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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I've been listening to Alastair Reynolds Blue Remembered Earth and On the Steel Breeze . The notion of ubiquitous surveillance is an underlying concept, affecting how characters can behave as the plot moves forward. While it is an u
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
You can't choose what cases will set precedence, and, once set, it is very difficult to "unset".
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Apple reportedly has 'hundreds' working on an electric car(engadget.com)
2 points by SoftwareMaven 12y ago|0 comments
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Our agriculture techniques are going to destroy the planet if something significant doesn't change, any quickly. The Savory Institute[1] has been doing interesting things as well, but is it all going to end up too little, too late? 1.
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree with your hypothetical archeologist's assessment. We haven't seen any kind of real drop in the amount of garbage being produced[1] (it's barely leveled off in the last decade, and that doesn't i
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I'm trying to understand why you brought Leviathan Wakes into this. One of the authors of The Expanse is GMMR's assistant, as I understand it, but I'm not clear how either GMMR would affect The Expanse or how The Expanse woul
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
In law, intention matters. Capable of being modified to do so and marketed to do so are very different in the eyes of the law.
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Please don't. I realize this was said tongue-in-cheek, but the ramifications of using local encryption without understanding it are large. You have to be willing to take on key management, or you risk losing every bit of data or bein
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Nobody has something that would fulfill your caveat, with the possible exception of a few larger countries. If you are the named target of the NSA, they will find a way into your communications. This war really has little to do with fin
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Yes, but it needs to be done very carefully. As soon as your app is draining my battery or running my fans inappropriately , your app is gone. The key word, of course, is inappropriately. This puts caps on how much you can use, but it is s
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
But at the time you modify it, the other file may not be modified. And, when your merge partner modifies it, she may be on an 18 flight to the South Pole with no internet access. Now, sure, you can say "well, God can get around that&qu
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Except those are the hard questions in software engineering. "How do I draw a triangle with OpenGL?" is an RTFM question. "How do I decide between R and Python?[1]" is a much more challenging, but much more important, qu
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
That's...interesting. I have a second monitor running Photoshop, and images from the second monitor (perhaps just from Photoshop) are being mapped onto the model of El Capitan, making the visual completely broken. This occurs in Firefo
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
The best camera is the one you have with you. Sure, my Canon DSLR takes nearly infinitely better pictures than my iPhone, but it's the iPhone that takes most of the pictures because it's the one in my pocket. You are right, of cou
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Find a local farmer whose meat handling you trust to reduce the likelihood of contamination. Otherwise, get a steak, wipe it with an ammonia solution, rinse it, and grind it up yourself. The E.Coli, if it exists, is going to be on the outsi
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
That removing the cookie resets the captcha is hardly evidence only the cookie is being used as evidence. They were humans using the captcha and Google recognized it. I would imagine a few bot requests would be allowed to follow a human sol
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I think drift in this case has a connotation of being aimless and directionless (eg being adrift). However, I don't think the article is blaming NASA. Any organization would be adrift after having the kind of success NASA did, then get
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
And this would be bad why? Snark aside, the federal government is out of control with no accountability. I don't even know how they could be held accountable.
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
This[1] is a good place for high level, but it won't help you individually. Sodium only has the ability to impact blood pressure by 2-3mmHg diastolic and 5mmHg systolic, so limiting its of very little value for most[2]. My own personal
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
The flavor of my steaks shot up once I learned to put more salt on. In general, once I learned the reality of salt (eg there is no reason to limit consumption), my cooking got much better.
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I'm dubious about searing it twice; it's something I've never seen mentioned in the reading I've done on slow, temperature-controled cooking. It seems like it would just dry out the edges, making them leathery; however,
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Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far(wired.com)
237 points by SoftwareMaven 12y ago|173 comments
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Not a chance. To check my email in the past, I would have had to find a desktop. Now, I pull out my phone. No matter how slow the connection is, it's still going to be orders of magnitude faster than a desktop in many situations. We&
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Perhaps not quite what the OP had in mind, but I found the papers that affected my life the most were not in my chosen profession. Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight and Related Risk Factors Among
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Not all questions have a single, definitive answer. Many engineering questions have trade-offs that need to be evaluated and different people have different experiences with those trade-offs. SO is a great site for the first five years of a
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Academic studies questioning current dietary advice(zoeharcombe.com)
2 points by SoftwareMaven 12y ago|0 comments
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Nina's is different. Campbell's was trying to prove what you should eat; Teicholz' followed the history of the science to see where it went. The difference is subtle, but significant. Based on what I've seen and read of
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
You are very close to CSS media queries there. Perhaps there is a solution in media queries.
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
Nutrition studies will often use people as their own controls because of the significant variability between people. Nobody is willing to fund nutrition research with "perfect" studies, so researchers do what they can (especially
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by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I would take that bet. Phinney and Volek have a long history of doing pretty good science. I haven't seen any of their work directly contradicted over Phinney's 35+ year career[0]. Also, there is scant evidence that this is actual

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