Tharkun

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by Tharkun 9y ago
> You don't switch from seeing cars to seeing nothing to seeing an elephant just because the input got a little noisy. You'd be surprised. All kinds of conditions can do really weird things to your vision. Migraine auras prob
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Ask HN: Efficient ways of gauging a candidate's English proficiency?
3 points by Tharkun 9y ago|2 comments
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by Tharkun 9y ago
New materials might be tricky. Roads are very abundant, and in some places of the world they're a convenient way of disposing of the leftovers of incinerated waste.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Are there any decent, minimalistic tiling WMs for Wayland yet? IIRC awesomewm wasn't planning on supporting Wayland.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Ah yes, sorry about the confusion. I was indeed talking about lead (Pb), or rather tetramethyllead as it was added to gasoline as an anti-knocking agent last century. It's something that was suspected to be bad early on, but the scale
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I guess fine Particulate Matter (PM) is the lead of the 21st century. Hopefully findings like these (and those linking it to cardiovascular issues) will prompt legislators to action.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
> as long as you're not using it for marketing you'll be fine. Really? That hasn't been my experience the last couple of years. I wasn't joking when I said that Google and MS routinely blackhole mails from my users to
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by Tharkun 9y ago
My biggest gripe with the "modern internet" is e-mail. MS and Google dominate the e-mail scene, and they are making it ever more unpleasant to run your own mailserver. They will frequently blackhole mails, without bounces, warning
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I was recently the victim of a random assault. Police refused to come to the scene ("no patrols were available"). The nearest police station was closed ("it was too late"). The second nearest police station was all but a
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Only the last 5 minutes? Did we watch the same movie? The plot, to me, looked like it was written by someone who watched the original while drunk.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Or you know, wastes inordinate of energy, especially in areas where insulation and ventilation could achieve similar comfort levels.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
What makes it worse is that the Romans knew lead was toxic. But they thought its effect was limited to the production process, which was mostly done by slaves and other people of no apparent value.
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Commercialized CO2 capture(youtube.com)
1 points by Tharkun 9y ago|0 comments
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by Tharkun 9y ago
And internet freedom in the rest of the world, by extension. If they go through with this nonsense, a lot of EU politicians will push for similar things, with the excuse that "if the UK can do it, why can't we?".
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I think the "their" was a plural referencing the company, not the dev.
646.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Better startup idea: a hat that halts migraine auras as soon as they start. Would pay good money for one. Don't care about how fashionable it is.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Sounds like a nice US salary. Good luck netting half that in most of Europe.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I've had the misfortune of working under French management twice. Once because I was young and dumb, and once because my employer's company was sold to a French competitor. In both cases things were horrible, and I've heard s
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by Tharkun 9y ago
There are two types of company I refuse to work for: 1. Companies under French management 2. Companies with a dress code.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Java is indeed pass-by-value, but it behaves like pass-by-reference when dealing with objects/arrays (because object references are passed by value).
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by Tharkun 9y ago
A bit harsh to make a generalist judgement if you quit after two questions. I don't know any python and still did pretty well.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I'm as confused as you are. After this very interesting and tantalizing blog post I wanted to get started. But no such luck. Disappointing.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Yet Another Java Rant. In my book, Java is a fine language, and has been since Java SE 6 was released back in 2006. It keeps getting better, too. "Glacial" pace or not. Whenever any kind of discussion about Java comes up, people s
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Yes, that's part of the solution indeed.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Why can't we strap two F9s to a Space Shuttle and recover them?
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by Tharkun 9y ago
You might enjoy reading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series. It's in part about a society that spends most of its time high as a kite, and its inevitable downfall.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Please be careful with blanket statements like this. HashMap, Hashtable and ConcurrentHashMap behave differently in certain (subtle?) ways. ConcurrentHashMap doesn't like NULL but is thread-safe. Hashtable is synchronized, slow and thr
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Interesting. What kinds of tools are you using for your SSH setup?
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by Tharkun 9y ago
"It depends". I dislike that Github doesn't explicitly mention that it publishes your public keys, because they can be used to figure out your identity across multiple services. I believe someone a while back posted a demo on
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by Tharkun 9y ago
We don't either, and we're mostly a Linux shop. We only have ~10 employees. About half of them are technical staff with some access to certain systems (git, mostly). Only two users have global root access. Vault (which was mention

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