RyanMcGreal

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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
It could be that the damage, once caused, is irreversible. I wonder if taking the drug before cognitive damage occurs will prevent it.
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Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood(nytimes.com)
2 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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Jon Favreau on ‘Gnomes and Goblins’ and Virtual Reality(nytimes.com)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|0 comments
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Why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs, ride through red lights(vox.com)
40 points by RyanMcGreal 10y ago|77 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
Next you're going to tell me that George Washington never actually chopped down a cherry tree! http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/cher...
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
Something something Hamilton!
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
> Then there's Bernie who refuses to aknowledge any extremes of socialism. One of these criticisms is not like the others. Sanders is a moderate democratic socialist - in any other industrialized country, he'd be considered mil
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
You could see if there is a local Unitarian Church. The Unitarians are bound by a shared commitment to loving inclusiveness, not religious dogma, and many Unitarians are agnostic or even atheist.
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
My first computer was a Compaq Deskpro Portable. It had a 5 1/4" floppy drive, a 40 MB hard drive and ran DOS 3.1 IIRC. I even wrote a custom autoexec.bat file so it booted into a fancy menu of common applications (like Volkswrite
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
We don't use any pesticides or herbicides and we take a fairly permissive approach to our back lawn: if it's green(ish) and consents to be mowed from time to time, it can stay. Among the grass is a lot of common yarrow, creeping c
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by RyanMcGreal 10y ago
The characters in Friends nominally had jobs too (chef, fashion manager, masseuse, archaeologist, accountant, actor), but the show centred around them hanging out, either in their improbably large apartments or at the coffee shop. In HIM
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Obligatory image: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*U36hBj8i-C7JJJxS4M...
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Wouldn't a linter for C and a half-decent text editor address the author's issues about block formatting way less intrusively than trying to change the language syntax?
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Buy a bicycle. It's a thing, but it costs a lot less, is a lot cleaner and safer, and still gives you experiences.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
There's a cognitive load to every additional thing you need to know to use a module. At a certain point, added flexibility becomes more trouble than it's worth.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Part of the problem is that the R&D has not been done. Under the Myth of Nuclear Safety, Japan has absolutely neglected to do research into designing and building robots that can handle high levels of radiation (if people are working on
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
In the United States, the recent legal trend toward strict originalism in interpreting the Constitution has created a widening disconnect between what was written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and what the US needs today. This d
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Danger! This is a progressive condition that will continue to get worse as the cat expects breakfast earlier and earlier.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
This phenomenon may help to explain the two solitudes in the research on whether salt is harmful: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/17/scien...
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Likewise! doffs hat
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Hamilton, Ontario, the city where I live, is roughly the same latitude as Marseille, France.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Cache since server is currently overwhelmed: ---- Software quality is a nebulous and divisive topic. There are many parameters to software quality – reliability, speed, user experience, design, discoverability, and more – and a move towards
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
My back was already improving a year before I migrated to a standing desk, but it has proven to be such a hugely positive change that I find myself wondering how I was ever able to sit for that long. For me it took about four weeks to make
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Ironically, this quotation is itself routinely taken out of context, as it was being applied specifically to writers who fall back on quotation when discussing the s
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> it hurts differently when you're damaging your body versus training your muscles In my experience it's the difference between soreness and pain .
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I have had intermittent crippling back pain on and off for my entire adult life, ever since moving an extremely heavy old stove out of a basement when I was 18 and feeling a bad twinge when the other person carrying it let go of his end. I
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I figured it out - the game wouldn't load because the computer I was testing the game on has very limited RAM.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
An oldie but a goodie: Are You a Sharecropper? If you’re developing software for the Windows platform, yes. Or for the Apple platform, or the Oracle platform, or the SAP platform, or, well, any platform that is owned and operated by a comp
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Strange - I flat-out can't get the game to load on Firefox 43.0.1 or Chrome 47.0.2526.106, but it works just fine on IE11.
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Fathers May Pass Down More Than Just Genes, Study Suggests(nytimes.com)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|0 comments

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