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by beardicus 9y ago
Conveniently, nobody talks about mutagenic breeding, or hitting seeds/plants w/ radiation or mutagenic chemicals to see what you get. Surely if selectively inserting well-known genes into plants is risky, mutating plants with comp
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by beardicus 9y ago
(DO employee here) It's S3-compatible. Agreed that it's a bit strange in Transmit and other clients to have to first select "S3" when connecting to something else entirely... but that's the world we live in. Spaces
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Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean(blog.digitalocean.com)
151 points by beardicus 9y ago|55 comments
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by beardicus 9y ago
Yeah, 1.5" of blue board is probably not sufficient. I imagine carving 4" blocks of foam to fit tightly together would be more rigid and weatherproof, but cutting all those angles just right is difficult.
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by beardicus 9y ago
> This thing has no insulation It is literally made of insulation. You didn't read the article.
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An Introduction to Managing Secrets Safely with Version Control Systems(digitalocean.com)
1 points by beardicus 9y ago|0 comments
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by beardicus 9y ago
Archive Team is not the Internet Archive, and the above quote is clearly opinion.
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by beardicus 9y ago
Archiveteam exists mostly because your suggested course of action rarely works.
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by beardicus 9y ago
Wrong. EFF has gone after both Facebook and Google. Specifically, they filed an FTC complaint against Google claiming privacy violations, and they defended a client against a CFAA lawsuit from Facebook. This took 30 seconds to look up. I&#x
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by beardicus 9y ago
The firewalls are stateful, with connection tracking.
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by beardicus 9y ago
It's possible you're assuming the firewalls have more rule types than they actually do. Basically these firewalls default to dropping all packets, and any rules you add are to accept a port or port range. Adding such rules togethe
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by beardicus 9y ago
(DO employee here) The intro article answers many of these questions (and more): https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc... > How many firewalls can a single user create, and how many rules
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by beardicus 9y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Node-RED yet: http://nodered.org/ Node.js-based with a Pipes-like visual wiring interface. It's quite popular with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino crowd. Lot's of input and out
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by beardicus 9y ago
Lost me at "millennial". How can people jump on the millennial-hating train and not see it as the "kids these days" "get off my lawn" horseshit that it really is? The author could use a good editor.
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by beardicus 10y ago
Semi-related to the article: how many people click 'like' on facebook 'save the bees' articles in the morning, then poison their dandelions in the afternoon? Here's the easiest/laziest thing you can do to &#x27
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by beardicus 10y ago
> I feel bad for folks using Electron. Me too, so I've started down voting such comments. At this point they are off topic and distract from actual useful feedback. OP: your app looks pretty nice. I'd suggest offering the choic
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by beardicus 10y ago
Oooh. Thanks for that head's up. I thought hledger has the only web ui for ledger, and it is lacking. fava looks pretty nice, and bonus for python.
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by beardicus 10y ago
"Why the hell is Chrome uploading and downloading so much data?" * looks through open tabs * "Oh." Though most people would never notice, I feel like with developers (the folks who will implement this on their sites) you
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by beardicus 10y ago
Lessig has nothing to do with the Internet Archive, as far as I'm aware.
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by beardicus 10y ago
I tried hyper a week or two ago. It's fun and nice... zippy enough in everyday use and fairly pretty. But I had problems pasting commands into it, and it seems incapable of remembering multi-window layouts between sessions. But, everyb
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by beardicus 10y ago
Thank you for posting this, and engaging here on HN. Do you think this collection of interesting things would be a good candidate for digitizing and getting up on the Internet Archive?
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What Are the Bots Up to on Npm?(medium.com)
1 points by beardicus 10y ago|0 comments
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by beardicus 10y ago
"What the heck is the GRID dataset", I says: http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/gridcorpus/ Very not-real-world corpus, but still impressive.
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Create a Family Photo Frame with Twilio, AWS, and Electric Objects(twilio.com)
1 points by beardicus 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Kickstarter Live(kickstarter.com)
1 points by beardicus 10y ago|0 comments
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by beardicus 10y ago
> Grant is promoting saving the money you earn, but counter to most advice, he says to put the money in a good old-fashioned savings account — where your money is accessible at a moment's notice — until you have at least $100,000. T
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by beardicus 10y ago
> It doesn't entitle you to ask for a handout. Good thing they're selling a product then, not asking for a handout. And hey, as a bonus, they're releasing a fully refreshed set of icons for free! Your perspective on what o
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by beardicus 10y ago
> When people treat open source projects as their day job everybody loses. That's a new one. How does someone getting making a living while developing open source software mean "everybody loses"?
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by beardicus 10y ago
Shockingly, the original blog post's title is much less sensational and certain than the submitted title. Mods, please update.
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by beardicus 10y ago
> They claim to be amazed, but surely if we've learned anything over this election cycle, it's that the worst systems you'll ever find are systems in use by people in government. These are email servers mostly for Trump&#x

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