2ion

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by 2ion 5y ago
Longest lived non embedded system I've worked with was a Linux server with an uptime from 2007 through 2019 serving as a L3 router. Amazingly, after shutting it down, it turned on again :)
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by 2ion 5y ago
What people with this mindset need to hear is "even if the vaccine has terrible side effects, we will take care of you as well as we can and as well as you could wish, even if the side effects are exctremely rare". In my country a
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by 2ion 5y ago
This is a problem with all proprietary software. For example, it's impossible to install most "bought" Windows software outside of dedicated VMs for me and stay happy because (a) most "enterprise" installers still w
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by 2ion 5y ago
The soundtrack is very good.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Adding to the list the only games I have played in 10 years: - xonotic (Nexuiz/Quake3-like) - hedgewars (Worms clone; written in Haskell, C++, Pascal, Lua) - tome4 (isometric Roguelike)
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by 2ion 5y ago
The Great Incompetence: Factor productivity increases only if the factor (=new technology) can be fully applied. A better factor can even decrease productivity if less of it applies than from the previous factor (=old technology). I'd
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by 2ion 5y ago
> House prices are skyrocketing and pricing out young people Oh I'm already priced out in Europe. I'm not going into debt for 20-50 years just to pay for _one_ thing.
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Uh, yeah, no. I fully support my country's stance on this. We simply cannot afford to indemnify an multinational company from their own product. Your choice then. In the EU and NA, wherever nations pride themselves on their vaccin
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by 2ion 5y ago
> It's not all that great blaming the victim * Run a SaaS that costs money * Do not perform the migration in prod replica setup with test data and monitor for, observe and fix any oddities * Cause a 100% data breach by not following
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by 2ion 5y ago
It's been done in parts, for example Blackrock has both DE000A0F5UF5 and IE00B53SZB19 on the NASDAQ100, but after looking at liquidity/volume and performance data, few of the special-made DE ETF actually make significant sense to
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by 2ion 5y ago
Besides size and volatily (dissolution, mergers of ETF generating unfavourable tax events), most ETF by European providers are swap-based. This means that they are cheaper/slightly better performing according to their swap risk premium
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by 2ion 5y ago
I've been going at this kind of task for quite some time now most frequently with pandas as the "tee" kind of tools to pull different kinds of data sources together. This looks neat as well though and probably more convenient
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by 2ion 5y ago
Indeed. I actually quite like hung programs :) Attach a debugger, and now lessee what it is doing...
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Caucasian, US born male here. IMO, Western culture is less suited to many of the challenges of the modern world. I don't want to imply that Asian culture is somehow flawless, but there is quite a bit the west can learn if it wants
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Nvidia GPUs are still the number one problem. Buying anything with Nvidia in it is a waste of money. Closed source binary drivers that only work sometimes is acceptable for gamers but not if you want a reliable, controlled machine. No
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Curious to see how many quit over this I already have a resignation letter written, a stash of cash set aside and earlier this year re-activated my freelancing Ltd. In the event they won't budge on my demand for 100% remote foreve
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by 2ion 5y ago
Just not this stuff, any stuff without review. A lot of Windows advice has sadly always been the equivalent of curl | sudo bash - and the culture proliferates this practice. But it also highlights that Windows 10 is unusable without Group
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by 2ion 5y ago
Japanese media publishers are notorious for being unforgiving for unauthorized copies. The only reason this has little impact in the West is that most media produced for the Japanese market in whatever form do not even make it to Western ma
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by 2ion 5y ago
I'd argue that QtCreator is a contender here as well. The forms/widget editor is quite powerful.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Always disgusting to see every kind of major building in (Western?) cities smeared by graffiti etc, be it in use (and under constant cleaning) or disused (ghost stations...). There's zero appreciation of the building itself, the expen
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by 2ion 5y ago
Do you sell a digital edition somewhere?
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by 2ion 5y ago
ipython + jupyter-notebook are such killer applications. I use both daily for everything from trying out code, calculations & notes.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Proton will kill the native LnF on all platforms in Firefox in a Badum! way. The context menu on Windows isn't native either btw, in that it doesn't follow the OS theme. Ironically, on Linux, the context menu has always been pro
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by 2ion 5y ago
What a mindless comment. Realistically speaking, rent seeking is the only way present young and future generations are able to participate in economic "growth" effectively. The human population grows, but the chance to participate
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by 2ion 5y ago
I personally like where macOS is going: immutable base OS tree, accessing user content folders requiring per-application approval (wish I could also just grant per-application read or write access). I am personally a power-user of macOS, co
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by 2ion 5y ago
It's the system that favors the voting majority.
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by 2ion 5y ago
They take ~19% of my total comp to pay into a ponzi government pension scheme in Germany that will crash in predictable amounts of time, and they have written it into law that existing pensions must never decrease in real terms (!), meaning
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by 2ion 5y ago
IRC is very much alive amongst some tech and tech savy communities including warez. Also, at our company, we run an ircd on the intranet as a last resort instant communications channel for when the likes of Teams & Slack are down and&#x
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by 2ion 5y ago
That's true. irccloud exists but no discord equivalent for self-service virtual IRC hosts. And hosting an IRCd is not a simple task; even the most basic "services" like chanserv or nickserv are not simple to get running secur
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by 2ion 5y ago
> $132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK. They could easily get 2 full time UK devs for that, or even more in many EU countries with lower cost of living Yes, but in EU a common problem is, good developers are not worth more becau

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