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kcvv··on Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People
When reading fast, we tend to read first/last letters and the 'pattern' of the whole word and not really read the spelling. In this case, Reticulum is not very common or a familiar word and most folks would first read (or rather 'see') the word 'rectum'!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23089042/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/typoglycemia/

kcvv··on A simple DNS lookup tool
Great, simple to use website.

Just one UI suggestion - in a bright room, I had to spend a few moments to figure out where to type as the borders around the text box was very faint and nearly invisible till I clicked on it. Either make the text border brighter or better still, why not place the cursor in the text box by default on page load so that txt box is highlighted by default?

(Using firefox 115.7 esr on Win 11).

kcvv··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Does anyone know if other Apps (like BaconReader for Android) have similar volumes and so have similar pricing issues ? There are a good number of options on Android for reddit clients - though I would assume the user base is more fragmented across multiple clients and would not have the volumes of Apollo..
kcvv··on River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
This is cool! Did you have some info on this or use some data to find this? I was randomly clicking points on center of US and many were just ending in a nearby lake. I only found a few that ended up in the sea..
kcvv··on River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
It would be an interesting problem to see / solve where in this map would a drop travel the most. By just clicking, I got one that travels from Cavour, South Dakota to Gulf of Mexico over a 3523 Kms journey. I am sure there must be something that is longer!

Edit - some of the routes stop at border of Canada - is this due to lack of dataset?

kcvv··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
How do you turn on the ShowDead settings? I don't see that in my settings page..
kcvv··on The New Moto G
It has a GPS, Compass and Accelerometer, light and proximity sensor. No NFC or Gyro.
kcvv··on Hostnames
I work for a large company that has multiple locations and sub business and many buildings have multiple data centres. By looking at the name, we can tell if its a prod / dev or a test server, location of the server ( city/building code and DC number), generic function ( DB -database could be any type of db , FS- file server, etc ) and unique number. Pretty good to pinpoint the location of the server globally but useless when you need to find out the exact function. While our inventory system is kind of OK, keeping it updated is a pain.
kcvv··on Getting all your data out of Google Reader
Copy the folder named 'base' to c:\python27\lib folder. That did the trick for me.

After that, you should be able to just run "reader_archive\reader_archive.py --output-directory C:\mystuff"

kcvv··on Getting all your data out of Google Reader
Thanks! For what ever reason, setting the python root did not help, but i just copied the 'base' folder to python lib folder and that seems to have done the trick.
kcvv··on Getting all your data out of Google Reader
I'm trying this on windows and seem to be missing base.api module. I can't seem to find this module as well - anyone have a clue where i can get this module?
kcvv··on Is there a server admin guide for noobs?
While there are several books to teach you basics of Linux, the best way to learn is to do hands on.

- Install Virtual box ( or any other free VM hosts).

- Download CentOS.

- Set yourself a goal on what you need to achieve - e.g I need to run php version x with apache configured to do x y z tasks.

- Install CentOS as a VM ( you could skip these steps and run a cheap VPS as others have suggested) .

- Understand the various steps in the installation - Disk partition, Software selection etc. Don't just blindly select anything unless you understand what you are doing.

- Figure out what software you need to install to achieve your goal and install it one by one.

- Ever time you get struck, if you find some command to fix the issue, don't blindly copy paste it - understand what the issue is and figure out what the command you are trying to run is doing to fix the issue.

Once you have everything up and running, destroy the machine and start over with a slightly different goal.

Google is your friend! Good luck.

kcvv··on Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit
I've been using http://pics.fefoo.com for a long time for the same purpose.
kcvv··on Magic Wand Bomb Detector Deemed Fraudulent, Inventor Imprisoned
The sad part is I still see this device being used - the security guys using this have no idea this is a scam - Even if its pointed out to them, they cannot do anything except follow orders from the top.
kcvv··on AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2
I just created a MS free tier instance and found it was using Windows Datacenter edition. If I recall, with DC edition, if you buy a DC edition licence for a physical server and run only Hyper-V hypervisor role on it, you can have unlimited number of virtual servers on it for free. I'ts possible Amazon is using this licencing clause to their advantage.
kcvv··on PragDave: I'm on vacation, and I've deleted your message—really
Seeing that this experiment was run in April 2011, I sure would like to see a follow up on how it turned out.