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by ralferoo 2y ago
And whatever they come up with will get reverse engineered anyway. A few years back when phone batteries were almost always replaceable anyway, when buying replacement batteries you'd have expensive genuine batteries, expensive fake ba
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> But I am open to any feedback. Next time, just say it was a joke.
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I actually thought some of the comments were funny. Especially the one about the crab in the shell! No idea why they thought it was related to QNX, but an insight into the mind of spammers nonetheless.
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, I've definitely had my share of bad people. Generally, the people who approach you to ask for money are usually the ones who are probably scamming / career beggars. One example, I got the same story about needing to make aro
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Years ago in Sydney, I passed a homeless guy begging outside McDonalds. I too was always of the opinion that it's better not to give money to homeless people (who might just spend it on alcohol or drugs [1]), but instead get them the t
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Fascinating reading, and crazy to believe that someone who's run 20 miles in blistering heat and humidity, still has 5 miles to go and is begging with water is instead used as a lab rat and loaded up with drugs so that he be studied, b
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by ralferoo 2y ago
If it was just one not working, I'd guess their CDN or geo-IP doesn't work. For two entirely different websites owned by different companies failing, I'd suspect it's more likely to be your DNS that's failing, or ma
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Both links work for me in the UK. Not sure why the OP didn't choose one of them as the headline link though. EDIT: The medicalXpress one is a summary of the nature article (and links to it), that's more readable to lay people. Hon
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Oh, sorry, I wasn't trying to give you advice as it sounded like your result was pretty stable - was just replying for others reading to let them know that sometimes a carb break in the middle of keto actually helps, and it was meant t
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Actually, there seems to be some benefit in having a "regular" meal every now even then, perhaps even once a week - I read once that your body can adapt too well to using Ketones and you stop losing weight at the speed you did at
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by ralferoo 2y ago
McDonalds is actually OK for Keto. The restaurant is built on the principle of trying to trick you to have carbs so you still feel hungry and buy more, but actually the meat on its own isn't terrible. A couple of double cheeseburgers w
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> When I returned from my trip, my fridge was empty, so I resisted the temptation to buy those products. This has to be my reality. If I buy treats, no matter how good my intentions are to make them last, they just don't survive in
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by ralferoo 2y ago
More discussion on similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828438
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Copyright law is pretty clear that copyright automatically belongs to the creator from the moment they create something. People can choose to transfer those rights to another party, e.g. assigning the copyright to an employer or selling the
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So given that there are multiple things that it has meant over time, the first statement that it can refer to " any of various various forms of ground stone" seems like a good summary. To claim it can only mean silicates, when
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> 'silex' is a rather old-fashioned word; nowadays it's more commonly called 'flint', which is a sedimentary rock, not an igneous one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silex From the start of t
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All UBs are belong to us!
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That's the intended objective. They don't want you buying the food if there's a potential risk you're going to later sue them if whatever minuscule probability of a contamination event does in fact happen to occur. They
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Interesting videos. Probably the key thing for me is how much of the process in both videos is just exposed to normal air. If sesame is as deadly as some people in this thread are making out and a few grains of sesame dust could kill you, t
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by ralferoo 2y ago
He's a team leader in a company's internal finance department. He doesn't have anything specialised on his computer that he's mentioned, I'm guessing just Word, Excel and whatever he uses to connect to their finance
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I remember being really impressed with Adelaide's public O-bahn bus service back in 1999, I'm sure it's improved since then and a quick google shows it still exists, so it's obviously been a success. At the time these we
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The article does say "draft outline of an interim report" produced by a think-tank inside a government department. The government clearly likes the principle of the idea if they've announced it, but reading the article makes
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> Now i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain This is such a big story, precisely because it's rare that the judicial process goes this wrong, and so when it does everyone wants to know why and what can be changed
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by ralferoo 2y ago
I kind of feel that we're talking at cross-purposes here. To me, whether the code is in a database, in-memory, serialised to a file isn't all that important as they're all just representations of the same AST. For me, the lab
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> > Source Code In Database > ? Rather than think about specific closed environments (which may be an unavoidable consequence of SCID), I was thinking more generically about the issues. At the time, I was firmly in the Java large w
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I have one that's even worse than that. The company I worked at once insisted on you keeping a timesheet for work done and which clients should be billed for each 15 minute block. They charged the clients according to that. They even w
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> it’s far higher for certain subgroups. ... and deskless workers I'm still happily doing a fully remote job, but I've noticed that a number of my friends have been forced to return back to the office 2 or 3 days a week. The ir
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Even 1000dpi might not cut it. Remember the stories about really old texts on parchment that they discovered had been re-written on reused parchment? At certain specific wavelengths they could "see" the original text. If you just
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Decided to split the off-topic part off into a reply so that it didn't distract from the answer! In terms of over-optimisation forcing a certain technologies to be developed and others to be ignored, one example I'm very familiar
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I remember reading an article on Source Code In Database back in the early 2000s, and it's been knocking around my brain ever since as something I ponder every couple of years. I just can't shake the feeling that there's the

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