Jedd

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by Jedd 13y ago
Good point. Done. :)
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by Jedd 13y ago
ISO 8601 ftw, chaps! I find the screenshot showing two columns - 4/22/2014 and 4/21/2014 - culturally interesting (I'm from Australia, but see this date format frequently). You kind of take it for granted that every
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by Jedd 13y ago
The opening line of the post: "I adore weapons. Of every sort." From Excession, by Iain M. Banks: "It could see that - by some criteria - a warship, just by the perfectly articulated purity of its purpose, was the most beaut
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by Jedd 13y ago
Indeed. But note well -- the question must be taken seriously! As I get older I'm finding it harder to distinguish parody from stupidity/ignorance (aka Poe's law).
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by Jedd 13y ago
This is almost definitely true, but most domestic ovens don't get hot enough (400C from memory is close to ideal). Hottest oven I've had in a 'normal' rented place went as high as 270C, and even with a pizza stone it wa
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by Jedd 13y ago
Cling onto that raft! I fear it's a combination of NIH (despite the same being said of imperial, Fahrenheit, etc), fear of change, and irrational dislike of the French. Of course, Daniel Fahrenheit was Dutch/German, and Anders
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by Jedd 13y ago
Hope you took the comment in the whingy great southern continent spirit it was intended. ;) I was just going to dwell upon my amazement that toast lasts 120 seconds at your place. Butter really needs to get on and be melting within 10 s
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by Jedd 13y ago
dfc - you're right, I think, that it's almost always ambiguous temperature references, doubtless because the 'degree' part of the unit name is shared between the three common measures. As rgarrett88 points out, short dis
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by Jedd 13y ago
For a pseudo-scientific analysis ... it's a shame the units of measurement weren't defined up front. (I live in one of the 190+ countries that use Celsius, but I know that 99.8% of things on the Internets are written by people fro
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by Jedd 13y ago
Jesus Christ Silicon Valley[1] did a beautiful breakdown of the lunacy of Quora a year ago. JCSV's style isn't for everyone (much sarcasm, so profanity, very rude) but he/she makes some compelling points "Quora has r
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by Jedd 13y ago
Oh, is that what happened? I saw it as an .au (I'm in AU) but couldn't work out what the heck RPI was (why do people still assume that their blog readers are in the same region they are?). Happily the dodgy "May 16, 2011&qu
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by Jedd 13y ago
Here's my hit prediction - in 1-2 years HN will be full of blog posts of people bemoaning how they are forced to abandon Twitter, not because they have just noticed that 140char is too short to convey a meaningful message, but because
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by Jedd 13y ago
The USA went to the moon in the 1960's, but metric was officially sanctioned by the USA in the 1860's. No coincidence, merely regret.
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by Jedd 13y ago
People picking on other people's language skills ... who doesn't understand the difference between whose and who's ... may be living in a glasshouse.
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by Jedd 13y ago
I'll second this -- #salt is a welcoming channel full of informed and helpful types. Similarly #mynt. Heck, I'd suggest that almost any free software project where at least one of the primary developers loiters would be an answe
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by Jedd 13y ago
Made that teeny bit worse by the following 'of'.
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by Jedd 13y ago
I thought Microsoft OS releases were generally agreed to be like Star Trek films - you really only need to see every second one.
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by Jedd 13y ago
Seems to be a lengthy yet incomplete summary of the first 1/5th of The Four Hour Body (cited, at least). Likewise I don't know where the 'I don't know how' bit fits in, given there's a massive explanation of ho
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by Jedd 13y ago
It's getting much harder to discern authentic imbecility from carefully crafted satire.
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by Jedd 13y ago
Hey memset - these sound like pretty straightforward questions (with straightforward answers). Perhaps asking on the mailing list, or hop onto the #salt channel on freenode IRC?
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by Jedd 13y ago
> As far as I understand it OP wants higher res finished images than what was being offered. The OP stated: "I asked to include the raw files and [original] jpgs ..." > Asking for the raw files in addition to the 2.5mp imag
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by Jedd 13y ago
> First of all, he has no control how the raw files will be processed ... This is equally true for any work done on a jpeg. > Don't forget you've got the ability to change the end result of his work with raw files and with t
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by Jedd 13y ago
I think your question is actually 'Tips on finding a wedding photographer who'll provide RAWs', rather than trying to encourage this particular photographer to sell you what you want to buy. The flickr thread linked to in ano
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by Jedd 14y ago
To answer your first question - I'd posit that (especially for North American readers) the big driver is a lack of credibility in the FDA, and the 'health industry' in general. Look at the evolution of the Food Pyramid (as probably the mos
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by Jedd 14y ago
Congratulations - you've (re)invented another low carb diet. You're in good company - Tim Ferris did much the same, a few years ago, in the Four Hour Body. Doubtless others will follow.