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by iak8god 10y ago
This is amazing, thank you.
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> It is, more than a mere defense of looting, an attack on capitalism and "white supremacy" (by which the author means American society in general, not extremist Neo-Nazis). Right. Those are some of the reasons it's plausi
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by iak8god 10y ago
Do you have any experience with/thoughts on the SE215-K? The SE535s are a bit out of my "give it a try" budget range.
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by iak8god 10y ago
Yep. I find the foam plugs to be uncomfortable, and having them pressed in by the over-ear phones makes them worse. Do you have a recommended brand/style of in-ear foam plugs?
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by iak8god 10y ago
Hi. I just went off and read In Defense of Looting [1], which I'd never seen before, following its mention in your earlier post. It's fascinating. I think you should read it. It presents a very interesting perspective that many m
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by iak8god 10y ago
Unfortunately, that ends up not being very comfortable for long stretches.
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by iak8god 10y ago
Other people found it interesting. It's pointless to complain about content that doesn't strike your fancy. Just upvote stuff that does...
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by iak8god 10y ago
This explains and demonstrates, piece by piece, how a ray tracer works it's a "breakdown" in the sense of "an explanatory analysis", not in the sense of "a failure." Good for you that you already know how
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by iak8god 10y ago
> I see this recommendation often (using noise-cancelling headphones in an open-office) but I'm confused by it. Me too, and I hope someone will chime in and mention a variety of noise canceling headphones that block out voices. I&#x
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by iak8god 10y ago
What's even more interesting about this particular mistake (at least to me) is that it often shows up as hypercorrection[1] by educated, fluent speakers of English who've been socialized to recognize "You and me" as the
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by iak8god 10y ago
This "article" is a book review. The author of the review is trying in 1200 words to give the reader of this review a sense for what the 400+ page book is about -- not to present a compelling and penetrating argument for any parti
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by iak8god 10y ago
Sure, but which came first, trains or the street name? Maybe Zappos should get Shoes.com just for being where the shoes are at :)
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by iak8god 10y ago
In retrospect I'm surprised that anyone thought it would work this way once search became a viable way of navigating the web. I've never bought shoes IRL from a place named "Shoe Store". Following the address metaphor,
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by iak8god 10y ago
Well. I'm not buying, even though I like the form factor and would accept the other limitations of a 12" MB. And I do think it's ridiculous of Apple to not sell reasonable things I want, because right now it means I'm
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by iak8god 10y ago
Web browsing and a bit of office is offered as an example of the lightest imaginable load for someone actually using a computer. My daily needs are much heavier than that. To offer a line of laptops with 8GB of RAM as the max in 2017 is
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by iak8god 10y ago
Yes, purchased anonymously on craigslist for cash. And with a changed MAC address just in case.
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> I think this is pretty neat and love all things whiteboard but the one annoyance is that I now need to carry around a whiteboard marker and eraser (if you don't want crap all over your fingers from erasing). Note: I don't thi
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by iak8god 10y ago
> Yes, I've heard the argument that if you want 'x RAM with y CPU' etc it will 'cost just as much' - but this is just no longer true. The Macs with 16G memory are crazy expensive. What boggles my mind is how many
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by iak8god 10y ago
Is this still true? I never notice open residential access points any more. The last few times I've set up new residential Internet service it has come with a Wifi router that has a password by default.
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by iak8god 10y ago
I consider myself to be quite savvy and I'd have zero confidence in my ability to reliably shut down all identifiable traffic, except by setting up a tool that blocks all traffic (like Little Snitch[1]) and then making an exception f
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by iak8god 10y ago
When I wake my computer after a session of normal use and connect it to an open network, it immediately starts sending out messages to a bunch of different entities (google, dropbox, evernote, etc, etc) that can be rather easily traced back
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by iak8god 10y ago
Did anyone else think the following seemed implausible? > Thinking it was a real folk song—and the Austrian national anthem to boot—Reagan famously played ["Edelweiss"] for the Austrian president at a White House state dinner i
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by iak8god 10y ago
Well. Vapers gonna vape :) Nicotine is one of my favorite drugs, which is why I personally keep a safe distance from it. E-cigarettes may be worse for you than a glass of water, but I am pretty happy about all the lives they're saving
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by iak8god 10y ago
Thanks, this is more clear and straightforward about where they got that number, though the relevant citation ends up being the same as in the longer document. The evidence cited in that summary is the study 'Estimating the Harms of Ni
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> Why are you assuming the nicotine is solely to blame, and not for example the carbon monoxide? Good point, thanks. I will relax my assumption to "some of the cardiovascular disease is caused by nicotine," and admit that I don
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The report you linked does not explain the 95% number, and following their citations bottomed out in articles that don't contain that number either. I'd need to spend more time looking through those before I'd feel comfortabl
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by iak8god 10y ago
Out of 480,317 deaths attributed to cigarette smoking, 160K were due to cardiovascular diseases and metabolic diseases. 160/480 = .3333 This calculation makes the charitable assumption that none of the deaths categorized as Cancer were
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by iak8god 10y ago
It looks like about 1/3 of smoking-related deaths are due more to the nicotine than the smoke: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal... That's much higher than I'd assume
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Thanks for sharing these. I've been writing a lot of python code solo lately and have started to worry about how to make it more pythonic so it's maintainable and comprehensible to any future collaborators.
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Thanks for posting this! I've found MobileOrg to be unusable.

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