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What about the intricate cellular dynamics of tissue growth? Wouldn't the "proprietary formula of salt, water, and fibers" fail to replicate a set of some [at least observable] mac…

Do you really think, that general populace's misuse of antibiotics could cause the development of resistant bacterial strains en masse? I might be wrong, and if so, please don't he…

.onion: - free, no periodic fees for the registry entry - natural content quality metric, if people do bother to download&run TBB or at least use some public www->onion gateway, no…

It is not that rigorous in Russian, though. "First name + patronymic" combination is often used among equals (supposedly equally qualifed/approx. same age group) as a matter of sty…

Just a side-note: the attitude expressed in the Russian version of the website is nowhere that mild and neutral as in the English one. I personally do find it not only alarming, bu…

I guess the intersection of peer IP addresses for all the infohashes listed above (better, for the whole 192.168.0.0/24), from the DHT network, will be tremendously interesting... …

No, it should not. Why it is unusual? Happens to me from time to time (not exactly three dozens, though, 20-25 attempts).

>Many computer logins protect information other than the password-bearer's That is my problem, as the user, not yours. If you'd like to help, then just put some warning or notifica…

>irresponsible users (or "morons" as you put it) Me?! God is my witness, I do not. Rather, it is creators of that "checklist", who suggest that your users are idiots, who should be…

I could call that list deliberately malicious from user experience standpoint: >Are password entropy checks done during user sign-up, using, say AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS? No. It's …

Does one deemed to be always percepted as an underdog, if he intentionally avoids any eye contact? For example, even a glimpse into the interlocutor's eye while having a conversati…

I remember postponing my payments to the ISP, which hadn't blocked ICMP for anybody, by using ptunnel: http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/ It was pretty much usable circa 200…

>I heard rumors that in russian prisons people make this condensed coffee drink that acts as a sort of meta-amphetamine replacement. Probably, you are referring to the "chifir": ht…

I've heard of a similar game, names "passionate software engineer [in a small team]".

UPD: http://i.imgur.com/TVLZgqw.png I don't know, how google did it, but the first result for exactly the query of yours is: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Beautiful What surpris…

There are two points in that paragraph: - enumerable (countable) sets are more intuitive to reason about - no matter, how do you comprehend the function, you'll end up drawing it b…

Actually, only tree is real. "Forest" is a mental construction - just region of space with the density of trees being high enough . Play with that "high enough" variable, and a mea…

> It also seems he hadn't completely realized that a graph is merely a collection of points, not a nice line-like object. This last is more explicit in non-continuous functions, bu…

Thanks! Seems like I'd been getting it right since the beginning, so I've missed the point.

I really didn't get the article. I mean, I've got that we have some mapping f: R -> R, or equivalently f: (x, y) \in RxR, so we could represent it by drawing on 2d plane, but no fu…

Well, I feel exactly the opposite. Although, I had no chance to write gtk theming engines due to lack of neccessity, I would argue that most of the time clear good ol' imperative c…

yep, licq

Thanks for the latter link, would never knew things got that bad otherwise. For instance, they've deprecated GtkStatusIcon in favour of AppIndicator: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho…

Do you mean client-side decorations? https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decor...

I've encountered that while being on a quest to find perfect gtk3 theme :) Scrollbars are tremendous, which is crucial on tiling wm (see my screenshot above, for example).