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by bct 2y ago
> The only one I've seen is the gartner snake but here in Edmonton it is just a little bigger than an earthworm. That might just be because Edmonton has lots of enormous dew worms :) There are bigger garter snakes around - I live ju
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by bct 3y ago
Starlink's IPv4 is behind CGNAT, and their IPv6 prefixes are not stable. The good news is that it's relatively easy to punch through the NAT. This blog post describes an approach that is working well for me: https://www
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by bct 5y ago
"The Kitchen Knight" has this plot element: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/590413/the-kitchen-k... In this version it's the Red Knight who is strongest at noon (IIRC).
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by bct 9y ago
You can do a lot worse than ACH. It's hard to read, but it's simple and pretty well-defined. What _really_ sucks is one-off fixed-width formats that aren't well defined, or that change suddenly (oh, you thought that field wou
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by bct 9y ago
Even calling it archaic is too harsh. Granted, the batch-centric nature is not ideal (and it's hard to imagine a system with this kind of latency built in being designed today), but if you're designing a system based on batch proc
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by bct 9y ago
We know how to build protocols for federated systems - there must be at least a dozen serious efforts at federated social media by now. What we don't know (or what we've forgotten) is how to get people to use federated systems.
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by bct 10y ago
In addition to what everyone else said there are big regional effects: in North America cardholders have often never seen 3D Secure before, they don't know their passwords, and issuers don't care enough to make their authenticatio
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by bct 10y ago
It's not a lightning bolt, it's the rune ᛋ.
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by bct 10y ago
The XML serialization Apple defined for plists is awful and not easy to query with XPath.
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by bct 11y ago
> If DRM requires a non-standard plugin, and plugins themselves become increasingly verboten The unstated assumption here is that DRM that isn't a standard won't be built into a browser.
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Stripe: Instant debit card transfers(stripe.com)
1 points by bct 11y ago|0 comments
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by bct 11y ago
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt
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by bct 11y ago
I'm pretty happy having a powerless figurehead, especially if the alternative is presidential elections.
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by bct 11y ago
Browsers should e.g. allow tables to be sorted by clicking column headers. They can't, because tables aren't always tables.
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by bct 12y ago
> Like, why do we still use plain text in flat files for source code Information density. Images and graphs are exceptions to the general rule that text can contain a lot more information on one page than graphics can.
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by bct 12y ago
We're not talking about crossing the street, which is pretty unavoidable. We're talking about an expensive gadget that introduces new risks, for a questionable return.
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by bct 12y ago
This is a pretty amusing way to document a bug.
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by bct 12y ago
In Canada the banks provide this service, and it's used very widely.
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by bct 12y ago
zerop posted a comment with links to many different HN clones here, but it's marked dead. Maybe because it included too many links?
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by bct 12y ago
> The article listed the speed of a scud at "1,676 meters/second" Which looks suspiciously like a rounded "3750 mph to meters per second" conversion. Indeed, "scud 3750 mph" turns up a lot of hits.
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by bct 12y ago
There's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
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by bct 12y ago
It would be nice to see a sample so that I know what I'm getting into before I give you access to my LinkedIn.
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by bct 13y ago
Yeah, we're still well in the backlash phase of XML's hype cycle. I just hope that opinion of it as a markup language can be rehabilitated before someone reinvents it and kicks off a new hype cycle.
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by bct 13y ago
At least one major security issue has already been discovered & fixed: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1z6gif/butterfly_your...
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by bct 13y ago
> If you want an HTML that has an XML style, can you say why? Because I think that section 12.2 of the current HTML specification is outrageous. (The section is "Parsing HTML documents", if anyone is not familiar with it make s
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by bct 13y ago
You mean the target attribute? It wasn't in XHTML 1 Strict or 1.1, but you're wrong about XHTML 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-hyperAttributes.html#adef_hy...
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by bct 13y ago
That breaks down as soon as you have something with attributes, and it breaks down even further once you have something like: <p>Example <b>text</b></p>
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by bct 13y ago
> making established things harder (<a href="..." target="_blank") What are you referring to? That example would have worked identically.
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by bct 13y ago
> So why is every text editor I have ever seen embedded in a website an abomination? Because most websites use contenteditable for their rich text editors, which is horrible to deal with. It's not standardized, it gives developers
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by bct 13y ago
It failed for a number of reasons - timing, lack of compelling new features, IE's lack of support for application/xhtml+xml, Gecko's Yellow Screen of Death, etc. I'm not sure that you can blame any one of them. And it re

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