WizzleKake

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Regular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.

I'll switch back to Firefox when they stop re-arranging the UI. Every year or so it gets changed. It's what drove me to Chrome in the first place.

I remember reading somewhere that some Chinese miners will mine at a loss because they can purchase the equipment/energy/cooling/etc in RMB but convert the BTC into USD, circumventing the country's capital controls.

Does anyone have any more information about this?

Amazon jacks the price around on a lot of the household items that I buy. There one item that I last purchased for $11.94. I have seen it as high as $29 and some change. Right now it is $23.94.

I've wised up to this tactic and will buy extra when the price is low enough to make it a better deal than buying at the grocery store.

Not everyone wants to use both hands.

Some of us would like to be able to respond to a text message while carrying something, for example.

If applications from the play store reading your SMS messages bothers you, then I can recommend using something like CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard (which exposes a feature called App Ops that seems to be a part of Android, yet hidden), or Xposed framework's XPrivacy (which gives you very fine-grained control over what information/permissions apps can and cannot access).

XPrivacy is difficult to configure without reading the documentation.

Both of these things require root.

Nearly ever country with nuclear power (except the US) processes the 'waste' since only a small portion of it is actual waste. Most of it is U-238 (harmless). Some is useful - plutonium, and isotopes that are used in medicine. Only a tiny amount is harmful and unusable radioactive material that needs to be contained and buried.

You can thank the Carter administration for this blunder.

If you want to switch the device that gets assigned an IP address by Comcast's DHCP servers, all you need to do is reset the cable modem. At least that is how it always was for me.

I have a gigabit ethernet connection now, so I quit using a router. All the ones that I have couldn't manage more than 500 megabits/sec through the WAN port, even though they were supposedly gigabit.

I did some research at www.smallnetbuilder.com and I found that generally speaking, "gigabit router" actually means "router with a gigabit switch" unless you are buying something that isn't marketed to consumers.

Try saying e2e4 instead.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, the chess programming wiki is an excellent resource:

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/

He's not wrong.

The incessant rearrangement of the UI is why I switched to Chrome. Each time they change the interface, it is unclear to me what the benefit is to the user.

I was fine with Firefox when it looked like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozilla_Firefox_3.5.png

Maybe at the same time people realize that writing operating systems in a language like C is not a good idea if you're semi-serious about security.

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Typically one would take harassment issues in the workplace to HR. Is there a stigma attached to this?

There are a lot of new apartments going up in Seattle. I can count five or six new buildings just off the top of my head.

$ ping google.com

PING google.com (173.194.33.165) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=1 ttl=59 time=0.857 ms

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=2 ttl=59 time=0.779 ms

64 bytes from sea09s18-in-f5.1e100.net (173.194.33.165): icmp_req=3 ttl=59 time=0.831 ms

Seattle has Condo Internet and Cascade Link. Both provide gigabit. The Gigabit Squared thing fell apart.

Condo Internet uses a combination of microwave and fiber to provide connectivity to the buildings that they service. They only target apartments/condos, since building the infrastructure to individual residences is not worth it.

If you like this, you might like the Tao of Programming: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

If we are suggesting drugs, may as well throw in a suggestion for amphetamines.

But personally, I would recommend intense and sustained cardiovascular exercise.

> the $2,160,000 dollars of Bitcoins that come into existence every day, that's also about $2,160,000 of electricity used.

You lost me. What?

Define non-negligible and show us some numbers.

Mining is supposed to be difficult.

It looks like Github has pulled a bunch of the repos, including the ones that don't even have "WhatsApp" in their names.

Is this because they had something like "compatible with WhatsApp" in their descriptions?

If I were repository owners and/or paying customer of Github, I would not be OK with this.

Is Ron Paul taken seriously in the American mainstream media?

Honest/serious question.

Ralph's Rule: "There is no technology so poorly conceived, so inconsistent, so aesthetically offensive, or so woefully untouched by theory that it will not see widespread adoption in the Web community."

If you just need secure browsing and you have a shell somewhere (like a VPS, EC2 instance, a Linode, etc.) just use ssh.

ssh -D <port> user@host

Then configure your browser (I use a plugin called FoxyProxy) to use localhost:<port> as SOCKS5 proxy.

This is also very cool: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Edit: I should add that I do not think your DNS requests will go over the proxy. You might be able to configure your browser to do that. Caveat emptor.

Intelligent technical discourse is actively suppressed by the operators on that network.

Someone might re-size your site because the design forces them to.

I organize my windows so that my browser takes up the left half of my screen - so it's 960 pixels wide. Pretty big. I never make it any wider than this unless I'm looking at pictures, or forced to by a bad design.

This site exemplifies a bad design that would force me to re-size my browser. I had to make my browser wider to get rid of a horizontal scroll bar on a code block. Nobody reading code on a website ever wants to scroll the code window side to side!

Even though there was plenty of horizontal space for the code blocks to be displayed without scroll bars, this page's design favored blank space on either side of the code blocks over the code itself.

When I have the browser wide enough to display all of the code, it may as well be taking up my entire screen. The remaining horizontal space isn't usable for anything.

I see this problem with code samples on webpages all the time.

Web designers today seem to be operating under the delusion that their site will be the only thing on a user's screen.

A good open-source OpenCL application might be cgminer or bfgminer, might have to get an older version though, it looks like the latest ones have abandoned OpenCL/GPU support.

> I added a gist here with some reformatting because I found it hard to read the code on the author's site:

Thank you. Funny enough, that gist has the same problem on my screen (too much whitespace on either side of a box that I need to horrizontally scroll) - it's just not as bad.

Here's how the site shows up for me: http://imgur.com/CjXRHBC

Grumble.