thoughtexprmnt

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by thoughtexprmnt 4y ago
I think just making any significant change to one's diet can, in the short term anyway, have noticable positive effects, especially depending on what the previous diet looked like. But over time those effects tend to level off and even
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by thoughtexprmnt 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something in the description of the exploit, but don't sites that use email address during account creation typically send some sort of link/code to the provided email to verify ownership? So does this vulne
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by thoughtexprmnt 6y ago
Does higher measured brain activity for one task relative to another performed by the same individual conclusively mean that task is "better", or maybe just that individual is more efficient/practiced/comfortable with th
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by thoughtexprmnt 7y ago
Not discounting your experience, but we have clients in all three, and our own experience is that Azure support and service is _significantly_ better than AWS and GCP, to the degree that we primarily recommend Azure for that reason.
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by thoughtexprmnt 7y ago
Interesting to see that many of the predictions weren't far off. But one recurring prediction that was notably wrong was of Microsoft's declining prospects. It would have been difficult at the time to argue otherwise, but WOW did
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by thoughtexprmnt 7y ago
> simple text files called Tracking Protection Lists (TPLs) to allow or block third-party requests from specific domains Sounds like a hosts file, and the same end result could be achieved in any browser/system-wide by using a curat
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by thoughtexprmnt 7y ago
I'm sure that strategy of "simply not paying" works great, right up until the day it doesn't and you find yourself facing huge fines and prison.
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
I recall ditching a relatively high-end router a year or two ago after a firmware update required me to accept that in order to use most of the advanced features supported by the router, essentially all of my household's web activity w
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
Two things to look for when selecting olive oil at the supermarket - a dark glass bottle, and a harvest date printed on the label. Granted, this doesn't guarantee you're getting a high-quality, non-blended EV olive oil, but with
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
Even though I've given in to using the "automated schema updates", or migrations, approach (Technique 1 in the article), I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of the application tier having permission/ability to man
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
Yes, I was surprised to see a delivery estimate of 8 days on the Prime order I placed last night. I'm not in an area directly affected by Florence, but I assumed the longer than usual delivery time was somehow related to the storm.
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
I feel like this might go a little too far in formalizing the two-party system in a way that would have undesriable consequences. A better approach to drawing Congressional districts would be something like this: https://bdistric
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
I was visiting Baltimore's Inner Harbor recently with my wife and our two kids. With a couple of hours available, we thought we'd checkout the aquarium. Then we learned our 4 tickets would cost $130 ($40/adult, $25/child
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
> which is the reason for .NET core existing, I suppose. True, .Net Core exists because Microsoft eventually realized its mistake of tieing its programming framework too closely to its operating system. But... that mistake is now in the
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
Agreed. Java was first, so that's primarily why it is where it is today in terms of market share. But C#, and its functional cousin F#, are now leading the way in the evolution of modern programming languages. With .Net Core now being
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by thoughtexprmnt 8y ago
Most teams should not waste their time searching for a “great” developer (whatever that is, exactly). Instead they would be better off just hiring the first candidate that comes along in whom they have reasonable level of confidence will so
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
Isn't the "value" of a currency in it's relative stability over time? That is, the confidence by those who use it that it will be exchangeable for roughly the same amount of goods and services today, tomorrow, six months
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
No real mention here of what will differentiate this from existing "tech education platforms".
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Eugene Kaspersky Responds to Wall Street Journal Article(eugene.kaspersky.com)
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
I'm in an AWS dev ops training class as I write this. We're still experiencing a lot of timeouts related to IAM.
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
There are a lot of reasons to run, but if general fitness is the goal, I've found that sprinting, and in particular uphill sprinting, is the most effective and time-efficient.
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
Since the article does refer to these as desktop CPUs, I'm curious what kind of desktop workloads people are running that could benefit from / justify them?
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
I think you mean qualifiers.
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
This makes sense. The financial future of Microsoft is dependent upon the continued success of Office 365, Azure, and Xbox. Everything else, probably including Windows OS itself, should be viewed as a distraction.
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
As is often the case, it depends on the context. For someone obese and/or diabetic, extended fasts of 3-7 days as recommended by Dr. Fung can be very beneficial.
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by thoughtexprmnt 9y ago
Seems incomplete without any mention of Microsoft Azure options like Cosmos DB, Blob and Table storage, Data Lake, etc.