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by thras 17y ago
Try turning on Compiz. You'll see some crashing.
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by thras 17y ago
Read Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. I have never come across a more thoroughly researched book. Taubes, a journalist for Science magazine, was really slumming it to be writing about nutrition.
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by thras 17y ago
Rest is obvious and fairly easy. It solves a specific set of real-world problems. On the other hand, that list of problems is a pretty small part of web application design. Solutions other than REST seem to work just as well.
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by thras 17y ago
An ad-supported version of your product that doesn't make you any money is worse than the Pirate Bay. Advertisements shit on your brand.
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by thras 17y ago
But you have to set that sort of user account up specially, at which time you can disable tcp forwarding. What he wants to change is the sshd default.
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by thras 17y ago
This article is silly. You can't grab low ports without root. This setting does nothing because users have privileges to grab high ports anyway. For example, they can write simple scripts to listen instead of using SSH for it. On the other
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by thras 17y ago
When I read this the other day, I wondered how many laptop abusers there are compared to people who sit with their laptop and continue to buy things. Because this gets rid of both. Maybe the economy has gotten bad enough recently to tip the
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by thras 17y ago
And it will be even worse if there isn't any near-absolute equality between two distinct groups, which tends to be the case in most real-world government preference scenarios.
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by thras 17y ago
That sort of policy encourages people to work very long hours to out-compete their coworkers. And don't tell me that there is no competition working for a place where adequate work is rewarded with a "generous severance package." You pay fo
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by thras 17y ago
"We should focus on what people get done, not how many hours or days are worked. Just as we don’t have a 9-5 day policy, we don’t need a vacation policy." While I admire the sentiment, it's rather anti-family.
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by thras 17y ago
I'm running all three. And to be honest, I don't notice that many differences between Vista and Windows 7 beyond the task bar. Maybe the differences are there, but I don't notice them. There are a lot of little things missing in XP that ann
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by thras 17y ago
Oh. You misunderstood me. I said your argument was fact-free. If you'd like me to make an argument and do your research for you, then you'll have to make yourself more interesting.
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by thras 17y ago
I said that you seemed to be philosophizing rather than speaking from any reality or evidence. You made lots and lots of general statements that would make my kindergarten teacher's heart glad, but don't present any actual facts. That makes
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by thras 17y ago
Feldman and his crew at Stanford are at the forefront of the "your lying eyes" crowd. http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/7/404 Hawks at Utah has written about Feldman on his blog, I believe. In fact, SNP maps tend to be very detailed and sho
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by thras 17y ago
Ancestry isn't an absolute categorization. But it's a worse fallacy to say that broad racial groups don't exist. Beyond your lying eyes, a single glance at an SNP map will inform you of how genetic variance tends to clump. Risky policy is r
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by thras 17y ago
Wow. I was about to start a site with exactly this idea. I guess I'll have to figure something else out :)
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by thras 17y ago
Graduate education is the most effective form of contraception. This is a wildly different situation than existed even 100-200 years ago. Gregory Clark has some historical data on the industrial revolution, if you're interested.
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by thras 17y ago
The whole "evil insurance companies" thing is ridiculous. Companies are amoral and profit seeking. Wrong. Industries have distinct cultures, usually formed through self-selection due to the sort of people who choose careers in them. Compa
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by thras 17y ago
I'd rather see C taught than Scheme. Hardware matters, and a good CS-education should be centered in languages that recognize that. Software engineering, on the other hand is too important a subject to be left to the schools. Let them learn
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by thras 17y ago
Yes. I don't think anybody would wish for another 130 years tacked on to their lifespan if it were all spent in a nursing home. But, due to the nature of the problem, that sort of thing is unlikely. Fixing old age will necessarily involve m
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by thras 17y ago
A counter-opinion about generational perspective: http://curmudgeonjoy.blogspot.com/2008/08/strange-mirage.htm... Choosing limited lifespan to achieve a particular political balance strikes me as a truly bizarre approach. As far as scienc
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by thras 17y ago
Senescence is one of the prices of having evolved rather than having been specially created. It's surprising that we don't work harder on fixing this. 10x what we're spending on AIDS might be a good place for a start. Imagine what humanity
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by thras 17y ago
A couple drops in my tea. I cook with heavy cream sometimes. But I cut that out a couple of months ago. Doesn't seem to have changed anything.
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by thras 17y ago
Oh, I thought it was much more of a hack than the "Hacker's Diet" -- which is just low-calorie eating, after all. I've done low-calorie, and this is so much easier that it's not even funny. Plus, it appears to be a hell of a lot healthier.
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by thras 17y ago
That could be a good theory. That is if I hadn't been out of the gym for three months starting at the end of January due to a wrist injury. :)
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by thras 17y ago
No, I don't avoid any of the above. I do avoid grains, starchy vegetables like potatoes and plantains, rice and beans. Everything else is fine. I use onions and garlic more than anything else. Broccoli or asparagus when I feel like having a
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by thras 17y ago
I generally choose the fattiest cuts of beef and pork that I can find. My triglycerides have gone down and my HDL has gone up, as one would expect given the link between carbohydrate intake and serum cholesterol. I'm planning to get reteste
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by thras 17y ago
Sorry, I thought that I was clear on that: I eat meat, eggs, cheese, and green vegetables. That's it. I suppose I do use wine, salt, and other seasonings when I cook. By "meat" I mean meat, poultry, and fish. I don't worry about no-calorie
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I Hacked My Diet with Science(thras.blogspot.com)
34 points by thras 17y ago|54 comments
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The Climate Models are in Fortran(2blowhards.com)
2 points by thras 17y ago|2 comments

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