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  1. > and let them click a "advanced mode"

    "Advanced mode" is always UI speak for "The thing you actually want to do". Let's take the browser I'm typing in for example. The only things I ever want to do in browser settings is (A) Mess with the proxy settings (B) Mess with the certificates and (C) Recover a stored password. Things I don't want to do include everything on the basic settings page of chrome. Everything I might want to do is behind the well obscured "advanced" button.

    It's not just chrome. It's everything on Windows and Macs. Thunderbird, firefox, word, excel, skype etc. etc.
    At least I have Linux and it's all in a dotfile in my home directory or etc.
     

  2. Re:Normally 2^32 (42.9 million) on $5,000 machine on Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win (espn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the betting unit.

  3. Re:Normally 2^32 (42.9 million) on $5,000 machine on Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win (espn.com) · · Score: 0

    2^32 is 4294967295, not 42949672.95

  4. Yay for me! I was too lazy to learn what the hell XUL was and how to program in it. Now it's dead. I saved myself from wasting time on a transient technology.

  5. You know what? You're right.

  6. Re: Spinach, sardines, etc. on Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >The way I had it explained, the "leaky gut" can occur when a child is very young.

    The current science (I just got back from a conference where this was discussed in some detail) is that (a) wheat agglutin causes it in two ways and it is very bad. and (b) that everyone has a leaky gut during and after exercise, which is normal. The leaky gut lets larger proteins through and the immune system inflames in response. The takeaway is (a) don't eat wheat and (b) Exercise in the fasted state. Sugar is bad on a whole different axis.

  7. Re: Spinach, sardines, etc. on Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And in my case, on that page of "Food Sources of Vitamin D", I consume a grand total of one of the items -- eggs.

    Well eggs are good in several ways.

    I'm vegetarian, so the meat sources are out.

    By choice. Don't pretend that it's healthy.

    I'm allergic to fish, so all those are out.

    You have a leaky gut. Stop eatings grains.

    I minimize my consumption of dairy, so those are out.

    You have a leaky gut. Stop eatings grains.

    Surprise, surprise, I had bone issues until I took Vitamin D.

    Then you were deficient. For measurable results in other areas (like sleep), take it on waking, never in the evening. Take it with A and K2. A, D and K2 work together to regulate calcium deposition and mitigate their individual toxicities. You are probably deficient in K2 with your diet. Most people in the West are.

    I wonder if this "article" is trying to move the U.S. to the Canadian model where the government controls the selling of Vitamin D. [I was told this by a frustrated Canadian nutritionist, and it may have been more true in the past.]

    A far better article is here.

    Too much D/A = kidney stones. White people with baywatch jobs get kidney stones due to ODing on D from sitting in the sun with their tops off all summer. Too little = diseases of the West. Chris Masterjohn did a lit review a few years ago and concluded that the safe range was between 1:1 and 1:10. I take 1:2 in the morning to improve sleep.

  8. Hackity Hack. Don't talk back.

  9. Re:How does this apply to full length keys? on Hashcat Developer Discovers Simpler Way To Crack WPA2 Wireless Passwords (hashcat.net) · · Score: 1

    Like: 112364AB5F777752452A57CAC066DE0737DE451E0CC21BE86D01278A6050297B

    It won't take very log. You've already given us the password.

    All I see is **********************

    Take off the VR headset

  10. Re:How does this apply to full length keys? on Hashcat Developer Discovers Simpler Way To Crack WPA2 Wireless Passwords (hashcat.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like: 112364AB5F777752452A57CAC066DE0737DE451E0CC21BE86D01278A6050297B

    It won't take very log. You've already given us the password.

  11. Dude, he's doing a Dell.

  12. Re:Dirty immigrants with their filthy Fields medal on Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate freedom? Are you a North Korean dictator?

  13. Re:Dirty immigrants with their filthy Fields medal on Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally. Throw open the borders. If freedom of trade in goods is good for economies and personal wealth, why is freedom of trade in labour not? Europe opened its borders internally and all the moaning ninnies said the sky would fall in and waves of immigrants would ruin the place. All it did was improve the economy, make people's lives easier and freer and make it possible for more diverse and better restaurants to exist.

     

  14. Re:Python? on The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    >Easier web deployment on test, staging, and production because it's built for the web.

    Being "built for the web" is entirely a non feature for everything I do.

  15. Re:Dirty immigrants with their filthy Fields medal on Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >Why would it matter so much what country anyone resides in?

    Because some turn out to have talents and you would want them to be in a country that fosters those talents, so for example they end up solving problems in mathematics, rather than growing up to be an illiterate gourd farmer. Illiterate gourd farmers are legitimate, but gourd farming can be constraining for the budding genius.

  16. Re:Immigration on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    He probably got himself a swarthy Thai boy and the Home Office has declined to recognise their union, on the grounds that he purchased it from some dirty island and he brings great shame upon Britain.

    Britain seems to managing just fine to bring great shame on itself right now.

  17. Re:The company was going to fail. on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    The first rat to leave the sinking ship gets the primo spot on the adjacent ship.

    In my experience, the CFO sees the water rising in the hold before most other folks. They may tell upper management; I'd never know. But a new CFO frequently foretells bad tidings.

    In my case I knew people in the companies that the management was hawking the company to. So I had advance warning.

  18. Re:Immigration on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    >Most people assume that if you are married and a British citizen you have a right to unite your family here, but in reality it's extremely difficult and the Home Office will resist in every way possible.

    Odds are I won't be moving back with my American wife then.

  19. Re:*Head asplodes* on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    make no doubt about it, a cow will trample you to death without a seconds hesitation, chickens would disembowel you if they were big enough. Pigs, you don't even want to know what pigs would do.

    I don't doubt it. That's why I buy my cows and chickens from the local tree-hugging supermarket. The pig would probably ask for his belly back when he found it in my fridge. I keep the car windows rolled up in rural areas.

  20. Re:Why did you quit your last job? on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    ...because it was there.

    It was. Literally just up the road and they had been bugging me to join them for a while.

  21. The company was going to fail. on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first rat to leave the sinking ship gets the primo spot on the adjacent ship.

  22. Re:*Head asplodes* on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    >Our food has been trying to kill us for billions of years.

    That's why I don't eat plants.

  23. Re:Why for better or worse? on For Better or Worse, YouTube Now Adapts to Multiple Aspect Ratios (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm curious about the headline. Why would adjusting to different aspect ratios be a bad thing? Is there a downside to having videos adjust to aspect ratio?

    Because adjusting the aspect ratio to fill a space necessarily involves chopping off part of the picture. Adjusting the aspect ratio by filling in excess space with black bars does not.

  24. Re:Maybe if mass transit weren't an afterthought.. on A New Study Says Services Like UberPool Are Making Traffic Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ...So you don't see how it sucks for the rest of us? You've got a cherry picked example.

    Cherry picked in what way?

    I've lived in places with no effective public transport. It sucked.
    I've lived in places with good public transport. It didn't suck.
    I've lived in different places in a city with good public transport and the suckiness varied.

    So I do see the difference and I've noted the differences here.

  25. I would have to schlep upstairs to the only computer I have that has a CD drive.

    What's worse is that it's running windows, so it would be pwned instantly.