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by Symbiote 1y ago
I've been to all of them, and lived/live in two of them.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I put together https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/ a while ago to help decide between ergonomic keyboards. However, it's not become a hobby, and I'm satisfied with the keyboards I bought in 2019 an
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I got sticker shock when I first bought an Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. It is, even in the USA, $129, compared to the $20 or so I'd otherwise expect to pay when buying a computer for a new employee. Here in Denmark the RRP
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by Symbiote 1y ago
If cost is a concern, and you are an employee, please ask if work will pay . Also ask if they have a similar keyboard lying unused in a cupboard. I'll buy a €450 keyboard for any employee that asks for one. It's easily justified
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You are correct, thanks for the explanation.
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> What purpose does a CoC serve? How does it help? At work I think it has helped since we now have a clear procedure to follow if there's a problem. Having the Code of Conduct be a public document rather than only an internal one me
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Buses in places like Ireland, Scotland, much of Scandinavia, etc will never need air conditioning. Places a little warmer (England, Denmark, Netherlands, northern Germany) might be warm enough for a few days per year, but the cost of purcha
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Kido nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles(theguardian.com)
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Eric's suggestion for a CoC: > "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected." is not unreasonable (whether written down or not) for an individual's hobby project, but
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by Symbiote 1y ago
He wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar in 1997, an essay about open source software development, and then later a book. He founded the Open Source Initiative (OSI). I wasn't aware of his political views, especially more recent stateme
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Same here — I think I set Mailman 3 up in a day, although I was already familiar with setting up the mail (Postfix) part.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I think existing electric locomotives are more powerful than existing diesel locomotives. The "most powerful diesel–electric locomotive model ever built on a single frame", the EMD DDA40X, provides 5MW. The EURO9000, "current
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Yes, walking close to the exhaust of a CNG bus is like walking a bit too close to a gas grill/barbecue — hot and a rather chemical, but not noxious and choking like a diesel bus.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I once complained to Transport for London when a bus I was using regularly was rattling so much it made me feel ill. They said the driver can change gear (put it in neutral?) which reduces the rattle, and they are supposed to do this, but s
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Every bus in Copenhagen has a button next to the door to lower the wheelchair ramp, but I have never seen anyone use it. I've never seen a wheelchair on a bus. The metro and suburban trains have level boarding (the platform is at exact
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I was curious about Apple's complaint that Samsung wasn't required to follow the same rules. I found the EC's decision. Samsung isn't acting as a gatekeeper, they have little if any lock-in. For example, on any phone the
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I missed that — yes, sometimes someone says "anything in your pockets?" or similar, and someone else beckons me to walk through the metal detector. If I'm 'randomly' checked of course I have to speak. I found Ameri
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Many European (and other) airports now have self-done baggage drop-off. At Copenhagen Airport, I usually get off the metro, walk to the luggage tag machines at the end of the platform and scan my passport (or boarding pass). That prints a b
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The people who have to do the check (businesses and landlords) don't have access to the system to check those numbers, or any training on what a real identify card or passport looks like. A relative had this problem when renting out a
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Fortunately, it was the nice way — that university is one of the backbone nodes of the UK academic network, so the bandwidth use was pretty much irrelevant.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Our previous cluster management software used Bittorrent for distributing application images. It took maybe 10 seconds longer for the downloads to start, but they then ran almost as fast as the master could upload one copy.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I left a Linux ISO (possibly Ubuntu) seeding on a lab computer at university, and forgot about it after I'd burned the DVD. You can see this was a while ago. A month later an IT admin came to ask what I might be doing with port 6881.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
It's off topic for HN: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If the
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Swipe? I don't recall a time when I needed to swipe in US in the last few years. I do, earlier this year visiting the USA. The readers on pumps at two different gas stations. But the EU started phasing out reading magnetic strips
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That also depends on the country you live. The EU (and maybe China?) have been regulating standby power consumption, so most of my appliances either have a physical off switch (usually as the only switch) or should have very low standby pow
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I found 500 DKK on the ground outside once, which is about $77.
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Or take the approach of several European countries: tickets cannot be resold for more than face value. Ticketmaster still double-dips on running a resale platform and charging a "processing fee" for reselling a ticket, but it mean
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I assembled a Prusa Mk3 a few years ago, and other than swapping a nozzle that wore out (they don't last forever) it's still working fine. I grease it about twice a year, and clean any gunk from the nozzle (takes a few seconds) ev
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A Prusa is equally reliable.
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I had to reset the 2FA for a domain admin account for Google Apps earlier this year — I'm not sure if my password manager somehow lost the passkey, or if I missed creating one before some deadline. (It's a little-used domain.) I

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