Tharkun

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by Tharkun 7y ago
When, if ever, does a normal person need access to a network of powerful embassies all over the world?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
As a Belgian, it's very surprising to read that Germans would consider moving here to avoid taxes. We're pretty much taxed to death. Though most of our taxes are income taxes (up to 50% + ~13% national insurance contributions) and
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Good luck getting solar water heaters to heat your 8liter/minute shower in the winter in those places where water is abundant. The article discusses a realistic approach to save large amounts of energy and to bring more comfort to wate
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> by no means is water scarce in many regions What regions have this apparent overabundance of drinking water? And how's their waste water management? (Of which there is a lot more if people shower more). > while there is a certa
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by Tharkun 7y ago
We basicallly don't have a BI stack. Which is silly, but I guess we've had other priorities.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
"We" do. But who "we" is, and how strict those rules are will depend heavily on where you are.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Do you have a source for those figures? Given the very low energy usage of a passivhaus, 50 years worth of energy sounds like a good deal. But perhaps it would be more useful to compare like for like. How many kWh do we need to erect a pass
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Another anecdata-point: I am seeing waaaay more mosquitos than 20 years ago, but a lot fewer of every other kind of insect.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I'm not talking T460, I'm talking T460p. It comes with an i7-6820HQ. Also quad core. The T480 comes with an i7-8650U. CPUBenchmark.net scores them 8757 and 8669 respectively. There's no "destroying" of any kind goin
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Have you used a recent model? The T490/T590 is pretty awful. They keyboard has been getting worse with each new release. The battery is now integrated. Not enough USB ports. And to top it off, there's no "p" model, which
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by Tharkun 7y ago
They also burn oil and gas. Burning plastic waste for energy isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things. Sure, not having pumped up the oil and not having turned it into plastic would have been best. And recycling that plastic into so
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by Tharkun 7y ago
SciShow Space recently did an episode on Brown Dwarfs. They suggest that there might be so many brown dwarfs (which are hard to see), that they could account for a large portion of the "missing" mass. And there's a theory tha
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by Tharkun 7y ago
IIRC it was done that way as a way to follow the optimal path, instead of eyeballing it and taking corners too wide and adding more distance. Might not seem like much, but he had to shave off less than a minute of his previous attempt, so e
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I was taught the Wim Hof technique (without knowing its name) several decades ago as part of bootcamp involving swimming in (very) cold water. When it was taught, I distinctly remember the instructor telling us only to use this when prepari
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by Tharkun 7y ago
When I was a child, I really hated having to cut my nails. One of the reasons why I developed an interest in technology, is that I wanted to build a device that cod take care of this horrible job for me. Insert hands, and bam, nails trimmed
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Not fond of their colour temperature. If they had an option to change it, I'd install them all over my house.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
That's fine when you live in a house. Not so relevant when you live 20 storeys up. I feel like way too much time and effort goes into improving single family houses, as opposed to larger multi-family buildings. They could be built to b
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I wish more devices would run on PoE. It's DC, it's easy to install, it carries power and data. There are some (but few) PoE light fixtures, but not as many as I'd like.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The paper seems to be Israeli, so presumably they mean the fake horseradish wasabi (which usually includes a tiny amount of real wasabi), as it's very rare to find real wasabi outside of Japan in meaningful quantities.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Do their products leach microplastics into the environment when washed?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The terrible USB file transfer mode is one of the reasons why I stopped using it. Last time I tried I had to use a web browser to drag files to some web page. No idea why they didn't implement a mass storage API the way any other devic
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bough
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Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch)(hln.be)
104 points by Tharkun 7y ago|29 comments
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by Tharkun 7y ago
I've noticed a similar pattern in my neighbourhood. No rubbish bins and plenty of littering. When I approached the city council about this, I was told they wouldn't install rubbish bins because -- I kid you not -- that would encou
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by Tharkun 7y ago
> Does that confirm that he indeed said it? Well, no? Surely the coercion bit is the important bit? It's a bit odd that he had to "learn" that sex could bring psychological harm to children, but he's basically saying
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Even more so with browsers actively trying hide URLs.
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Yes, I care. Why don't you? I work for Tier 1 banks. They are paranoid, and rightly so. One of their many paranoid rules is that hostnames can never betray the machine's purpose. You could easily analyze DoH stats and deduce certa
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Actual testing for Gilbert's isn't done all that often. It's usually diagnosed when otherwise healthy bloodwork shows elevated levels of unconjugated bilirubine. It's been shown to offer some protection against heart dis
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by Tharkun 7y ago
Detect it, how? By forwarding the request to a local resolver after DoH fails, and thus leaking information?
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by Tharkun 7y ago
The result will be simple: FF market share in corporate environments will drop. If sysadmins have to jump through hoops simply to get the thing to respect corporate DNS settings, then it won't be used.

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