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by psergeant 8y ago
> When you say "Experiment, find what works for you" keep in mind how offensive that is to people who feel they were lied/coerced into a taking drugs that in some cases ruined their lives. Right, like suggesting people fin
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by psergeant 8y ago
> brushing this aside as "just a bunch of individuals" isn't useful If it gets one person like me who was under the impression that SSRIs make you a zombie, to try them, then it’s useful.
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by psergeant 8y ago
People in Aberdeen might well get upset if you collapsed Doric into just being Scots.
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by psergeant 8y ago
https://www.thecut.com/2016/04/what-it-s-like-to-wake-up-fro...
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by psergeant 8y ago
The only thing that seems to be universally true about mental health is that we’re all different, and someone else’s experiences rarely apply perfectly to your own. I put off getting on the meds for at least 15 years longer than I should ha
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by psergeant 8y ago
You know Banksy made a film about exactly what you’re describing called “Exit Through The Gift Shop” right?
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by psergeant 8y ago
Loved this album, but took my many many listens to get into it. It’s the entry point to Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 albums if you ever decide to work your way through it
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by psergeant 8y ago
> The internet was doing fine for decades with minimal involvement from governments - why change things? Because the threat landscape — both malware and privacy-related — have seen a sea-change.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Kinda wondering why the geniuses who surround him haven’t just made endless tapes of interesting discussions and then had him ghost-written up
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by psergeant 8y ago
> [RAM Doubler 2] reclaims unused memory in application partitions, then compresses memory it can’t reclaim ... [it then uses] disk swapping ... as its final strategy
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by psergeant 8y ago
I submitted basically this: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/multimedia-trust-and-certific... to YC this year. Definitely something that needs thinking about
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by psergeant 8y ago
I think via the driver licensing
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Nvidia contractually prohibits the use of GeForce and Titan cards in datacenters. So Amazon and other providers have to use the $8,500 datacenter version of the GPUs, and they have to charge a lot for renting it.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Your comment says — essentially — “every email company shares with their host country”. If I take that at face value, I would take the USs and Australia’s rule of law and due process and concern for my privacy many many times over Russia’s
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by psergeant 8y ago
Parts of the Thames that flow through Oxford are called “The Isis” (presumably after the Goddess), and there are (or at least were) a good number of Oxford things called that
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by psergeant 8y ago
> yeah, most civilians don't know the difference between a Bradley fighting vehicle and a tank Most ancient Jews couldn’t have told you the difference between whales and fish, either. Some distinctions just don’t matter most of the
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by psergeant 8y ago
I guess as long as a high enough percentage of the crew are flight people, you can teach someone else to not get in the way too much?
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by psergeant 8y ago
Are Cloud and Domains special-case product protected from closure? How do I as an outsider know which Google products have this protection?
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by psergeant 8y ago
The comment you’re replying to thinks Step Two is good, but feels a bad Step Three is inevitable.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Clicking on this is asking me to sign in...?
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by psergeant 8y ago
But hey, come build your company on top of GCP!
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by psergeant 8y ago
The people I know to whom DFW appeals tend to be those who think they’re smarter than they are. There is no judgement inherent in this observation.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> What are your "trick foods" that contain a good amount of calories but are good to eat? Cheese! Parmesan is 50% protein and 50% fat by weight. Almost all soups and stews can be improved in taste and calories by adding enough
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21 mistakes to avoid with your take-home technical test(codeformore.com)
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by psergeant 8y ago
Another plan is to use self-destructing cookies. You can whitelist some domains then, and break much less
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by psergeant 8y ago
I’ve been using Gmail, etc in Mailplane for quite a while. I do note that Gmail sign-in on my iPhone appears to have logged me into it on the YouTube app
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by psergeant 8y ago
The same author of the original explores this theme with Java: https://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html
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by psergeant 8y ago
HackerNews benefits strongly (imho) from strong moderation.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Despite being downvotes, this is on the money. Had he maintained some kind of separation between himself and the office on Twitter, it’d have been fine, but he announces policy change first on Twitter, for example.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking Right, 100%. I wonder if the cheap electric-assist bikes will make more countries / cities essentially “flat”

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