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robotmlgon The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database

There is a link to the North America file, where all those referenced stories can be found.

Such a popular trick that it got a song written about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLjNi2_qnk

Say what you want about BBEdit no longer being useful in the modern era, but whenever I have to work with a multi-megabyte file that my IDE chokes on, BBEdit can open it no problem.

robotmlgon Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31

nope, it has a REST API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/adding-apple-weatherkit-d...

robotmlgon Mille Bornes

COUP FOURRÉ!

robotmlgon I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped

He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...

robotmlgon We’ll Miss You, MetroCard Machine

MetroCard was also created and run by Cubic, nothing new here.

robotmlgon News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta

They did have it in Safari, and they took it out. There was a webkit bug open since 2015 asking them to put it back in, finally closed earlier this year.

robotmlgon Edge Lane Roads a.k.a. Advisory Bike Lanes

Road Guy Rob did a video recently about a failed edge lane road experiment. Seems like a good idea to me as long as car traffic isn't too heavy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeynqnirofE

robotmlgon Formula E Gen3: The world’s most efficient race car

most emission from ICE racing (at least in the high level series where they do a lot of traveling) is from the planes and ships that transport the team members and equipment, and I imagine that's the same for Formula E

robotmlgon Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago

Similarly, https://favrd.it has been posting the top tweets of 2009 (as compiled by Favrd, RIP)

robotmlgon Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

The facebook link problem is fixed in today's 2019.4 update

https://twitter.com/caseyliss/status/1132335799817691136

robotmlgon USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard

> the displays is upside down on one of my devices!

wait I don't get it. It's USB-C, just flip it over?

robotmlgon Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged

JC resident who commutes to Manhattan here:

> Most people aren't willing to switch trains to get to work.

Not true in NYC. Plenty of people change subways once or even twice to commute. Changing PATH to subway is no different except you have to pay twice.

> you could probably take the ferry directly from downtown JC to LIC.

Currently there are no ferries that run this route directly. NY Waterway runs the Hudson River ferries, which the MTA (subcontracted out) runs the East River ferries. You could do this commute by ferry if you changed ferries at Wall St/Pier 11, but that point you might as well take the train.

robotmlgon Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes

And according to the Numberphile video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhacWQ2fCs) there is a prior paper showing it for bases 2, 3, and 4

robotmlgon Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons

27:00?

robotmlgon CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was a ‘Mistake’

According to the article, the FCC "regulates all satellite launches by American companies, whether they occur on U.S. soil or elsewhere."

robotmlgon Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better

Slack's messaging backend is Java (at least it was in 2014): https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/426469205005705217

robotmlgon 14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor

Goodspaceguy seems way cooler than New Jersey's perennial candidate Jeff Boss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Boss

robotmlgon I discovered a browser bug

Did you report the Safari bug to Apple or to WebKit.org? I've had good luck getting responses and fixes from the webkit guys

robotmlgon YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...

robotmlgon The rise and fall of Sugru

Blu-Tack doesn't harden, it stays sticky. It's used to attach posters to the wall and stuff like that. I wouldn't want to use it on the edge of a MacBook, it would just gather dust and grime, and would easily fall off.

robotmlgon Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

> As it is I hate how I can't talk ABOUT "ok google" around my phone... because it always goes off.

On several tech podcasts I listen to (http://atp.fm, https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/) they use fillers like "Yo, dingus!" to talk about alexa/hey siri/ok google

robotmlgon Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard

> closest without going over

That's The Price Is Right, not Wheel of Fortune ;-)

robotmlgon Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series to Windows 10

GOG has been selling current games in addition to the "good old games" for a long time now

robotmlgon Google Memory Loss

That result is just the blog's page for November 2008, not the article page itself. So while that page _does_ have the article text on it, it is not the article itself.

robotmlgon Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs

That's a reposted video, the original is from Bryan Cantrill (formerly of Sun, now CTO of Joyent): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

robotmlgon How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

Previous article from Bloomberg in 2015 about Driscoll's: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-29/how-drisc...

robotmlgon Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to code internal tools?

> sometimes in-house tools become the future of a company.

e.g. Slack started as an internal messaging tool at a game development company

robotmlgon Uber CEO Plays with Fire

They don't wrap on desktop either