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The Patent Center is designed as a more streamlined tool electronic filing of patent applications that combines EFS-Web and PAIR. For now, the PTO is planning to keep those avenues available until the Patent Center achieves full functionality and stability.

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December 4, 2020 at 10:18AM

December 4, 2020

Making a Sphere with Explosives

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(Loud) Making a metal sphere usually involves stamping or spinning sheet metal. But this video shows a process where they start out with a shape made out of polygons, then turn it into a sphere by bending the metal with an explosion at its center. We’re not sure of all of the science, but we found a paper on the subject.

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December 4, 2020 at 02:45PM

December 4, 2020

How to Move Google Authenticator to a New iPhone

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Finally, Google has updated its useful Authenticator app on iOS to allow users to export their myriad of tokens and import them on another iPhone directly within the app. This has been my biggest hitch about using Google Authenticator, as it meant that you were in for a world of annoyance when upgrading or switching to a new iPhone—you wouldn’t really “move” Google Authenticator to a new iPhone so much as you would “set it all up from scratch again.” You’d have to visit each service that uses 2FA and either “change” it over by scanning a QR code on your iPhone, or disable 2FA entirely and set it back up again—also by scanning a QR code.

Either way, it was a pain in the ass, and it made my iPhone-owning self incredibly jealous of Android users who could just use the “Export Accounts” feature directly within the app to quickly transfer their Authenticator tokens to a new phone. Why it took Google this long to implement this critical capability in iOS, I’ll never know. But it’s here, and using it is simple:

Make sure you’re using the most up-to-date version of Google Authenticator, which you can check via App Store > your Apple ID in the upper-right corner > Swipe down to refresh your list of apps with updates.
Launch Google Authenticator.
Tap the triple-dot icon in the upper-right corner and select Export accounts.
Select up to 10 accounts to export. (Yes, you can only do 10 at a time.) Tap on Export once you’ve made your choice.
Launch Google Authenticator on your new iPhone and use it to scan the QR code on your old iPhone.
Once you’ve confirmed that the accounts were imported successfully—try logging into one, for example—tap Done on your old iPhone, and then tap Remove accounts.

Repeat the process as necessary, in case you’ve associated more than 10 accounts with Google Authenticator. But that’s it. It’s so easy, and it finally makes Google Authenticator a worthy entrant in the 2FA field—on iOS, at least. I’m not sure I’ll leave Authy to move back to Google’s app, but it’s nice to know that Google Authenticator finally has everything I need.

For what it’s worth, when I tried exporting accounts from my iPhone and importing them into the Android version of Google Authenticator, the process failed. The app instructed me to look for an updated version of Google Authenticator from the Google Play Store, which didn’t make sense, seeing as it was a fresh install of the app. That leads me to believe that this functionality (or fix) is coming soon, but wasn’t ready as of when I wrote this.

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December 4, 2020 at 03:05PM

December 3, 2020

Ohio wisely recommends Ohioans avoid traveling to Ohio

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Trigger Warning: If you like Ohio, this might make you mad.

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December 3, 2020 at 06:15PM

December 2, 2020

DIY Heated Concrete Bench

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If you’re going to park your butt on an outdoor bench in the winter, it can be a jarring experience. HomeMadeModern wanted to improve upon the basic design, so he embedded a heated rubber mat in a DIY concrete bench. Heated seats are great in cars, so we imagine they’d be just as pleasant outdoors.

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December 2, 2020 at 11:00AM

December 2, 2020

Lol watch this poor Amazon driver get chased off by hens

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This poor dude was just trying to do his job when he nearly got mauled by a brood of angry hens. Thankfully the whole thing was caught on video.

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December 2, 2020 at 01:30PM

December 2, 2020

MySQL Window Function Compilation

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If you use SQL on a regular basis, then you are well aware that Window Functions are powerful. They allow us to simplify queries that would otherwise be quite the mess. We can provide meaningful insight across rows of data without collapsing the results into a single value. I have written numerous blog posts on Window Functions, many here recently. I decided to make this blog post a compilation of all the Window Function posts I have written, providing a one-stop source for any readers interested in learning more about Window Functions…

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December 2, 2020 at 07:35AM

December 1, 2020

AWS goes after Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

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AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud. The new service is Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. The tagline AWS CEO Andy Jassy used for this service in his re:Invent keynote today is probably telling: “Stop paying for SQL Server licenses you don’t need.” And to show how serious it is about this, the company is even open-sourcing the tool.

What Babelfish does is provide a translation layer for SQL Server’s proprietary SQL dialect (T-SQL) and communications protocol so that businesses can switch to AWS’ Aurora relational database at will (though they’ll still have to migrate their existing data). It provides translations for the dialect, but also SQL commands, cursors, catalog views, data types, triggers, stored procedures and functions.

The promise here is that companies won’t have to replace their database drivers or rewrite and verify their database requests to make this transition.

“We believe Babelfish stands out because it’s not another migration service, as useful as those can be. Babelfish enables PostgreSQL to understand database requests—both the command and the protocol—from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server without changing libraries, database schema, or SQL statements,” AWS’s Matt Asay writes in today’s announcement. “This means much faster ‘migrations’ with minimal developer effort. It’s also centered on ‘correctness,’ meaning applications designed to use SQL Server functionality will behave the same on PostgreSQL as they would on SQL Server.”

PostgreSQL, AWS rightly points out, is one of the most popular open-source databases in the market today. A lot of companies want to migrate their relational databases to it — or at least use it in conjunction with their existing databases. This new service is going to make that significantly easier.

The open-source Babelfish project will launch in 2021 and will be available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license.

“It’s still true that the overwhelming majority of relational databases are on-premise,” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said. “Customers are fed up with and sick of incumbents.” As is tradition at re:Invent, Jassy also got a few swipes at Oracle into his keynote, but the real target of the products the company is launching in the database area today is clearly Microsoft.

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December 1, 2020 at 12:34PM