ThJ

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by ThJ 7y ago
Army doctors heal soldiers so they can go out and kill more people. The Hippocratic Oath is rarely applied to indirect harm. An oath in the same spirit for knowledge workers would be meaningless, since their work never does any direct harm.
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by ThJ 7y ago
You make it sound way worse than it was. That mild hiss would barely be detectable once the song started and masked it out. Calling mild hiss terrible fidelity is an exaggeration. Some 16-bit consumer sound cards had outputs with way more h
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by ThJ 7y ago
Cassettes aren't actually that bad. A local radio station I worked at for a while used them for reruns. With a good cassette deck, brand new chrome tapes and Dolby noise reduction, it's hard to hear much of a difference between th
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by ThJ 7y ago
I'm from Norway. The backside of the medal when it comes to welfare services of that kind is the rather humiliating process you have to go through to actually get them. I've heard many stories about this. Yes, you'll get help
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by ThJ 7y ago
Paywalled. Tried outline.com on it, but it's not supported. Anybody got an un-paywalled link?
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by ThJ 7y ago
I'm from Norway and the Norwegian ideal of wealth is that you're not supposed to show it off. The richest man in Norway is real estate mogul Olav Thon, and he basically dresses like a tramp.
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by ThJ 7y ago
It was originally meant as satire of small-town Scandinavia. But... You're definitely not encouraged make a big deal out of yourself over here. Maturity means to do your part to help the people around you. Taking up space is somewhat f
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by ThJ 7y ago
This is going to be hard to explain without outlining a whole recording setup, but basically, a lot of the time, in a given musician's studio, the program numbers are going to refer to different things depending on how he chose to conf
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by ThJ 7y ago
My city (Oslo, Norway) also has buildings that are centuries old, but they are kept clean. When I went to Stockholm a couple of years back, their old buildings looked dirty because no one seemed to be cleaning them.
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by ThJ 7y ago
Cool tech. Not so cool CEO.
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by ThJ 7y ago
I suspect this is a matter of ideologies. A constellation of tangential policies derived from various ideological values widely held in Europe conspire to make it difficult for tech giants to exist. You can't build a boat if you don&#x
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by ThJ 7y ago
As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Scandinavians are big on DIY and minimalism, and not big on service. This is a common complaint from foreigners who visit, but it's the working culture here. You, the customer, a a big b
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by ThJ 7y ago
The Nordic countries are not big on service, because you're a big boy and can take care of yourself. The reason IKEA came from Sweden is because that's the attitude here. Shop clerks aren't there to be your servants. They are
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by ThJ 7y ago
It helps if you just imagine that every large brick and mortar chain in the Nordic countries operates kind of like IKEA. Lots of self service, spartan shop interior, and also, since labour is expensive here and you can't fuck your empl
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by ThJ 7y ago
Most of the stuff they're doing seems to be entirely commonplace for the supermarket chains we have here in Norway. The coins for the carts. Stacking crates instead of individual items. Training every employee for everything (it's
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by ThJ 7y ago
The constant pressure to produce makes me feel like I'm a horse who has accidentally been hooked up to a milking machine, and they were actually looking for something with udders.
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by ThJ 7y ago
TL;DR: Some kind of tension, stress or resistance builds up over time, I procrastinate more and more until nothing gets done, and then I have to shake things up somehow.
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by ThJ 7y ago
Author here. I'm deliberately leaving the explanation blank, because I've learned from experience that such explanations are often just something you make up after the fact. What I can tell you is that I consistently reach a point
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Did I Choose the Wrong Career?(thj.no)
4 points by ThJ 7y ago|6 comments
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by ThJ 7y ago
Two perspectives on the recent grand entry of Microsoft into the Linux space: 1. Linux won in the embedded (ARM devices), mobile (Android) and server spaces, and this is Microsoft bowing to that. 2. This is Microsoft's embrace, extend
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by ThJ 7y ago
TL;DR: Snobbery.
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by ThJ 7y ago
The spire was rebuilt in the 19th century because the old one had fallen apart. As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, it was a replica of the original one. As for why people are talking about redesigning it? I think this is down to Europe&#x
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by ThJ 7y ago
Absolutely nothing happens. Ligatures are a feature of fonts and font rendering engines. They do not affect the character codes. If you copy-paste from an editor configured with one of these fonts to an editor that isn't, you'll s
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by ThJ 7y ago
For a moment there, I thought they meant Anki the flashcard software.
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by ThJ 7y ago
Is there some kind of website where you can find people who share your interests? I work full time as a developer but do electronics, PCB/industrial design on the side. I wouldn't mind having a partner in crime for this, especiall
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by ThJ 7y ago
This kind of perspective is pretty much the standard perspective of the European left. Saying these things is almost like saying nothing, because it's what you expect.
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by ThJ 7y ago
As other commenters have guessed: I was calling the narrative into question. Lard was once common in Europe (if not necessarily in the Nordic region) and now it isn't. Could it be that something other than this domestic narrative kille
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by ThJ 7y ago
This reply exists only in your imagination.
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by ThJ 7y ago
There is one problem with the author's request: Putting in the extra work sucks, and management doesn't care, so why bother?
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by ThJ 7y ago
You often come across Matrox products when you look for video capture cards and the like. I was surprised the first time I saw a Matrox video capture card in the Amazon listings, because I thought Matrox was dead, and it was a name I hadn&#

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