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Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 6 months ago
I just made some this morning, and it came out delicious even with only 6 hours of cold brewing in the fridge! Thanks for the idea!
Comment · 3 years ago
Joining the party, that was a trip down memory lane!
Comment · 4 years ago
I had this happen as well and ran the epub through Calibre, converting epub to epub. That actually fixed it and the Kindle accepted the new file.
Comment · 5 years ago
I totally came here to suggest huge balloons!
Comment · 6 years ago
If you are interested in stories like this, and how people make life or death decisions in difficult situations, I recommend Laurence Gonzales's book Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Comment · 6 years ago
Serious question, whenever I read something about a Vitamin D deficiency, or a huge number of people getting tests back as lacking Vitamin D, I wonder -- what determined what the baseline of not-deficient is, and for which population? How were the baseline expectations set?
Comment · 6 years ago
Chickens coming home to roost.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do you believe the same thing about email spam detection? Various authorities decide on the validity of email and webspam.
Comment · 6 years ago
Some other fabulous Chinese novels, not really obscure as they are the most famous novels in China, but not well known to English speaking readers: Dream of Red Mansions/Story of the Stone, an epic about two families and the decline of their fortunes; The Scholars, another 18th century long book of linked stories that's basically political satire; and Outlaws of the Marsh/The Water Margin, a long series of linked tales about bandits that's a little bit Robin-Hoodish as it's really about their political rebellion.
Comment · 6 years ago
Trollope is pretty great. Especially if you like a long story arc and a large cast of characters, try the Warden series and the Palliser series.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is definitely a great browser. I think the market share dropping has a lot to do with browser lockin on specific hardware, and site-specific apps being used more and more. We are losing more and more of the open, public infrastructure of the open web.
Comment · 6 years ago
Well, it's been a truly amazing place to work, and I've enjoyed it so much, right up until being laid off today. Really the smartest and coolest engineers I've ever known and the best community! I have had my hand in shipping every version of Firefox since around version 30 and it's been great. Especially working in such an open environment. Onward to the next adventure.
Comment · 7 years ago
I actually took those changes in 70, so they should make it to the release version at the end of October. If you can, please try using 70 Beta and see how the power use improves!
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574538
Comment · 7 years ago
Firefox ESR exists for exactly this reason. It gets periodic security fixes but not much else and you can stay on the same major version for a year or so.
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/enterprise/