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by porker 6y ago
> and partly because of the Lisp curse that Julia suffers from. The Lisp curse?
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by porker 6y ago
> Whatever happened to practical, well-wearing clothes for gold miners? They went the same way as the gold miners.
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by porker 6y ago
UK based here, so for most projects I/clients want cards as the primary payment method due to the audience as they are one-off payments. I've used GoCardless on one project; as the developer I didn't enjoy the experience at a
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by porker 6y ago
This is my experience too. > who might be better served by one or more of the alternatives and should at least be considering the full range of options available to them. Which alternatives should I consider, if I need PSD2? I've wr
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by porker 6y ago
People forget Braintree Payments from PayPal. While the docs are confusing and the API info incomplete, once past that the experience has been good. Having a pre-written embeddable JS widget that takes care of adding support for credit card
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by porker 6y ago
That's why companies like Paddle.com exist. I used them for a side project. Once you find the right documentation it's straightforward to integrate, but finding it took 3 days and 2 support requests.
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by porker 6y ago
I've done CSS since 1999, none of this was new to me, and I've never earned 6 figures for doing HTML and CSS. I moved my career away from HTML/CSS in order to earn more.
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by porker 6y ago
What are people using in mobile development (native iOS/native Android/Cross-platform e.g. React-Native) when you want accurate extraction from a fixed format-source? E.g. poor-quality images of ID cards or credit cards, where the
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by porker 6y ago
DevonThink is one of those apps I've always wanted to use, but as I'm cross-platform it's never been possible.
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by porker 6y ago
Is there a list of extensions that have been caught exfiltrating data? I look at the 20 I've got installed and wonder which are using the "Access to every website" permission for their own ends.
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by porker 6y ago
By equal quality 2x1440p monitors are we talking Eizo quality or Dell UltraSharp quality?
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by porker 6y ago
Note that Audible now uses the significantly harder to break AAXC file format in its mobile apps. AFAIK FFmpeg does not yet support this decoding. There is a patch available: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel&#x
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by porker 6y ago
Always interested to hear and learn from the design mistakes of others.
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Select Code_execution from * Using SQLite; (2019)(media.ccc.de)
170 points by porker 6y ago|116 comments
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Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts(nature.com)
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by porker 6y ago
I have something on my network that has contacted pool.ntp.org 37k times in 5 days. That's a fifth of all my DNS requests. Haven't managed to track it down.
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by porker 6y ago
If you're in the UK and your family like watching Channel 4's 4oD, I had to whitelist *.fwmrm.net for it to play. Otherwise 4oD think you have an ad blocker enabled and the video refuses to start.
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by porker 6y ago
This. I guess if your router can install their software, and it maintains a local DNS cache, then it'll go further. But without that, it's repeatedly hitting their servers for the same entry, racking up queries.
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by porker 6y ago
Not knowing how to disable it temporarily has been the one thing stopping me from adding Pihole to our network (need to test ads for clients sometimes...) so thank you.
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by porker 6y ago
Not just you. Also annoyed at their pricing model; I bought the original book, 3 months later it was out of date and "buy our updated copy" was their answer. I got no use out of it.
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by porker 7y ago
Near the top patio11 writes: "Our choice to be anonymous was a considered one and is discussed in more detail below.". I cannot find where it's discussed in more detail below. Can someone point me to it?
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by porker 7y ago
For me, body language. I hate voice calls because I'm lost without it.
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by porker 7y ago
Is noise gating why you can't talk over each other? I am terrible at doing this (I think of it as synthesis - 2 excited ppl grabbing the idea, running with it, then the other interrupts and takes over) and while I acknowledge it's
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by porker 7y ago
It would be great to have a higher-level explanation that included this. I read through the first 4-5 pages of the docs and saw it mentioned these, but didn't pick up (until the code examples) that it used them. I'm not a Rails pr
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by porker 7y ago
It's reputed to. It's been an alternative remedy recommended for shingles. Not seen a jot of evidence it works.
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by porker 7y ago
Do we now have drugs to suppress a "cytokine explosion" so if a virus mutates to do this again, we can reduce the number of deaths?
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by porker 7y ago
I've used s3fs to permanently mount S3 on a server. Is there any benefit to using rclone instead?
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by porker 7y ago
> There are tons of free and pretty great UI kits, CSS themes, etc already. There are tons that look visually appealing, but very few I've found that take a component-based approach (where they document each component individually -
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by porker 7y ago
And despite this history, cannabis extracts like CBD are classed as "novel foods" in the UK. 'A Novel Food is defined as food that had not been consumed to a significant degree by humans in the EU before 15 May 1997, when the
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by porker 7y ago
With the LUKS full disk encryption, how are you managing the encryption keys? I assume the keys are not password protected so the server automatically decrypts on boot?

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