nicwolff

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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   The detail section says "by a combination of raft and our underlying storage engine"
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   My father wrote essentially this article for Connoisseur Magazine in 1983; you can see the cover, with a zoomable photo of the hat that was made for him then in the hinterlands of Ecuador, here: http://www.amazon.com/gp&#x2F
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   My office near Columbus Circle in NYC looks directly at One57, the 75-story condo tower whose apartments are setting price records up to $100 million (and which will shortly be dwarfed by newer taller pricier towers). No matter how late I w
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   Quantum loop gravity theory suggests a resolution of 1.61619926 × 10^-35 meters, the Planck length.
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   MS was deemed to have a monopoly on desktop software, Apple is not. You're allowed to hinder competition for software on your operating system, if the user can reasonably easily choose another operating system. Apple has a monopoly of
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   This is based on simpler tools like SuperGenPass https://github.com/chriszarate/supergenpass/wiki/FAQ which credits my site http://angel.net/~nic/passwd.current.html as "the origina
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   by nicwolff 11y ago

   That's ridiculous, there are no yacht slips in St Barth, the only harbor is in Gustavia and even the superyachts Med-moor on the quay.
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   by nicwolff 12y ago

   Settings ▸ General ▸ Accessibility ▸ Button Shapes ▸ On
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   by nicwolff 12y ago

   Fantastical on iOS.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    I'm still using a 10-year-old 42" Panasonic Commercial Plasma, no tuner, no "smart" features, stellar picture, totally expandable, totally reliable. They stopped making them of course.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    With Duet Display, it makes an excellent portable second monitor for a MacBook...
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    If they find a way to stop aging when I'm already 75, I'm gonna be pissed. (And if they then cure death, I'm gonna be pissed forever.)
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    Safari 7.1, no extensions: blank page. Firefox 34.0.5, clean install: blank page. Chrome 39.0.2171.99, clean install: blank page.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    DCP is the format in which movies are distributed to theaters, usually on hard drives but sometimes over satellite or wired networks.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    This is great fun; I live just around the corner from the house she locates on page 8 as being on the south side of 9th Street between University Place and 5th Avenue. Sadly her block was torn down in the mid-20th century to build the Brevo
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    It helps if you know that "victuals" is pronounced "vittles".
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    So, carry $18,000 and it gets seized by highway cops because law-abiding people just don't carry that much cash http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st... . But take it to t
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    It's not hard to reverse an ACH debit if you notice it within two months . After that, it's impossible. (And business accounts only get two days.) Also, the credit card companies are actively trying to prevent fraud and will noti
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    I filter all messages with the word "unsubscribe" in the body into a "Bulk Mail" folder that I check once a week, works beautifully. As for the per-category addressing, you can add "+flights" to your username w
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    Both the demo and the blog post stutter badly while scrolling on this 2.5GHz i5 iMac running Safari 7.0.5.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    Or like a venture-backed Ask MetaFilter.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    I'm a live-long born-and-bred Manhattanite and I use uberX any time I'm not already on the street; it's roughly the cost of a yellow cab and much more convenient and pleasant. (And you get an SUV about 1/2 the time, even
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    Isn't Ingress just Shadow Cities without beacons and jumps?
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    Exact same here, I'm using Fleksy keyboard app and it sometimes just disappears; and Redditur's swipable photo gallery gets stuck.
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    The primary benefit for me (besides the infinitely nicer Web app) is that FastMail lets me send "From" any of my addresses without leaking my fastmail.net address in a header, which GMail kept doing no matter how many hoops I jump
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    by nicwolff 12y ago

    > But who rescues someone from Heaven? Willow Rosenberg?
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    by nicwolff 13y ago

    Yeah. I wrote the password-hash generator that SuperGenPass and most others credit as their inspiration, and I moved mine http://angel.net/~nic/passwd.current.html on to SHA-1 years ago.
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    by nicwolff 13y ago

    "over a decade", heh - I was one 30 years ago.
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    by nicwolff 13y ago

    That'd be great, except the last thing in the RSS feed at feed://aws.amazon.com/rss/security.rss is almost a year old ಠ_ಠ
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    by nicwolff 13y ago

    I moved from Gmail to Fastmail last month, and man is it nice. The import process smoothly pulled over 30K messages and folders over IMAP in a few hours. As an IMAP server behind iOS and Apple Mail, no problems at all, and their webmail UI