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Comment · 2 years ago

A depressing reality to this question is to just look at the current crop of billionaires. None of them need money, yet many of them spend their time pursuing more.

I know all of us have these quaint answers about all the noble or fulfilling things we would do, but the data doesn't seem to support that.

Comment · 2 years ago

Is there a functional reason for why toilet lids do not close in an air-tight fashion? If there were no openings for the particles to escape through, it seems like it would make closing the lid more effective.

Comment · 4 years ago

My daughter (14) is currently going through this scenario. She was in a Montessori school from pre-school through 8th grade. The school she went to did not offer 9-12 so we had to transition her to a more traditional school for high school. We were extremely concerned that the daily classroom structure would be a problem, but she's adapted wonderfully. Despite never having traditional grades, tests, and quizzes, she currently has all A's and B's and is doing great. Speaking for myself, I don't think I give my kids enough credit for just how adaptable/resilient they are.

Comment · 7 years ago

It's hard to see, but I think Java and .NET are linked to the "Other Options" box in the chart.

Comment · 8 years ago

The same thought came to my mind. When wearing my polarized sunglasses, sometimes the screens on gas station pumps will be unreadable. However, if I rotate my head slightly one way or the other, the polarization filter is removed and I can read the screen clearly.

Comment · 8 years ago

I did something similar in college. A company paid cash for installing software that displayed ads on the bottom of your monitor. It qualified your ad viewing activity based on mouse movement.

At night I would open the software, wrap my mouse cord around an oscillating desk fan, then go to bed. Earned myself $50/month

Comment · 9 years ago

You summed up my feelings perfectly. So many notable moments in my life played out over AIM conversations, especially discussions with my girlfriend (now wife) when we were geographically separated during our college years.

Comment · 9 years ago

This sounds very similar to the ideas in stoicism. Your feelings are your own creation and subsequently completely within your control. If you are feeling bad about something, it's not because of that something, but because you are -choosing- to feel bad.

Comment · 9 years ago

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Comment · 9 years ago

It seems to me that you could just put some kind of sensor on the inside of the gas pump access door that notifies someone as soon as the door is opened. If you know there is a maintenance guy scheduled for that day/time, then you just ignore the notification. If not, then you know that there has been unauthorized access to the pump.

Comment · 10 years ago

In this case, "visual" is just a wall of text presented with some extra styling.

"While you may be able to avoid & slip under the radar of a local Intrusion Detection System, it is unlikely you'll be able to avoid being caught by a cloud hosted IDS like Barricade."

Ugh.

Comment · 10 years ago

I've read somewhere that it won't work if there are multiple VirtualHost blocks in the same file. Allegedly if you separate each vhost config into it's own file, it will start working. YMMV.

Comment · 10 years ago

IMHO, niche sub-reddits are really where Reddit shines. I can't even remember the last time I intentionally visited /r/all. Topic-specific sub-reddits are my go-to source for unbiased information, advice, and birds of a feather.

Comment · 10 years ago

Just got this setup on our Slack channel. The setup was a really pleasant experience. Well done!

Comment · 10 years ago

Spot on. Last year I decided to take up lock picking as a casual hobby. After reading up on the process and practicing on some old locks I had laying around, I decided to try to pick my own front door lock. I was able to pick it in under 3 minutes...

It was an moment of epiphany for me - I realized that door locks really only provide an illusion of security. Anyone who really wants to get into your house quickly can just avoid the lock all together by kicking in the door or breaking a window.