Luff

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by Luff 16y ago
Alt text on http://xkcd.com/862/ : "After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to
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by Luff 16y ago
Woah, am I the only one who loves the work that has been done with IE9? Their new rendering engine is sick, Microsoft must have stolen personal from their DirectX team to work on it. Everything is hardware accelerated, the anti-aliased font
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by Luff 16y ago
The Law of Futurology: y - t = 0 y = approximate number of years left in the life of a futurist t = years futurist thinks it will be until immortality is discovered http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1968
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SQL Database design for tag-based search. LIKE is not that bad.(incarnate.ru)
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by Luff 16y ago
Here's a version that works in Firefox (minus the zoom): http://pastebin.com/AaWkNdjF I use the addon Stylish to load it.
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by Luff 16y ago
Sweden has something similar, called E-legitimation. Issued by banks, mostly used for accessing government services, like applying for student loans, paying taxes, etc. If it's only intended to be used in this kind of way, no problem. If no
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by Luff 16y ago
Mirror: http://www.piratpartiet.se/cables-us-driving-swedish-data-re...
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by Luff 16y ago
Interesting! But 11.49% is unaccounted for in the list. (gray area in the pie chart) Do you know how much of that is IE? Is it really so little that it didn't make the top 10-list?
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by Luff 16y ago
Sounds like you don't want to go to college right now, and want us to tell you it's okay. Do want to feel like doing right now, you can always drop out, or start college in a year or two.
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by Luff 16y ago
Imagine how hard it must be to make understandable text-to-speech / speech synthesis for Chinese.
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by Luff 16y ago
Thanks, I really needed to hear that right now. It might turn out to be bad advice, but I love getting excuses to do what I really want.
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by Luff 16y ago
Laissez-faire(not troll) viewpoint: People will be unequally susceptible to these new super-stimuli, and humanity will keep on evolving. If the victims, who will have their genes excluded from the gene pool, leads happy lives, what's the pr
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by Luff 16y ago
For me, the most intuitive way of illustrating Bayes' theorem is using Venn diagrams: http://blog.oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theor...
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by Luff 16y ago
I have a similar behavior with personal projects, and I don't really have any advise as to how to stay enthusiastic. But what I'm trying to do now is route around it, construct project so that they can continue even if I temporarily lose in
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by Luff 17y ago
You can buy it for USD99 at the other site they linked to: http://sharism.cc/shop/
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by Luff 17y ago
I try to identify and break hedonistic loops. Changing environment helps, even if it's such a simple act as shuffle the furniture at home around. Another way is to optimize away loops. The first example that pops ups is that I was at one po
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by Luff 17y ago
Girls at a technology university? Then I'm envious of you, the m/f ratio at mine is like 20-1.
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by Luff 17y ago
Heh, I wonder if this is the reason why I can't stand the light from fluorescent ceiling lamps. Whenever I have the chance(few other people around to complain about the low light levels), I turn them off and switch on spotlights and table l
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by Luff 17y ago
Well, to be fair, most libertarians think taxation is armed robbery, not theft.
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by Luff 17y ago
What does this swing at libertarians have to do with anything else in this thread? No law has been broken, so how would the absence of the rule of law change anything in this case? Convincing stupid people to make bad deals is immoral but n
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by Luff 17y ago
Haha, yes, it's quite the mindf#ck. Want more? Think about this: If the idea of QI is valid, and the Large Hadron Collider keeps breaking down when we try to power it up, it would solve the Fermi paradox. To achieve technological developmen
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by Luff 17y ago
But to rule the country you need half of the votes, and no matter how many parties a country has, alliances form between them as to present themselves to the population as a viable alternative to the parties currently in power. People who d
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by Luff 17y ago
I'm mostly fascinated by their attempt to trick him to give up compromising information about his actions, by asking him for help on how to secure the system. If they would've asked me before reading this, I would've probably been too naive
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by Luff 17y ago
I hate having to wake up on mornings but love music. This is how I solved it: I have installed the linux-dist openwrt on my Asus WL-500g Deluxe router. This router has two USB-ports to which I have connected an USB-soundcard and a 80gig 2.5
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by Luff 17y ago
Technically, thieves redistribute value, they don't destroy it. Speculators, on the other hand, can destroy capital by making bad investments. They can also just get lucky by investing in a rising economy.(thereby not contributing any inf
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by Luff 17y ago
Just speculation without any data to back it up: * A selling point of America in the beginning was freedom of religion. * A lot of people were killed off in WW2 because of their religion, and I wouldn't be surprised if many lost their faith
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by Luff 17y ago
From the text: As Smith observed: "The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his und
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by Luff 17y ago
Happiness? Not that simple. Where does happiness come from? Most rationals would answers evolution. If that's the case, then it should have a function. Figure that one out and you will also learn how to become happy.