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Re:Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:52AM (#12598091)
I've been on a low carb diet for 5 years now. The key I found to "sucker for sweets" desire is you take one day a week off. I find sugar is like salt now... if you give it up for a while and go back it's really really sweet and after a day of enjoying sugar I'm ready to stop eating it again for 6 days. If you haven't tried the one day a week off I recommend it next time you do your 3 months.
Re:Ask HN: Laptop that doesn't suck on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:23PM (#12117461)
XPS 13 or 15 are worth looking at
Two things I noticed when going from employed to self employed is:

1. You gain a lot of time back due to zero travel 2. You can earn less to earn the same as you were when employed. This is true because I removed the transport and time cost.

It's worth keeping in mind these will be reversed if you situation is similar to mine. You'll have much less time available, and your salary will need to be higher than you earned being self employed to achieve the same end-of-month income.

Good luck.

Re:Sketch goes subscription-based on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:22PM (#11864354)
Is this a subscription?

No. Once your license has expired you can still use the app for as long as you want. We will not force you to pay again to use it. You don’t have to renew your license if you don’t want to.

Re:Ask HN: Best linux laptop right now? on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:22AM (#11504041)
Not the Apollo, but Linux Voice did a review of their Proteus. Worth a read (PDF) https://www.linuxvoice.com/issues/011/laptop.pdf
Re:Cerberus – 18L mATX case on Friday February 12, 2016 @04:35AM (#11086125)
It launches on Indiegogo in March. You can sign up to be informed exactly when at the bottom of the page.
Re:Bitwalking on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:54PM (#10612065)
They covered it on the BBC's click show. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34872563
Re:Enpass Password Manager on Friday September 11, 2015 @04:44AM (#10202635)
"Pay once, use forever. No monthly or yearly subscription is required to use Enpass. You just need to upgrade the trial version only once for life time usage."

I don't see any pricing listed, if it is, it's not obvious. Wish services would stop hiding prices.

from the article "The facilities will be replaced by four gas-fired stations with capacity to supply 2.6 times more electricity than the coal plants."
Re:Bitrig 1.0 Released – OpenBSD fork on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:13PM (#8702020)
Why did you fork OpenBSD?

OpenBSD is an amazing project and has some of the best code around but some of us are of the opinion that it could use a bit of modernization. OpenBSD is a very security conscious project and, correspondingly, has to be more conservative with features. We want to be less restrictive with the codebase when it comes to experimenting with features.

https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/wiki/Faq

Re:Ruby Warrior on Friday May 09, 2014 @02:14PM (#7722427)
It's very annoying when a website blasts out music without user consent as soon as it loads. This is a case in point.
Re:Empty Me, a simple HTML5 game on Sunday May 04, 2014 @07:50AM (#7693967)
I think there are two click mechanics going on -> visual and non visual. Depending on the level, not every click gives you visual feedback of the liquid decreasing, however, you get audio feedback for every click. Would be better if the clicks were always registered visually, though, and should be easy for the developer to implement.
Re:Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season on Sunday April 06, 2014 @02:18PM (#7541924)
Today's race was the first time we got to see just how fast the Mercedes is on low fuel with new tires. This innovation is worth 2 seconds per lap, which is massive in this sport. The championship is theirs to lose this year. Teams don't make up such a time gap over a season, and Mercedes won't stop developing.
Re:Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:01AM (#6786095)
Re:Why I Canceled Amazon Prime on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @10:31AM (#6768552)
In the UK Amazon has its own parcel delivery service that is used to deliver the majority of the larger parcels in my area. But it's not great. Some of the drivers decide they don't have time, or it's near the end of their shift, and log deliveries as no one home. I've had this confirmed by some of the drivers that do bother delivering.

So while I've been home all day, I get an email (usually around 6pm) claiming no one was in when they attempted the delivery.

This is frustrating when it happens once, but it has now become a regular occurrence and complaints just end in a free month of Prime being added to my account (had 4 extensions this year so far).

Re:How I Make A Living Using GameMaker on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @10:22AM (#6360160)
I don't believe that to be the case, at least not any more. The lead devs are quite active on Twitter, they have a bug reporting system all users can take advantage of, the documentations is growing, and the DRM you speak of is no longer in place and they admitted it was a bad decision (after the skulls incident).

It's becoming a very solid toolset that can produce games for most platforms and does not require a plug-in for web games. The recent roll out of v1.2 has also made it much faster.

Mike Dailly, head of development at YoYo recently did an AMA on Reddit. There's some good information in there on the state of GM and its future.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/1lsz0o/im_mike_da...

From the comments:

"I reached out to play support via email, and here is the response I got: "We're aware of a streaming issue with the Google Play All Access app and the Nexus Q and are working on a fix""

Re:All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3 on Friday March 08, 2013 @01:26PM (#5344883)
Yeah, my mistake, I meant it to be in response to mtgx
Re:All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3 on Friday March 08, 2013 @12:28PM (#5344577)
"Chrome was compromised using similar methods to the IE10 and Firefox attacks. MWR Labs bypassed Chrome’s sandbox and used a Windows kernel vulnerability in Windows 7 to elevate privileges as well as execute commands outside of the sandbox. In addition to executing code, MWR researchers were able to read memory and find the base addresses of certain .DLL files."

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/internet-explorer-10-...

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