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by haroldp 8y ago
Wow, I hadn't made that connection! I just kept wondering why all recipe sites had devolved into fiendishly consistent kind of stupid.
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by haroldp 8y ago
Forest fires would spread forever for a while back in Alpha: https://twitter.com/notch/status/72582596294483969 We all burned at least one house down.
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by haroldp 8y ago
> If you grew up homeless for example, you're more likely to give to a cause that helps alleviate homelessness But does your charity actually alleviate homelessness? Effective altruism is still useful even if you have picked the
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by haroldp 8y ago
Lot's of people pay extra for "organic", "grass-fed", "cage-free", "fair trade", "kosher" and other certifications on products now. "Organic" has just about taken over the pr
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by haroldp 8y ago
https://i.imgur.com/OUNsvlR.jpg
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by haroldp 8y ago
Slap a "No Cow Farts" sticker/logo on beef raised with a sufficient level of seaweed in their diet. Choose that instead of farty-beef at the store. Don't expect anything to work as well as individuals changing their min
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by haroldp 8y ago
> of course it's harmless Unless you're celiac. It is close enough to gluten that many celiacs have the same reaction to carrageenan as gluten. The real flavor of the month is gluten-free and it's getting swept up in that
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by haroldp 9y ago
I came to the comments to see if anyone else was bothered by this glaring omission. The lede is that this cyber attack didn't just delete files, it caused real world physical damage. > The attack was a dangerous escalation in inter
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by haroldp 9y ago
You know why.
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by haroldp 9y ago
Google is the new Microsoft. We all need to get comfortable with this idea, and fast.
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by haroldp 9y ago
I run RBL checks a few times a day in Nagios, so I don't get surprised.
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by haroldp 9y ago
The Internet is in a sad state of affairs when the consensus amung "hackers" is just to use gmail because gmail is so horrible to work with. I guess google is really becoming the new Microsoft.
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by haroldp 9y ago
I have been self-hosting email (and anything else I can figure out how to self-host) for nearly 20 years. Still found useful things in your guide. Thanks.
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by haroldp 9y ago
Reno Nevada is a little infamous for it's strips of shabby motels leftover from the 50s and 60s when it was a Mecca for people to get a quick marriage or divorce. The matrimony industry is gone but the motels are still here. People i
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by haroldp 9y ago
That makes sense if police are using stun guns instead of pistols. The concern is that they are using stun guns instead of defusing situations verbally, or using stun guns instead of billy clubs, allowing them to punish/torture people
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by haroldp 9y ago
I will do that, and you should too. Nothing in the RCFs says emails are supposed to be instant. Reliable, yes. Instant, no. First, greylisting is HIGHLY effective. Something like 95% of email connections are spam. Almost all of them f
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by haroldp 9y ago
This is exactly my experience sending legit commercial emails to gmail. We jump through every hoop, we implement every suggestion, and they drop our email on the floor every time. I have no problem with deliveries anywhere else. They DGA
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by haroldp 10y ago
On my laptop, where I do all of my development work, I just configured Postfix to send everything to plain files: http://harold.internal.org/configuring-a-dev-box-mail-server... I like this a lot better than sending stuff o
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by haroldp 10y ago
It may or may not have income to cover its obligations, but it's still a "ponzi scheme"[1] in the sense that I will not get out the money I put in. Rather, it counts on new "investors" to meet it's obligations
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by haroldp 10y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it but... > In Puerto Rico, for instance, the pension funds are so short of cash that money contributed by working teachers basically flows straight out to retirees. ... That is, essentially, a Ponzi scheme
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by haroldp 10y ago
FreeBSD has had a package system (pkg_add, etc...) since... the mid 90s? The packages were just ports pre-compiled on freebsd.org's computer. The new package system is much better, and more apt-like. Again though, they are ports pre-
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by haroldp 10y ago
1. It didn't work reliably 2. The UI was awful and buggy 3. It finally broke outright and replacements with halfway modern features were pricey
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by haroldp 10y ago
I too replaced my dying PoS Rainbird irrigation controller with a raspberry pi and a relay board. > With cron, I can schedule things however I want! Wait, are you not using sprinklers_pi[1]? I highly recommend it. I have more home pi&#x
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by haroldp 10y ago
I feel like I had the opposite experience with Pandora. Back in the day, just playing Pandora through my browser, I'd up or down-vote most songs and I'd get these great playlists where I'd discover lots of music. It was gre
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by haroldp 10y ago
I know that pain.
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by haroldp 10y ago
A UBI system would not penalize recipients for finding employment.
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by haroldp 10y ago
Probably the most important thing that literature can do, in my opinion, is transport us into someone else's mind. Even if it isn't necessarily pleasant, it can still be broadening. I feel the way you do about Eraserhead, to some
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by haroldp 10y ago
To gain insight into minds like the Depressed Person's - not just as described dryly, but actually experienced first-hand as a result of the way it is written.
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by haroldp 10y ago
> That's a program for playing music, right? I wish. That feature is practically abandoned. I use WinAmp to play music. I so wish I was kidding. The iTunes app is horrendous.
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by haroldp 10y ago
Oh hell yes! I loved Aaron too.

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