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by derleth 14y ago
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/web... > [The trailing dot in the domain name is] there for a reason. It made the domain name a fully qualified one, and thus unambiguous and not prone to search path spoofing.
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by derleth 14y ago
No, the FDA makes food safer than supplements are. You have no idea how bad food was prior to the FDA.
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by derleth 14y ago
> It's also interesting how pessimistic the authors were about things like pollution (smog, ozone layer), traffic, and water supply. I'm always amused at how many people in the 1970s were predicting global famine to hit the far-future w
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by derleth 14y ago
Here's something I've noticed about looking back at predictions of the future: They're all wrong, but some people are bound and determined to claim some of them are more-or-less accurate even if it means twisting the author's words beyond a
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by derleth 14y ago
> By the way, ants.9gridchan.org is actually more interesting than all this patent bullshit. But the patent bullshit is why your software is worthless. It can't be used because someone claims ownership of the very concept it's built on.
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by derleth 14y ago
> That's equally true of all sorts of food. No, it isn't, thanks to the FDA.
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by derleth 14y ago
Sadly, this is not the case: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/07/02/dietary-supplem... > While on its surface this would appear to be a reasonable distinction, given that it doesn’t make sense from a policy or scientific standpo
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by derleth 14y ago
Actually, this is an example of where the halting problem can be trivially solved through static analysis. Finding all of the programs that are isomorphic to this one when given certain input, now... that's the problem.
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by derleth 14y ago
The device file applications can use to access the first hard drive on most Linux systems. It provides raw access without filesystems or partitions. /dev/sda1 is the first partition on that drive, /dev/sda2 the second, and so on. /dev/sdb i
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by derleth 14y ago
> What a bold faced lie! I've always heard this as bald-faced lie.
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by derleth 14y ago
> pre-agriculture, that's all nature did Not in the slightest, and I wonder where you've lived that that's ever been the case. Not on Earth, certainly. The only things Nature provides free are sunlight, weather, and parasites.
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by derleth 14y ago
> access to meat is not a survival requirement, or even a requirement to be happy It is for some people. Or is their culture wrong to you?
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by derleth 14y ago
And I wonder how people can put up with the perpetually blurry and over-bold Mac font rendering, not to mention the fonts themselves.
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by derleth 14y ago
> the benefits of whole foods vs. highly processed foods, and just how badly our bodies deal with the latter This sounds like the naturalistic fallacy.
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by derleth 14y ago
Do you have a better source than someone's blog?
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by derleth 14y ago
Guess what? Your preferred workflow is just as smelly. Clean it up.
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by derleth 14y ago
> There's no way you could effectively work with 100 tabs open I'm sure there's no way you could effectively work that way, but imagining that what's true for you is true for everyone is a massive smell for ignorance of other workflow
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Or, as Apple says, "You're holding it wrong."
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by derleth 14y ago
> the complete disregard of quality Quality is measured on multiple axes. RAM use is only one of them. CPU use is another, for example, and it's often the case that reducing CPU use requires increasing RAM use.
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And for me, Firefox is faster. By a lot, in fact, because Chrome loves to hit the disk for every little thing, especially on startup.
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> or we could all deal with the fact that meat isn't a human right Neither is food, if you really want to go that route. The point of civilization is that we try to provide for ourselves things that are not just our rights, but our d
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Factory farming extends to vegetables.
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Or the female ego.
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by derleth 14y ago
> I have already passed their life-expectancy The reason life expectancies were 35 back then was due to horrible infant and early childhood mortalities. People lived on the close order of 100 years (70-80 or so) back long before we had
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by derleth 14y ago
In Firefox, I right-click to bookmark the page, and then a little drop-down from the right side of the address bar allows me to modify the bookmark or cancel the whole thing. The main thing I do in this context is edit the tags. I like Fi
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by derleth 14y ago
Not just bad interface design: Incomprehensible interface design. Interfaces which have nothing in common with any other interface the user has seen before. With HTML you at least have a stronger pressure to use the same text boxes everyo
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by derleth 14y ago
> there's nothing wrong with capital letters or all-caps In the transportation world, all-caps is known to be harder to read than mixed-case in fixed-message signs: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5892/is-all-caps... All-c
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by derleth 14y ago
> If you'll take his word at face value, the father didn't really have any motives aside from making his daughter happy. But the author is dead, so we're bound to analyze this in terms of Theory and come to actual conclusions. http://e
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by derleth 14y ago
It can be, with some games (Zork, GTA4, Bioshock) a lot more than others (Pong, Tetris, Tic-tac-toe, Chess). At the extreme end of games-as-literature is the Interactive Fiction world, which has been dealing with how the 'literature' and th
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by derleth 14y ago
> The web was far better before AJAX and client-side javascript. Ah, yes: Java applets that made your system crawl. Flash interfaces that likely 'worked', but had been designed by an alien with no comprehension of human cognition or int

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