fractalcat

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by fractalcat 11y ago
The article is referring to ear candling[0], an alternative-medicine practice espoused by naturopaths and other such quacks. It's sadly quite common. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling
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by fractalcat 11y ago
Last time I was in a role which involved on-call rotation: > expected duties (only answer on-call, do other work, etc) Only answer pages. My employer did shifts a bit differently from most companies - only six hours per shift, no fixed s
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by fractalcat 11y ago
I've run barebones hypervisors in production for years; KVM is head and shoulders above everything else I've tried. libvirt and virsh provide a reasonably nice interface if you don't need web-based tooling, and of course conf
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These are the two forgotten architects of the silk road(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by fractalcat 11y ago|0 comments
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by fractalcat 11y ago
I'm not sure what the author thinks 'corollary' means here. (Something to do with correlation? Not the definition I'm used to, anyway.)
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The Ethos Operating System(ethos-os.org)
49 points by fractalcat 11y ago|10 comments
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by fractalcat 11y ago
Loading this webpage I downloaded ~12KB. For comparison, I went to the NYT homepage and downloaded ~1.2 MB. For people with shitty downlinks like you and I, the absence of exorbitant quantities of Javascript and images makes a lot of differ
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by fractalcat 11y ago
You mean like this? https://archive.org/download/dnmarchives
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by fractalcat 11y ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864152
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by fractalcat 11y ago
No, for the reason outlined by Aaronson in [0] - I don't see anything in the update which addresses this. [0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212
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by fractalcat 11y ago
I didn't realize this was ever in question - of course you can't trust Tor exit nodes not to snoop on your traffic. You can't trust your ISP or friendly local intelligence agency not to snoop on your traffic either; this is w
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Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob(bugs.debian.org)
550 points by fractalcat 11y ago|176 comments
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by fractalcat 12y ago
The modern use of the word was spawned by a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh[0] called The Miracle of Mindfulness. It was then codified into clinical practice by (among others) Marsha Linehan, who incorporated the book's ideas (in combination w
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by fractalcat 12y ago
What's "enterprise security"? Is it like regular security? Does it involve client-side encryption?
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Sentiment analysis for Twitter rumors(twittertrails.com)
5 points by fractalcat 12y ago|1 comments
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by fractalcat 12y ago
It always seems odd to me that every time someone makes a post about the benefits they experienced from going sober, a bunch of people feel the need to defend their own drinking habits out of the blue (even though no-one is attacking them).
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by fractalcat 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd refer to psychostimulants as nootropics, although I'm aware many people do. The neurological tradeoffs involved in catecholamine reuptake inhibition are relatively well-known and uncontroversial; to me, much
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by fractalcat 12y ago
> Israeli hackers broke into the computers of Anonymous members that attacked Israel "attacked Israel"? I wasn't aware that Israel was a computer. Anyone know where this article's sources are?
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by fractalcat 12y ago
What? I must say, this is the first I've heard of this trend. Personally, I might be a little querulous when interviewing a dev who used Windows by preference (though this would be irrelevant once they'd demonstrated or failed to
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Male pattern blindness(freethoughtblogs.com)
2 points by fractalcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by fractalcat 13y ago
This is uninformed, dangerous and wrong. Author should go back to school or crack open a first-year-med physiology textbook and learn how metabolism works. The article isn't even internally consistent.
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by fractalcat 13y ago
This is laughable from a privacy perspective. So you delete the emails immediately after they're viewed? We're expected to take your word for this? Are you saying you don't back up your data at all? How do you handle secure r
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by fractalcat 13y ago
Internal XMPP. Poor ejabberd isn't handling our growth in traffic very well and gets oomkilled and/or swaps itself to death with depressing regularity, so we're trying prosody (over the protests of the internal-IRC faction).
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by fractalcat 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. You can also type `who` for a list of users who are currently logged in. You can even `cat /etc/passwd` for uids and home directories. That's how UNIX security works (not via obscurity). If your password's not st
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An Incomplete Guide to Not Creeping (whatever.scalzi.com)
2 points by fractalcat 14y ago|0 comments
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by fractalcat 14y ago
Yeah, there's a reason the article doesn't present any actual evidence for its claims. I'm sure that the author believes what he is saying, but no, statistics doesn't work that way. The article should be cut out and stuck in an undergrad ps
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by fractalcat 14y ago
I get a 404. Anyone have a copy of the original text? Google doesn't seem to have cached it.
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by fractalcat 14y ago
I wish journalists would stop using headlines that would allow the article to be summarized as 'no'.
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by fractalcat 14y ago
To generate a number between 0 and k: 0) remove undergarment (I'm assuming a bra because it's simplest, but the same principle applies to other varieties) 1) scratch your arm until you bleed 2) mark one cup of the bra with blood (both insid
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by fractalcat 14y ago
Yeah, but I'm not submitting my homepage to Hacker News seeking work as a UX dev. :P Thanks for the heads-up; blog's back up now. That'll learn me to not set up nagios.

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