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by npsimons 12y ago
Exactly. You can't beat the second law of thermodynamics. I'm really disappointed in the level of fatlogic in the comments here, and the downvotes for pointing out simple facts.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Eat less of the dessert; savor each bite. People who inhale a whole pint of ice cream in less than 10 minutes are the problem, and no amount of lo-cal will help them; they'll just eat more. For a large number of obese, it's not ab
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by npsimons 12y ago
Actually, I could much rather believe that 'git' referred to Larry McVoy, Mr. Bitkeeper himself. I've never met the man, but the fact that the license was onerous and he basically took his ball and went home speaks volumes. A
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by npsimons 12y ago
Calorie-dense foods psychologically bring us comfort Am I the only one disturbed by this statement? Sure, many people are conditioned to get emotional comfort from eating, but I've seen no evidence it's hard wired. I'm no
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by npsimons 12y ago
Or, you could, I don't know, just not each as much . . .
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by npsimons 12y ago
Should one go to a conference with no plan? Maybe - if it's a change of pace and a good conference, it will probably do one good (ie, maybe not having a plan will force one to think on their feet and make snap decisions on which tracks
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by npsimons 12y ago
You signed up to be their customer, and you can turn these off. That they do this by default isn't ideal, but it's not spam - you have a business relationship with them.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Nice, ad hom, and I can't downvote your insulting comment! How about this: are you too lazy to uncheck a few check boxes? Because that's all it takes, and then you'll only get order and shipping confirmations.
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by npsimons 12y ago
This is a difficult balancing act, to be sure. I firmly believe two things would help: 1) Unsubscribe should be one click, no confirmation. In the case of accidentally unsubscribing, if it's really that valuable, the person will re-sub
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by npsimons 12y ago
And that's why I said: " but if you signed up for it, at least put in the same amount of effort to get out of it first. " If you signed up, then you opted in. Don't be lazy and mark things you signed up for as spam. I&
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by npsimons 12y ago
I call bullshit. I'm a very regular Amazon customer, and I never ever receive anything but order and shipping confirmations from them (and the occasional interview offer). Can't remember if I did anything special (like uncheck
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by npsimons 12y ago
Don't do this. Seriously, don't. It's one thing if you never asked to get additional emails or you can't opt out, but if you signed up for it, at least put in the same amount of effort to get out of it first. If that fai
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by npsimons 12y ago
Why are you doing this? If you subscribed to something, do the responsible thing and unsubscribe from it. Don't fuck up spam filtering just to be lazy.
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by npsimons 12y ago
csh/tcsh is an abomination in which if you were to type real C, it flat out wouldn't work. For a real C shell (and real Ksh), see https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/binfmtc.html.en and http:&#
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by npsimons 12y ago
Nice to have another option, but been able to do this (as well as C++, FORTRAN, assembler, Java and Pascal) under Linux for a while: https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/binfmtc.html.en For Debian, "apt
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by npsimons 12y ago
Maybe I'm too conservative, but just looking at it from a "cool thing to work on perspective" I would have turned it down as well. I mean, seriously, you tell me a story about how a company offers you a job reinventing a whee
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by npsimons 12y ago
The cost difference is so big, even the factor of leases shouldn't make a difference. We're talking an order of magnitude usually (from what I've read on the topic). And once you factor in severance packages, etc, it's a
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by npsimons 12y ago
You're not the only one. Just about everything you said applies for me, and I'm willing to bet there is a silent majority in the same situation. I would put in my two weeks notice in a heartbeat if a company that let me work from
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by npsimons 12y ago
It's the nature of information at this point in history that you cannot possibly consume it all[1]. Therefore, you have to have some selection criteria, which will obviously be biased. If you want to call that an "echo chamber&quo
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by npsimons 12y ago
> Part of the problem today is that the amount of signal around us has increased so much that it's overwhelming, and people haven't yet learned that it's okay to tune out a significantly larger amount of chatter than what
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by npsimons 12y ago
Right, which is exactly why "The first symptom of stagnation is preference." is dumb. How do you tell the difference between "stagnation" and knowing the best tool for the job? What's that you say? It takes time and
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by npsimons 12y ago
To be sure, there are many factors. But going by what a lot of people do, they will get a workout of thirty minutes burning maybe 200-300 calories, then reward themselves with a Big Mac at 550 calories, and they probably already had a calor
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by npsimons 12y ago
And then claims that all of science is just "looking at things" Well, at least he got one thing correct. Mostly. Science is a system for generating a model of the world. It just also happens to be the best one we have, insof
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by npsimons 12y ago
Also relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623#comic
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by npsimons 12y ago
Exercise on its own doesn't lead to weight loss (in order to burn the necessary calories, you'd have to be exercising all day long ), but it is not uncommon for exercise to suppress appetite, thereby reducing the calories in comp
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by npsimons 12y ago
This really, really pisses me off. It wasn't "science" that failed Adams' parents' generation, it was the media that was bought out by the same PR firms that are buying articles against global warming today[1][2]. T
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by npsimons 12y ago
As a working programmer and a bit of a language geek, a few years ago I decided to try to get as many programming languages as possible installed on my dev machines. From this, I eventually tried to get as many of them "scriptable&quot
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by npsimons 12y ago
Nice! Now I can add Haskell to my list of languages I can script with. I'm always on the lookout for new languages I can script with (or at least get closer to rapid prototyping) for easier learning, testing, problem solving, etc. I&#x
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by npsimons 12y ago
BMI is a simplistic, general indicator of relative size, one of many, and it's main purpose is be more accurate than body weight alone. For the majority of people it's correct. Almost every time I hear someone complain about it, t
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by npsimons 12y ago
Real art may inspire the soul, but road signs keep you from dying.

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