LeonM

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by LeonM 6y ago
You forget your own cost here. A full-time system administrator costs more than 72k a year.
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by LeonM 6y ago
In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here. Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest
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by LeonM 6y ago
Looking at the actual commit for this issue: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f960d81215ebf3f65e... I highly doubt that rust would have prevented this. Rust is not a silver bullet that solves all bug
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by LeonM 6y ago
Story time! I've had this exact experience, except that it wasn't a dream. Back in 2010 I had a weird issue where my cable connection would sometimes completely block the connectoin right after the DHCP response (we had dynamic IP
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by LeonM 6y ago
I found the example of the automated email to the ship's captain a bit weak. > The point is that we don’t know, the captain of the ship itself didn’t know, and that nobody may know It all boils down to abstraction. Just like the cap
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by LeonM 6y ago
Does anyone here have experience with actually using the pinephone as a daily driver? I know plenty of people that ordered one, but they are all laying on a drawer somewhere with the intention to play with it a bit. Basically how most RPi&#
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by LeonM 6y ago
Thanks! This is what I love about HN: the actual people behind the stories comment here.
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by LeonM 6y ago
> I have more problems reading code with short names rather than long. C code with one or two letter variable names often looks impenetrable to me. I agree. Short names don't make code readable, they make typing less work. In my opi
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by LeonM 6y ago
You have a source on this?
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by LeonM 6y ago
Yes, that is the one!
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by LeonM 6y ago
I have a bit of a collection of hacker/IT documentaries. In one of them I remember a former IBM employee sang the songs during an interview. This was for me (as a non-native English speaker) the first time I learned that 'gay&#x27
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by LeonM 6y ago
For most airliners, it is allowed for crew to take 'companion' passengers, like friends or family on a flight. The companion must still pay for the ticket, but it is usually sold with a hefty discount. Companions also have no guar
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by LeonM 6y ago
Yes, Lexus is the luxury branch of Toyota. Most Japanese brands have a separate branch, mostly for the US market. Honda has Acura, Nissan has Infinity. AFAIK Lexus is the only branch that is sold worldwide under the same badge.
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by LeonM 6y ago
I've owned several Lexuses (Lexi?), and the one thing that struck me was the recalls, and how long they keep doing that. I got my first experience when I bought an 2006 IS250. In 2014 (the car was now 8 years old) I got a recall letter
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by LeonM 6y ago
Yes and no. It certainly is possible to get good deliverability, but you gotta play by the rules (which is: all the RFCs). But when you do, there are also a lot of poorly configured email servers out there that don't comply to the RFCs
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by LeonM 6y ago
My bad, I was looking at the R-51M, not the R-51PM. The 'M' is a passive speaker, the 'PM' has build in amplifier and bt
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by LeonM 6y ago
I don't understand your example, those Klipsch are just speakers, you'll still need an amplifier and bluetooth receiver. This feels like comparing apples (no pun intended) with oranges.
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by LeonM 6y ago
Apple already has a huge gaming platform with iDevices and the app store. Mobile games are a huge business and Apple takes 30% of that revenue. So why would an energy efficient ARM chip suddenly make a gaming console of interest to Apple? B
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by LeonM 6y ago
One should never drill into the battery, regardless if it is inside the body, or inside a box. It's dangerous, but so is drilling into a gasoline or LPG tank. Car mechanics are trained on this topic, they know. Compared to current batt
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by LeonM 6y ago
I've tried endlessly to get SANE running on OS-X back then (in the SnowLeopard days) and could never get it running. I guess I kind of lost my sanity with SANE ;-) Anyway, it wasn't a solution, extremely hacky at most. Not somethi
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by LeonM 6y ago
Haha, here I was thinking that I had 'all versions'. I have in my library: AoE AoE 2 AoE 2 HD AoE 2 Definitive Edition None of them show up in my Linux steam library.
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by LeonM 6y ago
I did end up using VueScan, but not being impressed with it. My use case was scanning 1 or more pages into a PDF document. This was really easy to do with Apple's 'Capture' software. None of the alternatives (like VueScan) ca
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by LeonM 6y ago
I have run a paperless business (and life, mostly) for the past 10 years. For some old-fashoned customers I always carried a Brother DS-mobile 600 portable document scanner in my bag. The scanner was expensive, but really nice. And it worke
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by LeonM 6y ago
Fun fact: on the receiving end they usually have complex systems in place to scan and process those documents back into digital format. And the people working with it pay good money to OCR those scanned documents to make the whole system us
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by LeonM 6y ago
I have all versions of AoE in my steam library, currently none of those are playable on Linux. Not surprising since the games are developed by Microsoft. You could try Wine, I haven't tried that.
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by LeonM 6y ago
> I think it would have happened anyway. I didn't say it they would have never happened, I'm just observing that due to the competition (Tesla in this case, vaporware or not), the plans for EV trucks certainly seems to be accel
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by LeonM 6y ago
Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly. I can't help to think that the existing manufacturers would not have had any incentive of offering electric trucks anytime soon, un
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by LeonM 6y ago
This is what I needed. None of the man pages showed information on the bash functions. 'help' did the job. Ironically, 'man help' yields no results.
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by LeonM 6y ago
Weird, my Ubuntu 20 install does not have man pages on pushd and popd. Are these commands be specific to bash? Anyway, since we are on the topic of directory navigation, I'd like to introduce 'cd -' (toggle to previous dir).
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by LeonM 6y ago
I don't think it does. It doesn't look like the method is actually using the 'brightness' argument. It's just reading the ACPI status bits to update the current state. It doesn't set anything. static int mi

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