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internalthief commented on textfiles.com   textfiles.com/... · Posted by u/jhabdas
jstarfish · 6 years ago
It's not voodoo; the concept of "supertasters" and other supersensory traits in humans is well-documented. Most legitimate sommeliers are likely supertasters.

I'm a supertaster myself-- certain pungent/sour tastes will literally make me gag; I don't like foods with a million different components since I can taste all of them quite clearly. My wife on the other hand will smell things on the wind (like smoke) that I'll only notice 5-10 minutes later. I hear there are others who can see gradients of colors that others cannot.

> wetting the filter before you make your coffee

This isn't really voodoo, but it is debatable whether it matters for such a low volume. Since no filter fully expresses the fluid it absorbs, if you put exactly 4 cups of water through a dry filter, you're not getting exactly 4 cups of water out of it. The result might be a stronger cup of coffee (since there is less water to dilute it). Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so.

This matters more for things like oil changes, which is why after changing your oil filter and refilling the oil, you're supposed to run the car for a few minutes to operating temperature and check the oil levels again-- the dry filter will have added to the total capacity of the engine block and soaked up some of what you thought you put in.

internalthief · 6 years ago
> Wetting the filter gives you a more "accurate" result, but you'll get a consistent cup of coffee either way if you commit to either always wetting it or not doing so.

The big difference that wetting a filter has is that certain filters have a slight taste associated with them. If you wet the filter first and throw that water away you get a cleaner/brighter cup without the paper filter adulterants.

internalthief commented on Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities   keys.pub/... · Posted by u/qertoip
meddlepal · 6 years ago
One of the killer features for Keybase is the combination of teams + KeybaseFS. Unfortunately this doesn't look like it has either of those features.
internalthief · 6 years ago
Teams + git repositories for secrets is great too.

Makes it less likely that our secrets end up on Github where if Github were hacked, or an web account was hacked that our secrets become public.

internalthief commented on As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/turtlegrids
Macha · 6 years ago
Does that get sent by the mail system? At least here it's mostly minimum wage folks employed by marketing companies (not the postal service) going door to door to put leaflets in.

The postal service might add a flyer to your actual mail delivery, but only if they're delivering to your address anyway.

internalthief · 6 years ago
I live in an apartment complex, and my mailbox doesn't have a slot in it.

All of the junk mail I've received has come via the USPS, however since this all started happening I have received almost none.

The drop-off of junk mail delivery has been both welcome, and a sign of troubles for the USPS.

internalthief commented on Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m   cnbc.com/2020/04/03/bank-... · Posted by u/cmurf
jvm_ · 6 years ago
Your local diner probably doesn't have months worth of cash sitting around. They make food, sell it, pay employees and open the doors the next day. That falls apart pretty quickly if people stop buying their food.
internalthief · 6 years ago
One of my favorite bagel shops is barely making payroll during this shutdown, and only because they are heavily innovating how they keep customers.

They are now offering meal kits, so you get a meal for two to four people in one easy go, they started shipping via USPS, and they are doing local deliveries. They make their own in-house butter, cheese and cream cheese so their kits do fairly well.

They are also increasing what other items they are selling, such as adding bread to their lineup. Which is absolutely fantastic.

But it's still hard for them, with the reduction in people coming in and sitting around they don't get people buying a bunch of coffee or having breakfast and then lunch while chatting. They have had to furlough some of their staff, and I really hope they make it through, because another favorite restaurant of mine is going under, they simply can't afford to keep going, even with a loan that would help pay salaries, there are other contracts and payables due that simply can't be covered with enough loans... loans against what collateral?

internalthief commented on I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH   feed.tyler.io/so-uh-i-thi... · Posted by u/chmaynard
slovette · 6 years ago
Catalina is broken in many ways.

This complain and Remote Access in (so I can SSH to my $4k MacBook) disables itself anytime the computer is restarted.

But more importantly, I’ve still not found a Thunderbolt Display that doesn’t routinely crash screen manager services upon idle user activity. 3 x $300 thunderbolt3 dock solutions later and not a one hasn’t crashed this computer. All main brands, two of which sell accessories in the Apple store.

Problem also existed with a top of the line 13” MacBook Pro.

I’ve just gotten used to the shoddy-ness that is Catalina. Figure if I go to the bathroom, upon return I have a fresh, new clean desktop environment. Feature not a bug. Yay!

internalthief · 6 years ago
I've been using the Belkin Thunderbolt 3 dock for years now, and have had 0 issues with crashes.
internalthief commented on Full third-party cookie blocking and more   webkit.org/blog/10218/ful... · Posted by u/tbodt
jessaustin · 6 years ago
Wow they buried the lede; I'm glad you highlighted this. This is going to be an interesting situation for some Safari users. "Why did your app delete my data?" "If you don't like that you should use Chrome."

Of course Google could do this too, if they had a reason, even if only downstream from Chromium. It's just a commercial decision. Apple have decided they don't want their users to have usable anonymous web apps. Of course, since they don't support beforeinstallprompt, we already know they don't want their users to have web apps, period. Gotta get that sweet 30% cut!

internalthief · 6 years ago
I doubt that this is going to be an issue for applications using ReactNative or other solutions to package websites as applications.

For applications that have you add it to your home screen using the app icon, it may be more of an issue, but why wouldn't you sync that data back up to the server?

internalthief commented on Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions   blog.obdev.at/little-snit... · Posted by u/guessmyname
hs86 · 6 years ago
If they keep all third parties out of their kernel, could this ease a possible x86-to-ARM transition?
internalthief · 6 years ago
Yes, absolutely.
internalthief commented on Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)   blog.farhan.codes/2018/06... · Posted by u/pjmlp
tialaramex · 6 years ago
The relevant RFC says not to send a trailing dot in SNI. Browsers should probably trim the dot out if present. Maybe they aren't doing so because it causes some unexpected compatibility mishap, maybe in reality it rarely causes any trouble so nobody got around to it.
internalthief · 6 years ago
I was not aware of this!
internalthief commented on Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)   blog.farhan.codes/2018/06... · Posted by u/pjmlp
JdeBP · 6 years ago
That's the page on a shared hosting service, not served by me. See the site history page (still in the same place that it was a couple of years ago when it came up on Hacker News).
internalthief · 6 years ago
It's due to Apache not correctly matching the SNI when it is sent a FQDN ending in a period (.)

More information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632959

internalthief commented on Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (2018)   blog.farhan.codes/2018/06... · Posted by u/pjmlp
Phemist · 6 years ago
Off-topic: I can't help but be nosy and check the https version of your page. You seem to be serving a cert with CN=albertstreetantiquescentre.co.uk. Might want to get this looked at :)

Edit: Interesting,

https://jdebp.uk has the correct cert configured, whereas https://jdebp.uk. serves the cert as mentioned above.

internalthief · 6 years ago
It seems that the server running on the other end doesn't properly match the certificate from the SNI if the domain sent by the browser is a FQDN (i.e. ends in a .)

For example, try the following:

  openssl s_client -connect jdebp.uk:443 -servername "jdebp.uk."
vs

  openssl s_client -connect jdebp.uk:443 -servername "jdebp.uk"
You'll notice that in the first case the default certificate is sent back, in the second case the certificate is correctly matched against the SNI.

According to the Server header returned:

  Server: Apache/2.4.41 (cPanel) OpenSSL/1.1.1d mod_bwlimited/1.4 Phusion_Passenger/5.3.7
Testing against an NGINX based server, I am not seeing the same results, in fact I am seeing the correct certificate being returned.

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