devinmcafee

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by devinmcafee 2y ago
What you are describing is the difference between acute and chronic stress placed on the body. There is a term for this: "the hormetic effect" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis People who undergo acute
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by devinmcafee 3y ago
I think the trick here is to avoid having sugar nearby and to fill your pantry with healthy alternatives. Avoid purchasing sugar laden foods from the supermarket and opt for healthy choices, so the only foods to snack on within your home ar
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by devinmcafee 3y ago
I think that both of you are correct. The internet has much more "noise" than in the past (partially due to websites gaming SEO to show up higher in Google's search results). As a result, Google's algorithm returns more
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by devinmcafee 3y ago
I personally use Labdoor: https://labdoor.com/rankings/protein They do independent testing for supplements and provide rankings based on detected ingredient, heavy metals and adulterants per serving (I linked protein b
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by devinmcafee 4y ago
This appears to be a mirror of OSX with the floating taskbar at the bottom with center aligned app icons, this is exactly how OSX has the dock configured. Also the system info in the top right. I wonder if the team over at Microsoft is tryi
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How Dangerous Can Ocean Waves Get? Wave Comparison(youtube.com)
3 points by devinmcafee 4y ago|0 comments
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by devinmcafee 4y ago
This sounds reasonable but mountain lions and many other types of non-domesticated cats still purr ( https://parks.sccgov.org/plan-your-visit/park-programs-event... ). You might be right that domesticated cats have evolv
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by devinmcafee 4y ago
Common advice amongst the fitness community is to shop around the perimeter of the grocery store, skipping the inner aisles. Of course all grocery stores have different layouts, but in your average American grocer this means you would only
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by devinmcafee 4y ago
Indicator of compromise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator_of_compromise
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by devinmcafee 5y ago
This seems like an overly simplistic way of looking at poker, and I feel is not a fair judgement of the game. The game is not just about deception. To play poker (and win) you need many skills: - mastery over your own body, specifically the
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by devinmcafee 5y ago
While not a book: I took Udi Dahan's Advanced distributed systems design course in 2018 and can't recommend it enough: https://particular.net/adsd I'm pretty sure there is an online course available which you
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by devinmcafee 5y ago
That's correct. When navigating around in a single page app, clicking on an in-app link won't trigger the browser to make a new HTTP GET to fetch an HTML response from the server. Instead, the routing system will use the pushState
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by devinmcafee 5y ago
I would work on the project every Sundays for a few hours: sometimes just 1 hour, sometimes as much as 6. After a few Sundays I had a local dev environment running on my computer to be able to track workouts in. At that point I started usin
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by devinmcafee 5y ago
I built a weightlifting workout tracker. I did this because at the time I wrote it (2014) none of the current tools fit my use cases due to the fact that I compete in the sport of Olympic weightlifting and this was still pretty rare back th
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by devinmcafee 7y ago
I actually think that books which cover software engineering practices, rather than language specific books, have helped me the most. This is due to the fact that the concepts and principles you learn can be applied to many languages. Two I
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by devinmcafee 7y ago
I don't think people know that simply getting up and walking for 10 minutes every 2 hours would reduce their body fat levels. In fact, I've seen a study [1] which concludes you simply can't undo a days worth of sitting with a
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by devinmcafee 7y ago
A question: I believe that poison ivy takes a long time to become symptomatic. It can take a week for symptoms to show. If someone were to follow this progression then I believe they would die due to having ingested it before seeing symptom
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by devinmcafee 7y ago
I use Vim with vim-plug, vim-javascript, ctrlsf, ctrlp, and some custom bindings in my .vimrc to help me use the "gf" command to jump to source. I've spent the time to invest in learning how to use vim and it has served me we
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by devinmcafee 7y ago
I think many young people in tech learn this lesson the hard way. They get excited with all the free food, laundry services, and events that tech jobs offer. They end up spending all of their waking hours at work and work becomes an identit