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"Just to get the terminology out of the way first: LVM isn't mountable. It's a new layer between "partitions" and "filesystems", the volume manager (that's the "VM"). Where before you'd have a disk that contained a..." [
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7 days ago
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""Concert A is 440 cycles/second, no matter where you are"
This is overstating in the same way that "A flat and B sharp are always the same" is overstating. Concert A is A440, but "concert pitch" means "A440"..." [
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7 days ago
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"It's been a few years since I had to think about this stuff, but:
The general topic you're asking about is what a symbolic-interactionist sociologist would call impression management. (You might recognize the name Erving Goffman, whose book The..." [
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10 days ago
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"I wouldn't describe myself as a germaphobe
That makes one of us. What you describe is not what most people do. Most people do not carry antibacterial gel to deal with touching a subway pole. Most people do not get skeeved out from a public..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"This is the general theme of Buddhism as a whole: life is suffering, and there's a way out of the suffering. So much of the Dalai Lama's writing is on exactly this subject, as is a lot of writing about Zen that isn't about Zen itself.
The Art of..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"The site is written for women, but I maintain that Krista's advice basically applies to anyone. She specifically talks about how to get lifting at home with dumbbells.
Read through all of her site that isn't specifically about women -- the..." [
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"I just went through "early 80s" in motorcycles, and my experience was like Gungho's. Parts not available, tires not available, shops not familiar with them, and next to zero resale market for things that are just "old bikes" and..." [
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"The specific reason you and/or the client you did the work for need legal advice is this: By storing card numbers unencrypted, you weren't compliant with thePayment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and PCI DSS compliance has been required of..." [
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"Just because it's bugging me: twenty heads in a row is precisely as unlikely as every other outcome. It's just a more memorable outcome than one that looks "random" to us...." [
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"This isn't big enough but I couldn't not mention it, if only for inspiration for the one you're going to find/make: Trophy of Perpetual Futility.
That said, if I were in your shoes I would go to a local trophies-and-tshirts shop and see what you..." [
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"You answered your own question when you asked it:
Why are cyclists so scratchy about being asked why they don't wear cycle helmets? OK, I'm on a bit of a personal crusade concerning cycle helmets.
They know you're on a crusade and they're not..." [
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
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"I love my steel-framed, yet new Kona Smoke. Mountain geometry so you're not bolt upright, flat-black paint means it doesn't look flashy, geared nicely for city riding and light trails. $350 fenders in...." [
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2 months ago
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"I don't want to be as bland as khakis and a polo
Sport jackets and odd trousers. Occasionally with jeans instead. And worship at the altar of fit.
Seriously, it's a lot easier than you think it is. You need pants: maybe a couple pair of..." [
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5 months ago
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"If you click on some of the photos, they are NASA photos, but the text says "CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN IN FULL", but NASA photos should be public domain...
ALERT CORY DOCTOROW IMMEDIATELY...." [
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7 months ago
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"This isn't a problem unique to sociology -- see the old joke about how biology is applied chemistry is applied physics is applied math, etc.
There's similarly a lot of overlap in the social sciences, especially now. But even when Comte..." [
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9 months ago
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"Hell, even if you sell something embarrassing: You know that that person buys an embarrassing thing, but that person knows that you're in the BUSINESS of the embarrassing thing. He's still ahead of the game.
I like the gift certificate idea...." [
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9 months ago
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"Good cultural reason: People know the standard interface. Every year there's a dozen-odd newspaper stories about (usually elderly) people hitting the accelerator when they mean to brake and injuring or killing bystanders; consider what would happen..." [
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9 months ago
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"Please read Wedding Attire in the Modern World by Michael Anton, who speaks on that sort of thing to industry folks and who wrote The Suit. It won't answer your question (which deserves a discussion with She) but it'll let you intelligently talk..." [
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10 months ago
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"Thick as Thieves does a very slim made-to-measure suit. It was started by a guy on a webforum I read who got tired of not being able to find the kind of suits he wanted to wear, who noticed that a lot of other people had the same problem. They have..." [
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10 months ago
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"The essentials are in The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection. I was fortunate enough to have my whole CD collection stolen at a pivotal time, and to be insured; I used this and the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD to start building a..." [
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10 months ago
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"I think you're going about this backwards. What you want to find is a reliable place near you to buy a suit. The salesman there will help you find the specific suit that suits you. Suit salesmen in reliable establishments can be trusted because they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kittyprecious
11 months ago
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"That sounds more like a near-hit than a near miss.
That's what "near miss" means. It was a miss, and the things that missed were near. Not a distant miss, but a near miss. And definitely not a near-miss...." [
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11 months ago
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"Encyclopedia Dramatica has background on Alex Wuori, the shadowed, voice-disguised former /b/tard in the video, who also prompted the story in the first place, and whose parents were the folks that got "phone tracking and a dog"...." [
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11 months ago
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"Since you wrote "yet another", we know you've seen all of the other "Why was this deleted?" posts lately. That means you've seen the advice in all of them to email the admin that deleted the post. And you've also seen that none of..." [
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11 months ago
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"4H kids raise them in 4H, at working farms.
But generally: Don't buy people living things. No difference between kittens and pigs. Doubly so when it's the basis of a (hobby) business. When the pig shows up, he'll have to feed it, find and pay a..." [
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11 months ago
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"She didn't ask "what astrology expects". She told us what astrology expected. And now she's chatting about what might specifically happen to her, which is completely hypothetical and completely chatfilter.
Just because it's a crazy..." [
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11 months ago
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"Sounds like you're buying corrected-grain leather. You'll find full-grain leather breaks in much nicer, and full-grain shoes can easily last decades. However, where a pair of corrected-grain shoes might cost $100, full-grain will be $400+ -- but the..." [
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11 months ago
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"It is being built in Antarctica by boring holes more than 2 km deep in the ice with hot water and then dropping strings of detectors into the holes.
Speak for yourself -- I find holes that deep quite interesting...." [
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