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RandomInteger4

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Learning and desperately trying not to forget much of it ...
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RandomInteger4··on Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
I'm curious; why would that be? Are you using an old version of Safari?
RandomInteger4··on New institute aims to make Toronto an ‘intellectual centre’ of AI capability
I don't think you understand how outrageously overpriced our medical system is in the United States.
RandomInteger4··on Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years
Again, blame the conservatives for making SNAP and similar programs near useless for getting people back on their feet. They'd rather the programs didn't exist at all than do something to fix the programs such as making the assistance scale with income rather than having a hard cut off.
RandomInteger4··on A comment left on Slashdot
Is this a monthly bandwidth limit issue or an Apache on slow servers issue?

How much traffic is required to be considered slashdotted these days when running a simple blog?

Tangenting away from the OP, but curious because I'm getting into setting up and running my own web server for the first time, and while I don't expect to be slashdotted, it's something I'd like to prepare for.

RandomInteger4··on The Next WordPress
Not really. Sometimes you hear about the WordPress security vulnerabilities that are patched, but still exploited, and this is mostly a problem with people not keeping an eye on security updates.

Combine that with the popularity that WordPress has drawing in people who know enough to program themes and plugins, but not enough to program said themes and plugins securely (avoiding simple SQLi and XSS) and you get the perception of an insecure system that WordPress has.

RandomInteger4··on The Other Half
Completely understand, and I agree with you. I just wish it was an easy decision to make.
RandomInteger4··on The Other Half
Last time I had my cholesterol checked about 6-7 years ago, it appeared normal, though my HDL was low. I'm 31 now and have been having a weird heart feeling. Not a pain though, but like beating issues. Depending on what I eat and which supplements I take, my heart starts beating weird and my blood pressure goes up.

The weird beating seems like my heart is either beating normally or weakly and then there's a "hiccup" every minute or so. When I lay down with my ear against the pillow when this happens, I can hear my blood flow, which seems weird, like my blood containing tubes/pump is wider than the amount of liquid in the chambers; like an echo-y water flow sound.

Part of me thinks this is the L-arginine I take (to get "swoll" as they say) combined with the amount of caffeine I take in? Another part of me thinks this is a valve issue from bacterial endocarditis, since I still have my wisdom teeth, though I brush 3+x/day, but I've had 2 splinter hemorrhages without trauma on my fingernails recently, though I like any signs of Osler nodes.

I'm 6'1", 184-ish, muscular build, so maybe it's all in my head and the above paragraphs are the result of hypochondria exacerbated by a lack of health insurance or the money to even pay for a routine doctor's visit. I mean, I eat all healthy homemade food; currently cooking black beans + garbonzo beans to make a hummus of sorts.

Hoping my anxiety stays tempered long enough for me to get back on my feet while finishing my current project.

EDIT: I forgot to mention a frequent shortness of breath, though like in Jason Scott's case, this doesn't seem to prevent me from physical activity, but it bothers me that I can't take deep breathes all the time.

RandomInteger4··on In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares
I'm ... fare-ly ... certain certain this law does not apply to recordings for security purposes in a place of business; the vehicle being the place of business of the Uber driver.

EDIT: Er, scratch that. Didn't realize there was audio attached. I think audio might be the incriminating factor in the two party consent thing. I mostly just wanted to make a bad pun.

RandomInteger4··on Getting started with vim
Is autocomplete really necessary though?
RandomInteger4··on Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer
No, I use the recumbent bike machine.
RandomInteger4··on [dead]
Can you elaborate for someone still learning? Can't you usually set up DNS records to redirect a domain name to a domain you don't own?
RandomInteger4··on Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer
I think you can. Using electricity, you can induce a magnetic field (Electromagnets) and vise versa, using magnets you can create electricity.

Like the other commentor though, I'm not very strong with my physics knowledge, so I can't answer for certain, but I'll be reading about it at the gym tonight I think.

RandomInteger4··on Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
I don't think you understand evolution. Evolution is not just random mutations.
RandomInteger4··on To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
Maybe people good at math are actually great at people skills and you're just repeating a bias spread by a banality driven media.
RandomInteger4··on Million requests per second with Python
Can you elaborate?
RandomInteger4··on First they came for the Iranians
Technically congress or the supreme court can overturn executive orders, and this has happened in the past.
RandomInteger4··on Staying Motivated as a Software Developer
Make a Skinner Box app. It's basically the same thing as drugs, but potentially more profitable and also legal.
RandomInteger4··on Mastering Bash and Terminal
God, I really need to learn more of these little tricks. I've been using Vim for a while now, but not taking advantage of so many of it's features.
RandomInteger4··on Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control via USB port
How vital are debuggers really though? Shouldn't proper design and testing mitigate the necessity of using a debugger? They're more akin to a crutch are they not?

EDIT: Adding this: ( http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=23476 )

RandomInteger4··on A Month Without Sugar
Unless your home cooking involves processed foods or you get your sodium elsewhere, you would need to add salt to what you cook, otherwise you're going to harm yourself.

Sodium is essential to being healthy; the reason it's made out to be a big deal is due to how much processed food the average person eats. It's almost as though it's assumed that people are going to eat processed food regularly.

RandomInteger4··on Things I learnt making a fast website
Hmm interesting. Yeah I just had that same issue. Mobile was unresponsive for about 3 seconds till everything loaded.
RandomInteger4··on Things I learnt making a fast website
Does it though? Does the latter actually take a "lot" more work to optimize? That sounds too much like a convenient excuse.
RandomInteger4··on Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience
I think there is a flag under chrome://flags where you can turn off automatic page reloading if the system is disconnected from the internet.

That being said, doesn't appcache provide the offline page if the browser can't connect?

RandomInteger4··on Inside Amazon's clickworker platform
That would be weird. Some of the tasks on there now are for labeling training data for AIs ...
RandomInteger4··on Material Components Preview
Google Drive?
RandomInteger4··on GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016
Well, much of the customer doubt has to do with companies promising things they can't deliver. The phrase "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is [too good to be true]." exists for a reason.
RandomInteger4··on Spaced repetition
Well, some ideas make people rich, so I don't know about that last part, but I like your analogy.
RandomInteger4··on Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)
To be fair, the syntax of the variable initialization could be separated into 3 lines for better clarity.
RandomInteger4··on Tips for Self-Learning Programming
I think that programming has a pedagogical bonus attached to it that other disciplines, except maybe writing and various arts, don't have.

With programming you can build something gratifying and real at no cost, which, if you're good enough, can actually lead to monetary reward rather quickly. This type of instant and rewarding feedback is immense when it comes to learning something.

Think of every other STEM subject. With Chemistry, sure you can learn about the subject, but to perform experiments you need money to buy materials, and nobody will hire a chemist without a degree. With Physics you're in a similar but different sort of situation, where even if you could afford the materials, you're limited to rather boring experiments along the lines of projectile motion, which doesn't seem to offer an rewards unless you become big on youtube. With engineering, I guess you can build some stuff, and that might actually pay off in the long run and be useful in the short run, but again, material costs.

With programming you just need a computer and you can pretty quickly make something that you can monetize, even simply using free hosting if you're idea is decent enough. With a super minor investment in a market license you can put a good enough app up and start making bank. The only real limit is your brain.

RandomInteger4··on How publishers are defeating ad blockers and how ad blockers are fighting back
Omg, yeah, autoplay is annoying in itself, but then add on top of that autoplay which runs on a loop, where even if you pause the video, the video begins playing again after a certain while.

I've even had some sites do this where during the autoplay the site would autoscroll back to the location of the video and then not let you scroll away from the video until it was done playing. You'd be somewhat interested in the article, so you say "Fine, I'll watch the whole fucking ad" and then go back to reading only to have your fucking reading inter-fucking-rupted 15 fucking seconds later. FUCK!!! Seriously, fuck these web developers who do this absolute bullshit.

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