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I read the source code first. And then: joel@joel-virtual:~$ gcc robert_you_suck.c -o rys joel@joel-virtual:~$ ./rys resolved symbol commit_creds to 0xffffffff8108bd90 resolved sym…

The fact that people get out of secondary education with no real understanding of thermodynamics is a tragedy. Case in point: There is currently no discussion in this thread of the…

And by listing negative effects, you can also make bad things sound bad. Lots of people kill themselves with marathons. Maybe there's a right way to do it, but obviously it's easy …

e) 5-10 big name publishers threatened Amazon over Macmillan, and they had to choose between backing down or facing a publisher revolt.

It's not just the forefoot striking (also, Vibram != barefoot, call them minimal, if anything). When you run barefoot, you don't do anything stupid with your feet, like subjecting …

Master/servant? I prefer the pusher/user metaphor myself.

The Vibram KSO doesn't do a good job of keeping your feet warm in the cold and wet. I mostly run barefoot on dirt trails, but pull the KSO's out of my pocket when I hit really bad …

From the Engadget leaked photos, it looks like it has both cellular connectivity and a front video camera. Video calling, here we come. Still, the more I find out about the device,…

The problem is that there is a hell of a lot of general purpose software out there already that's never going to be worth the effort to port to a single device. The iPhone has some…

iPhone-based OS. I wonder if everything will have to go through an App-store? Annoying if so.

Here's a helpful tool for figuring out Sun's strategy on any given day: http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstr...

Uh, yeah. That's somewhat obvious. How else would I have gained the weight? Magic? Now comes the million dollar question: Why was I so hungry that I ate 470,000 extra calories? Cou…

The weight gain lasted from when I was 170 pounds until I was 305. I had to stop running when I hit 240 or so. At 305, I was still 30 pounds under my max...but something tells me i…

Well, a gene can spread in a small group through drift (even if detrimental). If it allows that group to out-compete the next tribe over, it will spread farther. Of course, no one …

No no. I just eat a lot of meat, eggs, and cheese. I average 2-3 pounds of rib-eye per day, 6-9 eggs, and 3-6 ounces of cheese. Googling for calorie information...good god, that's …

It did work. I lost the weight. Pay attention to fiber? The research in support of that suggestion is execrable (pun intended). I did try the 500-1000 calorie deficit for a number …

I've actually never heard of hyperuricemia being caused by carbohydrate restriction. Nobody seems to list it in the standard "drink your Coke, low-carb kills" list of warnings, eit…

No tiredness for me. There's the "induction flu" that people on Atkins get, and I felt that for the first few weeks. Apparently it's caused by sodium depletion (carbohydrates cause…

You will lose weight on calorie restriction as long as you go low enough. Though I've been fat my entire life, after college, I was 150 pounds overweight. I lost the extra weight b…

Well-written comments are generally helpful. And the people who write well-written comments generally understand the concept of brevity. Badly-written comments are worse than no co…

Maybe things have changed since 1985. This article found that 33% of all marriages were inbred in Bangalore, Mysore, and Karnataka: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2803361 Also, according…

Just noticed this on our installation. Y2K+10...

No it hasn't. This is 2 events in an expected background of 0.8. According to reports it's a 1.5 sigma event. Noise. This can be dismissed until they get to 3-5 sigma.

These seem to be up on archive.org through 2008. The rest are available through Google Reader.

Child predators can attack your family through Google real time search? Moronic. Flagged.