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by arnoooooo 15y ago
No. See my other comment. People are very bad at estimating risks. Plus, they'd have to know all the risk factors. They don't. "I'm well trained and always ride within my ability" : I'm pretty sure mostly every driver will tell you that, th
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
All drivers are criminals because they underestimate the risks. Studies show that risks are systematically underestimated in situations where people feel in control. The car (large, heavy metal box) and safety equipments certainly add to th
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
Microsoft had/has a lot to do with that.
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
"We're never safe from people's kindness", says French comedian Jean-Marie Bigard... Yet I suppose it's still a good thing in such cases that people care enough to do this ? When it really becomes a problem is when the "kindness" is really
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
A dark room during the day is not very good for your health and mood.
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
Just FYI, it's "per se", not "per say" : latin for "by itself".
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
If you have ever tried to install the latest version of a distro while keeping the config from the previous version, it's basically the same except spread out over time, which I find a lot more comfortable. When something is broken after an
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
It might be that the field is pretty new, and thus CS culture does not have ready made ansers to the question ?
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Continuation-based web applications: just say no(carcaddar.blogspot.com)
2 points by arnoooooo 15y ago|0 comments
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by arnoooooo 15y ago
I tried to start a discussion on reddit with a very basic version of this idea, which was met with a lot of criticism. In the end, I'm thinking it would be enough to have espace characters : for embedded graphics, and for some kind of termi
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Greenpace - a New Warrior(anewwarrior.greenpeace.org)
8 points by arnoooooo 16y ago|1 comments
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Behind every successful woman there's a wife(abc.net.au)
8 points by arnoooooo 16y ago|0 comments
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by arnoooooo 16y ago
This reminds me of PG's essay on Java, in which he wrote "Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them.". Ben says that smart people should also work with these languages because non-smart people mig
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Sam Harris - A Response To Critics(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by arnoooooo 16y ago|0 comments
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by arnoooooo 16y ago
Even simpler, Vim now includes blowfish encryption.
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by arnoooooo 16y ago
I do that as well, but I don't really like that I'm actually committing untested code, since I might forget a needed part.
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by arnoooooo 16y ago
Listening to podcasts or thinking about projects when eating seems rather opposed to being mindful of the moment and not multitasking.
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by arnoooooo 16y ago
Another way this could be a good scheme is if people trust it and start sending it as a way to educate people, and when it starts getting momentum, it is changed and does start recording numbers.
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
The best bet for a company that has sites that require IE6 right now might be to keep IE6 and install Firefox with IETab set to display the problematic sites through IE.
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
The FSF was indeed created in 1985, a bit before the first version of Windows,
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
They mention software testing.
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
They have links (as always) to a few supposedly scientific studies on the matter, one of them suggesting an effect against oxidation. I don't really understand how grounding would help against that, I would even think that it would make thi
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
Actually this is not spam, I have nothing to do with the company and genuinely wanted the opinion of people on HN about it. I'll agree that it really sounds like snake oil, but I thought the idea was interesting nonetheless. Regarding safet
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
I was also wondering what kind of a DIY project would be so expensive !
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This company says electrical grounding will improve your sleep and health(agroundedlife.com)
1 points by arnoooooo 17y ago|4 comments
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by arnoooooo 17y ago
A nice use for this would be peer to peer in the browser. EDIT: I mean distributed p2p, since this is already p2p by itself.
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by arnoooooo 19y ago
Fedora + KDE + Vim