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by Adaptive 12y ago
One of the researchers mentioned in the article, Roy Baumeister, wrote a book that I enjoyed (entitled "Willpower"). He gave a talk about willpower and glucose levels which you can see some of here: https://www.youtube.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
If I didn't answer your question, feel free to ping me on email. There's a non trivial amount of tweaking I did to make this thing run the way I want.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
Not sure if you mean the microsoft surface keyboard or an onscreen keyboard. I don't use the ms keyboard covers at all, haven't even purchased one (mechanical usb keyboards instead). I know there have been issues running the surfa
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I'm on the 34" external right now running about 60 tabs in chrome, some vim sessions, and a paused google music tab, and it's silent (no fan noise at all).
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I long ago gave up on waiting for the next version of anything. That being said, I love power savings and if I stick with this setup (SPro with a mechanical keyboard) I will eventually switch to a Broadwell Core M model when it comes out. I
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I'm using an SP3 to run i3, Arch (native, not in a VM). Dual booting when I need Adobe in windows. Didn't even have to disable secure boot. I am keeping notes on the process here: https://docs.google.com/document&#
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I taught a raspberry pi intro to computing class last year and was hunting around for some jacquard loom demos for the students when I found something that blew my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78opvFR-VsU These are
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by Adaptive 12y ago
The uni in Thailand that I first worked at had a very common canteen setup that served delicious noodles with fresh vegetables and nutritious, cheap, gray cubes of blood. Pretty standard asian fare. Glad that this has now been discovered by
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by Adaptive 12y ago
Sure. I added "local" about a second after posting for this reason. However even with -f you can just specify an interval when running tests outside your lan.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
On current iputils ping (seems to be default on most linux distros) you should be using flood ping for this: # ping -f x.x.x.x As superuser or su -c / sudo of course. You'll get a nice real time bar chart of packet loss.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I agree, though at least in some low power cases you can use it with a regular micro usb cable and pretend it isn't the weird wide monstrosity that it is.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
No need for much money. There are hundreds of adapter types available for most mainstream bodies. Cheap Canon or Nikon digital slr (used, old generation, etc.) and an adapter, you can use lenses from yesteryear. I have my dad's Nikon F
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I just recently read Permutation City as well. If you liked it you'll enjoy Diaspora immensely. Permutation City is one of those books that made me feel the same way I did when first trying to understand clever recursive functions in H
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by Adaptive 12y ago
For sci-fi readers that dig aperiodic tiling, Greg Egan wrote a great short story in his book 'Diaspora' about computational wang tiles. http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B00E83YOEI (the
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I used this game to intro kids to command-line usage in a recent Linux-for-kids class I taught. Worked wonders. Once they were comfortable with the IF parser, moving to CLI was much easier.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
Agreed on the language/vitriol interpretation. I was thinking the same when I listed rogue content maintainer.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
It is a lot of effort, and you make good points. I'll add a note to my original post.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
Seems to point towards compromised SF account.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
Yes. This would be just about the worst way to announce and make recommendations. Looks like defacement to me.
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by Adaptive 12y ago
In order of likelihood: * Defaced site, timed to screw up a big announcement * Rogue content maintainer * Phase II of audit turned up something rather bad (edit: NO - see tptacek below) edit: Variations on "devel
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I was upcoming.org user 500 or so and set up the Hong Kong info in it then. It was heartbreaking to see it atrophy and die. Another in the long list of acquisitions that demonstrate the ability of Yahoo's corporate mediocrity to smothe
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I had a couple problems requiring a btrfsck, specifically related to google-chrome cache directories. Never had it since. I use btrfs snapshotting a lot (for convenient system rollback). I definitely am not running btrfs on a production mac
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by Adaptive 12y ago
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1Mjc
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by Adaptive 12y ago
I use both OS X and Linux daily, each on laptops and I would have agreed with you until recently. On 3.12-3.14 my resume times on have gone from slower than OS X to at least as fast, sometimes apparently faster, than the same OS X laptop. T
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by Adaptive 13y ago
(Obligatory "as a former Google fan" header) When Google isn't making my skin crawl / fists clench in fury lately, they are making me scratch my head. Why on earth isn't Google Now, easily one of the most amazing things they've done recentl
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by Adaptive 14y ago
Completely unrelated to the mechanized extraction of coal, of course. Horses and zebras.
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by Adaptive 14y ago
My favorite text editor font (Letter Gothic) was originally designed for the Selectric. http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/monotype/letter_goth... (that link isn't the monospaced variant, don't get it, but a good visual representatio
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by Adaptive 14y ago
That's a very relevant point. I'd say that for about 4 or 5 years it was in a safe, stable zone in the product strategy, but for the past 3-4 it was a dead app walking. Those last 4 years also say Wave, Buzz and other very big, public launc
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by Adaptive 14y ago
I would have jumped on this a year ago. The elephant in the room with every one of the Google announcements is that they've drained their coffers of trust/goodwill with the early adopter crowd, which is precisely the group you need to kick
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by Adaptive 14y ago
This. I'm kind of dumbfounded by the number of tech "pundits" claiming that app X is a good replacement. * I use Newsbeuter myself but even then it syncs with Reader. I use the web view, I use GUIs. * I aggregate business client feeds using

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