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by pkroll 10y ago
Gonna need a link for that. Here's one: http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.ht...
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by pkroll 10y ago
The unadulterated version of the original Star Wars is, kind of, available, as the "Despecialized Edition" widely floating around the universe. It's HD. So, so much better than VHS, particularly if you have a big TV on which
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by pkroll 10y ago
This is specifically about the military, but searching for "saltpeter prisons" gets similar results: http://www.snopes.com/military/saltpeter.asp
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by pkroll 10y ago
You're welcome: thanks for making the thing in the first place. :) I don't think people have trouble posting snippets to Stack Overflow and the like, but I do think people have trouble (now or later) USING the snippets posted. Som
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by pkroll 10y ago
Criticism of "The China Study" pretty much ends my confidence in it: https://rawfoodsos.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fa...
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by pkroll 10y ago
Could be great. Couple things some obvious I'd guess: Can run the code... but, not the tests, which would make in-place refactors considerably easier. Clicking Gear for settings doesn't go back to edit window when you're done
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by pkroll 10y ago
PostgreSQL? I'm sure there are Oracle installations that would be difficult or impossible to replicate on PostgreSQL. But I'm also sure that the vast majority of databases would work fine under PostgreSQL. A "new project&quot
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by pkroll 10y ago
You only remember the journalism being better because you remember the good stuff and forget just how much crap there was in a newspaper from 30 years back. The Internet surely allows more to be published and by anyone, but generally "
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by pkroll 10y ago
Actually that's "moot point": http://www.dictionary.com/browse/moot-point But yes, the number of variant perspectives on OOP make it a less descriptive term than would be ideal.
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by pkroll 10y ago
They're relaxed. Tensing up in a crash means muscles don't absorb impact, they transfer it to bones and organs. A relaxed person has a better chance on a fall or crash... up to a point, of course.
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by pkroll 10y ago
The alternatives to C/C++ are so popular that most programming is not done in C/C++ anymore, so your premise seems off. The alternatives have done stunningly well. Rarely, RARELY is someone going to make a language that's rad
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by pkroll 10y ago
That's intriguing... Some obvious questions are: if you had known, would you have spent more time or just been "more serious?" Would you have had better answers after more time? Did the other person do the same level of rough
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by pkroll 10y ago
I was so hoping you were joking. A quick search and yep, that's a real thing. Hopefully not a well selling thing, but that it exists at all is depressing.
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by pkroll 11y ago
Nothing prevents you from using good ingredients and practicing till you can generate a really good pizza. The one tool you would have trouble replicating, a really high-temp oven, only counts as important for a limited set of pizzas. And y
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by pkroll 11y ago
You can just use it and pay a fee every time, or you can subscribe and get Free Delivery... of course they still charge more than most of the stores for the groceries themselves. I subscribed last year for both myself and so I could send my
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by pkroll 11y ago
Games. Modern games are huge. My Steam folder is just over 400 gig, and I've got only 28 programs in it.
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by pkroll 11y ago
Obligatory Code Complete reference[1]: "These articles contain the whole goto debate. It erupts from time to time in most workplaces, textbooks, and magazines, but you won't hear anything that wasn't fully explored 20 years a
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by pkroll 11y ago
Sent to your email (well, links were sent, the files are a little large for email...). Thanks for looking at these!
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by pkroll 11y ago
Since several people have said "it opens everything!" I thought I'd list a couple it doesn't handle: HYMT codec (multithreaded version of Huffyuv, useful for lossless capture of HD) UT Video codec various versions (also
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by pkroll 11y ago
8K on a smartphone means a reasonable resolution for VR headsets, so don't discourage them. :)
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by pkroll 11y ago
Do you hate "written in Go" specifically? 'cause if you search for "written in" you'll find plenty of Rust, JavaScript, Python, and insert-language-here articles.
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by pkroll 11y ago
Actually, Elder Scrolls Online on the DK2, using Vorpx, is a lot of fun. It's not perfect, but it's much cooler than the game without it, and I've not had any sickness in it.
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by pkroll 11y ago
You jest, but the only time I get to have a Coke Cherry Vanilla Zero at a restaurant is when they've got one of those machines.
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by pkroll 11y ago
My first computer had 4K RAM, 4K ROM BASIC (TRS-80 Model I). Your Amiga (and mine) seemed like a spaceship next to that Model I.
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by pkroll 11y ago
Fair enough, so what's your answer to your question "So if rights are bestowed upon someone by another person, who bestowed those rights to the grantee? And who bestowed them to that person, and so on?" i.e., what's your
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by pkroll 11y ago
It's a guess. Can you back up the idea that rights are anything other than a human-made concept, at all? That they're somehow intrinsic to the universe?
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by pkroll 11y ago
Now? Ideally we give the right to hand out rights, via voting. Originally? Whoever could take control by force, dolled out rights as they saw fit.
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by pkroll 11y ago
You're making rights out to be something they aren't. Humans, outside of government, humans "in the wild" have exactly the rights an animal has: they're free. Free to be food for something bigger, or to defend thems
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by pkroll 11y ago
They'd just put them on YouTube these days, with its 60fps support. Wouldn't cost them anything.
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by pkroll 11y ago
It's like the "wasted" in GTA going to slow-mo to accent the kill. Only it's serendipitous slow-mo.

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