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About reconbot

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    They don’t say as much but it appears they’ve been dropped by their payment processor. I have trouble believing they’d invalidate every single card with 5 days notice if they had a…

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    Comment #19012209

    I love these proposals and while it probably makes sense for me to learn more about the languages that already implement it there's no denying that having them in JS is a win. =) I…

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    Comment #19003964

    I'm starting to use privacy.com with all my online accounts. If I really have trouble leaving deleting the vendor locked credit card I used to sign up is an easy way to go that get…

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    Comment #18992104

    If you run `npm install` again it does detect the conflict and resolve it. https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package-locks#resolving-lockfil... But in practice I haven't found any chang…

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    Comment #18752860

    I had no idea what dragonofly is, it looks to be an experimental BSD based OS https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release54/ DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as ot…

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    Comment #18749206

    in the real sense of the word

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    Comment #18744332

    I was having an argument over 1password's 2fa support not being a second factor. (I don't think it is.) However, it is so much safer than not using 2fa. In similar terms U2F is ama…

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    Comment #18742051

    Faked and discovered to include fake reactions that were then removed, are different situations. Mark has been producing high quality educational and entertaining videos that encou…

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    Comment #18454072

    This is really awesome. For NYC what data is actually real time?

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    Comment #18402030

    yes! I would love to, but not all node versions and not all streams support async iteration yet! Also theres is a lot of utility to some of the stream types in bluestream. Concurre…

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    Comment #18394766

    Hi I built this little stream processing library so I could write things like; const stats = await pipe( Nodes.scan({ fields: true }), map(generateStats), tap(() => count++), reduc…

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    What are good linux laptops for 2018?

    I'm a developer who's getting a bit sick of the high price of apple laptops. Their hardware used to be more reliable and I could justify the price for a great trackpad (the best I'…

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    Comment #17384425

    Nope, appsync came out a long time after we were in production and while it's very powerful, it's would require a full rewrite of our application. It's an application service/frame…

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    Comment #16855094

    This was an April fools joke but hit's every good policy idea NYC could do spot on. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/04/01/new-york-area-... From a local controlling agency,…

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    Comment #16708454

    Easy to avoid. Use Lyft, Use Juno, Use anything else and compare prices.

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    Comment #16661625

    I've built a cloudwatch metrics stack that reads out of lambda's logs. There's no other way to get data out of your lambda for "free". XRAY is an option but not everything you'd wa…

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    Comment #16470690

    They don't seem to offer rights or license checking in their apis. Am I missing something?

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    Comment #16402393

    Sure lets trust a for profit cooperation. Their motives could be anything really? I think destroying competition is something wrong. "Trust us completely forever while we ruin your…

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    Comment #16301168

    I found it lowered our server cost incredibly for a high volume read heavy site. It allowed us to scale in response to increased traffic (not instantly that's a lie, spikes in the …

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    Comment #16200736

    It can fold if you indent the text, not ideal but hardly a dealbreaker. I'm happy to say the VS Code is how I started with orgmode and I'm excited to see what's missing/coming, it'…

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    Comment #16079211

    They seem to be using https://www.eternum.io to "pin" the file (keep a copy of the file alive). Since eternum is a paid service they might unpin after a while but it's up to them. …