How to be healthy: Living Life in the Shadow of a Spider
Posts made by mott555
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RE: The Transformer
How to be healthy:
(1) Nourish, nourish, nourish: In general, refrain from social interaction, and avoid physical activity. Stick to the basics, such as you're supposed to, like eating regular meals, getting lots of sleep, and exercising. Pay attention to what you're eating. Avoid processed foods, which increase your chances of gaining weight. (And of course, some recommendations are not so strong.)
(2) Eat breakfast, get at least eight hours of sleep, and take supplements
(3) Do your best to avoid: drinking alcohol, smoking, smoking after meals, using stimulants, using chelation therapy, putting diuretics (water pills), and taking illicit drugs.
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RE: The Transformer
@hungrier said in The Transformer:
Just be healthy, it's that easy
Ha, I guess it agrees!
The doctor told me to be as healthy as possible, so I am.
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RE: The Transformer
The doctor told me to be as healthy as possible, so I looked forward to swimming and train, and I didn't give it any thought other than I didn't want to fail. I just went at it.
"The night before the race I was floating, so I had my gel and I ate a healthy meal. And after I ate I got really jumpy. At one point I thought, 'I'm going to win the race'. I felt like, 'I'm going to win the day'. And then it happened."
Taylor's race and victory, while in itself a remarkable feat, is nothing compared to some of the stories of athletes who have achieved incredible feats using sub-7-minute splits to reach our planet's centre.
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RE: The Transformer
The doctor told me to be as healthy as possible, so I did what I always do, and (did) really well," Nolte told WWL-TV. "Not long after that I got some scratches on my fingers and knees that got infected. When I got back home and I had a few days off, I thought about it and I thought to myself, 'This is crazy. I'm fine.' And I realized then that I need to get my hands on some better wood, because I don't trust what I got."
A little too much wood
Now the wood is still sitting out, and even though Nolte said he has lost 20 pounds from the wood, he's still apprehensive about future cuts.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
In the USA it is not uncommmon for it to be tradition to throw dry waste on the floor. Like peanut hulls. There is a local bar where when you walk in there is a literal wooden barrel full of peanuts in the shell, a scooper and some paper containers like you would be server french fries in. Tradition in this particular bar is to eat the peanuts, throw the shells on the floor.
I am a neat freak and I despise restaurants that allow this.
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RE: In other news today...
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Vicodin
I had a post-surgery prescription for this. I didn't really need it (post-surgery pain was less than the pre-surgery pain, which I was managing without pain meds), but it was great at night because I'm an insomniac and it made me sleep better than I ever have in my life. It didn't make me high, though.
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RE: In other news today...
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I've read a few of the studies linking long-term marijuana use to violence, criminal behavior, and mental illness, and they all describe my father's behavior and history so well that I'm sure there's a link. I will never, ever touch the stuff as a result.
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RE: The Transformer
If you think you might have coronavirus, you should avoid getting it
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RE: The Transformer
Coronavirus is deadlier than Ebola, but, so far, West Africa has been largely immune to it
Image copyright AP Image caption Ipecac is believed to have found a commercial use for Ebola in Nigeria
Ebola first entered Nigeria in January, when a man suspected of carrying the virus arrived from Liberia. He died on a Dallas hospital floor four days later.
The funeral of the man took place on 1 April, but the diagnosis was delayed until 16 May when he was taken to hospital in Abia State.
Although confirmed as Ebola, and treated with experimental anti-viral medication, the man died within hours.
No one else was reported to have been infected.
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RE: The Transformer
The benefits of coronavirus are mainly to some people with HIV, particularly the elderly and the severely ill. However, the risk of transmission to anyone is extremely low.
If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant and have been infected with this virus, the chances are very low that the virus will cause your baby to be born with a virus-related congenital anomaly. However, since it is possible that the virus may reach the placenta or be present in your baby's blood and other fluids, some women have received a diagnosis of phlebitis, or inflammation of the membranes surrounding the baby's brain, after a suspected infection during pregnancy. These women are advised to be as healthy as possible during pregnancy.
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RE: The Transformer
Coronavirus symptoms are likely caused by infection by a virus.
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RE: The Transformer
I decided to seed it with Blue Cream Cheese because it's the most popular cheese in my household and because it is what my mother and I used in our first and second holiday ham. (I kept both because I wanted more cheese). I did add a little more cream cheese, because it seemed the amount to be the right amount.
If you are a side dish lover, this is the perfect side dish recipe for you! It is simple to make and is best served with a salad. I even sliced some cucumber and threw it with the cheese, causing the cheese to melt. Yes! My three year old had a ball.
What are your favorite side dishes?
Tester's Note This is the best recipe for cheese and gluten free
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RE: The Transformer
I decided to seed it with a C code comment that didn't clarify anything the code did. Transformer hasn't clarified anything, either.
The data should have made it just fine, but Google was too busy throwing up traffic spikes of its own.
Google capped the number of new data points from being added to your Gmail app every 30 minutes and ended up messing up the message that said "the line has just been turned back on."
This last part is a bit concerning.
It's not clear what happened here, but if it was Google messing with Gmail traffic, it could potentially mean that a lot of legitimate users are being affected.
As for the natural disasters, this situation occurred on a Tuesday around 1pm PST/3pm EST/10pm GMT.
After most of the reports, there was a noticeable dip in the number of network requests
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@mott555 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that you can produce
an illusion ofcolor using only black and white.https://www.youtube.com/embed/M1t0egTZY44?start=535&end=1020
If there's any doubt that it's an illusion created wholly within your brain, you can try something that the lecturer wasn't capable of doing: pause the video while the disc is spinning.
I'm crying on the inside because I don't see the colors as he describes them, and the recast simulation suggests different ones entirely...
I couldn't even find the spinning discs in the video, and I'm not about to watch all 1.5 hours.
14:30. Did the embed start and stop times must not have be working for the usage in your browser too.
I guess not. Now that I know where to look...I don't see the illusion either, just spinning black rings.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@Mason_Wheeler said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
@djls45 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL that you can produce
an illusion ofcolor using only black and white.https://www.youtube.com/embed/M1t0egTZY44?start=535&end=1020
If there's any doubt that it's an illusion created wholly within your brain, you can try something that the lecturer wasn't capable of doing: pause the video while the disc is spinning.
I'm crying on the inside because I don't see the colors as he describes them, and the recast simulation suggests different ones entirely...
I couldn't even find the spinning discs in the video, and I'm not about to watch all 1.5 hours.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@Magus said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not looking forward to whatever we end up doing here. I kind of hope they tell us all to work from home, but for now it's still nothing at all.
We're at probably 150% capacity on work as is (as in we have too much work for our current staffing level). Naturally, the corporate guys want us to all quit doing stuff that makes money, and instead spend a few weeks doing planning/protocol/documentation stuff on how we're going to survive the coronavirus.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@anonymous234 said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
(TL;DR: anyone who "publishes" physical copyrighted works in the USA must send two copies to the library of congress)
And that's really fucking with me because that seems like a pretty big deal, and I've done quite a bit of research about copyright law, and I never heard anything about it before.It's not necessary to claim copyright, but it's considered a good idea. If anyone files a copyright claim against you, and your stuff is in the Library of Congress but theirs isn't, you win automatically. Otherwise it takes lawyers and judges to sort it out. (I haven't done this with my stuff, because paperwork, fees, bureaucracy, red tape, etc.)
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zenith There's probably some kind of super-slow inter-process COM interop thingy going on.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Gąska I misread that as "Calculating how many rectal helium tanks you'd have..."
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Finally wrote up a timeline of major events for my sci fi novels. The first few books might have a few minor discrepancies, but things ought to be pretty consistent from here on.
Status Addendum: Easily amused.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Point with a
stickfrickin' laser beam!I get the impression that image is at least a decade old, if not two. Note the complete lack of indication of the potential for death by powerpoint.
We had laser pointers when I was in middle school 23 years ago.
Filed under: Teachers HATED them.
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RE: WTF Bites
Someone started a rumor that baby urine can help prevent being infected.
Disinfect your iPhone from coronavirus by putting it in a ziplock baggy of baby urine and microwaving it on high for 5 minutes!
Anyone want to make the PSA graphic for this and post it on 4chan? I'm
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Finally wrote up a timeline of major events for my sci fi novels. The first few books might have a few minor discrepancies, but things ought to be pretty consistent from here on.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@levicki Opening Firefox is now enough to trigger that on my system. Firefox opens just fine, no errors at all, but Windows gives me a notification saying "Your default browser crashed so we changed it back to Edge."
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Anyone else leave messages to themselves from on day to the next?
As in: saving free form text straight in the middle of your source code, not in a comment, so it will cause a syntax error in the relevant place you need to work on next?
I do that in my writing, usually in all-caps in parentheses
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RE: The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread
I dreamed I was in Doom, taking on an Arch-Vile. But I had no weapons. I mimed shooting at it with a BFG and did my best to make BFG firing noises with my mouth. Obviously this had no effect on the Arch-Vile, and then I failed to convince it that my pretend-attack should have killed it and it needed to give up and leave me alone.
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RE: Emoji testing
@hungrier said in Emoji testing:
This is bait:
For the first 10 seconds or so, I saw a fish wearing a tricorn hat.
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@Bulb I think he just puts the prefix "endo-" on random words because it's funny or something.
Filed Under: I'm endolaughing through my endofunctors
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
I like OOP if it's done minimally. But it seems to be common practice--especially among C++ programmers--to put fifty billion layers of interfaces and abstractions in, which makes everything unnecessarily complicated. Someone creates a ticket to make one minor change and you think it'll take you a half hour, then six weeks later you're still trying to figure out which layer/interface you missed during your updates because your simple change still doesn't work due to some crazy inheritance thing that isn't obvious unless you're the code's original author, and when you think you finally fixed it, you end up breaking a trillion other things that inherit your change but don't need it. OOP should be used to encapsulate things and keep them separate, not tangle everything up into a big nasty ten-dimensional ball of string.
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RE: 🎤 Song of the day 👂
@lolwhat said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
Yeah, the only good things to come out of are SCTV and Norm MacDonald.
These guys, too.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Captain said in The Official Status Thread:
Do you know what conjunctive normal form is? You really should. It's really basic CS. You know, your job.
I'm pretty sure that anything related to "normal" is a rare occurrence for most of us, on or off the job.
Don't you work with Blender? You must use normals all the time.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@mott555 I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd try it, too. But only because I'm a clown with food and not because I have any expectation of it being a pleasant experience.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
Honestly I bet they're not as bad as they sound.
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RE: WTF Bites
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Ah, so it's the timestamping cutoff? As in, if you signed a driver you built using Windows 8.1 Driver Kit and tried to load it on Windows 10 it would not work because of the signing date? I wonder if it would be possible to timestamp with the date in the past to work around that.
You'd have to find a public timestamping server that's willing to lie about the date for that to work, and those servers are controlled by the same companies you buy EV certs from so I don't think you'd pull it off.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I think the real question is, if you take a bite of the tang-noodles and a sip of the cheese drink, could you trick your brain into accepting the situation?
I was a lunchroom clown in high school. I'd often take my food, mash it all up with a fork, and mix it into a carton of chocolate milk, then drink the whole thing just to disgust other students. So I think it would be acceptable in my case.
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RE: The Cooking Thread
@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
glass of tang that's actually made out of the cheese powder
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RE: Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?
@brie said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
That being said, flash drives are fine; just don't let one be your only copy. It's always better to have two copies, anyway
I think I have 3 - 4 copies of anything I consider important. The flash drive in a firesafe is just one such place.
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RE: RGB LED EVERYTHING!!
I don't see any RGB LED's on this, but this otherwise seems like the best place to post it.
EDIT: No relationship between me and the article's writer.
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RE: Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?
@TheCPUWizard said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
Get the CD as an ISO, burn a bunch of ISO's to a single DVDR.....
Or get the CD as an iso, and put a whole bunch of ISO's on a high-capacity USB flash drive. (I have a ruggedized/waterproof USB drive I keep in a firesafe for backup purposes)
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RE: WTF Bites
@boomzilla open-vm-tools works fine for me, but yeah if I actually install VirtualBox's extensions it destroys the VM for some reason.
As for clipboard sharing, that has only worked for me if both host and guest are Windows. If either is something else, it doesn't work.
Filed Under: The I-Hate-Oracle-Club is
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RE: WTF Bites
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
What if I build using older WDK? Do I still have to sign using EV cert?
If you need to support Windows 10, it must be signed with an EV cert. The only workaround I'm aware of is loading Windows 10 in developer mode which will allow unsigned drivers to load.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I am not even sure I can get EV cert as an individual developer.
Yeah, I'm not sure that's even possible. Getting an EV cert is a real pain in the neck. They give it to you as an easily-lost USB token, too, rather than a file you install into your cert store. (Basically, the EV cert shows in your cert store as along as the token is connected, but as soon as you disconnect, it goes away.)
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RE: WTF Bites
@levicki Any .sys file needs to be EV-signed and attestation signed for Windows 10 to load it.
I don't know what the cutoff is, but old drivers are grandfathered in. It depends on when they were originally signed.
We managed to navigate through this process at work but it was a cluster. Microsoft basically tossed this thing at us without ever properly documenting it (URL redirects everywhere that eventually lead nowhere) and I had to figure things out by accident. Took about a year of on again-off again trials before I was successful. (The most confusing part is you need an Azure Active Directory domain set up to do code signing...and it's obvious it was just shoehorned in to force people to use Azure for something.)
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RE: WTF Bites
@levicki EV certs work on Windows 7 as long as the system is fully up-to-date. Windows 10 drivers need EV signing as well as attestation signing by Microsoft, if Secure Boot is enabled. If Secure Boot is off, you don't need attestation signing, but Windows Updates now helpfully turns Secure Boot on for you. Secure Boot Windows 8 is a thing but not even Microsoft supports it so you're just SOL if you have customers running Windows 8 with Secure Boot enabled.
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Except that I have a signed kernel-mode driver (built against Windows 8.1 WDK) signed 5 years ago, which does not use EV certificate and which still verifies and loads without issues in Windows 10 1909.
It's grandfathered in. If you have to rebuild and sign again, you have to follow the new process.
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
The interesting part is
Roughly one cosmic muon passes through your fingernail every minute, which isn’t very many.
I've long thought about trying to build a glass-topped coffee table cloud chamber, using alcohol vapor and TEC chillers. It would be fun to see things like this in it. Also, I have some thoriated TIG welder electrodes, so I could drop one of those in it and probably get a nice little show.