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by kbutler 9y ago
Clickbait title. The only germs loving diet soda would be the potential shifts in gut biome as a result of saccharine consumption, which would only apply to Tab. "The scientists also fed a small group of healthy people saccharin
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by kbutler 9y ago
Looks like capitalization as a general emphasis - if you just scan capitalized words: Americans Bonus Pay Increase Passed Tax Cut Jobs Bill Makes a good summary of the points they want to emphasize, that Americans get a bonus because the go
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by kbutler 9y ago
Preprocessor-disabled logging (and generally compile-time disabled logging) is free at run-time. The compile-time cost of stripping out preprocessor macros disabled via #ifdef is close enough to free you'd have a really hard time measu
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by kbutler 9y ago
I was thinking that, too, but remember that feeding babies excess carrots actually changes skin color from the beta carotene, and then there are issues with gas and bloating from cruciferous vegetables.
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by kbutler 9y ago
It appears pretty clear that if you eat only the patty to satiation vs eat only the bun to satiation, you will lose fat on the patty diet but gain fat on the bun diet. You'll also get more complete nutrition from the patty. (Not that
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by kbutler 9y ago
It was interesting to check out the marketing on the Sonic website: "Cheeseburgers Prepare to be delighted with 100% pure beef..."
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by kbutler 9y ago
...so if you substitute all of the beef, you get negative caloric intake? Sorry, bulimia doesn't sound fun to me.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Because the lawyers are the ones making a solid profit on the whole thing? What entities in this case are trying to create value? Sounds like the company did a "best effort" to make it work, then made reasonable attempts to make i
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by kbutler 9y ago
> An audiologist friend told me to go to an ENT physician if not better by 48 hours or the damage could be permanent. Much longer than that and it would be too late to try any of the interventions This seems like poor advice. If there is
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by kbutler 9y ago
I can't imagine needing to alias emacs. Maybe emacsclient, if you're not just doing everything from a shell in emacs.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Electricity takes the path of least resistance...and all other paths, in amounts depending on their resistance.
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by kbutler 9y ago
For the documents and photos, could I suggest https://www.familysearch.org/ ? Pictures of the rest could go a long way to making the memory of them more accessible as well.
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by kbutler 9y ago
More of a trade-off between flexibility, cost, and safety. Safety features tend to constrain or eliminate various uses, which may be needed in some cases. Alternatively, safety features may be expensive (e.g., the mechanism that instantly s
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by kbutler 9y ago
> Lawyers will never become obsolete until we no longer live in a society that obeys the rule of law. I think the core problem is that this misinterpets the phrase "rule of law", which Google defines as "the restriction of
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by kbutler 9y ago
Based on the amount of dust when the human hand pinches the puffball, the elephant would require a /huge/ puffball mushroom to produce that much dust (ash).
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by kbutler 9y ago
Link bait was bait?
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by kbutler 9y ago
And by limited personal interactions in professional capacities. I'd love for you to provide countering perspectives from your broader exposure.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Which lawyers in what context do you see providing that nuanced human perspective? Corporate law? Their job is keep us from getting sued. Family law? If you're advocating that human perspective for the opposing party, are you failing y
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by kbutler 9y ago
In an ideal world, lawyers would be advocates seeking to provide a nuanced, human perspective. In the current world, I think it is more common to be seeking loopholes, weaknesses, and exploits instead.
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by kbutler 9y ago
After running w, “The next thing I'd do is to go get in touch with that person. It would be foolish to continue when the answer might be a few short chat messages away.”
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by kbutler 9y ago
Just today I contacted Belkin live support for a usb-c gigabit Ethernet adapter that stopped working 1 month in. They are shipping me a replacement. My previous experience was with a router that would occasionally fail under load (e.g., tor
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by kbutler 9y ago
> extremely low contrast content and text on the same screen, next to another, and want both to look fine. With that scenario, you're dealing with physiological limitations, because if you have a bright region next to a dark night r
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by kbutler 9y ago
> the goal is that the user sets their brightness for the environment, and not ever for individual software. ...and we've come full-circle: "Keep high contrast, reduce brightness as desired for your environment."
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by kbutler 9y ago
You'd have to adjust both brightness and white balance based on the environment (just like a camera. How well do professionals trust the camera's automatic choices?) and probably the environment behind the screen (the rest of the
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by kbutler 9y ago
Gosh, I didn't realize my new MBP had such a bad screen. Low-contrast UIs can work well in a typical office environment on bright screens. Take your ideally calibrated monitor, and use it as a second screen while watching a movie in yo
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by kbutler 9y ago
Having made extensive use of amber and green and b&w monitors, I much prefer full color. Though I dislike the recent low-contrast efforts. Keep high contrast, reduce brightness as desired for your environment.
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by kbutler 9y ago
Anybody who went through the effort of typing in (and debugging) the source code of programs by hand probably deserved a copy of it. And hopefully learned a lot in the process. (Though this wouldn't apply to the later versions where yo
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by kbutler 9y ago
Wait - I thought the goal of "countering a global competitor" was to save jobs and thus money for US? Otherwise, what's the point?
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by kbutler 9y ago
And 3 had different changes than 2 ( https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.0.html ) though it is interesting that Unicode support was a big feature in both, and that many people still find Python3’s Unicode support p
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by kbutler 9y ago
Unjustifiable assertion. - they could continue to maintain python2 - they could move to a non-python platform - they could go out of business - they could hold out for Python4 (Python3 was only 8 years after Python2) ...

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