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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
This is why I said "especially resistance training." The metabolic benefits from aerobic exercises like walking, running, swimming, etc. are rather short (1-2 hours.) Intense resistance training gives a benefit for 12-36 hours (until your
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Unfortunately the NYT's coverage of nutrition lately has been so bad as to make me think of most of the articles as press hits by the pharmaceutical and food industry. The conclusions from the study are interesting. However, giving people
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Considering exercise (especially resistance training) increases your metabolism and overall oxygen intake for many hours after, if you aren't getting antioxidants you will be slowly killing yourself. They don't have to come from vitamins,
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
memcmp is not the way to do it. A much faster solution would be the same approach rsync takes with its "rolling checksum." To calculate the weak checksum of each block as you roll along the length of the file, you only have to do a calcula
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Absolutely. One of the best things we could do would be changing our farm subsidies away from corn and sugar and instead contribute to many forms of fresh produce.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Yes, there are plenty of concepts from git that are useful (like tracking changes to content, rather than files.) I don't think using git itself directly would solve many of the hairy platform issues, because they are really outside the sco
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
SugarSync IMHO takes a backwards approach to syncing. Their original model didn't even include historical versions - wrong way syncs destroyed data! The system works by observing and then replaying the events (file creation, moves, etc.)
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
But the tar method will generally be 5-15x faster for large collections of small files. Handing it with tar makes operations on both ends asynchronous. scp (or rsync, etc.) of multiple files does file opens on each end in lockstep, resulti
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
I tend to push SQL fairly hard. As such I find that ORMs are in my way as often as they help. The lack of one doesn't concern me at all. Seriously, how hard is it to compose a SQL query?
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
At least in US grocery stores, there is an inverse relationship between the prettiness of the packaging, and the healthfulness of the product. Fresh produce and such aren't packaged at all.
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
I find it more comfortable to use tab for auto completion in Vim. Here's how: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Smart_mapping_for_tab_completion
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
Oops, it's actually a patch to gzip, not zlib. It's included in newer Debian/Ubuntu distros and explained in "man gzip" I think this is the original patch: http://www.samba.org/netfilter/diary/gzip.rsync.patch
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by rarrrrrr 17y ago
This is why SpiderOak (and I suspect Tarsnap, and probably others) use a completely different approach to storing historical versions that don't explicitly involve deltas. Instead, they chunk files and store individual data blocks, and use
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
In this case, I'm glad for it. An unusually enjoyable read.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
1 - I would argue that truly good sex, despite all hype, is yet highly underrated. I expect few people experience it though. Contributing factors include accumulated skill, anatomical compatibility, mindset, mood, physical fitness, etc.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I switchedin my early twenties and it's been well worth it. It's not so much about speed, as it is about accuracy, and especially about comfort. I would recommend in switching that you not move your keycaps around, or draw new letters on yo
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
One easy thing to do in this situation is add medical payments coverage to your auto insurance. It's maybe $20/6 months, and covers what is for many people the most likely cause of injury. Injury only or highest-possible deductible health
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Much of the American population (including a majority of pregnant women) are deficient in vitamin D. Odds are good that you are too. A big contributing factor is insufficient exposure to sunlight. Some have speculated that seasonal winter
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Well, you've stumbled upon some of the deep problems with nutrition information dispersal in the US. Many regard the FDA/USDA to be largely corrupt in their handling of health information, due to the many conflicts of interest and ties to
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
On the LEF site (the first link I posted) there's a description of the various specific and measurable benefits of various high quality supplements, as established by various studies and published in respected medical, nutritional, and bioc
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Like many things in mainstream media, this doesn't show the full picture. Nutritionist and serious athletes and athletic trainers will tell you differently. Here are some factors: - Several studies have used no vitamins at all! (only surve
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Nutritionists have been saying this for years. This is why the very high end multi vitamins ($50-100 per month!) include such a wide variety of ingredients, and the does is somewhere between 9-12 capsules PER DAY. Examples: Life Extension
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I wonder if there's any value in "solving" the shipping cost problem by having something like Amazon's Prime -- an upfront fee of $80/yr then free 2 day shipping? It changes shopping psychology. Once Prime is purchased, people want to buy m
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
From someone who orders lots of food online -- nice work. I've been wishing a site with this purpose existed for years. I will note that the prices seem quite high for many items compared to similar items available elsewhere, but from a bus
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I am optimistic that universal health care may reduce costs indirectly. We see stark differences in food quality laws in countries where the government pays for health care. For example, in most of Europe there's real sugar instead of corn
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
We use Nagios for sending/escalating alerts, and Ganglia for graphing quantifiable systems trends. It's indispensable for explaining odd performance phenomena. Ganglia Demo: http://monitor.millennium.berkeley.edu/ We also wrote some dae
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
FYI, if you buy a wildcard cert covering .example.com, example.com itself does not match -- only subdomains do.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
An easy way to have a space efficient, perpetual backup of a database: Run the dump file every N units of time. Compress the dump file using gzip with the --rsyncable option. This increases size by 1% but makes it efficiently diff/patchable
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
YES! This comment should be modded up to the top. We talk to a lot of customers about their backups every day. I'd say more than half of the backup failure stories we hear come from failing to adequately test that data can actually be resto
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
The trouble with convincing humans to back up is that it's important, but not urgent. For any given day of procrastination, the likelihood of consequences is small. Our motto is "If it's not backed up, it's down." (Applies doubly so for u

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