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by jrapdx3 11y ago
In our neighborhood we see quite a few corvids, crows, scrub-jays and Steller's jays. The jays in particular are entertaining. They are very fond of raw peanuts in the shell. When the birds are visiting, tossing a few peanuts leads
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I remember being interested in L when I read about it a few years ago, so it's great that it's open-sourced now. Should be fun to try it out. I'll give the makefile a whirl. As for the name, "L" would be hard to
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Always nice to see Tcl/Tk get attention, it's a language I've often found quite useful. Seems like I'd heard of "L" before in connection with Tcl/Tk, but not sure it was the same thing as Little. Certainl
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It is very difficult to disentangle the role of various nutritional elements in the rising tide of obesity. A number of factors have been occurring at the same time, such as, alterations in amount and sources of protein, changing proportio
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Thank you! I'll take advantage of the author's generosity, making it available is a good thing to do.
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As usual the facts are messier than any single assertion will ever be, even my own. Here's an interesting review, more or less reflecting "the state of the art": Okręglicka K, Health effects of changes in the structure of di
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Research indeed shows connection between maternal nutritional status and health outcomes of children. However it's a complicated, non-linear relationship. There is evidence that individuals born to mothers overweight during pregnancy
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Over the many years of assisting people seeking treatment for excess body weight, I'm constantly amazed by the endless complexity of the condition, not surprising given the crucial importance of energy intake and regulation for biologi
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Yes, good point. The observation that the material being moderated is potentially traumatic leads me to conjecture some subset of moderators would become disabled after exposure to the material. Resilience training is a good idea, but may
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I entirely concur with both your points, especially about how little appreciated this subject has been. I was dimly aware of it, I mean it's no secret there's a lot of really terrible stuff on the web, and it's shocked me wh
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I'm sorry, but I do believe you misunderstood the article and perhaps my comments on it as well. The article clearly describes moderators watching videos flagged as offensive, and these videos included "amateur and profession po
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Arguably the first US patent for a transistor, specifically the field effect transistor, was awarded in 1926 to Julius Lilienfeld, though the invention was not implemented back then. The later developers of transistors (Shockley, et.al.) b
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Thanks for your comment. The EFF article is woefully short of details re: what provisions in the bill are undesirable. I read the House info about the bill and read the committee reports (including the minority report), but none of this s
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Always liked using Abiword on Linux, but the Windows version seemed quite buggy last time I tried it. IIRC Abiword could read and write in (some) .doc format, though that was not the default native format. Come to think of it, a decade or
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Interesting illustration of the issue. As the article shows, users are not merely passive consumers, but an active component in the moderation process because users are first to encounter the offensive material. Sure, users don't wan
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This is a very good article and quite an eye opener. As an internet/web "user" for twenty years or so I'm familiar with the existence of "moderation", but had only vague awareness of what moderators endured in
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You are right, better to have said bacterial infection is a cause of ulcers. Actually infection instigates around 2/3 of ulcer cases. Other contributing factors include NSAIDs (like ibuprofen), stress, and certain endocrine conditi
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by jrapdx3 11y ago
Here are a few references. These are recent open access articles covering the topic fairly broadly. Tons more out there, it's a big and important area of research. Artemis P. Simopoulos, An Increase in the Omega-6/Omega-3 Fatty
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The subject of the article says as much about the politics of science as it is a comment on the science itself. To the extent the findings have been ignored, or perhaps even shunned, is not at all unique. Many important advances in medici
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Actually, setting up LE on FBSD was even easier than that. We've had LE working on two of our FBSD servers for 4 months. Running the py27-letsencrypt client with --certonly and -d domainname -d ..., installed the certs in /usr&#
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Of course, I too enjoy the benefits of the technologies fueled by everything that causes global climate change, and wouldn't want to do without. But the evidence for deleterious side-effects of progress have been around for a very lon
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The laws of unintended consequences were never more evident than implicit in global climate change, a result of human activity. We always intended to make the world better, at least that's what we constantly said we were trying to do.
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Ignorance is everywhere, especially concerning computer security and especially among the representatives and senators in the US Congress. We must combat ignorance by educating the ignorant, and that includes elected officials. Many here a
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Article certainly piques my curiosity, unfortunately the paywall it's behind impedes getting the whole story. How often have we seen "breakthroughs" fail to live up to expectations, in this case not yet enough info to have a
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Hyper-V can work well. I use it very frequently on my Surface Pro 2 with Win10. Currently I'm running FreeBSD 10.3, though in the past I've had Linux distros running in Hyper-V and that was good too. It's a very convenient
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Thing is, in the places mentioned, there aren't hills like we have where I live. Makes a huge difference in snow and icy conditions. It also matters when winter temperatures tend to hover around the freezing point vs. well below. I
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Thanks for the clarifications. Indeed is confusing for those of us not so hardware savvy.
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Not a deep dive into pgsql source, but it does show some of the informative comments in the code. The author points out how well organized the source is, and the naming consistency in the sections shown makes it easy to follow the progra
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To that statement I'd immediately ask, "what did we do before there were smartphones? Did we not investigate crimes? Can't we do that now?" Criminals have always tried to hide their activities and keep secrets. Sure w
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Is that anything like the "secure enclave" we've heard so much about re: Apple iPhone, at least the current versions? Not sure how much benefit or utility that would add to a server vs. phone CPU, but it's interesting a

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