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> Its been tuned over years for use in competitions. So it probably runs faster than the author's, even though it has more features. For OP's use case, which appears to have a max …

Anecdotal, but as a non-smoker, I don't find any withdrawal or cravings symptoms at all when I stop consuming nicotine. It's milder than stopping caffeine.

The more you know. Thanks :).

Not necessarily a trade-off with non-tobacco nicotine.

Really? I thought adderall (contains 1/4 dextro-) or vyvense (don't know which amphetamines it contains) were pretty common.

It isn't now. It has been edited from the original.

Compared to e-cigs, sure. Compared to food, or conventional cigarettes ... they're really really cheap. 96 x2mg gums for $22 comes out to 45¢/mg. I use maybe 0-2 (edit: gums (90¢-$…

For non-smokers, less is more... nicotine is a pretty powerful stimulant, you don't necessarily want strong hits. My 2¢. (I am a non-smoker; have tried 2mg and 4mg gum, and find 4m…

Dexedrine is dextroamphetamine (commonly prescribed for ADD and other things, like staying awake). Methamphetamine is a different chemical with an important legal distinction (if s…

Might kill the GPU faster than gaming alone, unfortunately[0]. [0]: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cpu_reliability.html

I don't think it would, actually. Enough people are willing to mine for a loss and the difficulty rises with availability of cheap hardware that it never becomes profitable. OP onl…

But perhaps more importantly, not a big subjective difference ;-).

Meth is only prescribed for ADHD in the US. Is it prescribed for ... nevermind, you edited your post. (Original said something to the effect of "meth is prescribed for drowsiness i…

From his Nictotine article, gum or patch. But e-cig might be fine too if the parts don't have lead or other hazardous substances in them, modulo maybe higher risk of addiction.

As others have pointed out, this is not remotely passive.

Yeah, but I don't recommend singing in the shower for 1.5 weeks while your employer is paying you sick leave ;-).

So: 1.5 weeks of work. $50-$75/mo/instance. x20-60 instances. Worked for 3-4 weeks. If we assume the most optimistic parameters: $75 * 1mo * 60 instances = $4500 in profit for 1.5 …

Hm, ok. Still, at some level fragmentation is eating gobs of space even if correct for the "average".

This isn't quite right. Even if your average string length is 1k+, you shouldn't change the embedded string size to 1k+. I think these objects sit on the C stack internally, which …

Is Ruby's internal encoding UTF-8, then?

I'm guessing empty message, check for error status later. Just send a bunch of emails, see which hostnames resolve (vs not).

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Washington state actually (partially) legalized alcohol ahead of the Federal repeal of prohibition. So there's a kind of historical example.

Whoa whoa whoa. Slow down. When did I become an Applications developer and not a systems developer? The kernel I work on uses TONS of threads and locks. And sure, it's fucking craz…

Can someone explain how the keying system works? What is the secret information a user needs to decrypt messages addressed to them? What prevents a 3rd party from decrypting those …