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I recently dropped my Galaxy S5 [with a case and glass protector] into the toilet (gross). It was probably submerged for a full 2 seconds. Absolutely no side effects what-so-ever. I even gave it a full rinse in the sink afterwards.

I'm holding tight onto this phone, it's awesome.

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That's a neat idea. Do you mind expanding on it?

You do the midwest thing: just go about your business and pretend everything is fine.

You warm up your car 20 minutes before leaving. You throw on your layers that are reserved for the negative double digits (flannel jeans, extra thick wool socks, fur hats, massive scarf, thick mittens), check that the emergency kit and blankets are still in the back seat, and head out into the world and go about your day. In the city it isn't all that big of a deal, but it could mean danger if you get stranded in the countryside.

One of my favorite things about the super cold is how warm the house parties and social gatherings can get. It's so cold that you can't be outside for more than a few minutes at a time, so it really feels like an accomplishment when you make it to a friends house or a blizzard happy hour (that is, if it isnt too cold for snow).

Also the blue skies are amazing. The sundogs can be downright surreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

This would make for a fun scifi plot, from the perspective of Jupiter natives. "These assholes from Earth dropped a nuke from orbit. They appear to be preparing to do the same to our cousins on Saturn. What do we do now?"

what the hell? this is more interesting than the Berkshares themselves.

Well, think about it in the context of a rising volatile asset. I think what OP is recommending is to identify "entry points" and "exit points".

  - Buy as the asset is rising above 10 month MA (and likely will continue to rise, maybe for weeks, months, years)

  - Sell as the asset is cooling off (falling below 10 month MA). Don't get "back in" until the asset is heating back up.

With something like bitcoin, this idea would be to ride up a large market bull, but then get out until it looks like it is happening again. If you play with the Moving Average[0], you can see that this strategy would basically have you enter in late 2013, sell in mid 2014, and not enter again until late 2015, then hold all the way. Not exactly a riveting strategy, but OP didn't claim as much.

[0] https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg1460zigDailyz...

What would the transmit range on something like that be?

That's not entirely true. In our market, there aren't many Uber drivers and it's easy to game the system.

A few weeks ago I took a ride with someone who was trying very hard not to "join the uber mafia". He said that most of the time he also has to turn off his phone, otherwise he gets screwed over.

The reason is that when there are no more drivers, he'll get matched with people on the other side of town. He doesn't get paid for the drive out, and sometimes people still cancel after waiting 20 minutes for an uber to show up after ordering. Even with surge pricing it didn't make financial sense, so he'll turn off his phone too or switch to Lyft during these periods.

It's like a meta side gig.

I just mean that I didn't use my card during the time period, but a week later.

My area was hit, and I did get hit with credit card fraud. I suspected a different vector (shady medical vendor and coincidental timing). The card that got hit was indeed used at Chipotle, but a week after the supposed "time range" indicated on the security site. Maybe the time range isn't absolute.

Seems that a lot hinges on the use of 'state' in the US Constitution, which feels like a stretch.

I've lived in the midwest all of my life, and grew up eating Rhubarb Pie that my grandmother made. The Rhubarb she used was from her garden, and is likely the decedent of my original German homestead family from several generation back.

Recently I've come to learn that Rhubarb is not native. Which was surprising to me because I see it everywhere. It came over from our European immigrants and has been hanging out ever since.

Last spring I was hiking in a forest in ND, and came across a beautiful patch of rhubarb. This got me thinking -- where did this patch of Rhubarb come from? If all local Rhubarb eventually can be traced back to the mother plant brought over from Europe as immigrants made their way west, could we use genetic markers to trace individual patches back to specific homesteads, and ultimately to specific counties of origin in Europe? This kind of thing fascinates me.

According to the linked article, the plant originally came from China. So in theory, only part of the story would be told by linking a patch back to Europe. You could continue to trace back all the way to China.

Our flow is like this:

1) Person pushes to dev branch

2) Chat log shows the feature pushed

3) Chat log shows Jenkins received push and is downloading

4) Chat log shows whether tests were successful (yay) or not (boo).

^^ that's the basis. It helps keep everyone up to speed on what's going on, especially for testing.

One more example: Notifications when merge requests are made / merged in the chat.

We migrated from IRC to Mattermost and haven't looked back. It integrates so well with our Gitlab/Jenkins flow, too. It's been great.

The biggest benefits for us:

  - Easy to use web push endpoints w/ API keys (great for scripting with curl)

  - Integration with Gitlab / Jenkins

  - Chat Logs (see what happened while you were away)

  - Public listing of channels (no more "oh you have to join #whatever to see that")

  - Mobile Web App (I can't get the Android app to work with our self signed cert, but that's OK).

Hi shroom -- curious why you capitalize both letters in "it"?

Thanks kbyatnal. I'm always looking for ways to help me maintain engagement with old friends in other parts of the world. It's amazing when a few months go by and you realize you haven't heard from one, even though you're just a quick chat message away.

cool idea. how has the response been? i've had ideas for similar micro projects for personal workflow and task management but haven't pulled the trigger.

Good point. However, I guess recent nginx supports streaming tcp proxy, so maybe it would work. http://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_proxy_module.html

What if you just set up an nginx reverse proxy?

gitrepo.mycompany.com/product.git --> reverse proxy to git.mycompany.com/gitrepo/product.git

Should be straight forward in nginx

So you use it in conjunction with an alarm? Or is it your primary alarm (built in)?

I love your last stanza. I keep re-reading it.

Haha. Hey dude. I figured you'd find your way over here. :P

Forgot all about that little shoutbox.

I got my start (in programming) building my first e/n site (god has it really been 18 years...). My personal understanding was that "e/n" stood for "everything/nothing". In my case, this was exactly correct.

It was a place for my friends to post stupid stuff, a place for me to experiment with css and php, build new "features" just for fun. It was an open playground in a new world. It was a lot of fun. I also just remembered how it was hosted. I became known as the neighborhood kid who collected old computers, so I ended up with a bunch of weird hardware. The site was originally hosted on a 75mhz intel something or another sitting behind a 133mhz linux frankenstein gateway in my bedroom. I remember getting mad at my internet provider when they claimed I had used up "all 10 gb of data", when I clearly had the bandwidth logs that showed it wasnt possible!

The other cool thing was connecting with other e/n site owners who were also doing their thing. Sometimes you'd collaborate or ping each other's APIs, other times participate in their own experiments. Thousands of little web sites with micro communities built on spaghetti code, almost all have certainly faded away through the various ways that tiny sites die: a web host gets sold, an upstream system upgrade botched but not addressed, a missed payment, an unpatched vulnerability. Maybe today the owner still maintains the domain name out of nostalgia. Shoutout to gyrate.org and sejje.net; Rest in peace, frikk.tk

Cool. The original article was lacking on details. Thanks for the context.

An interesting observation from the photos is that you can see evidence of light vandalization (mostly "names" carved into the rock). This implies these caves are part of some hyper local knowledge (at least as a party room for teenagers).

- I wonder what the oldest vandalization is?

- Could it be that there are many others in the area, which is why this hasn't been formally discovered before? How many times has it been "rediscovered" in the last 700 years?

- Is it actually a rabbit hole (as in: a hole used by rabbits) or just a "door"? Seems likely that it "looks" like a rabbit hole, but is actually a (perhaps maintained) door into the cave.

Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents. Ordered my laptop in 2012 and couldn't be happier. Still using it today.

Likely my best course of action.

Found this video from the company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=563&v=02FL092Qk_...