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by wendroid 16y ago
> - meal GI can be lowered by simply consuming more protein/fat based foods, or high grain foods alongside the food. I'm not refuting your GI point but the combination of foods does have an impact on how they are digested. E.g. want t
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by wendroid 16y ago
"Live" is that the best they could do, copying Microsoft ?
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by wendroid 16y ago
Get to bed by midnight & get up when you wake (no alarm clock). Only eat wholemeal wheat. Eat plenty of greens - broccoli, kale, savoy cabbage (high iron stuff) Eat an apple on your way to the office. Coffee only before mid-day
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by wendroid 16y ago
The sad thing about MPI is that it's entrenched. To run it on the biggest iron such as Blue Gene they have to use a mechanism called OS Bypass to get the bytes on the wire fast enough because the Linux kernel takes an age. One of the other
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by wendroid 16y ago
> 88MB/s write and 266MB/s read That's appalling for 8 drives !
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by wendroid 16y ago
My car is green
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by wendroid 16y ago
Just shows what a shitty platform HTML is: one step forward, three steps back
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by wendroid 16y ago
Dally must have got round to reading the CS books from the 1990s This is my favourite from 1992 : http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ulb.tu-da... His is spot on though, but we need to get the vector unit as standard on the
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by wendroid 16y ago
"Flash is crap" because it's a cpu hog, browse the web with ads on an older PC and Flash dominates the machine.
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by wendroid 16y ago
Ah right. I realised in bed that what I guessed was totally wrong
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by wendroid 16y ago
That's not the scariest part for Pros Here's the EULA for our PRO camera : http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=584693&l=d37e6ecc2... That's right, a MPEG2 camera that can't be used for anything but home movies without paying MPEG-LA
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by wendroid 16y ago
> Supposedly the key to this is the fact that intensity is proportional to 1/distance^2, but just how they use this (given that different objects will be different in brightness) the article doesn't say. I'd imagine something not far aw
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by wendroid 16y ago
No it doesn't. It has an array of CCDs and chooses the appropriate pixel to capture at runtime based on inferred distance information so the headline should read : "New Camera Simulates Real-time Focus of Near and Far Field" Sounds like a f
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by wendroid 16y ago
If everyone bought an iPad your company's product would die, not the iPad.
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by wendroid 16y ago
OBLIG "Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Philip Greenspun "Including Common Lisp." - Ro
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by wendroid 16y ago
I do it with Inotify http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2009/06/serialising-multiple-wr...
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by wendroid 16y ago
Newest Files clue-0.5.tar.bz2 119.5 KB 2008-12-14
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by wendroid 16y ago
Keep the order fixed but let me shuffle it manually
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by wendroid 16y ago
I've always loved watching that relationship. Once you've added cos & tan and you can go home early, trig's done!
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by wendroid 16y ago
really ? gosh, that is news
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by wendroid 16y ago
see also http://www.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pdf
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by wendroid 16y ago
Really, the best of breed ? TTY & ncurses, what a sad state of affairs. TTY is keeping you down : http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Removing_The_Big_Kernel_Lock2 Rob Pike was right in 1991 : "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell re
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by wendroid 16y ago
Can't MSNBC afford any better quality JPEGs ?
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by wendroid 16y ago
Nice one Cory, spot on mate. The shills like Sharkey and the tech-illilterate in parliament have F'd us in the A. It makes me so mad. I can't wait for this Act to get some teeth, cos I'm going to punch them in. The last two times they made
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by wendroid 16y ago
My car doesn't have a stereo either. Plan9 has three graphical web browsers but no, not CSS3 & JS. Russ doesn't even run a Plan9 terminal at all so he's not much of a benchmark. If web browsing is what you use your computer for, then pe
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by wendroid 16y ago
These people are really beginning to annoy me. They are under the impression that a few poxy songs are the most valuable things on earth. They had a fwe good years in the sunshine but now it is autumn in the land of sing a song for sixpence
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by wendroid 16y ago
No idea about Solaris, but I'm sure there is a file notification system there too. Not all Kernels are stock USE="-dbus -hal" and that's the way I likes it.
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by wendroid 16y ago
You should try doing more than using Safari. Some of us even replace the command line on OSX to be something more friendly (Plan9port). The number of times I've dropped to the shell to find the contents of a resource fork for colleagues usi
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by wendroid 16y ago
I use a shell with no readline / history support and I don't miss it one bit. Calling Linux modern is, at best, a joke.
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by wendroid 16y ago
> future of computing is mobile my HPC cluster says otherwise

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