I feel your pain. I gave up on kde and the like to reopen things in the right place and just wrote a script to orient/resize everything I need. Check out http://blog.spiralofhope.com/1....
I've had very good, insightful ideas about programming while using. But if I use for the express purpose of finding those ideas, it doesn't seem to work. Feel like I'm forcing it and trying to start a car that doesn't have any gas. This "microdosing" sounds a lot like the latter.
10 sec Google search: http://www.health.harvard.edu/...
It's pretty well established that excessive sugar, especially refined sugar, is all kinds of bad for you, regardless of age or weight. There's hippy holistic "science," and then there's actual science. The effects of sugar are pretty far into the latter.
Oh cool, I'll look into that, didn't realize that was once a thing. I've definitely noticed "technology" being used as a fantastical deux ex machina/superpower lately. I have mixed feelings about that, haha.
Ah that's right (I did read the book, just didn't recall the specifics in detail). I feel like even if all that is only 90% or so plausible, I still learned something about applied chemistry. As opposed to "you can survive for a few moments wearing street clothes in a vacuum if you hold your breath" as seen in other stories/movies.:|
Unlike a lot of other "science fiction" books/stories, Andy Weir seemed to make a genuine effort to get as much right as possible, and did his best to drag along the film producer. If all of science fiction was at this level, it would be a miracle. And as you've pointed out, where the science does fail, it fails in such a way as to spark discussion and interest in the real science. I don't feel like my intelligence was insulted after having watched/read it, or that errors and omissions were a result of laziness or "the audience is too dumb/doesn't care anyway, so why bother". (Although the book was better than the movie in that regard.) If anything it served as a launching (punnnns) point for learning more about growing food on Mars and other similar problems.
And there is plenty of interesting research to be done there as well. Of course - no one will give a flying f*** about it - but this is about science and progress for humanity - not personal vanity, right?
If only you were wrong, what a different world we'd live in.....
Came here wondering who in the world uses virtual desktops? Two monitors sure- IDE in one, browser/email/terminal/etc in the other. Maybe put Gimp in a second desktop b/c of all the windows it spawns?
I didn't take it to mean they are losing money, but the opposite. They are in a position to be able to cut tuition and grants without taking losses. They think this will attract more students, allowing them to grow.
My friend had a car (I forget what kind, maybe 5 years ago), where the headlights would point slightly left or right in response to the steering wheel turning. It worked great. "Adaptive Front Lighting System and Traffic Sign Recognition" is just overkill.
What kind of rationalization is that? So as long as we're one step ahead of North Korea, it doesn't matter? Land of the not-quite-as-repressive-as-China? =\
Is regulating the exchanges themselves such a deal breaker? Require security audits, books audits, etc. (depending on the host country) Exchanges are the biggest problem, and really the easiest to fix. If you don't like the enevitably higher costs at a regulated exchange, use a less regulated one at your own risk. Seems reasonable.
The NSA has successfully stopped several domestic terrorist attacks
I have seen zero proof of this outside of "trust us, we're the government". No, I don't. Especially after all the bald faced lying they've been doing. I mean, something, anything, redact 2/3 words...
Would that imply that a gay couple that lived in say, Texas could hop up to Massechussets, get married, then come back to Texas, and Texas would have to shut up and deal with it?
He may not (on purpose) have tons of cash, but he has 7% of the vote, in one poll, one debate, zero advertisements. 500 whackjobs * 7% = 3500% of the population. Elections should be about voters, not cash.
In my perfect world, campaigning would be limited to large number of debates, and a rotating segment on pbs or c-span or some other public tv. No room for BS.
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I feel your pain. I gave up on kde and the like to reopen things in the right place and just wrote a script to orient/resize everything I need. Check out http://blog.spiralofhope.com/1....
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Office 2010 32 bit will work in wine.
I certainly would be if it could replace the malingering "games-only" Windows partition.
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I've had very good, insightful ideas about programming while using. But if I use for the express purpose of finding those ideas, it doesn't seem to work. Feel like I'm forcing it and trying to start a car that doesn't have any gas. This "microdosing" sounds a lot like the latter.
Technically, the original story idea was "A Once and Future King." But yeah, I agree with you.
10 sec Google search: http://www.health.harvard.edu/... It's pretty well established that excessive sugar, especially refined sugar, is all kinds of bad for you, regardless of age or weight. There's hippy holistic "science," and then there's actual science. The effects of sugar are pretty far into the latter.
Oh cool, I'll look into that, didn't realize that was once a thing. I've definitely noticed "technology" being used as a fantastical deux ex machina/superpower lately. I have mixed feelings about that, haha.
Ah that's right (I did read the book, just didn't recall the specifics in detail). I feel like even if all that is only 90% or so plausible, I still learned something about applied chemistry. As opposed to "you can survive for a few moments wearing street clothes in a vacuum if you hold your breath" as seen in other stories/movies. :|
Unlike a lot of other "science fiction" books/stories, Andy Weir seemed to make a genuine effort to get as much right as possible, and did his best to drag along the film producer. If all of science fiction was at this level, it would be a miracle. And as you've pointed out, where the science does fail, it fails in such a way as to spark discussion and interest in the real science. I don't feel like my intelligence was insulted after having watched/read it, or that errors and omissions were a result of laziness or "the audience is too dumb/doesn't care anyway, so why bother". (Although the book was better than the movie in that regard.) If anything it served as a launching (punnnns) point for learning more about growing food on Mars and other similar problems.
I think that was addressed in the book, he did some kind of chemical conversion with some rocket fuel for the ascension vehicle.
And there is plenty of interesting research to be done there as well. Of course - no one will give a flying f*** about it - but this is about science and progress for humanity - not personal vanity, right?
If only you were wrong, what a different world we'd live in.....
Came here wondering who in the world uses virtual desktops? Two monitors sure- IDE in one, browser/email/terminal/etc in the other. Maybe put Gimp in a second desktop b/c of all the windows it spawns?
I didn't take it to mean they are losing money, but the opposite. They are in a position to be able to cut tuition and grants without taking losses. They think this will attract more students, allowing them to grow.
German is exceptionally good at that.
My friend had a car (I forget what kind, maybe 5 years ago), where the headlights would point slightly left or right in response to the steering wheel turning. It worked great. "Adaptive Front Lighting System and Traffic Sign Recognition" is just overkill.
The issue at this point is the blockade slowly strangling Gaza. A "ceasefire" that doesn't address the blockade is useless to Gaza.
What kind of rationalization is that? So as long as we're one step ahead of North Korea, it doesn't matter? Land of the not-quite-as-repressive-as-China? =\
Is regulating the exchanges themselves such a deal breaker? Require security audits, books audits, etc. (depending on the host country) Exchanges are the biggest problem, and really the easiest to fix. If you don't like the enevitably higher costs at a regulated exchange, use a less regulated one at your own risk. Seems reasonable.
IIRC you need a warrant for perlustrating mail and bugging phones. Not sure that's what's happening here...
What do you do when they tell you to put in new code to intercept login credentials prior to encryption and send it to them? =[
The NSA has successfully stopped several domestic terrorist attacks
I have seen zero proof of this outside of "trust us, we're the government". No, I don't. Especially after all the bald faced lying they've been doing. I mean, something, anything, redact 2/3 words...
Would that imply that a gay couple that lived in say, Texas could hop up to Massechussets, get married, then come back to Texas, and Texas would have to shut up and deal with it?
He may not (on purpose) have tons of cash, but he has 7% of the vote, in one poll, one debate, zero advertisements. 500 whackjobs * 7% = 3500% of the population. Elections should be about voters, not cash. In my perfect world, campaigning would be limited to large number of debates, and a rotating segment on pbs or c-span or some other public tv. No room for BS.