Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Why is this being posted on HN? Flagged.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Real limitations aren't "real" though, in the sense that some sort of boundary or new knowledge extends the demarcating line between it being a "real" limitation and an "unknown" limitation. A matter of degree I suppose. I'm certainly not g
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Taking Pepto Bismol prophylactically... Ick! That'll give you all sorts of unpleasant side-effects - it's much better to eat raw garlic or raw onions every morning. You'll adjust to the local organisms better and you won't get sick at all
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
This is purely anecdotal and may also be related to the two-page long list of vaccinations I received, but I've rarely ever been sick since being back from India (where I did get sick a few times, pretty badly) and when I am sick, it's usua
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
It is, I'm now my own employer - for a very good reason (I'm a programmer, can easily do it, and I realized self-employment > employment on many fronts). When I went to India, though, I quit my job teaching personal self-defense and got
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
The fear of falling behind and not being able to catch up is unreasonable. The more cultured and experienced, with people of a different mind, you are the more dynamic and "out-of-the-box" your psyche is; I would argue that getting away f
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
It's a farce to say you can't afford it. I backpacked through India for two months and spent a total of $1,534.00 (excluding airfare to and from the country). I was well fed, sheltered, and had a blast. Many occidental countries and develop
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I like this perspective, I prefer optimism over critical pessimism. This stance is really what drives innovation - not being restrained by perceived or even real limitations.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I wasn't too keen on the pessimism in his article; I can agree, in principle, with what he was saying but the point of emergent fields is in how unpredictable they are - this may lead to unrealistic expectations (which can often times drive
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Meditation (lucubration, introspection, "going into the silence", reverie, etc...) is a highly subjective and personal experience - the primary goal of which is to reach an expanded or better aligned state of being. Some will argue that you
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
True, it does work out of the box, but my workflow requires a lot of customizations - my org-mode customizations line count comes in a 162 lines... My .emacs got so big I had to split it up into init files: - programming mode customi
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Everyone is comfortable with different levels of grooming. I've been on multi-week survival trips and backpacking trips where there was no grooming (except the occasional river dunk) to be had. I also presently live in a dense urban city wh
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I agree with what nostromo said and wish to add to that based off of my own life experience (and personality). My personality tends toward the reserved side of things (I'm an INTJ if that helps at all) and especially so when I'm focused on
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I work from home too, luckily I don't have a family to deal with, just my girlfriend and she works 9-to-5 every day. The only stickler that's annoying for me is uncleanliness in the house, I generally spend a lot of time picking up because
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Clever and funny but it doesn't really belong on HN...
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Depends on the context with which you are arguing, I suppose. In this case it might have been more correct to argue FreeBSD vs. Debian. I still stress, though, that the difference is still a notable one; even though Debian may be a tight an
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Burners are an innovative, sharp, and down to earth bunch; I'm not surprised PayPal got "burned" by pulling what they did. Burners are also a big(ish) community, some of which are influential people in mainstream society. Glad to see someon
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Would it be that feasible to detect anonymized and encrypted GNUnet traffic? The packets would be largely scrambled, no? Unless you knew that sending/receiving nodes were in fact GNUnet endpoints - you could infer what the traffic is, bas
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
See my reply to the previous commenter.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I don't have any specific scientific papers to cite (although I have seen them), I do have personal anecdotal experience and this article that I read a while ago about it: http://www.integrativepsychiatry.net/adrenal_fatigue.html My perso
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
This is a sensationalist article and the author read into it poorly. Something is bound to happen, there will be some sort of compromise between complete network neutrality and telecom dominance; primarily because neither camp will get a
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
A startup I worked for did all of this and more - I left because some of their tactics were getting far too shady for me. Scraping business listings to populate your DB to make your ad network look like it was being used wasn't so unethical
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Some people use it with religious fervor, some do not; there is truth behind it though. Cohesive in this context refers to the user land and kernel software ecosystem of the project. GNU/Linux is called "GNU"/"Linux" because it is the user
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I was never even close to being addicted to coffee and I refuse to drink even one drink due to its effects on my body. Stimulants not only fry you a bit, they also fatigue your adrenal glands which is the major cause for midday fatigue, ran
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I didn't know any of that, thanks for posting. My experience with FreeBSD's port tree has been wonderful; they are actually managed well with the base system. There are regular updates to the ports as well.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I seriously disagree with this. The Ports tree is much more coherent and easy to use than any of the Linux distribution's attempts. The key reason for this is the fact that FreeBSD is a cohesive whole rather than a "distribution". I'm alway
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
But it's an excellent alternative... That's the key reason I think it's a Good Thing; portability for FreeBSD was never a big issue because of Linux Binary Compatibility, though...
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
It always seemed logical to me; I never heard anyone actually "say" it (or write it) but it seemed logical that "ref" stood for "reference" and "h" stood for hypertext - since links point to URI's and back then the only linkable resources w
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
We're heading for a brave new world where the kernel is just another package, not some immutable part of the whole system. While I can agree with this on the grounds that diversity of choice is a Good Thing and will introduce innovation a

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