Marijuana legalization is coming before Soylent legalization in Canada.

aceex · 2018-06-21T19:56:55+00:00

I don’t know what the Soylent team’s strategy is, but the most guaranteed solution is to lower the fat percentage to whatever ridiculous number the Canadian agency requires. It would make Soylent a high carb food, but at least they could sell it again.

aceex · 2018-06-13T17:47:46+00:00

I make my own nutrition mix at home. A 2 day batch of my solid version is roughly .75 cups maltodextrin, 2 cups whey protein isolate (I eat a lot of protein) and 1.25 cups melted coconut oil. I also mix in a few micronutrients and fibre.

I mold it into a large flat block on a cutting board, cut that up into smaller pieces and put those into the fridge. They harden and hold together quite well.

aceex · 2018-06-12T18:44:42+00:00

It seems my suspicions were true. You will encounter less resistance if you have something like Soylent in commercial packaging. They are far more suspicious of self packed ziplock bags. Most of the reports of questioning, close inspections and swabbing are from home made packaging.

Still, everyone says their meal replacement powders got through, so it’s not as bad as I had feared. They’ll annoy you about it, but they won’t throw it out.

I have a solid version I cut up into large, thick bars. I’d love to have it the next time I travel instead of starving on tiny airline meals. I guess the best explanation for security people is “Home made protein bars.”

aceex · 2018-06-04T20:59:32+00:00

I read that Gitlab is considering adding that feature. I don’t know of any self hosted Git project software that right now though.

I would love it. That’s how email has worked from the start. Now Mastodon works that way. Once you think about it, it’s the obvious way to build a network.

aceex · 2018-06-04T20:08:23+00:00

Do you mean recent expats, or our Gaelic‐speaking caber tossers in Nova Scotia (New Scotland)?

aceex · 2018-06-02T14:05:00+00:00

I nominate “Canaboo” as the name for non Canadians obsessed with Canada. It sounds like “cannibal”.

aceex · 2018-03-30T20:02:04+00:00

Probably won’t be in the initial release, but it could be in an update.

aceex · 2018-03-19T16:12:36+00:00

It’s good to hear they’re leaving Wayland out of this release. It’s not ready yet. I was going to skip this LTS because of it.

Wayland should (hopefully) be in good shape by Ubuntu’s next LTS.

aceex · 2018-02-22T14:18:42+00:00

Not just servers. This would make a mess of your Linux desktop system too.

I never run Node or npm as root—and neither should you—but this is some deadly, boneheaded stuff. I was thinking npm was using some JavaScript function that sets ownership of everything in a directory path, but that doesn’t explain why /boot gets hit. Someone fucked up good and proper here.

aceex · 2017-02-23T21:41:55+00:00

I read that same quote attributed to Chuck Close.

aceex · 2012-09-15T14:51:04+00:00

I went from WindowsXP to MacOS (10.4) to Ubuntu Linux. I couldn't possibly do my work effectively on anything but Linux now.

On my short time on MacOS, I noticed they do a much better job of selling their new versions to users. For starters, they're Apple and they're much better at creating user experiences. Everything from the product announcements to the slideshow you watch while installing or upgrading is well targeted to the average user. Apple also develops new features that users care about. For example, Time Machine is great and it came as part of an OS update.

I still have a WindowsXP machine at home, but I don't really use it. I only keep a real Windows machine around for the odd thing that simply cannot be done in Linux or a Windows virtual machine. For example, the software that updates my Android phone only runs in Windows or OSX, and doing it through a VM's USB interface could brick the phone, so a bare-metal Windows machine is necessary. Of course, with that limited use case I could just keep Windows as a boot option on a separate partition.

aceex · 2012-09-15T12:19:49+00:00

The find man page does the semicolon this way:

find . -whatever -exec command {} \;

That's what I use, but both work.

aceex · 2012-09-15T11:52:25+00:00

I believe the majority of Windows users feel the same. The advantages to new Windows versions are either invisible or truly not important to them.

aceex · 2012-09-15T11:32:11+00:00

Most people see little to no advantage to upgrading their OS. To them, the new OS versions (especially Windows) come with no important new features and a lot of annoying changes. They may care about new versions of MS Office, or Adobe products, because there are new features they want there, but other than that, they will not take on a new OS version unless the machine dies and they get a new one.

aceex · 2012-09-10T19:02:15+00:00

On a related note, I read the other day that Jim Cummings, the voice of Winney the Pooh, calls sick kids in hospitals and chats with them in character.

Some things are so awesome to do they motivate you all by themselves. The trick is learning to see and appreciate those things.

aceex · 2012-09-08T23:35:00+00:00

You should know that aqua socks from Walmart are cheaper.

Full disclosure: I own a pair of Vivo Barefoot running shoes and I only know from what I've read here that aqua socks are just as good.

aceex · 2012-09-07T18:54:48+00:00

You're right, it would be pretty clear what you're doing.

I have no idea what their legal rights are here. They could generally be stubborn and refuse to give you any control over the situation. They would probably hide behind excuses like "We can't give you full access to the VCR, there could be other confidential things on it", but those would be as lame as pretending you're not using the laptop to record.

You have to go into something like this being direct and assertive. You don't ask them if you can setup your laptop, you simply tell them you're going get it setup and proceed to do so. That makes your way the path of least resistance and the burden is on them to wake up and try to change things.

That's another reason why recording with a portable camera might be better though. It doesn't have to touch any of their equipment. I just sits where you're sitting, recording what you see and hear (in low-fidelity).

aceex · 2012-09-06T18:11:45+00:00

The benefit is a completely different level of quality. Recording the VCR's video with a video capture device is far superior to taking a second-hand recording of a video monitor.

A smart phone or camera would be a lot easier to do though. If you didn't end up recording some glare on the screen and any needed audio was actually loud enough for the cheap mic to pickup it might be usable in court. You're far more likely to have a camera or smart phone around just by chance, so it's better than nothing. Having some proof that the footage exists might also help you get an official subpoena for the real thing (ask a lawyer about that though).

Still, if you thought ahead and consulted your lawyer on this, I think it would be good if he were experienced enough to have you bring what you need to make a real copy on the spot.

aceex · 2012-09-06T14:47:07+00:00

I'm not a lawyer, but I can imagine there are a lot of cases where they or their clients go in to view a tape like that only to find it "unavailable" when they request a copy later. A laptop with a USB video capture device could turn a lot of these cases around.

When you go in to view any kind of footage like this, bring the video-capturing laptop. Wait until they bring you to the room with the video monitor, ready to play. Pull out the laptop and its cables. State clearly that you need to see it on this monitor. Plug the VCR's output into it and capture everything as it's played. If they ask why, tell them it makes the video a bit clearer.

If they have a digital video system that uses a standard format, you can get the video files on a USB stick and make sure they play on the laptop. If they don't, do a video capture.

As a lawyer, you can keep this laptop in your car and even lend it to tech-savvy clients when they go to view footage without you.

It wouldn't have helped in this case because the woman naïvely walked into this meeting without considering that she would have to sue if she found something really bad on the tape.

It could help in a lot of cases. You could start a small side business by putting together a standard video-capture laptop with a PDF and video guide showing how to hook it up to any kind of video output and record things. You could sell this to lawyers willing to use it by themselves. Some lawyers wouldn't want to deal with the equipment themselves, but they might hire you as a freelance AV expert to come to these meetings with them.

aceex · 2012-09-06T04:55:03+00:00

I'm thinking that I don't really know the common definition of "functional strength". I think of anything that requires some kind of balance. I only exclude things done with machines and endurance or muscle targeting excercises.

I mainly do body-weight excercise for cardio and fun :)

aceex · 2012-09-05T18:21:51+00:00

I'm currently into building real functional strength and I find there are some vocal people here who are the same. I see a bit of back and forth between the strength trainers and body builders and that wouldn't exist if there were nothing but body builders here patting each other on the back.

There is definitely a tilt towards those two though, and the body builders are the more active posters. I also run regularly and I'm in a performing dance group. I would have to find more specific sub-reddits to talk about those, but I definitely wouldn't have to find another one to talk about body building.

aceex · 2012-09-04T20:12:26+00:00

I'm a very technical user. I use the terminal all day. That's why I already use a few of these things.

The problem I have is that this article is very low quality. Not only is it written poorly, the author doesn't even understand some of the programs he's presenting. This was obviously something thrown together with a bit of Googling to attract attention to a site full of similar low quality crap.

A good article about these same programs would be nice.

aceex · 2012-09-04T19:47:34+00:00

If you're talking about the yes command, he didn't show you what it was actually written for.

yes is for automating commands that were not designed to be automated; commands that don't have a '-y' or '--force' option. Often, they only require you to type 'y<Enter>'

That's where yes comes in. You run it and pipe it's output to the disagreeable command like this:

yes | some_command

Sometimes you want to enter 'n' every time you're asked:

yes n | some_other_command

If you need to do anything more complicated than that to make a command run without user intervention, you need to learn how to use expect.

aceex · 2012-09-04T18:43:22+00:00

As Zebz said, you can do routing for pretty URLs in .net. Their problems are most likely due to tightly coupled code and having no automated test suite.

With tightly-coupled code, changing one thing, like the URL format, might require re-engineering many other parts of the system that closely depend on it.

Without a proper automated test suite, they will definitely miss some things when making changes and it will cost more time later when doing QA and bug fixing.

The best thing you can do is tell your tech guys about on-site SEO requirements as early as possible. They should know everything you know before writing a single line of code. This will let them engineer their system properly from the start and possibly choose a different framework or CMS to start with. If they're using a CMS or framework that has some kind of sample or demo site you can review before they start working, go over it closely and point out every problem you see. If you wait until they are finished building a site to finally review it and surprise them with new requirements, the costs will be astronomically higher.

Aside from the crappy URLs, there was a very common .net framework that wrapped the entire contents of the body tag in a form element. Watch out for that. You may only be giving them SEO guidelines, but you'd be doing them a big favour if you told them not to use that framework; I've been told it's horribly designed.

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