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Comment Re:Book (Score 1) 109

Yes, about 10% of Caucasians have 2D6 deficiency and don't convert codeine to it's active form - morphine. In most people, roughly 10% of the codeine is converted to morphine, though a sizable percentage of Ethiopians are ultrarapid metabolizers, and codeine can be dangerous for them - or their children. For example, a lactating woman with normal 2D6 can take codeine and only a small percentage will get into the breast milk, but there was a case where the child was an ultrarapid metabolizer and died of overdose. Codeine is a shitty drug.

Comment Re:+1 Article Troll (Score 1) 206

It does refer to them as "Unsafe packages. Could potentially affect the stability of the system." and "Dangerous packages. Known to affect the stability of systems depending on certain specs or hardware.", which isn't all that bad. Certainly "unsafe" and "dangerous" could be changed and the possible security implications could be mentioned, though.

Comment Re:Missing context (Score 5, Informative) 206

Levels 4 and 5 ("unsafe", in that they may cause things to stop working) are not automatically selected when updating - which is fine with me. Video drivers may need to be reinstalled when performing a kernel update, for example. My issue is that they are not visible by default. It's easy to change in the preferences (there are "safe" and "visible" checkmarks for each level, so I have it set up so I can see if there is a kernel update available and select it when I want to install it) but novice users may miss this.

Comment Re:Missing context (Score 2) 206

You are both reading it incorrectly - or rather, the context needed to read it is missing. The number refers to the "safety level" of the update:

1 - from Linux Mint developers
2 - tested to be safe
3 - untested but probably safe
4 - untested and may cause problems
5 - known to cause problems with some hardware

The flash package is 2, that is, tested and shown to not cause any problems. Levels 1 to 3 are automatically selected to be installed when updating.

Comment Re:choice doesn't *require* bad defaults (Score 1) 361

Hahaha, what? I guess you don't remember the 90s, when Mac marketshare was almost eliminated and DOS/Windows dominated.

1992: 386DX 33mhz
1997: Pentium 166mhz
2000: Pentium III 600mhz

I have a 2 year old LG Shine Plus that can still run nearly all of the applications I use, just slower. The improvement in speed seems comparable to when PCs were rapidly improving.

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