throwit1979

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by throwit1979 13y ago
On the topic of anecdotal RSI cures, I was symptom-free after starting a strength training program focusing on heavy compound lifts and olympic lifts. No rest periods or ergonomic quackery required.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Well, it's certainly possible, but I'd like to point out one thing. IANAL, but I've been through enough to know that courts will often/always consider the aspect of compliance known as "good faith". It's
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by throwit1979 13y ago
So then he suddenly, after all this time, woke up and decided, "hey, you know all those hosts I shut down and mothballed? I'm going to fire them up NOW, spend some time restoring backups, reconfiguring things where necessary, whil
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Occam's razor, for once, actually supports the conspiracy theory. It's far more likely that Levison has been bullied into 72 hours of snooping to avoid contempt than that he's suddenly decided, months after shutting down, for
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Um. What possible jurisdiction can New York State have over a California company with no offices in New York? Probably best to tell this AG to go piss up a rope privately and dispense with useless press releases like this.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Wild guess: google routes non-latency-critical US traffic like SMTP outside the US so the NSA's beam splitters can more easily claim intercepted domestic data as "international".
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Kaiser charges a $100 copay for ER visits. $50 does not sound too outlandish. The bigger question is why GenY thinks a simple fever is cause for helping to overcrowd our emergency rooms even further. A thermometer costs $20 and will help
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by throwit1979 13y ago
34yo, -9.5 here, and I prefer 10pt fonts for code. Do you not wear your glasses and/or contacts when working? I don't follow.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
The idiomatic way to create webpages, in this day and age, is to try to separate content of a page from how the browser presents it. Which is why "modern" frameworks like bootstrap still encourage grid layouts using explicit wid
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by throwit1979 13y ago
But you're not harming a living human being. At worst, you're minimizing a memory, which is a fundamantally emotional position. As to the risk of repeating history: Anyone positing the holocaust didn't happen is competing i
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Offtopic. That link is incredibly scary. On what basis does Europe justify making an incorrect opinion illegal? And why that opinion, specifically? Why not criminalize a belief in God, or alien visitation?
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Aesthetics, right, ok. Anecdotally: I've been programming for over 20 years. I am a fast and accurate typist, but I never learned to touch-type and as a consequence, I need to see my fingers relative to the keys occasionally. I cann
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by throwit1979 13y ago
So you can see the keys under low light levels. Not everyone touch-types.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
or else you'll soon get pain from the low travel. Huh? I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how, biomechanically, a short keystroke can cause pain.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Um, you should be regularly dismounting volumes every time you are done using them anyway. Your enemy can quite likely read out your passphrase from cryopreserved ram or its hibernated equivalent.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I suspect you may have cause and effect reversed. Government employment is not soul-destroying; rather, government self-selects applicants from the pool of people who enjoy legal theft and extortion and telling others how to live their liv
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by throwit1979 13y ago
As I do ~ 40% of my work from Terminal.app, I'm not sure how the introduction of the Mac obsoleted the CLI.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
That's not an answer to the question, though. I'm also genuinely curious. What do people "in finance" actually do on a day to day basis? My naive understanding is that the industry is highly automated already, so what
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Our library was also mostly useless. Maybe it's opportunity cost, then. We lived a ~5 hour drive away from anything resembling a city, so purchases of anything other than food were very infrequent. This allowed us to save up until t
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Sorry, I don't intend to cast aspersions on your upbringing, but why does class availability matter at all to this discussion? Myself, and everyone in the small group of middle school kids at my school who were interested, learned pro
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by throwit1979 13y ago
The first, obviously, is swift and violent revolution. Historically speaking, totalitarian power has only ever succumbed to greater power. Obviously this is not an option I would advocate or consider. Nor is it an option that's even
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Really? If you talk with any of your non-tech friends about this topic, does a single one of them care? My money is on no. And in the unlikely case the answer is nonzero, the proffered solution is always to vote for "the other guy&qu
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by throwit1979 13y ago
the worst tactical mistake made by any government to date Why would this be a tactical mistake? The general public DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. The government(s) know(s) this quite well. If you think for a second that detention of associates of
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Rather than gambling on one political idea, why not open certain smaller states to experimentation of new political structures, and stop trying to make one massive old machine work better This was tried. It was called The United States o
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I like living in a place where my neighbors do not work in tech. Out of curiosity, why? Where I live, finding real life interactions with people in tech is quite rare, and I wish it were different. Grass is greener.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Initial customer acquisition costs money. A lot of money. Once you have a happy customer for repeat business, you reward and entice them with discounts, usually via email newsletter. As a first time customer, you are not being "cheat
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Except they're not. The profusion of even naive encryption amongst the general population is effectively zero, assuming you exclude transparently-used encryption like SSL. When 50% of the membership of AARP is using GPG and having key
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Disagree completely. Technological solutions are the only feasible ones because the majority of the population is absolutely fine with the status quo. In a democracy, complacency guarantees that nothing will change and in fact will likely
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by throwit1979 13y ago
This was the more striking part of all this for me. I've read a lot of (Dick) Feynman biographical material, read his layperson books, his lecture series, etc. Until today I had no idea he even had a sister, let alone that she also we
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I know several people who had this happen to them It's far, far, more likely that you've had friends who drank too much and then assumed, in the absence of an actual toxicology report or other corroborating evidence, that they w

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