Tharkun

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by Tharkun 8y ago
I've wondered about this as well. Different places seem to have different escalator speeds. It's been a while since I last saw someone who was too afraid to get on an escalator, but I do frequently unsteady elderly folks who strug
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by Tharkun 8y ago
On very busy or very long escalators, standing is probably faster for everyone. However, most escalators aren't that long, aren't that busy and are a fair bit slower than walking. In which case everyone should ideally be walking.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I live in Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city. There are basically only three cities worthy of the name in Belgium. Antwerp kind of hits the sweet spot between big enough to have everything you need, and yet small enough to be livea
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Belgian here. Curious to hear why you'd consider Belgium!
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Source? 'access to the blood brain barrier' sounds odd. You make it sound like the BBB magically starts in the nostrils and is somehow weak there. That's not how the BBB works. Sure, your nostrils are closer to your brain tha
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I don't get the scare mongering in this discussion. People are saying to always boil the water, to not cook with hot tap water, etc. Don't these people bathe in hot tap water? Don't they drink cold tap water? Do they all live
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Agreed. All this added complexity only serves to increase the attack surface of something I really want to keep safe and secure.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Many xmas lights flicker, even when they're not in blinking mode. With the really crappy ones it's often noticeable just by looking at them. With some of the slightly less crappy ones, it's easier to notice when looking at th
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Belgium had similar rules for cyclists, but recently updated them. Cycling around like a strobing christmas tree is now allowed. sigh
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I don't see the word 'migraine' mentioned anywhere on the linked site? Update: the title has since been changed to 'LED Strain'.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> I do keep wondering how Thunderbird can be so slow This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen. I have hundreds of thousands of mails in tbird, in various accounts and folde
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by Tharkun 8y ago
AFAIK these things can be recycled with relative ease. I wonder at which point it would make sense to include a small battery recycling plant with large installations like this. "Cell XYZ is damaged, remove, replace and recycle"
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by Tharkun 8y ago
This nonsense comes up every time anything related to a password is mentioned. Google & Facebook login are evil. And people end up picking stupid Google & Facebook passwords anyway. Every single site needing its own password is a fe
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Faster would be the key word. These things are expensive and in near constant use. There can be extensive waiting lists for non-critical scans. And as someone who's spent a couple of hours in an MRI machine, it's really just the d
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I was exactly the kind of petty, bordering on tyrannical, moderator back when I was a teenager. I moderated a website with an active community of over 10000 teenagers. This was a big deal in the 1990s. It quickly went to my pubescent, hormo
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Are these similar in implementation to the upcoming Java Fibers? Those basically yield automatically whenever they perform a blocking operation, so another fiber can be executed.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Plenty of side sleepers have sleep apnoea or snore.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
While we're on the subject of CPAP: is anything known about the consequences of long term usage? Won't the constant positive pressure eventually result in reduced muscle tone around the airways, or maybe weakening of the diaphragm
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Governments everywhere seem to be increasing their surveillance efforts. Finger prints on id cards. The Indian Aadhaar madness. Chinese "social credit scores". The list goes on. I guess we have to get used to the new world order,
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by Tharkun 8y ago
If you're only writing tests at the unit level, you might as well not bother. And it's always good to run all tests after any change, it's entirely too easy for the developer to have an incomplete understanding of the implica
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by Tharkun 8y ago
What? That's an insanely uncomfortable indoor temperature. Anything over 20 and I'm uncomfortable.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Given that history is often written by the victor, saying "We Will Win Because History Is On Our Side" seems a tad presumptuous.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I encountered an interesting one at $bigcorp which required everyone in the corp to install shady certificates, and which would then inject <script> tags in all HTTP responses, including in XML and JSON REST responses. That was fun to
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Cue military applications, where snipers can now kill you in the safety of your own home with a wall piercing bullet and a scope with a wifi based image overlay.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Squat toilets are the best. So much nicer to poop on than your bog-standard porcelain throne. Aside from the pooping benefits, they also keep you limber by forcing you into a deep squat on a regular basis.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> If there was any risk of harm, we would see it by now That statement feels a little problematic to me. Who's to say that possible effects aren't cumulative, maybe more exposure time is needed for big problems to appear, and m
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I don't know, children do have anuses, and they are known for their curiosity. I'm sure many a parent has had to dig lego bricks out of various orifices.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Anyone hiring in Belgium? Been on the lookout for a software engineer gig, but anything that doesn't pay peanuts seems mostly shortish term government contracting :/
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Nothing. It's still horrible. I'm glad you called it a desktop environment and not a window manager, because it's terrible at managing windows. And unlike older Gnome versions, it's hardly even configurable anymore. You
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I read his book, and it's definitely quackery to me. If I remember correctly, he basically says back pain (and other kinds of chronic pain?) can be cured by forgiveness . Forgive your parents for abusing you as a kid. Forgive your rob

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