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I've dropped Twitter. Their iOS client regularly pushed so many ads down my throat (in stream) that (a) I noticed and (b) I noticed it every day. When I got to the point of blockin…

What magic directory names? The special case for "pkg" is the only one I saw. The main proposal is one of scoping by directory hierarchy - /a/b/c can import a/b/d but a/g/x can't.

Can you remove/align the localizations on the phone number in loopd? I'm in Australia and can't put in a phone number. Looks good otherwise, I'll try it around Sydney tomorrow.

It's cute that you're both naming your products after New Zealand's national bird. Both of your products sound like dating sites dedicated to meeting New Zealanders. That's....a ni…

the only bit I'd prefer clarification on is: Timestamp with Timezone There’s seldom a case you shouldn’t be using these. For recording most event times that's true but: Birthdates …

If you want to know if the connection went down in a reasonable timeframe e.g tens of seconds, then you need to implement heartbeating over TCP. This is the first thing any new pro…

Go impl: https://github.com/dchest/blake2b

New words for my vocabulary: congaed - past tense&participle of conga scrod - young cod/haddock/white fish split and boned. (also schrod, also available).

"Strip out the baseband" of a dongle and you won't have a device that can connect to the network, authenticate, shift cells or anything else. It's like stripping the firmware off y…

Is this not what you want? http://www.leonardodigitale.com/index.php?lang=ENG

Dome houses are initially appealing but ultimately and practically have too many flaws to be useful. Single room houses may be an exception. Read this http://www.shelterpub.com/_sh…

US Citizens have some (reasonable) expectation they won't be spied on without some cause. They may even get back to that situation eventually through legal challenges against the s…

Agreed. This is why the scientists playing with creating influenza variants freak me out. I suspect they have the 1918 variant on hand, combine that with something a bit slower to …

As David from 27b/6 is wont to say: (In Australia) "... practically every living creature can kill you in under three minutes. Our primary spoken language is screaming".

Not when you could have sold the TV for $10K. This is the shoplifting issue; the shop loses both the product and the potential profit on the product. It gets a bit existential e.g.…

There appear to be some philosophical differences that mean this won't occur. Specifically the "let it fail" aspect of OTP, which begets supervisor hierarchies and the consequent l…

It appears so, that red stamp appears to be different every time it appears. The clueless idiot that got their stamp pad out that day is probably long retired or dead. That big bla…

Ok, it's sensible to make these logs easier to parse. I don't understand why an entirely new Tag-Value scheme was invented though, and this article doesn't attempt to justify it. M…

The irony is that they're excellent for preventing aerosol droplets filled with virus from the wearer. Wearing one when infected is therefore responsible.

Well, no there are several good cases where storing a time in UTC as seconds since an epoch is wrong. It's a common mistake. The first usecase is Birthdays. For most purposes peopl…