calibas

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by calibas 9y ago
By the way, "lead-free" plumbing contains as much as 8% lead, and only in the past decade were the regulations tightened so that "lead-free" plumbing must be a weighted average of 0.25% lead or less.
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by calibas 9y ago
If the only other solution is creating your own custom version of a vulnerable dependency, I can see how this could be useful. Not the "best" solution, but certainly practical as far as making code more secure.
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by calibas 9y ago
If you don't think refined sugar is addictive, try not eating it.
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by calibas 9y ago
Part of the problem is that it hasn't been laid to rest, it's still being taught as an example of an outdated and mistaken scientific theory, which has lead to a bias against epigenetics.
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by calibas 9y ago
I assume most people were taught the same things I was, namely that Lamarckism is ridiculous nonsense, and now we're finding it has elements of truth.
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by calibas 9y ago
Not that I'm pro-gun, but I'd much prefer that Google stay out of politics. The potential for abuse is enormous.
937.
by calibas 9y ago
In my personal experience, the transfer fees, transaction times, and the fact that the market can crash overnight, makes cryptocurrencies more trouble than they're worth, at least at the moment.
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by calibas 9y ago
More evidence that memories are at least partially epigenetic.
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by calibas 9y ago
They use Varnish for pages, and two CDNs (Fastly and Cloudinary) for everything else. Varnish is insanely fast, on my servers I can get page load times down to 1/3 of a second with it.
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by calibas 9y ago
If anybody could sell it as a good thing, it's Apple. "Phone performance adjusts automatically to preserve battery life"
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by calibas 9y ago
This is kinda of a gray area, if they really wanted to treat their customers well, they'd have easily-replaceable batteries and a notification that lets people know their phone is slowing down because they need a new battery. Still see
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by calibas 9y ago
That's not their philosophy, that's public relations.
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by calibas 9y ago
I get a steady 60FPS in both FF 56 and Chrome 61/62.
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by calibas 9y ago
Are you saying sensationalism is killing modern journalism ?
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by calibas 9y ago
Does anybody know how much the actual load time factors into the "PageSpeed"? In my experience, you can have a site that loads quickly but gets a mediocre score because it violates Google's guidelines.
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by calibas 9y ago
An open government is vital for a democracy to function properly, that's the purpose.
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by calibas 9y ago
I imagine there's many special cases where a compiler's type coercion creates an issue.
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by calibas 9y ago
The US government also put out a set of accessibility guidelines: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm I've had a couple US clients specifically request "ADA compliance".
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by calibas 9y ago
This is the kind of "unschooling" it's talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
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by calibas 9y ago
I wouldn't call any major corporation benevolent or malevolent, they're effectively amoral entities. They're your "friend" so long as they stand to profit from you.
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by calibas 10y ago
From php.net, about using $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] : Note: Under Apache 2, you must set UseCanonicalName = On and ServerName. Otherwise, this value reflects the hostname supplied by the client, which can be spoofed. It is not
952.
by calibas 10y ago
The sugar industry has been doing this for about as long as the tobacco industry. They've been using their influence to poison nutrition science for decades and steer modern dental practices. https://www.nytimes.com/201
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by calibas 10y ago
This needs to be said over and over again. There's two different species of plants commonly known as Datura: Jimsonweed, Datura stramonium, and Sacred Thronapple, Datura wrightii. It's Datura wrightii that the Native Americans use
954.
by calibas 10y ago
Javascript, all day every day.
955.
by calibas 10y ago
Those two points don't really oppose each other...
956.
by calibas 10y ago
They're IFS fractals, I recommend either Apophysis 7x or Chaotica for creating them.
957.
by calibas 10y ago
Not sure where you got this idea, but reading Butler's speech should make it clear the kind of connotations the word racket had in the 30's. "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket.
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by calibas 11y ago
Putting a positive spin on spin itself... Not surprising coming from one of Murdoch's papers.