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by wooster 17y ago
Because he's saying things which are obviously not true and could be verified as not true with a minimal amount of external research (by, for example, reading the text of the screenshot he posted).
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by wooster 17y ago
Yellow fat can indicate a lot of things, most of them not good: 1) The animal was old. 2) Worst case: the animal was losing weight when it died. This will make the meat taste sour (as best I can describe). 3) Best case: it's grass fed and n
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by wooster 17y ago
Since I can't actually respond to any of you directly (thanks HN commenting code!)... [ugh. now the reply links are there, my bad?] It's illegal to resell beef to consumers which wasn't slaughtered at a facility with a USDA inspector. If yo
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by wooster 17y ago
AFAIK, there are only 4 cattle slaughterhouses in PA: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/downloads/slaughter_... Only one of the 4 is not owned by Cargill or JBS. Unless your beef vendor is taking delivery on whole carcasses and then
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by wooster 17y ago
One of my favorite posts on one of my favorite cooking blogs. I'm a particular fan of the computer modeling of the effects of various flip intervals on the cooking time and doneness of steaks.
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by wooster 17y ago
This is basically the method I use when cooking steaks. Also see this post which discusses the effects of flip intervals on cooking time and evenness of steaks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1117296 Also, some other simple tips: 1)
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McGee Days Two and Three: Steak, Fish, Burgers and Love « Cooking Issues(cookingissues.wordpress.com)
4 points by wooster 17y ago|1 comments
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by wooster 17y ago
The difference between prime and choice is not aging, it's marbling. Marbling will also usually be the difference between pricing of different cuts of meat from the same animal, as more often-used muscles will tend to be leaner and tougher.
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by wooster 17y ago
The way to measure this is not by fan speed, it's by power draw. To measure power draw, the most reliable way is to: a) Make sure you can get your machine in a quiescent state (say, 5 minutes after bootup, all unnecessary background tasks a
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by wooster 17y ago
So, in summary, the iPad is a "junky" product because Apple doesn't want to support Flash on it? I can't help but notice that he never mentions Java applets or ActiveX even once. Maybe Apple is ahead of the curve?
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by wooster 17y ago
Thanks for the blast from the past. I remember Keith Ohlfs and his Pixelsight project, but had no idea he used to work at NeXT. His site was definitely one of the major influences in my learning about programming for the web, learning Perl
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by wooster 17y ago
That's Scala, not Java. And this doesn't even begin to cover everything I dislike about Java.
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by wooster 17y ago
A quick Google search shows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov The usage of this copyright designation (which apparently has to be set manually by Fli
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by wooster 17y ago
The second sentence of the disclaimer in question: "The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or
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by wooster 17y ago
"Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options. There is no entry for public domain, nor for the kinds of restrictions that the government would like to put on these photos." This is not true. Please read the co
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by wooster 17y ago
That is pretty cool. Article titles should start distinguishing between touchscreen and multi-touch screens, however. The usability of multi-touch input is, IMO, much better than that of single-touch input (essentially just mouse emulation)
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by wooster 17y ago
FWIW, iTunes is written with C++/Carbon, not Objective-C.
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by wooster 17y ago
For the curious: November 1985: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 November 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) January 2010: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/apple-is-said-to-bu...
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by wooster 17y ago
So, if I were SJ, and I trusted a guy from another company, gave him early confidential information on a revolutionary product I was working on, then found out he was going to undercut me with a crappy knockoff of my product with a wider di
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by wooster 17y ago
Immediately left the site because the background was taking forever to load. The other thing that made me leave was the requirement of an e-mail address.
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by wooster 17y ago
I sell offline mapping iPhone apps. The GPS chip in the iPhone sometimes works (in open fields, clear view of the sky) without assistance, but often does not where standalone units would. This may be a software problem. Core Location has a
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by wooster 17y ago
Google search has been almost useless for me since they dropped implicit AND for implicit OR. As in, the query [random trie] is now (random OR trie). The query [+random +trie] returns much better results (random AND trie). I've seriously be
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by wooster 17y ago
Yes, indeed. As an anecdotal example, a friend at an extremely large international law firm says every single lawyer there is using OmniFocus on their iPhone. At $20 a pop, that's a handy haul from just one app and one firm. I'm sure they'd
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by wooster 17y ago
I'm more interested in the passing mention of FlockDB, which sounds cool. That'll (hopefully) save me from having to write my own distributed graph database.
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by wooster 17y ago
Even with the 3G model the GPS chip isn't a "true" GPS chip. It's Assisted-GPS, and probably pretty unreliable without a 3G connection, just like the iPhone.
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by wooster 17y ago
P.A. Semi is fabless, meaning manufacturing is done by someone else.
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by wooster 17y ago
Really? Everyone I know who has used one says that bottom touch bar is a PITA. It keeps getting hit by accidental touches. Speaking of which, if you have a touch screen, why do you need that many hardware controls?
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US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved?(csmonitor.com)
1 points by wooster 17y ago|0 comments
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by wooster 17y ago
Which is why you also posted it on your Twitter account?
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by wooster 17y ago
Newsflash: School Administrations Hotbeds of Misguided Authoritarianism

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