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by Joeri 5y ago
I think the germans’ peaceful ways are more about compensating for what came before than about innate qualities of them as a people. The U.S. response to 9/11 was indeed abysmal, with no self-examination at all, and I know several peop
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by Joeri 5y ago
A former employer tried for years to get onto the magic quadrant, and never succeeded. Until they started paying gartner for access to their “specialist knowledge”, and suddenly they were on the magic quadrant … in the lower left, with gart
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by Joeri 5y ago
I’ve always read that Google’s internal incentives discourage maintenance and encourage novelty, and that this is why from the outside google is just an endless churn of product redesigns and replacements.
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by Joeri 5y ago
That's because you're seeing ES in Scala notation. If you see what is possible with idiomatic scala, ES has no equivalents. The match statement alone is incredibly powerful, but you wouldn't think it going by these examples.
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by Joeri 5y ago
The move to an electron client was a clear indication they intend to add lots of features. If they were more or less feature complete they would have not bothered with an electron rewrite.
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by Joeri 5y ago
My kids couldn’t handle youtube. They would watch algorithmically created garbage (5yo) or endless game streaming (9yo) and be impossible to handle afterwards. First we did youtube time-outs, but every time we added it back into the mix we
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by Joeri 5y ago
Same here in Belgium. It is not available in any format except boxed dvd, and even then only sg-1 and not the other shows or the movies. It was rebroadcast on tv recently and I was happy to share it with my kid, but they stopped after seaso
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by Joeri 5y ago
Yes. Section 1201 says “No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.” The reason you can’t find a commercial vendor that will directly ship something to bypass the
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by Joeri 5y ago
and may continue through the courts. Meta-thought: I have started to pay attention to just how often courts strike down executive decisions because they are unlawful, and strike down new laws because they are unconstitutional or in confli
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by Joeri 5y ago
Generally the deciding factor has been birth control. The more birth control is available and accepted as a choice, the more women choose to postpone their first child, which automatically leads to having fewer children.
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by Joeri 5y ago
I have two kids, not three, but we have never had a car, always taken the kids everywhere on public transport. I’m not going to say every trip was a joyful experience, but imho you are making a way bigger deal out of this than the reality.
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by Joeri 5y ago
The people that I know that are self-employed and earning high incomes generally are incorporated and have an accountant to set up tax avoidance strategies to have a lower effective tax rate. Effective tax rates seem to follow a gauss curve
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by Joeri 5y ago
What you do get (speaking here from my experience in Belgium) is that the top of the wage scale is invisible because past a certain tier everyone works as a consultant to avoid the high taxes. It is not unusual in senior tech roles to charg
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by Joeri 5y ago
Don't get me wrong. I deploy all my API's in docker containers as well, for similar reasons. But I do feel like a victim of stockholm syndrome whenever I think of docker as a solution instead of a workaround for problems self-impo
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by Joeri 5y ago
I have been in professional web development since 2004 and I mostly agree with the author that there are massive amounts of groupthink going on. "Modern" web development has standardized in tool stacks which are insanely complicat
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by Joeri 5y ago
Codebases are sensitive to entropy, they degrade over time as they are changed, and it takes active effort to push back on technical debt. On a young project there is not much technical debt. On a small project you can have a quality releas
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by Joeri 5y ago
Well, any plan for green energy has major holes in it. If it was easy someone would have already done it. The EU is taking this very seriously however as part of their climate plans. The big problem with the hydrogen economy is not the conv
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by Joeri 5y ago
The long term vision is for those gas plants to be hydrogen-powered, with the hydrogen generated by the surplus of wind and solar during peak times. Pumped hydro for power storage is also something that will become viable. You lose a lot in
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by Joeri 5y ago
As an m1 macbook owner I would say the new mac keyboard is good for a low travel keyboard, but not good when compared to thinkpad keyboards, especially the older 1.8mm and up key travel keyboards. There is only so much you can do to compens
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by Joeri 5y ago
Don’t people here run raspberry pi’s for their home server needs? As for the general public, they have to trust someone to run their home servers for them, whether that is google, apple, amazon or their friendly neighborhood HN reader. Trus
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by Joeri 5y ago
Ford sold about 20% fewer vehicles at the end of 2021 than at the end of 2019, but its stock price is 2.5x what it was then. Ford is producing less actually useful stuff, but we pretend it's more valuable. I've always heard the
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by Joeri 5y ago
Someone can send you illegal material through the regular snail mail and call the cops as soon as the mail is delivered. Is this really that different?
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by Joeri 5y ago
The problem with traditional authority models is that the authority may disappear or be subverted. In regions with unstable governments you cannot rely on the government to keep saying that your house is your house. This is why I think the
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by Joeri 5y ago
Someone who can’t have fun without drinking is an alcoholic.
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by Joeri 5y ago
Thinkpads typically have magnesium cases, not plastic, and the older models have rollcages so they can take a beating like no other. I have an m1 air and while it feels sturdy, I have no doubt that X220 can withstand much more abuse than my
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by Joeri 5y ago
The problem of 4k is efficiency. 1440p is already 2x at 14 inches, which at normal viewing distances is about as sharp as people can see. Going up to 4k does not really improve visual quality, but it dramatically increases the pixel count t
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by Joeri 5y ago
Take a look at the tall stack. It abstracts away the js that does partial page updates. https://tallstack.dev/
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by Joeri 5y ago
I tend to lean left, but after reading the article I have to say it is very biased. For me as an outside observer it looks like both the left and the right political factions have become so polarized they are constantly aiming to “take cont
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by Joeri 5y ago
I’m in favor of the eventual phase out of nuclear fission power but we have to be pragmatic about the situation we are in. Reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is all but impossible by now because we’ve waited too long. We no longer have the lux
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by Joeri 5y ago
* The pandemic will gradually lose attention not because people stop dying but because new topics will dominate the news and people just don’t want to hear about it. By the end of the year the new normal of widespread mask wearing, vaccinat

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