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As some folks know, I’m a pretty big believer in standing while you work rather than sitting. It takes a little while to get used to, but these days I greatly prefer standing. While the first few weeks are a bit difficult on your legs and (especially) feet, once you get used to it, it’s pretty easy. There’s definitely been a trend in sit-stand setups lately, so for this week’s awesome stuff post, I thought we’d look at three new crowdfunding projects concerning standing desks.
That’s it for this week. Stand up and stretch.
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Old-fashioned casts are nasty, a festering stinksleeves that you wear like a medieval torture device for what seems like forever. 3D-printed casts take care of the smell and itch issues , and now Deniz Karasahin has designed the next step: a custom cast with an ultrasound device to speed up bone healing.
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A 3D-Printed Ultrasound Cast That Looks Awesome and Heals You Faster
If your Mac is having intermittent problems when it’s under a heavy load, you can perform a simple stress test in the terminal to try and reproduce the problem.
All you need to do is run the "yes" command, which will push the CPU until its limit:
yes > /dev/null &
If you have a CPU with multiple cores (which most modern Macs do), you’ll have to run it as many times as you have cores. For example, if your CPU has four cores, you’d run:
yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null &
The fans will often kick in so you can see how loud they are, and see if indeed your mac is crashing under a heavy load. Putting this heavy of a load will also help discharge the battery. Just remember to kill the process when done or you’ll wonder why your Mac is running so slow.
Stress Test a Mac by Maxing Out CPU | OS X Daily
It can be hard to find good smack without leaving the comfort of your own home. At least it used to be. A new search engine for black markets is making it easier than ever to find anything from high quality heroin to assault rifles. The site even looks just like Google. It’s called Grams, and it works remarkably well.
via Gizmodo
Google Clone Makes It Easy to Search for Drugs and Guns on the Dark Web
“My cheeks are attuned to her lips. I will know if they tremble.” Jesse Parent reads his poem, To The Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter. This guy should join a battle rap event. The crowd sure acts like they’re in one. “Eat ‘em!”
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To His Daughter’s Future Dates
Standing. It’s just something you do, right (like breathing)? The truth is, there’s a perfectly aligned and balanced way to stand…and the imbalanced way many of us do.
Good posture helps relieve and prevent pain, improves your attitude, and also positively affects your brain. Even if you don’t think you’re not guilty of the worst posture mistakes (hunching your shoulder or rounding your back), you might be missing one key part of standing properly: complete balance.
AZ Central notes that starts with the foot, your base of support:
To stand upright, you must balance your body over your feet. Your spine should be aligned over your pelvis, with your weight evenly distributed between your feet. Many people stand with more weight over one foot or with their weight over only part of their feet. While standing, become aware of your feet. You should feel even pressure on the balls of your big toes, little toes and heels. This is the tripod of your foot. If you feel more pressure on one of these points, you are not in alignment. Relax your toes and knees and adjust your weight so the tripods of both feet feel equal pressure.
Putting too much weight on one foot, leaning too much forward, and even turning your feet outward or inward while standing (they should be pointing forward) could mess up other parts of your body. Do this for too long (for example, at a standing desk or if you stand a lot on your feet), and it’s a hard habit to correct.
You can test the other parts of your posture against a wall, but don’t neglect the balance over your feet too.
Read more standing posture tips at AZ Central’s Healthy Living page.
The Influence of Foot Position on Standing and Balance | AZ Central
Photo by Kontramax.
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You Might Be Standing All Wrong. Here’s How to Fix Your Imbalance
You wouldn’t think that a four-wheeled car would go faster if one of its wheels didn’t touch the ground. Or if its axles were bent. Or if it was designed to grind against a wall. But you’d be wrong, and here’s the science to prove it.
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The Science Behind Making the Fastest Possible Pinewood Derby Car
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: "When Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications. Now Klint Finley reports that Snowden also used The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) to keep his communications out of the NSA’s prying eyes. Tails is a kind of computer-in-a-box using a version of the Linux operating system optimized for anonymity that you install on a DVD or USB drive, boot your computer from and you’re pretty close to anonymous on the internet. ‘Snowden, Greenwald and their collaborator, documentary film maker Laura Poitras, used it because, by design, Tails doesn’t store any data locally,’ writes Finley. ‘This makes it virtually immune to malicious software, and prevents someone from performing effective forensics on the computer after the fact. That protects both the journalists, and often more importantly, their sources.’ The developers of Tails are, appropriately, anonymous. They’re protecting their identities, in part, to help protect the code from government interference. ‘The NSA has been pressuring free software projects and developers in various ways,’ the group says. But since we don’t know who wrote Tails, how do we know it isn’t some government plot designed to snare activists or criminals? A couple of ways, actually. One of the Snowden leaks show the NSA complaining about Tails in a Power Point Slide; if it’s bad for the NSA, it’s safe to say it’s good for privacy. And all of the Tails code is open source, so it can be inspected by anyone worried about foul play. ‘With Tails,’ say the distro developers, ‘we provide a tongue and a pen protected by state-of-the-art cryptography to guarantee basic human rights and allow journalists worldwide to work and communicate freely and without fear of reprisal.’"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity