williamjackson

This sounds like a lovely service, but my library requires the cardholder to be present when checking out books.

My father tells stories of living in Las Vegas in the late 70s when the local public library already provided this service for free to all patrons.

Reveal Codes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#Reveal_codes

I launched the Postgres Docker image on a VPS several years ago, published the port on the open Internet, and ... used strong passwords?

I still haven’t been compromised. Have I done something wrong?

The README explains that you can get Celsius by appending `?m` to your query.

Disney+ is on Roku, they just didn't make the channel available before today.

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I wasn't paying complete attention on the sign up page, and I pasted my new password into the "Pick a username" field because I expected it to be a password verification field.

Also, there is apparently no way to change my username (even though I sign in with my email address, so I assume my username is not a primary key), or change my password, or delete my profile.

The article claims that adding subscript support to your own types is unique to Swift, but I immediately thought of how you would do it in Python:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

I admit I don’t have a ton of experience in other languages. Is this an uncommon language feature?

"Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!" [1] is a great book that I love to read to my children. I hope it helps them understand that scientific knowledge changes all the time.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27579.Boy_Were_We_Wrong_...

I am reminded of my favorite poem[0]:

"Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / none will come / and then a lot'll."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour

There was a security camera with a built-in HTTP server at a previous job. The built-in server would respond without a problem when viewed from one computer, but would force close the connection without a response when viewed from another computer.

I used Fiddler to compare the requests from the two computers and eventually discovered that the request would fail if the `Accept` header was longer than some value (might have been 255 characters -- I don't remember).

Turns out when you install Microsoft Visio and Project, Internet Explorer's Accept header gets really long.

And now PowerShell on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is a thing.

(Spoiler alert, it doesn't work very well right now. The cursor keeps jumping to the top of the console and overwriting existing text.)

This reminded me exactly of Python's mutable default arguments:

http://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/correctn...

If you haven't looked recently, they now have incoming and outgoing web requests:

https://ifttt.com/maker

I hope you don't buy a toy that is already recalled. It is against the law in the US to sell a product that has been publicly recalled. http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-...

My wife received a cochlear implant in October, so we are on this journey right now. It has definitely been frustrating, but we have seen progress and we are optimistic about the future. If you are interested you can read about the implant activation process here:

http://hegavememyears.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-i-saw-at-act...

Use `man calendar` for details on the file format. It's more of an "on this day in history" type list than actual timeline.

The data itself (LOTR dates) first appeared in 4.4BSD (though it was part of the file `calendar.history` [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/2.0.5/usr.bin/calendar... ]), and has since passed to FreeBSD (where the LOTR dates were split off into a separate file [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=11... ]) and subsequently Mac OS X.

This looks a lot like Glympse [ http://glympse.com/ ] to me.