infected a computer on the target’s network with malware. (Shape declined to name the victim of the attack.) After gaining control of the target machine, the hacker opened their
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
I couldn't find Lecture #1 on the other link, but I found this YouTube playlist of the same course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsJa1-ONUA8d6k-wherN4...
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
The concept of 'dog years' has always interested me. I recently quipped to some friends that if there's 7 dog years in a human year, there's 2^y computer years in a human year; so a 6 year old computer is 64 in computer
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
In (British) English, equations are sometimes called 'sums'. It's a confusing colloquialism, and you're right to be confused by it.
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
> I see no advantages from using multiple machines where a single one will do One machine is OK when downtime is OK too. Such situations do exist, so it is sometimes a viable solution. If you're serving traffic to 100K+ users then c
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by TomNomNom 12y ago
Rob Pike did a really good talk entitled 'Lexical Scanning In Go'[0], which covers how the lexing for text/template works. It's far more interesting than it sounds, and even if you don't know much about lexing/
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by TomNomNom 13y ago
FWIW there is no Go 'dependency' unless you want to build from source. Admittedly if there's no binary available for your platform then you need to build from source.
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by TomNomNom 13y ago
I don't play many games either, but one thing I'd really like to use the Rift for is a big virtual desktop. Not a 3D desktop like in the movies, just a regular 2D desktop. I could have the equivalent of six 30'' screen

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