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by npsimons 10y ago
I feel very similarly, but then I'm of the mind that if I can't apt-get it, I'm not interested, and I'll bet that "open source" doesn't mean to MS what it means to the open source world. As for the NIH syn
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Typical keyboards require the user to press the key to the bottom to activate it For all I don't like about Apple, their aluminum keyboards are what I prefer and use, precisely for the reasons stated in the article, and to counter
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by npsimons 10y ago
Yeah, it bothered me that the author didn't even give a rationale for it, just mentioned it and brushed it aside, much like his other recommendations that are "industry standard." I agree with the main point of the article, a
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by npsimons 10y ago
I'll second this; after losing 50lbs, many health issues just went away. Adding in the the strength training (Rippetoe's SS:BBT), has just made me feel that much better.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> the customer is always right No, they fucking aren't, especially when it comes to medicine. Antibiotics should be controlled like opiates; at least over-prescription of opiates doesn't endanger the whole species. > What su
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by npsimons 10y ago
Which is exactly why I said "or less". Depending where you live in California, Bouldering or sport climbing could be 20 minutes away,plus it's available year round. You can't beat that.
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by npsimons 10y ago
You can keep Portland: no fourteeners and too much bloody rain. I'll take my SoCal where I can climb 365 days of the year.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> What geological features of the Bay Area do you regard as a plus point? I believe they may be talking about the Sierra Nevada range, with mountaineering matched only by places in the Andes, Himalayas or Alps. Yosemite is the climbing c
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by npsimons 10y ago
So totally this. I refused to buy a Nest for exactly this reason. In the words of the Cluetrain manifesto: 'We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. We are human beings - and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it.&#
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by npsimons 10y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if there was an app like Waze, but it's primary focus was safety? People report intersections or roads with blind spots, bad lighting, lots of jaywalkers, etc.
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by npsimons 10y ago
Very much this. I keep saying: I. Don't. Care. About. Every. Little. Sneeze. A. Developer. Had. On. The. Way. To. Closing. A. Ticket. See how annoying that is? That's what it feels like to me to read non-squashed commits.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> But there are so many people into it, that I feel I must be missing something obvious and it bothers me. As someone in favor of squashing, I can say that I don't want to see things like "oops, reverting last commit" popu
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Is this what we really want? A society of distrusting, hating separatist camps that vilify and exclude each other? That's not what I want, but it's certainly the the message I hear from conservatives and the republican party
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by npsimons 10y ago
> 1. If the self selection occurs at the student levels (i.e. professors are hostile to conservatives which causes them to drop out of academia before they get to the teaching level) this is still bad. Not necessarily; if someone realize
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Right now I know what I find more annoying, and it isn't a click-to-dismiss lightbox. And now you understand. Maybe if they hadn't used the shitty lightbox, you wouldn't have had to scroll to "on-topic" content
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by npsimons 10y ago
I want this, but not (immediately) for my own writing - I want to run papers through it, especially those in the soft sciences.
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by npsimons 10y ago
That being said, I can attest to at least the Shaker melody (well known from Copland's "Appalachian Spring") as a touchstone of American culture. It's pretty good.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Those of us who aren't from the USA never really understand what causes insult or not. Believe it or not, some of us from America don't understand it either. IME, your best bet is to think of the most uptight, prudish, purita
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by npsimons 10y ago
Sweet! I've been considering OpenBSD for an Internet facing server for a while, this is definitely something that makes it all that more tempting.
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by npsimons 10y ago
I really can't tell for certain, but I feel fortunate that Michael Kandel translated Stanislaw Lem's works; they read so well to me, I can't imagine them not being what the author meant. The fact that the poetry in "Cybe
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I notice no citation, nor what "much more likely" means. The blog post still makes the very important point that no one cares about beliefs when hiring. If one so chooses to be a bad teacher and teach things that are flat out
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I can't choose what I believe to be true. Can you? Yes.
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by npsimons 10y ago
If you think college faculty are liberal, it’s only because American politics has twisted your perspective: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/05/09/if-you-th...
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Only grip I have is calling Linux anti-security and anti-privacy given how much good work in those used the platform. Gotta be a kernel by kernel and distro by distro judgment on that. That caught my eye as well; lumping Linux in with
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by npsimons 10y ago
I think the biggest thing we should take away from this study is that losing weight "The Biggest Loser" style is bad for your long term health, not that everyone who loses weight will gain it all back or that weight loss is impo
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by npsimons 10y ago
You mean the broken link to the study? I'll posit you didn't even click through the link I provided. Pot, meet kettle. Just judging from the article (which leaves a lot to be desired), though, it sounds like a small sample size,
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by npsimons 10y ago
Truth! Most people just don't realize because they've never done it. Side note: it makes me very sad and disappointed to see comments like this downvoted. Do we not claim to value rationalism and the scientific method here? Take t
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by npsimons 10y ago
So, on a show where they have people lose weight in the most unsustainable (read: dramatic) way possible, they are then surprised they don't keep it off? I am shocked. Shocked, I say!
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Fifty years ago, two-thirds of the USA were not obese. Biology has not changed in that time. What has? I wish more people would ask this question. It's extremely innocent and straightforward, and replies to it are incredibly revea
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by npsimons 10y ago
> How much can basal human metabolism really vary anyways? The range is within 200-300 kCal for people of the same height and mass: http://examine.com/faq/does-metabolism-vary-between-two-peop... Also, you are corre

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