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by scoates 11y ago
It says EST there. It's wrong. Looks like it's reporting times in UTC but marking them EST (for me at least).
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by scoates 11y ago
> But your thermostat can request heat 24/7 and unless the furnace control board is broken, it'll the cycle the system as necessary to keep up with the requests. I have a hot water boiler. Even when constantly calling for heat,
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by scoates 11y ago
Mine's fine, FWIW. My heating system (hot water baseboards) doesn't really respond quickly enough for it to be super useful for things like away detection, but as a programmable thermostat, for the most part, it works better than
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by scoates 11y ago
> Eventually I found Gorillas and Snake in gw-basic, but it wasn't the same. Pointing this out because (from this comment) you seem like the kind of person who'd want to be correct: Gorillas and Snake were qbasic (and they were
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by scoates 11y ago
You have 12 finger segments per hand. "Finger-counting systems in use in many regions of Asia allow the counting to 12 by using a single hand."[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting (Edit: sill
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by scoates 11y ago
Verified By Visa is (almost?) always embedded into a merchant's page (on their domain) as an iframe. At least in Canada. It's nearly impossible for normal users to verify that they're sending their password to their bank, and
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by scoates 11y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is there a practical benefit to running this instead of a general-purpose caching HTTP proxy? Wouldn't any well-behaving (caching + 304-respecting) proxy also keep the rate limit intact?
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by scoates 11y ago
Indeed. Sometimes it's worth making people do a little bit of extra work so that they can actually start to grok a system. A little (but not quite) like this: https://github.com/eggheads/eggdrop-1.8/blob/
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by scoates 11y ago
Distributed system plugin: http://linux.die.net/man/8/nfsd
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by scoates 11y ago
One of the higher-end base malts often used in British/Scottish style beers (and Scotch Whisky), Golden Promise, was bred in this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
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by scoates 12y ago
Morgan definitely knows what he's doing. (-;
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Defense-in-depth strategy for HTTP, nginx, and shellshocked?(paste.roguecoders.com)
7 points by scoates 12y ago|0 comments
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by scoates 13y ago
Just going to leave this here… http://gim.ie/a0B8K
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Scenes from an Internet(the-pastry-box-project.net)
3 points by scoates 13y ago|0 comments
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by scoates 13y ago
…and performs scrollback very poorly. I still use it, though. Can't wait for them to iron out these issues.
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by scoates 13y ago
Is "Isla" pronounced "ila" (as in the "s" is silent)? I ask because I'm sure my otherwise-literate 8-year-old would have trouble spelling the name without some coaching… (edit: typo)
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by scoates 14y ago
At risk of contributing to the comment soup… [Some colleagues and ]I have been doing some research on Letterpress for the past couple weeks (expect a HN story about us later this week… I hope). We independently discovered this hack last wee
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by scoates 14y ago
Hi. You're right. That is bad. We added Dropbox support before Dropbox allowed per-directory sandboxing. We're on it (but we also have a huge number of things to do). This does have a fairly high priority. Thanks for pointing it our (and un
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by scoates 14y ago
Of note: we (Fictive Kin, fictivekin.com) created Gimme Bar. We also created LeakedIn (leakedin.org) which is currently sharing the front page. Thanks for the busy two days of dev-ops scrambling, friends. (-: Let's try to keep DDoSing to a
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by scoates 14y ago
Hi. You make a good point. We've gone to great lengths to ensure this doesn't happen. One of those lengths is that you can export your entire library to Dropbox. This protects you against us failing or being stupid in other ways. S
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by scoates 14y ago
Yeah. We got hit pretty hard. It doesn't actually take a minute or two, unless you're doing a few hundred at the same time. Fixing. (-:
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by scoates 14y ago
In my experience, if you abide by the important rule of "work with excellent people," distributed teams work well. I currently work on a team of 12, in three countries and at least seven cities.
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by scoates 16y ago
If: 1) macbook has ssh turned on 2) macbook's IP is routable (or forwarded via NAT), 3) server is able to log in to macbook (has private key, or you supply password, etc) 4) the pastboarde is available without a GUI (not sure that sshing to
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by scoates 16y ago
We're working on it, actually. But the DOM is really hard. It's the browser, not the JS engine that parses the DOM. S