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With karabiner, you can make it so that tapping capslock is escape and hold is control. You can make shift-caps be toggle caps if you need it for some reason. You can make hold-enter another control (nifty, but adds a nearly perceptible lag to regular tap enter).

I don't have a good use for the old control key. Maybe another fn? Maybe a super (or hyper) key?

Not a federal judge and not an impeachment, but a judge has been removed for a controversial ruling recently: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/06/judge-aaron-p...

This doesn't hold up at all.

Cross country flight: .61 metric tons = 1344 lbs (https://calculator.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx )

1 hamburger: 4 lbs (http://www.businessinsider.com/one-hamburger-environment-res... )

So, one flight is 336 hamburgers (in terms of CO2).

Right now, I'm hoping my maxed out 2015 13" lasts forever.

I've said here before that I hope I get mauled and eaten by wolves to avoid the entire healthcare industry, but now I'm thinking about offering wolves as a service.

Programming is full of bullshit jobs. I worked at a tech megacorp where one senior developer ended up with a single commit after 12 months on the job. I'm sure you've seen instances where individual roles or even whole teams have been replaced by a couple thousand lines of automation. And I don't know how widespread this is, but I've seen cases where senior managers will just hire people whether they need them or not to inflate their headcount.

I'm not going to defend every single professor of anthropology, but "studying human societies and cultures and their development" sounds like a useful thing in general and is exactly what this work is.

So he mischaracterized one misunderstood job. Does that invalidate the whole theory? Has every administrator role this critic encountered been useful and worthwhile?

Also, this criticism only really addresses the first, taxonomic part of the book, which was by far the least interesting.

But it will have the cost of 2x API bandwidth (vs 0) and another point of failure that you are responsible for. A DNS CNAME probably wouldn't work if you had to go over SSL. Maybe a 30x redirector (still have the SPoF, but simpler and much less bandwidth)? Except in the past, I've found that most clients react poorly to redirects for anything other than GETs.

Is there any indirection that would avoid having to walk the traffic over my own network?

I just want the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

It's like reading an article about how people don't use freshmeat any more. Freshmeat is apparently now owned by the same people as sourceforge and slashdot, so when they get that time machine back to 1999 hooked up, they're going to be rolling in the money.

It's sad reading these stories makes me hope that I don't get old and instead get mauled and eaten by wolves instead so I don't have to deal with this.

1/100 of 1% of the world's oceans is a cube 32 miles on each side [0]. This volume of salt would weigh 317 billion tons [1]. World commercial production is .25 billion tons of salt [2].

So, to raise salinity by .01%, we'd need 1268 years of normal production (plus some when you exclude sea-water extraction).

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(volume+of+the+world%27...

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=31956+cubic+miles+of+sa...

[2] http://www.saltinstitute.org/salt-101/production-industry/

also,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s...

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/06/portlan...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/las-vegas-sh...

Is that guy just sitting on the egg crates, with his foot resting on another? I know europeans and americans have differing views on egg handling, but this seems extreme. Even if I had such a surplus of eggs, I'm not sure if I would pose sitting on them. I don't necessarily have an equal surplus of pants.

I'm also having a hard time reconciling this with Alibaba's just-reported quarterly revenue of $12.8B in 2017Q4: http://www.alibabagroup.com/en/news/press_pdf/p180201.pdf

Singles' day was 11/11 so it should be in there, no?

I ignore them. In the past, whenever I've politely responded no, it seemed to be a signal for them to keep trying to talk to me, or to try again in three months, when the whole point was to get them to stop talking to me.

Worst, though, is when they somehow get ahold of your phone number (or, in a recent case, call, then text about how they've just called). This is just straight up creepy as I don't lightly give my phone number out. In these cases I do take the time to ask them to please stop.

My roommate and I play weeks long games of twilight struggle. I like the asynchronous play better than real life, as I have the time to really strategize my hand. The AI also makes it way easier to spin up new people as you need to play a lot of games to start memorizing the cards & it seems easier to do this against a robot.

How does Google figure out if visitors stayed on the page? Chrome telemetry (creepy)? Google Analytics (are you required to use this to get a good ranking)?

Perhaps they mean as a laxative rather than as a diuretic.