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961.
by Herring 17y ago
ram: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1120475 (I think I've seen windows guides somewhere) defragmenting: http://lifehacker.com/5344418/make-firefox-faster-by-vacuumi...
962.
by Herring 17y ago
Startup time is usually a matter of vacuuming your sqlite. I actually ended up running firefox entirely from ram, which makes it significantly faster.
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by Herring 17y ago
Yeah I got that. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0015TCML0/?tag=kwab-... Maybe they'll restock soon.
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by Herring 17y ago
Last I checked they had it refurbished for ~400
965.
by Herring 17y ago
Hopefully some sort of folder system, since it seems Amazon can't do it.
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by Herring 17y ago
Well someone thought she should go for a mental health evaluation. Do they do that for everyone who gets into a fight?
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by Herring 17y ago
>It was structured as though we are to pity the business owner while thumbing our noses at Yelp. I'm fairly sure the writer was being ironic. Or at least he's showing us how the (insane) business owner sees things.
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by Herring 17y ago
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~markm/einstein/aharonov_einstein.pdf Curious quantum eraser article on Science a while ago.
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by Herring 17y ago
> Religions are irrelevant to the existence of god As the blog noted, that's certainly not what most religious people believe. You're just not in Dawkins' target audience. So if it's ok with you, i'd rather not continue derailing this
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by Herring 17y ago
>God cannot be proved or disproved, so stop wasting your time! http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprova... (tldr: skip to the last paragraph)
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by Herring 17y ago
Well, then you wouldn't be hearing about it.
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by Herring 17y ago
My guess is they check referrers? Not a userscript, but I use RefControl for fine tuning such.
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by Herring 17y ago
Add it to the list of 'questionably legal' things I do online.
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by Herring 17y ago
GP said deforestation causing climate change, not deforestation caused by climate change.
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by Herring 17y ago
Trolling the neighbors isn't particularly hard. Just about anything with religion/politics/sex will do.
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by Herring 17y ago
I took it to mean general queries. Anyway I often format my query for google & that gets me to the article much faster.
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by Herring 17y ago
>Google is better at optimising itself for my query than I am trying to optimise my thoughts for google. What, no. Not even close. That would require natural language processing & i doubt google even dreams of that.
978.
by Herring 17y ago
Technically you're selecting the results you wanna see, so it doesn't tell you how frequent they are. The ranking only tells you relative frequency. You already knew there's someone somewhere who searches like that.
979.
by Herring 17y ago
Or sex is generally how love is expressed for guys. for more sad/hilarious results, look up "how can i get my wife/husband.."
980.
by Herring 17y ago
More like they're only 1/10th of the way towards breaking even.
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by Herring 17y ago
I'm sorry, two planets in our solar system?
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by Herring 17y ago
Yeah I got your meaning. I just think perhaps you'd do even more reading if you got a kindle. (Well it can't be less..) Like I've been running through lots of academic papers recently. I just loaded the empirical bayes paper from the front
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by Herring 17y ago
>A lot of e-reading, that is. Reading continues as it has for centuries... Perhaps not, unless he's reading on a cell phone. You read a lot more with a dedicated device. I find myself pulling out my kindle & losing myself in a boo
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by Herring 17y ago
>Every time I see a Kindle, or a Sony Reader, I desperately want to buy one, but I never do. I keep telling myself that waiting just six months will mean a better version and more variety to chose from. Bad idea. 6 months is a lot of
985.
by Herring 17y ago
No. Look, it's right there in the preamble. First two sentences...
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by Herring 17y ago
Nope, it's normal screens. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/28/apple_orders_1...
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by Herring 17y ago
I think network effects guarantee that one hardware platform will dominate most (almost all) of the installations. You can't expect software to be portable & everyone to provide source.
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by Herring 17y ago
> "We'll say, 'We know he's fencing here, and when we arrest him he's facing a life term and he'll turn on you.' Within a week, we'll find Blane in a drum in the East River, because that's how these guys play." It surprises me that i'
989.
by Herring 17y ago
So now we know it's not going to be an e-ink screen.
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by Herring 17y ago
That sounds like a lisp proponent's problem, quoting stats he can't back up.

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