That the primary problem with people becoming obese being that they consume too much food is hardly news, nor is it news that food is much more abundant these days than it was in the past.
That said, it is interesting to read about this approach to studying obesity. And the simulator was also kind of interesting although it told me that in order to maintain my current weight I need to increase my energy intake by 300-800 kCal/day (depending on activity level specified) which is sort of odd since I'm currently neither gaining nor losing weight, just maintaining (in case you're wondering about my activity level, I'm at the gym more days than I'm not and I also try to get an hour or two of cardio in every week).
When do you manage to get iTunes to max out CPU usage?
I'm genuinely curious as I have a 40+ GiB iTunes library (with the actual media files stored on another machine and mounted via NFS) and I can't remember the last time iTunes maxed out a single CPU core.
As far as I'm concerned Folders/Directories can just be squares containing other squares.
Or, in a metaphor that works both in the real, physical world and on computers (as a reference to objects): A directory is an image of an open box with other boxes in it.
Compare the value of bitcoins before May 2011 and after September 2011. It's still more than double the pre-bubble value. And volumes are clearly up (including when compared to the volumes traded during the bubble).
Bitcoin is developing just fine, there was a short-lived bubble as it gained popularity and speculators tried to make a few quick bucks. It might happen again but over time the economy has been stabilizing and volume traded has been somewhat steadily rising.
Yeah, except I live far north enough that in mid-june the sun barely drops below the horizon for two hours or so. And in winter the opposite happens, I've literally had entire weeks when I've not seen daylight at all, for actual direct sunlight I've gone even longer.
Well, it depends on your definition of "fit". If you define a "fit 20 year old" as a professional athlete in peak competition shape then you're setting the bar pretty high. If you instead set it at "someone who's never been overweight, is casually involved in some sport, going to practice once a week and hits the gym once or twice a week" then it's definitely believable that a 45 year old could be in better shape, especially if you factor in genetics.
And yeah, the 20 year old in my example definitely would be considered fit by most of his peers, the average 20 year old tends to look more fit than he/she is (When I was younger I had plenty of friends who looked quite fit, hit the gym just often enough to look not fat or even slightly "cut" by most people's standards yet in practice a 40 year old who went for a couple of runs and hit the gym a few times per week would've been in much better shape than them).
Well, if work hours weren't dictated by religious morality and when people used to get out of bed back when large portions of the population were sustenance farmers maybe most people wouldn't feel the need to switch between their "weekday schedule" and what they're actually comfortable with.
Of course, on top of that there's the issue of electric lighting (I've had a long-running plan to automate all the lights in my home so that they dim and brighten based on the time of day to deal with this, I've tried a few primitive versions of it but haven't really managed to come up with anything good enough. I suspect the route to go is dimmable LEDs as well as a few photodiodes hooked up to my home server (so that I can control lighting both based on the light level and the time of day easily)).
Thing is, those horrible websites from 1998 are still horrible. They didn't even try to follow anything resembling a standard, design for websites was often handled by developers or businesspeople with no design abilities. Content management systems for the web were practically non-existent. Overall I'd take a new web 2.0 website over one of those abortions any day.
Or have you forgotten the broken Java applets and JavaScript that would make any browser freeze for 30+ seconds before letting you load the page (and still do on modern hardware)? When compared to that a modern website that loads 500+ kB of jquery, jquery-UI and other 3rd party crap from some CDN is wonderful (still horrible compared to a well-designed site but at least it doesn't carry with it a mandatory 30 second browser freeze and a one in five chance of nuking your browser session).
Machines are not useless. There are advantages to machines and there are advantages to free weights.
I do some things with free weights and some things with machines (for example, I prefer using the seated leg press machine instead of doing barbell squats because I care about not fucking up my back which is a hell of a lot easier to do with squats).
Sounds like the advice on some bodybuilding forums. No matter what someone asks there are always a few people who suggest squats as the go-to exercise. It's even gotten to the point of becoming a meme ("Squats and oats!").
Of course, there's a lot of "broscience" involved in this case, squats are considered "hardcore" so everyone keeps telling each other to do lots of squats.
How is 2500 kCal "a ton of food"? At 193 cm tall and weighing in around 84 kg I generally consume 2400 kCal on rest days, on days when I go to the gym (4-5 days per week) I up this to around 2600-2800 kCal.
Ok, bypass was the wrong word to use but the basic idea still applies, it's easier to deal with a single failed broken of equipment which is not necessary for the operation of other equipment than it is to deal with everything breaking.
And yeah, you still need individual surge protectors for sensitive stuff, but it helps.
Still, not having to mess around with nested divs and the like just to get fairly basic design features is nice and allows you to put more effort into other parts of the site (such as content and actual features).
While replacing a single expensive surge protector might be expensive it is still a lot more convenient than having to order a new fridge, buy a new computer (and transfer data from your fried one), buying a new stereo and all the other shit that might break.
Surge protector breaks? Bypass it and wait for the new one to be delivered/installed.
Every fucking gadget and piece of electric equipment in your home breaks? Oh goodie, you get to spend a couple of weeks fixing everything.
I had an ADSL modem saved by a surge protector once upon a time (late 90s/early 00s, don't remember exactly when). A few other things also survived thanks to surge protectors (a couple of the surge protectors even magically survived the incident).
What incident you ask? Well, lightning struck a tree down the street, a friend of mine who lived a little closer to the lightning strike had his 56k modem literally destroyed (we're not just talking about the magic smoke being let out, we're talking about the modem being visibly destroyed). Sure, it's a bit of an extreme edge case for a lot of people but the day it happens it sure is nice to have that little extra protection.
It's not just the cost of replacing the equipment, there's also convenience and a little extra peace of mind. The risk of being stuck without your computer/TV/stereo/fridge/whatever for a few days is lowered and if you live in a lightning-prone area you won't catch yourself thinking "Oh fuck, look at those clouds, better get home and unplug everything" quite as often...
I've seen several non-Apple tech news sources pick this story up. They sure do love a good "Apple goofed" story.
I think the only reason it hasn't gotten more play is because while this is a serious bug it isn't one that affects a lot of users. It only affects those who have upgraded from an earlier version of OS X and have chosen to continue using the old version of FileVault instead of upgrading to the newer whole disk encryption one.
Well, PHP has many flaws and all but I've had to maintain plain ASP/VB websites and PHP5 is miles better than that. PHP3 or ASP/VB? Well, that's a little tougher but PHP5 is just so much better than VB. As for ASP.NET (using VB or C#), that's a whole other thing. PHP doesn't compare very well to C#.NET or even VB.NET (yes, I know both are.NET and have pretty much the same features, C# is just a more pleasant language to work with).
Still, the only place I've seen coax in a while is in installations for TV (cable or satellite). It just seems to me like it might make more sense to skip it (or just have coax running to your server/wiring closet and convert it to something a bit more computer friendly there (once again, I don't watch TV but IIRC there are definitely solutions for integrating TV into various "media center" software solutions).
Why install a bunch of outdated cables just because they're slightly cheaper than newer ones?
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That the primary problem with people becoming obese being that they consume too much food is hardly news, nor is it news that food is much more abundant these days than it was in the past.
That said, it is interesting to read about this approach to studying obesity. And the simulator was also kind of interesting although it told me that in order to maintain my current weight I need to increase my energy intake by 300-800 kCal/day (depending on activity level specified) which is sort of odd since I'm currently neither gaining nor losing weight, just maintaining (in case you're wondering about my activity level, I'm at the gym more days than I'm not and I also try to get an hour or two of cardio in every week).
When do you manage to get iTunes to max out CPU usage?
I'm genuinely curious as I have a 40+ GiB iTunes library (with the actual media files stored on another machine and mounted via NFS) and I can't remember the last time iTunes maxed out a single CPU core.
As far as I'm concerned Folders/Directories can just be squares containing other squares.
Or, in a metaphor that works both in the real, physical world and on computers (as a reference to objects): A directory is an image of an open box with other boxes in it.
Compare the value of bitcoins before May 2011 and after September 2011. It's still more than double the pre-bubble value. And volumes are clearly up (including when compared to the volumes traded during the bubble).
Bitcoin is developing just fine, there was a short-lived bubble as it gained popularity and speculators tried to make a few quick bucks. It might happen again but over time the economy has been stabilizing and volume traded has been somewhat steadily rising.
May I suggest you check out this graph?
Yeah, except I live far north enough that in mid-june the sun barely drops below the horizon for two hours or so. And in winter the opposite happens, I've literally had entire weeks when I've not seen daylight at all, for actual direct sunlight I've gone even longer.
Well, it depends on your definition of "fit". If you define a "fit 20 year old" as a professional athlete in peak competition shape then you're setting the bar pretty high. If you instead set it at "someone who's never been overweight, is casually involved in some sport, going to practice once a week and hits the gym once or twice a week" then it's definitely believable that a 45 year old could be in better shape, especially if you factor in genetics.
And yeah, the 20 year old in my example definitely would be considered fit by most of his peers, the average 20 year old tends to look more fit than he/she is (When I was younger I had plenty of friends who looked quite fit, hit the gym just often enough to look not fat or even slightly "cut" by most people's standards yet in practice a 40 year old who went for a couple of runs and hit the gym a few times per week would've been in much better shape than them).
Well, if work hours weren't dictated by religious morality and when people used to get out of bed back when large portions of the population were sustenance farmers maybe most people wouldn't feel the need to switch between their "weekday schedule" and what they're actually comfortable with.
Of course, on top of that there's the issue of electric lighting (I've had a long-running plan to automate all the lights in my home so that they dim and brighten based on the time of day to deal with this, I've tried a few primitive versions of it but haven't really managed to come up with anything good enough. I suspect the route to go is dimmable LEDs as well as a few photodiodes hooked up to my home server (so that I can control lighting both based on the light level and the time of day easily)).
Sadly that meme (and the "squats solve everything" piece of "advice") has spread beyond 4chan to regular bodybuilding forums as well...
Thing is, those horrible websites from 1998 are still horrible. They didn't even try to follow anything resembling a standard, design for websites was often handled by developers or businesspeople with no design abilities. Content management systems for the web were practically non-existent. Overall I'd take a new web 2.0 website over one of those abortions any day.
Or have you forgotten the broken Java applets and JavaScript that would make any browser freeze for 30+ seconds before letting you load the page (and still do on modern hardware)? When compared to that a modern website that loads 500+ kB of jquery, jquery-UI and other 3rd party crap from some CDN is wonderful (still horrible compared to a well-designed site but at least it doesn't carry with it a mandatory 30 second browser freeze and a one in five chance of nuking your browser session).
Machines are not useless. There are advantages to machines and there are advantages to free weights.
I do some things with free weights and some things with machines (for example, I prefer using the seated leg press machine instead of doing barbell squats because I care about not fucking up my back which is a hell of a lot easier to do with squats).
Sounds like the advice on some bodybuilding forums. No matter what someone asks there are always a few people who suggest squats as the go-to exercise. It's even gotten to the point of becoming a meme ("Squats and oats!").
Of course, there's a lot of "broscience" involved in this case, squats are considered "hardcore" so everyone keeps telling each other to do lots of squats.
How is 2500 kCal "a ton of food"? At 193 cm tall and weighing in around 84 kg I generally consume 2400 kCal on rest days, on days when I go to the gym (4-5 days per week) I up this to around 2600-2800 kCal.
Ok, bypass was the wrong word to use but the basic idea still applies, it's easier to deal with a single failed broken of equipment which is not necessary for the operation of other equipment than it is to deal with everything breaking.
And yeah, you still need individual surge protectors for sensitive stuff, but it helps.
Still, not having to mess around with nested divs and the like just to get fairly basic design features is nice and allows you to put more effort into other parts of the site (such as content and actual features).
Personally, for my own sites, I go for "It's standards compliant and works in Safari/Firefox/Chrome, it's done".
For work we tend to target recent Chrome/FF/Safari and IE7+. This generally works well as most users have upgraded to at least IE7 at this point.
The idea is to allow experimental feature implementations (that may differ between browsers).
The problem is with web developers who don't just use them in production environments but actually rely on them.
I'll admit I've used them a few times in production environments but the reasons have been:
While replacing a single expensive surge protector might be expensive it is still a lot more convenient than having to order a new fridge, buy a new computer (and transfer data from your fried one), buying a new stereo and all the other shit that might break.
Surge protector breaks? Bypass it and wait for the new one to be delivered/installed.
Every fucking gadget and piece of electric equipment in your home breaks? Oh goodie, you get to spend a couple of weeks fixing everything.
I had an ADSL modem saved by a surge protector once upon a time (late 90s/early 00s, don't remember exactly when). A few other things also survived thanks to surge protectors (a couple of the surge protectors even magically survived the incident).
What incident you ask? Well, lightning struck a tree down the street, a friend of mine who lived a little closer to the lightning strike had his 56k modem literally destroyed (we're not just talking about the magic smoke being let out, we're talking about the modem being visibly destroyed). Sure, it's a bit of an extreme edge case for a lot of people but the day it happens it sure is nice to have that little extra protection.
It's not just the cost of replacing the equipment, there's also convenience and a little extra peace of mind. The risk of being stuck without your computer/TV/stereo/fridge/whatever for a few days is lowered and if you live in a lightning-prone area you won't catch yourself thinking "Oh fuck, look at those clouds, better get home and unplug everything" quite as often...
I've seen several non-Apple tech news sources pick this story up. They sure do love a good "Apple goofed" story.
I think the only reason it hasn't gotten more play is because while this is a serious bug it isn't one that affects a lot of users. It only affects those who have upgraded from an earlier version of OS X and have chosen to continue using the old version of FileVault instead of upgrading to the newer whole disk encryption one.
That's for entirely different reasons, to protect yourself from SQL injection attacks prepared statements should be all you need (if used properly).
There's no need to escape things before passing them to MySQL, just use PDO (or mysqli) prepared statements.
Well, PHP has many flaws and all but I've had to maintain plain ASP/VB websites and PHP5 is miles better than that. PHP3 or ASP/VB? Well, that's a little tougher but PHP5 is just so much better than VB. As for ASP.NET (using VB or C#), that's a whole other thing. PHP doesn't compare very well to C#.NET or even VB.NET (yes, I know both are .NET and have pretty much the same features, C# is just a more pleasant language to work with).
Still, the only place I've seen coax in a while is in installations for TV (cable or satellite). It just seems to me like it might make more sense to skip it (or just have coax running to your server/wiring closet and convert it to something a bit more computer friendly there (once again, I don't watch TV but IIRC there are definitely solutions for integrating TV into various "media center" software solutions).
Why install a bunch of outdated cables just because they're slightly cheaper than newer ones?
Let me sum up your post for you: "I don't want what you want so clearly you're a fucking idiot".
There, that's about it.