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by oofabz 2y ago
But drug companies do make effective pharmaceutical derivatives of Vitamin D, such as Calcipotriene.
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by oofabz 4y ago
Erdős took amphetamines, so he was cheating too.
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by oofabz 4y ago
Erthos claims 2.5 acres per MW, so to generate 12 TW of solar, you would need an area the size of Pennsylvania.
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by oofabz 4y ago
If anyone is interested in lossy PNG compression, please check out my project at https://github.com/foobaz/pngloss It doesn't compress as well as JPEG or other formats that are designed to be lossy. But if you nee
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by oofabz 4y ago
That used to be true, but these days there are many sites selling legal FLAC downloads, like HDtracks, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and Bleep.
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by oofabz 4y ago
I wish employers did not provide health insurance, even though I have a chronic medical condition. The choices of plans offered by companies is far, far smaller than the choices available to me on the open market. I don't want to have
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by oofabz 5y ago
Very nice! My own programming folder would have included MPW and Resorcerer.
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by oofabz 5y ago
The USSR was not a "despotism of the proletariat". Soviet propaganda portrayed their government as the will of the people, but in fact it was an autocracy. The actual despots during the space race were Krushchev and Brezhnev.
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by oofabz 5y ago
I agree that null pointers are a bad idea and I try to avoid them in my code as often as possible. I go out of my way to avoid returning null to indicate an error condition. I use value types instead of reference types whenever possible, si
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by oofabz 5y ago
I use MySQL (and increasingly, MariaDB) because I prefer the tooling. I use software like PHPMyAdmin and mycli, and when I need to use Postgres or MSSQL the tools available do not live up to the same high standards.
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by oofabz 5y ago
I'd like to recommend another podcast on the subject, 12 Byzantine Rulers by Lars Brownworth: https://12byzantinerulers.com/ It's a short one, 17 episodes of about 20 minutes each. But these episodes are informati
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by oofabz 5y ago
It was an attempt to decrease demand for the cards, thereby reducing price. The simplest market solution to high demand and inadequate supply would be to raise the price of the cards. This would maximize short-term profits but Nvidia felt i
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by oofabz 5y ago
Russia is the legitimate successor state of the Soviet Union. The article implies that the correct procedure for succession was not followed, but this is not true. When a country splits up, as the USSR did, the legal precedent is for all of
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by oofabz 5y ago
In Firefox, you can change the default zoom level by going to about:config and setting the value of layout.css.devPixelsPerPx. If you want things larger, try 1.2 or 1.5. If you have a 4k or larger display, try 2.0.
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by oofabz 5y ago
I like the subject matter, but the bold italic typeface is very difficult to read.
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by oofabz 5y ago
Incorporating thread-safety into individual calls is not sufficient, because thread-safety is not composable. A sequence of calls to thread-safe operations is not itself thread-safe. Since you need locks in the outermost application level,
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by oofabz 5y ago
if only it were
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by oofabz 5y ago
The setup you describe, a default deny firewall, is in fact how consumer routers operate. It's not something you need to configure yourself - router manufacturers do this by default, as recommended by RFC 6092. The idea that IPv6 home
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by oofabz 5y ago
My favorite IPv6 ping target is 2600::, a Sprint router. It's even shorter to type than 4.2.2.1 (or 8.8.8.8 for the youths).
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by oofabz 5y ago
The reason USB is so popular for charging is because it delivers low-voltage DC power, not because it can be used for communication.
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by oofabz 5y ago
>reason: to avoid NAT issues with home servers Home servers are not quite as easy as the article makes it sound. Home routers block incoming IPv6 packets, the same as they do for IPv4. To make a home server accessible, you need to explic
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by oofabz 5y ago
My grandmother was prescribed cigarettes for anxiety in the 1950s. She quit in the '80s after developing emphysema, but it was too late. After years on oxygen her lungs were unable to sustain her and she suffocated.
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by oofabz 5y ago
I do a lot of cooking and I prefer electric. I'm sure it's because I've cooked on electric ranges my entire life, the kind where the pan sits directly on the spiral heating element. I only ever cook with gas when I'm vis
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by oofabz 5y ago
Gagarin was a cosmonaut. The Russian equivalent to those mentioned would be Sergei Korolev.
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by oofabz 5y ago
There are tools for Go that detect non-optimal struct alignment. I use golangci-lint, available at: https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint The struct alignment linter is not included by default. To enable it, run th
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by oofabz 5y ago
I like the idea of renting out the house. This would ensure that the maximum number of people get to appreciate its beauty.
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by oofabz 5y ago
E cores are only present on the high-end Alder Lake SKUs. If you have a mid-range chip with only P cores like the i5-12400, enabling AVX-512 really is free. Such P-core-only chips are attractive to Linux users. Intel Thread Director, their
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by oofabz 5y ago
>nationalised industry has a chance of properly dealing with externalities Do you know the history of the Soviet whaling program? They killed more whales for industry than the West.
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by oofabz 5y ago
There is, in fact, a good reason for a donor to use Bitcoin over ACH. If the donor obtained his Bitcoin through shady means, or does not want to pay taxes on it, spending the Bitcoin directly can allow the donor to avoid disclosing his iden
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by oofabz 5y ago
Linux support for HiDPI is not great. GTK3 apps are scaled appropriately, but GTK2 apps are not, and there are still quite a few of those, like GIMP. Such apps are displayed ridiculously tiny on a 4k display with unreadably small text. I&#x

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