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edf825 | 1 year ago | on: The belay test and the modern American climbing gym

> more experienced climbers can get complacent and sloppy when the negative consequences fail to materialize.

This effect in some fields is called "Normalisation of Deviance". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

edf825 | 7 years ago | on: Do Not Use Task Manager for Memory Info

Drepper's What every programmer should know about memory is a little old and goes into perhaps unnecessary detail at times, but is a great place to start.

https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

edf825 | 12 years ago | on: Firefox 25 is released

Licensing is the responsibility of the party distributing the codec. When using the platform decoder any licensing fees have already been paid by, e.g. Apple.

This is coming soon.

edf825 | 12 years ago | on: Firefox 25 is released

Hi!

This is on my to-do list. Should be in Nightly builds in a few months' time.

edf825 | 12 years ago | on: What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate

To add to this, one thing I found helpful was to count with every breath in or out, up to ten -- breathe in, one; breathe out, two -- All the way up to ten, then back to the beginning.

Having something so easy and menial, yet requiring constant attention helps immensely to keep the mind from wandering.