DanielHB

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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I have been hearing that memory suppliers are _intentionally_ not scaling up new factories like crazy because they assume the demand won't be there on the long term and they don't want to have spare unused capacity. Probably becau
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Am I the weird one? I usually have 3/4 terminals open at a time and rarely open new ones. Terminal startup speed is a non-issue for me. The only thing I demand to be fast on my terminal is grep reverse search (ctrl+r) and of course typ
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
The number of developers needs to grow log(n) to the number of users to handle all error reports. Valve is way under the log(n) of user.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I never heard about it causing GI problems, but snus definitely causes major teeth and gum problems. The guy I mentioned had his gums receded completely, he once showed it to me. It was very bizarre. Also see this other comment on this thre
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Snus (tobacco pouches you put under your gums) is super popular in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus It is basically the same thing but not synthetic. Supposedly nicotin pouches are not as harmful because they
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Most places have a very different mix of electricity sources, things like hydro and imports from places further to the east (where the sun is still shinning) or wind from west-ward. Nuclear provides the same base power all around the day, e
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Limitless energy would likely bring more ecological gains in other areas. For example vertical indoor farming with artificial lights. If energy was free it is vertical farming would be massively cheaper than it is today. Vertical indoor far
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I live in Sweden and there is very heavy insulation, however it makes it unbearable at the end of the summer days (sunset around midnight). I am lucky my current place the bedrooms get the morning sun, not the afternoon sun like my old plac
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Although the stuff you mention is true, it is not the only reason. NTFS is just notoriously bad at reading/writing tons of small files. It also has a lot of problems with locking files that are open by a process, if you have a rogue pr
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I am not very impressed with macos file system speed when using docker, same problem really. If you build 100+ megabytes images several times per day it really sucks.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Ah right, WSL is already a linux VM so there is no need to run docker inside a VM again. I suppose one can do all dev work in macos inside a VM too which would achieve similar results, but I never seen anyone do that.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I dunno, I used wolfram alpha a lot during calculus classes. However my uni didn't require any homework assignments to be done and they did not contribute to grades. Only the exam mattered. Maybe the problem is that doing assignments c
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
sed has different syntax on macos because macos is based on BSD. Really annoying to get a ticket "fix this build script for macos" and it is freaking sed compatibility issues. edit: to be fair that happened once, but it was annoyi
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Is WSL better for running containers? I find macos really annoying when dealing with containers, especially first setup. It is baffling to me how many backend devs who work with containers all day don't understand that using containers
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Gaming on Linux is also way better than mac since Proton became a big thing. I too prefer Linux + KDE, overall it has been cause _less_ problems than macOS for me and I like the extra customizability. The only thing keeping my work computer
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
You really put it succinctly and very accurately, I imagine you read this somewhere?
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Didn't every single large IPO in the past 15 years tanked the stock in the short term compared to the IPO time? Why wouldn't that happen again?
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I mean, the US public markets is about 49% of the worlds market so it is not like there aren't other options. Divesting doesn't mean moving everything out and pension funds also invest in non-public markets. https://www
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
If they go bust won't it likely trigger a massive market crash? Afterall index funds will be forced to sell other US stocks to buy them, bringing their values down. Non-passive investors will predict that and divest even more and so on
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I don't know about your country, but in Sweden you can choose where part of your investment money (I think 40%) gets allocated. On top of that you can choose where 100% of your private pensions are allocated. Also some EU pension funds
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I dunno won't index funds be forced to sell other stocks to buy these IPOs? Won't that possibly trigger a market crash if the IPO stocks loses a lot of value very fast after the IPO on top of investors predicting this fact and sel
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I mean I can understand why an accountant would be happy his one metric is down when the company implements unlimited PTO, or maybe the stock market responds to the (slightly) reduced liability levels. But surely it can't be a signific
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Is it really a financial liability part really pushing companies for these policies? I never heard this argument before and compared to salaries PTO is minuscule liability... Seems much more likely companies just trying to squeeze employees
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
If you open an incognito window in chromium it is profile on ram
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I know, I was against it when he added it, triggered a 5min discussion and I was "whatever, sure"...
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
No this was before chatgpt launched
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Anecdote: I worked with software for battery EV power-train diagnostics, one of our devs decided to add emojis to success and error messages. He added a fire emoji to one success message. When testers saw it they were afraid that the custom
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
No, that actually happened. I actually knew pascal used := (I programmed quite a bit of pascal/delphi myself back in the day) but I never knew its inventor ever made a big deal about the assignment operator until I posted this. But tha
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I think you are underestimating how hard it is for average joe to learn programming basics. I remember a fellow in high school that just could not accept that = in programming is assignment not an equation (like in high school math)
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
What do you mean? If a US company is big enough it ends up on the S&P500 _eventually_. I know index funds don't auto-include IPOs immediately, but eventually they are forced to buy into them.

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