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> 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 …

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 t…

"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).

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 ch…

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), bu…

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)…

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 iss…

It's not a lightning bolt, it's the rune ᛋ.

The XML serialization Apple defined for plists is awful and not easy to query with XPath.

> 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 br…

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt

I'm pretty happy having a powerless figurehead, especially if the alternative is presidential elections.

Browsers should e.g. allow tables to be sorted by clicking column headers. They can't, because tables aren't always tables.

> 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 info…

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.

This is a pretty amusing way to document a bug.

In Canada the banks provide this service, and it's used very widely.

zerop posted a comment with links to many different HN clones here, but it's marked dead. Maybe because it included too many links?

> 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 …

There's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English

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.

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…

At least one major security issue has already been discovered & fixed: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1z6gif/butterfly_your...

> 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 docum…