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by pfooti 9y ago
Not to be that guy, but if you have that much if a reaction to butter, you are probably allergic to milk proteins rather than lactose intolerant. Butter (and most cheese) is very low in lactose. Of course, everyone is different (I'm la
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by pfooti 9y ago
yeah, I actually use google's plus-email features to help me generate test accounts on some sites or to attribute mail spam to other sites.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Legit question here, not snark. How could this possibly be better than something like an algae based biofuel? Have self-replicating, solar-powered machines do the CO2 extraction and reduction work on their highly specialized membranes. Then
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by pfooti 9y ago
well yeah, the self-replicating carbon-recapture devices are trees. way to spoil the business secret, Ted. didn't you sign an NDA?
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by pfooti 9y ago
i've been working on one related to climate change - i have perfected a self-replicating, solar-powered carbon recapture facility. i figure the coin can represent some amount of carbon offset. working on a white paper as we speak.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Consider a few ways engineers could have things Even Better: Less / No crunch time. Ethical support so you can refuse to do something shady. Support for union members getting equal pay and equal treatment, despite marginalized status.
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by pfooti 9y ago
that said, i average around 1 gig a month, so i suspect some of this is usage patterns - I am in wifi the vast majority of the time.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Last I looked for postgraphile, they suggest you hand all that off to row-level authorization mechanisms, which admittedly got a lot more performant in postgres 10.
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by pfooti 9y ago
I have been deep-diving into graphql lately, as it seems like it very completely fixes the client-side N+1 query problem (you can specify everything, including children of children in hierarchical data, that you'll need to render a pag
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by pfooti 9y ago
Speaking objectively, I linked to an appeal from a broad coalition of disability rights activists to stop using a particular term in the vernacular that has a demonstrable link to the othering. This is not just me, nor is it "liberal c
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yes. It is considered by the mentally disabled community to be similar to the n word. It is a word that was used to marginalize an entire population, now used to describe something bad. Consider, as a non native speaker, if English speakers
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by pfooti 9y ago
Please avoid using the r word conversationally.
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by pfooti 9y ago
Imagine the side channel attack enabled by having your browser prefetch content that is on a search result but that you didn't click, in a fashion that is not clearanced by a single server but instead can be tied directly to you. Lik
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by pfooti 9y ago
The real failed experiment is that of renting property in general. If nobody were allowed to own more homes than they could live in, or derive income from rentals, there'd be a much bigger supply of housing on the market for buyers, an
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by pfooti 9y ago
I'd bet that at least part of that is in response to competition on the ground. Monkeybrains and Sonic (disclosure: long time sonic customer) both are bringing high-speed broadband to SF. In particular, I have symmetric gigabit for lik
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by pfooti 9y ago
the pun is apparently at least part of where the name come from, as it exploits speculative computation
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by pfooti 9y ago
yeah, I got bummed when ... um .. there was a nice epub app for devices that went under a few years back? whatever that was, went under. I moved my epub library to google books, and it's relatively convenient. I like reading technical
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yeah, it sounds like you've got the right attitude about it. Personally, I failed to get tenure for a simple enough reason - I didn't publish enough and ended up leaving academia before going up for tenure (although after five yea
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by pfooti 9y ago
I am not sure what field you are in, and I wish you the best of luck, but that kind if tenure track, teacher-centric position is exceedingly rare. I had a tenure track job - in addition to teaching classes I loved teaching to amazing studen
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by pfooti 9y ago
Yeah, I think you're right about most of this - I watched most of the races this season. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in most races in the middle of the pack too, like "will force india do well, or will they cr
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by pfooti 9y ago
I was in a similar situation. I drank too much - I also brewed my own beer, so I always had a fridge full of beer that was close at hand. I'd play video games and drink a few too many beers and feel a bit cruddy in the morning, and I h
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by pfooti 9y ago
"lowest common denominator" is kind of a feature, when it comes to something used on a ton of different platforms. The rest can be built up out of those. I'm not saying that html et. al are amazing , just that I am doubtful
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by pfooti 9y ago
I agree; if you build a system that completely covers specifying layouts for all widget needs and a DSL that handles wiring views into models, for all operating systems and device formfactors, you will have invented HTML, CSS, and JavaScrip
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by pfooti 9y ago
yeah, I actually use it as a role-playing campaign manager. Each campaign gets a scrivener book, and the various tools for tagging and organizing cards and resources scrivener has are perfect for this use case.
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by pfooti 9y ago
i love scrivener, but i'm not a novel-writer. i use it to run role-playing campaigns. it's is more-or-less perfect for that kind of work. I can add images and PDFs under the research / resources section (i tend to mine existi
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by pfooti 9y ago
You can't inspect websocket frames. It is a tiny quibble in the face of big amazing improvements. But it is a thing (and is why I still use chrome primarily for development), and the extension used to patch this in to the devtools brok
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by pfooti 9y ago
the market will bear a surprising amount of people dying because they are too poor to live, and make more profit that way than selling the drugs at low prices to poor people. I'm not a professor of ethics or anything, but I feel like t
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by pfooti 9y ago
There's probably a pot of contributing factors, but I want to point out two, as an old-fashioned c/c++ turned Java developer who moved to node and typescript. Typescript is fun. Java's type system is super unfun, with its int
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by pfooti 9y ago
I see the tracking issue has been in bugzilla for years. I get that it is a tricky map from the raw packets to these frames, but relying on a 3rd party extension to the point of deprioritizing work on this is a pretty iffy call - I wasn&#x2
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by pfooti 9y ago
Is there some super-compelling reason why FF doesn't let you inspect websocket frames? I was taking FF for a drive yesterday, based on the earlier thread, and it was nice until I started debugging my web app. I'm not interested in

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