Interesting Links for 03-06-2015

[andrewducker]

• Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends alkaline battery life 800%
  • (tags: batteries technology )
• Why women in science should never take advice from their elders.
  • (tags: science women advice feminism )
• Missing link found between brain and immune system
  • (tags: immune_system brain viaPatrickHadfield )
• OSHA issues guidance on transgender bathroom

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> To avoid this, you need some way of keeping tabs visible but unloading the ones you aren't using from active memory. Then, when you click on the tab, it reloads from scratch.

Hurrah! This person has just reinvented bookmarks...

[theweaselking]

Not only have they reinvented bookmarks, but they're eliminated the ENTIRE POINT of having a tab open: So you can switch to it INSTANTLY and not wait for it to load.

[andrewducker]

That's not the point of tabs for me.

[agoodwinsmith]

Me neither. They are either tasks I am working on simultaneously, or they are items of interest I have found that I don't have time for now, but want to view more thoroughly before I close my session - several hours from when the items are found - but they are not things I necessarily want to keep longer than the end of the current session.

[agoodwinsmith]

The brain thing - woo.

[chess]

I have been eyeing Life is Strange but I get super obsessed with multiple-choice games and it appears there are limited save slots, which is a mechanic that drives me up the wall. Is there any known way of copying out your saves so that you can operate more slots?

[andrewducker]

Sadly, I don't know. I'll ask Bart, he's been obsessively replaying it.

[bart_calendar]

You are stuck with the three hard saves. But you can also take any one of the three saves and play as no consequences and see what happens and then replay that save point with consequences if you like how that played out better

[bart_calendar]

Also the game mechanic itself allows you to go back in time and change every choice once you see how it plays out. The only limit on your time travel is when a level ends. You cant time travel cross levels. T.hats where replaying levels without consequence comes in.

[momentsmusicaux]

I can sort of see why colouring books are popular, but at the same time, urgh! I hated colouring in at school past a certain age. I found it dull as hell, and it was clearly just something to keep us busy. For a period of years from age about 10, every year I'd say to myself, 'This is the year we no longer colour stuff in, because we've moved on to hard stuff!'. And... nope. We even had to colour in damn graphs in geography GCSE!

[andrewducker]

Mandatory colouring in sounds like the opposite of fun.

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[apostle_of_eris]

Of course, Firefox could just get around to doing something about its fucking memory leaks.