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by drdrey 9y ago
https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/08/i-hate-telephones.html
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Working link: https://github.com/apex/up Docs: https://up.docs.apex.sh/
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Crashplan, but I'll need to find a replacement as they are discontinuing the home edition
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Anecdote from my own running training: when I get impatient, I get injured. There is this idea that if you can just get this hard workout done even though you're not fully recovered, you will get closer to your goal. You hear the siren
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RSS is technically still here, but it seems to me you're the exception here, not the norm. RSS is not quite as mainstream as it used to be
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We used to have RSS. Why did it not stick around? When Google Reader was killed, my account was just a stressful pile of thousands of unread items. The occasional gem was drowned in the noise.
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Thought this was going to be about Missing 411: http://www.canammissing.com/missing_411.html
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Nuclear War Survival Skills [pdf] (1987)(madisoncountyema.com)
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If you're an endurance athlete, weight is a pretty critical aspect of your performance. For the general population, most people really want to reduce body fat when they say "weight". Whether you want to "look like"
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I don't know, anecdotally it seems that if I spent X calories exercising, my hunger will adjust until I consume roughly X extra calories. The energy expenditure does account for waste, I think only about 20-25% of the energy spent is t
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0.98 x 73 x 25.75 = 1842 kcal, not too far off
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The Dutch presumably also eat a Dutch diet so it's going to be tricky to disentangle. For what it's worth, the French rank right behind the Netherlands in obesity rate but I wouldn't say most people are very physically active
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I ran 16 miles this morning, burned over 2000 calories. But I won't lose any weight, I am going to eat those calories right back.
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OP's remarkable point is that she is restricting food groups, not calories.
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A banana has 30g carbs (15g sugars), while the Trader Joe's peanut butter I am looking at has 7g carbs (2g sugars) in a 32g serving.
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I have now been seeing from numerous sources that in order to lose weight, diet dominates exercise. One of the reasons is that exercise is associated with compensatory behaviors (such as increased hunger). So exercise for the health benefit
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On a personal level, I just find life better since my mindset has shifted from static to growth. I used to consider myself only good at logic and programming, and I would not even attempt anything remotely artistic, literary or athletic. I
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by drdrey 9y ago
Or rather: what were the contributing factors of the issue?
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Reminds me of Writing Worms for Fun and Profit by lcamtuf: https://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/12/writing-worms-for-fun-or-...
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You could arguably come up with something similar for backends. It's just a story of a malicious and sneaky dependency.
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Serious question: what is the point of a coin like that targeted at a specific industry?
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looks like the site is down
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I'd like to piggyback on this question and ask specifically for a good textbook on distributed systems
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Computability and Complexity by Neil Jones: http://www.diku.dk/~neil/comp2book2007/book-whole.pdf It is extremely readable and presents very theoretical concepts in a pragmatic way. Love it.
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Ask HN: Do you pay interest on your kid's piggybank?
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At this point we should just consider creating ScamCoin and watch its market cap soar
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Why the sudden urge? Ripple has been around for 5 years
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See this post by patio11: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...
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A compiler is a program that turns programs in a source language into equivalent programs in a target language. It is generally assumed that a compiler goes from high level to low level, a decompiler low-to-high and a transpiler high-to-hig
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Ask HN: What is the most nonsensical crypto currency you have seen?
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