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supermatou··on Ask HN: THC, CBD and a Request for Comments
I was aware of the impossibility to control the dose when you ingest a capsule so I wouldn't have been surprised to experiences some side-effect, a hangover, just like when you drink too much and the euphoria is replaced by unpleasant physical symptoms. What puzzled me was the fact that I went straight into unpleasant physical symptoms, with zero euphoria (or anxiety, or any other mental alteration).
supermatou··on Ask HN: THC, CBD and a Request for Comments
Interesting. Maybe I should experiment again with Sativa. Thank you for the info.
supermatou··on Ask HN: THC, CBD and a Request for Comments
> Combining your two experiences (weird high, and CBD > induced migraines), it may be that you, > unfortunately, do not react well to marijuana.

That's what I thought. Oh, well. I really wanted to be able to use CBD (especially in the future, for future ailments that afflict us all as we get older - arthritis, muscle strain, etc. Plus migraine, of course (I have excellent control over it with Ibuprofen, but I was quite excited at the possibility of using a natural product).

supermatou··on Incoming call glitch latest to hit iPhone X
For those of you who can't get past the paywall, here's the gist:

hundreds of owners have complained on Apple forums that their pocket supercomputer cannot accomplish the most basic task that even a $10 phone can, namely taking an incoming call.

When it rings, the iPhone’s touchscreen appears to be delayed from turning on for up to 10 seconds, preventing the user from tapping the virtual button required to answer a call.

“Whenever I receive an incoming call in my iPhone X, ringtones start but the display comes in after 6-8 seconds,” says one user on Apple’s support pages.

Hundreds of other customers on that post and similar complaints on Apple’s forums have indicated they are suffering the same problem.

“I can often not see an incoming call coming, can only hear it! At other times, there is a significant delay :( ,” reads another post.

Apple said that it was “looking into these reports”.

supermatou··on Learning Arabic from Egypt's Revolution
> California is derived from Khalif, a Muslim Ruler (same > word that Daesh uses to refer to their leader today).

Not really. That was the invention of Edward Everett Hale (a theologian with no linguistic training, who died 100 years ago).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_California

supermatou··on Yubikey with USB-C
Anyone else using a similar product, OTHER than Yubikey? I've read on certain forums about Yubikeys being "flimsy" and less durable than similar products; is this true? what is your experience with it?
supermatou··on Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Also, a simple explanation for the layman: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=169788&Cult...
supermatou··on [dead]
Lionel is a woman (birth name Margaret). She changed her name at 15 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Shriver)
supermatou··on The new TrueType interpreter in FreeType 2.7.0
Direct link to the announcement: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-07/... (includes images with the old/new renderings)
supermatou··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a SOLID laptop
Thanks, I hadn't considered that. Are those open-box computers or ex-lease ones? (big difference when it comes to wear and tear!)
supermatou··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a SOLID laptop
Toughbooks - they used to be quite expensive - anyway, a Toughbook would be an overkill (as I don't plan on going Desert Storming or something).

Thinkpads: a 14" i3 with 4GB of RAM is $829.99 in my neck of the woods (yeah, the joys of buying computers in Canada...) Way too expensive.

supermatou··on JScreenFix – Repair stuck pixels
Has anyone actually repaired their screen with it? For me, it just didn't work; after four hours or so, I simply gave up. (Sony LCD screen, really high-quality, a few stuck pixels in a specific area)
supermatou··on Drexel study questions 21-day quarantine period for Ebola
Here's the study itself: http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-quarantine...
supermatou··on Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed
It's been known for a while:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010....

supermatou··on Why do we have blood types?
Some scientific data re. various cancers and their correlation with ABO groups:

http://ispub.com/IJPA/13/1/5982

supermatou··on Error messages in Haiku?
Oh, BeOS! How full of promises you were, before your untimely demise...

Those error messages were real, and were part of BeOS.

supermatou··on Clef – stop using passwords
So, basically, I should replace something that exists inside my head, in an immaterial form, with something physical that can be easily stolen?!
supermatou··on Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce RC released
One word, for those in the know ;-)

-Aptosid

supermatou··on Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for keeping my private stuff - well, private. But, really, will this matter? I mean, how many people used Gnome's browser in the first place? and how many people, after trying DDG won't simply switch back to Google?

Had Gnome's browser been no.1 or no.2 in the browser arena, the gesture may have had some impact (albeit just symbollicaly). But right now... do they think Google would even care/notice?

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