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Comment It's not forgetting, it's replacing (Score 1) 329

by csrjjsmp (#33028714) Attached to: The End of Forgetting
The reason humans forget things is because we are constantly learning new things. If older information is constantly reused, it is considered 'important' and we keep it around. Anything that doesn't matter gets pushed aside to make way for new things. Most of the time, we'll consider those things forgotten, yet we sometimes find that, under the right circumstances, remembering these is still possible. The internet works essentially the same way. If the only mention of you on the web is that time you got arrested for vandalism in high school, you can fix that the same way you'd fix a relationship with a high school classmate who only remembered that fact. Show them that you've changed by creating new content that paints you in a more positive light. Maintaining your public image is an important skill, and for certain positions, it even makes sense for employers to screen for it.
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Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal 182

Posted by samzenpus from the crustacean-frustration dept.
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.

Comment Re:Their banks don't cheat? (Score 1) 553

by csrjjsmp (#32839610) Attached to: Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ
Actually, they did have their own banking crisis several years before the US did, and they dealt with it quickly and efficiently (a lot easier with a more powerful central government). When the American banks were having troubles, a lot of people were talking about how the ideas the Chinese used (bad banks, etc) could be applied.

Comment Re:Chrome, you're losing me! (Score 1) 285

by csrjjsmp (#32630222) Attached to: Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome
It's not "I like browsers that don't have features," it's "I like browsers that don't have extra features," where 'extra' means anything I don't need. We'd love for developers to read our minds and make their software with everything we want and nothing we don't, but failing that, it'd be nice to have some degree of customizability. It's part of why firefox is so popular.
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Knuth Got It Wrong 298

Posted by kdawson from the to-be-or-not-to-be-heap dept.
davecb writes "Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. Poul-Henning Kamp, in an article at ACM Queue, finds an off-by-ten error in btrees, because they fail to take virtual memory into account. And he solves the problem in the open source 'Varnish' HTTP accelerator, for all of us to see and use."

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