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Though I suspect I'm not as strict as the parent comment this is why I avoid alcohol. Father's side extremely alcoholic including several deaths (both liver failure/pancreatic, and…

I like the way apps work in android better than iOS they seem to have more freedom to work (things like Tasker being able to work with multiple apps, and Google Play Music able to …

There is a little of both in his statements. The one about the computer not turning on is a common occurrence these days where people let their computer sleep and just move/click t…

Well the current age for independence is 24 so it may have been the same when you went.

The bicycle is an inverted pendulum (and is unstable when still) but similar to an inverted pendulum when it is stabilized through rocking back and forth the bicycle achieves this …

Have you ever had an intrusion on your blog network because you updated to quickly? Just curious whether or not your fear is from a previous experience. Will you upgrade to new rel…

Vim's modes are quite powerful and easy to get used to. To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is j…

It is ridiculous to think that your number is private and even moreso to think that someone can steal money with just your cellphone number. Of course you could be phished or trick…

It was down when they changed to a new datacenter[1]. I think github is just a much bigger target right now is why it goes down more often. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/07/02…

I'm not the parent commenter but I've used matlab extensively and found Numpy clunky in comparison. All I ever did in matlab involved matrices (usually differential equations with …

It doesn't exactly work like gmail does. You can set many alternative login passwords in fastmail and the google auth is one of those. So with the google auth you use your google a…

One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages. Chrome (even stable) seems to crash tabs all the time, while in the past 6 months firefox nightly hasn't crashed…

I doubt he is, it has been hard to get FreeBSD working on any laptop that isn't specifically supported by someone. You can see many non-working things here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.…

Without living in the US it is hard for you to come up with a valid argument against prioritizing automobile infrastructure. Population density alone makes it an issue outside of l…

Their (Mint's) modifications are much harder to disable as well. If privacy is a real concern use another distro like debian or arch or ... etc. but don't use Mint which has had qu…