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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Including the kid in the chores from as early as he possibly could has been a huge win for us. At 6 he can now handle stuff like simple food preparation, emptying the dishwasher and folding his own clothes pretty much unsupervised. That sav
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
I think having as many nitro groups as carbons in there might also be a factor
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Isn't that basically what Macron tried to do which lead to all the Yellow Vest protests and riots? I agree in principle but there needs to be some sort of tuning so people living in the poor countryside with no public transportation ge
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Hard to tell from the marketing, but I'm 90% sure it's some type of fuel cell run in reverse and with a fancy name. Unless they have some new catalyst there is no new tech here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Rail is quite a lot less flexible than air travel. If you have a plane you can pretty much go anywhere that has a strip of asfalt of the right length. With rail you need to lay out the track between the two points with all the difficulties
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Coming from a small country, it is amazing to me that an urban area of at least 1 million people is referred to as a village. I consider myself to live in a town and that has only 12000 residents.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Get a metal re-usable straw like the one used for yerba mate?
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
I would rather work as an engineer building stuff than sit on a beach all day. Also, there's good stress and bad stress. Treating someone with an acute cardiac arrest is probably quite stressful, but also very meaningful. Dealing with
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
In democracies the populations get the politicians they deserve. It's not like it's a surprise to anyone that Boris Johnson's sole political project is Boris Johnson, but people still voted for him.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Depends on what you like. I remember Consider Phlebas as a series of vignettes, while Player of Games is a coherent story. I like the coherent stories and also think Excession is quite good.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
The people above you suck. That's a terrible attitude. Signalling that saving money or just generally improving systems doesn't matter will not build a culture of technical excellence and ambition. Also, it's not peanuts. How
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
A compromise that Johnson is now unilaterally reneging on. Apparently somebody figured out that it is actually the same compromise that was rejected when presented by Teresa May. No workable solution has been found for Northern Ireland. At
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
The solid legal foundation needs to take physical reality into account. Sure, if previous legal agreements did not account for reality, somebody needs to own up to that, cancel the previous agreements openly while sucking up the relevant pe
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
https://blog.d46.us/advanced-emacs-startup/ has some good pointers.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Why does it always have to be all or nothing? Is your codebase 100% covered by unit tests? You don't have to make sure all the angles of your house are perfect right angles, but there's probably a couple that really have to be.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
The purpose of the stimulus check was for Donald Trump to put his name on a check to a bunch of voters. The extent to which it happened to help out people in need or "the economy" was secondary.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
I imagine a static, non-flexible screen that you're not supposed to put any pressure on is a very different problem from a flexible, constantly moving glove which is also used to push buttons, grab stuff, etc.
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
"Could have been condensed into a blog post" Here you go: https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774859
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by KSteffensen 4y ago
Does that improved energy efficiency outweigh the energy costs of replacing perfectly capable existing chips?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
> The problem with the people without religion is that they don't understand anything and are usually just trying to grift people. It is definitely possible to be a wise, insightful, compassionate and moral human being without relig
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Ukraine was already 'poisoned' for NATO, due to the Crimea annexation and the Donetsk and Lugansk separatists. No need for an invasion to poison anything further. My view is that this is about maintaining a fading colonial empire.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
My impression is that those are the same thing.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
> Well maybe the engineers should know how to sell the thing they're making? I agree, why not have an technical guy there who knows how to operate the thing and can support the sales guy? If the company is sending only sales guys wi
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
As pointed out elsewhere maybe the sales guy should know how to operate the thing he is selling? Also, it sounds like a power cycle cleared up the issue so no big problems.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
> Arguably SF’s lack of police response enables continued drug abuse and homelessness. You want to arrest people for being homeless?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
Is crime rate proportional to inequality or poverty?
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
The guy has been working on this almost 25 years. That's not pitching and abandoning.
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I'm sure this could be worked out using some combination of paying for the slot and requiring a minimum amount of passengers/cargo. Exact numbers would require some tuning by people who know about this but doesn't seem imposs
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
I've seen this argument elsewhere and I don't get it. From my understanding the limitation on exponential growth, the flattening of the top part of the S-curve, comes from total population. There is no one left to infect, basicall
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by KSteffensen 5y ago
For all of its UX problems, I must say I am very impressed with Small Childs battery life. The low power shutdown does tend to be very noisy though.

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