pale_rider

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This x100. Thought it was just me. Over 6 month period of time my phone went from snappy to laggy, with really no new apps installed - just updates.

Comment · 13 years ago

This title is crap. Really this is about a ST2 package. It has nothing to do with WordPress, jQuery, etc.

You could have said "Fetch: a new ST2 package to download files" etc. Anything would have been better than what was used.

Comment · 13 years ago

The thread is closed, which links to an explanation, which is below:

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[lpkane] - 5.1.13 at 1:46am

lol that got aggressive quickly

back towards the end of march, as btc was skyrocketing, jaguar and i were talking about how cool it would be if we could use massive amounts of gpus logged into the client to mine

we went back and forth about it, considered doing something for april fools, didn't get it done in time, and eventually elected to put some test code in the client and try it on a few admin accounts, ours included

we ran the test for a few days on our accounts, decided it wasn't worth the potential drama, and pulled the plug, or so we thought

fast forward to 48 hours ago, a fuck up in the client server results in a restart which results in a setting getting changed which enables it for all idle users, and here we are

and the results for 48 hours of your combined efforts?

http://www.picsend.net/images/923377coin...

~2 btc, or roughly $280 usd at current exchange rates, not bad!

anyway, our bad, we just released a client update with the btc stuff removed, and your $280 is going into the s14 prize pot -- if you're still feeling sad, feel free to pm me and i'll attempt to buy back your love

but for the record, i told jag he shouldn't be lazy and run the miner in a separate process, rookie move

Comment · 13 years ago

I don't understand why people buy games from EA? I mean, seriously, why buy it?

They have been pulling this crap for years and each new release just gets progressively worse.

About a year ago I decided if it's not on Steam I'm not buying it. It really sucks to miss out on some of the games, but I refuse to support such an asshole of a company.

Comment · 13 years ago

If you think gluten intolerance is a fad then you're grossly mistaken.

Then again saying

"Here's how you know if you really have Celiac disease. If you eat a little bit of food that contains gluten, you curl up in a ball and want to die as your small intestine slowly necrotises itself. And you eventually find yourself in the ER with a surgeon removing a meter or two of your bowel."

pretty much discredits anything you have to say on the subject.

Comment · 13 years ago

I don't have the specific link to the article I was thinking of, which is why I think 100x could have been a number pulled out of the air and wildly inaccurate. But the concept may not be as far off.

A little Googling will turn up that there is research and theory that shows bread/wheat today does contain notably larger quantities of gluten (now, probably not 100x) than in the past.

"Scientists suggest that there may be more celiac disease today because people eat more processed wheat products like pastas and baked goods than in decades past, and those items use types of wheat that have a higher gluten content. Gluten helps dough rise and gives baked goods structure and texture."[1]

Bottom line is it's still a complete mystery, but likely _something_ has changed in our environment over time. I find it pretty interesting though hopefully more breakthroughs are in the near future. I know a fair amount of people who are legitimately celiac and some who are gluten sensitive and it takes a lot of discipline to say the least.

[1]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/your-problem-gluten-or-faddis...

Comment · 13 years ago

That very well could be the case for this girl.

Comment · 13 years ago

I wish there was more known regarding the type of bread/gluten exposure.

I know someone who has an 8 year old daughter who has weird reactions to gluten: causes her to feel sick, often get hives, and most of all get a cough that can't be controlled. Eliminating gluten fixes this. Normally reintroduction to gluten reintroduces the symptoms shortly thereafter.

However a year or two ago they went on vacation in Europe. At some point their daughter had bread at a cafe and the symptoms never popped up. Puzzled, they let her eat bread at other destinations during the trip; nothing.

Granted this isn't directly related to the article because this pertains more to a gluten sensitivity (which is a whole different can of worms) not celiac disease specifically.

Nevertheless I think it's interesting that often times it seems to deal with how the product is made.

I once read when researching the topic that a typical piece of bread (in the states) contains 100x more gluten than bread that was consumed in the 50's. This might be stretch, but with all the health oddities that have been surfacing it's certainly believable.

Comment · 13 years ago

The two issues I have with this is:

- They don't effectively communicate this with users. They do let people know, but you have to dig to find it.

- There should be a paid tier where this can be opt out of.

Comment · 14 years ago

Agreed. Works fine for me.

Comment · 15 years ago

I hear you. Even though I am still in my late 20s, I still need 8-9 hours of sleep a night. Anything less than that and I feel like I was hit with a trunk the next day.

I really wish I could get by on 5-7 hours like so many of my friends do, but after a while I just had to accept I couldn't physically do it.

Comment · 15 years ago

All credibility was lost when I read Wordpress.

#capitalPdangit

Comment · 15 years ago

Last time I checked Rails was not a content management system.

A fair comparison would be Drupal, Joomla, vBullentin - anything of that nature - which all regularly release updates.

Comment · 15 years ago

WordPress sites get hacked because the owner fails to update the platform or install 3rd party scripts/plugins without any sort of logical research.

This can be said about any platform, regardless of the language.