_pra | 13 years ago | on: The Flat Sink
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_pra | 13 years ago | on: The Flat Sink
If your goal is to actually clean your hands, then it's not a waste. Proper hand-washing requires not touching anything dirty after you've cleaned up. And how did you turn the faucet on? With your dirty hands. So, wash, dry with a paper towel, turn faucet off with paper towel.
_pra | 13 years ago | on: The Cost of Kidding Yourself
First chart's huge dropoff is an artifact of choosing a yrange of 21-41 instead of 0-100. It's a common deficit of charts created under motivated cognition.
_pra | 15 years ago | on: Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code
Actually, the article mentioned that most of the stores would be okay with refunding unused tickets.
_pra | 15 years ago | on: Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store
No, Evernote uses a freemium business model. The client is always free; you only have to pay if you store more than some X amount of data.
_pra | 15 years ago | on: Redirect pitfalls with HTTP Strict Transport Security and some solutions
No, most CSAs these day will automatically add "www.yourdomain.com" to your certificate as a Subject Alternate Name.
_pra | 15 years ago | on: Schneier's take on the alleged backdoor in OpenBSD
Ah, but perhaps this is why it's so important gitmo detainees, et al, are not granted a trial?
_pra | 15 years ago | on: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
I use No(t)Script to whitelist sites I trust. Noticing there was blocked JavaScript on a page of simple text would prejudice me against it.
_pra | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
He probably means he's using a simple window manager (twm, fvwm, etc) instead of the fancy everything-managers that include desktop functionality.
X alone doesn't provide that -- think back to Windows 3.1 days. You had a background, but not a desktop.
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That's why I prefaced with "If your goal is to get clean." Sometimes it's just to satisfy a taboo. That's okay.