achamayou

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by achamayou 8y ago
And the most trivial cases will be inlined more often than not.
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by achamayou 8y ago
The OSS edition of Nexus supports npm proxies. Sure there’s a little bit of setup, but it will more than pay for itself the first time an event like this one occurs.
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by achamayou 8y ago
In short, it's legal as long as it's somewhat temporary (ie. less than 6 months). Full details: https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/temporary-...
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by achamayou 8y ago
Yes, for some reason Inbox expands some attachments inline for me, and pre-renders some links (with a picture from the page a short summary). It doesn't seem to do it systematically, and it could be something that can be turned off in
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by achamayou 8y ago
Maybe I'm an exception, but I do scan through my spam from time to time :) Partly to see if I've missed something, but also because it can be amusing. I agree that spam detection is not an exact science, and that it is in fact qui
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by achamayou 8y ago
Can it really though? If my ISP, who I've exchanged emails with before or sends me my bills starts to send me promotional material about some TV bundle, is that spam? Conversely, if someone I've never exchanged emails with before,
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by achamayou 8y ago
I find the lack of visual density and regularity in Inbox very annoying. Gmail (compact) fits 3/4x times more emails on the same screen, with a single text line of identical size for each. It's very quick and easy to scan through.
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by achamayou 8y ago
An important feature of Gmail from the get go was how well it separated Spam from relevant email. I don't think you'll find too many users who prefer to do that manually. It's a matter of degree of course, but scary seems too
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by achamayou 8y ago
If it's just a few weeks, I've found the fridge to be fine. It will take a couple of feeds over 48h to re-activate completely, but it's otherwise ok. If you start from scratch, you can get going in 3/4 days if you'r
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by achamayou 8y ago
Can't agree enough. Degrading the quality of the tests to make them quicker is particularly frustrating, especially when it's easy enough to split them out into something that runs at a lower frequency. Just because you can run al
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by achamayou 9y ago
Well that would get played for sure. Apple would start tiny wholly owned companies or buy special purpose startups with only patents etc.
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by achamayou 9y ago
That’s already true now though. If the startup can take a cheap short patent and renew it later once they’ve made money, it doesn’t sound too bad to me.
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by achamayou 9y ago
That doesn’t sound fundamentally different from having a failure on one engine sufficiently late during takeoff. Either way you probably want your other engine to have enough power to make a landing?
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by achamayou 9y ago
You could at least charge substantially more for longer term patents, and use the money to fund looking into the validity of said patents properly. If filing long term bogus patents becomes sufficiently expensive and likely to be ultimately
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by achamayou 9y ago
Now that electromagnetic catapults are becoming a thing, perhaps they can be adapted for airliner takeoff. One supposed benefit is the ability to adjust the acceleration profile to reduce airframe fatigue, and probably improve crew comfort
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by achamayou 9y ago
The M8 was an anomaly more than anything else, and probably used an APS-H sensor because Leica couldn't get a 24x36 sensor from anyone. It was a flawed camera in many ways, and they went back to 35mm as soon as they could get a sensor
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by achamayou 9y ago
As long as you meet the collateral requirements of whoever is lending you the shares, you can be short for as long as you like really.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Those signs are not primarily there to prevent death, they exist to prevent lawsuits, or at least mitigate their impact.
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by achamayou 9y ago
I do too, but I mostly know people who live in a city center, or a close suburb. I saw the statistics about the various commute mechanisms recently, and it was an interesting reminder that my intuition about this was way off (I would have g
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by achamayou 9y ago
Many, but not as many as the HN crowd thinks. In France, 80%+ households have at least one car, and 70%ish of commutes to work happen by car. It’s easy to forget if you live in the centre of the capital city of course.
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by achamayou 9y ago
They also make sense from a hygiene perspective, the less (humid!) stuff everyone touches, particularly after they washe their hand, the harder it is for bacteria to spread.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Would you not? It would make you pretty popular for one thing, and much easier to get funding next year.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Much like mileage, emissions, range etc. What’s advertised is what happened in the lab or on the test track.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Once it’s done blooming, you can extract the bulb and store it until next year, it works quite well. In dry enough soil, you might even get away with leaving it in the ground.
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by achamayou 9y ago
My point is that the publisher of the index does have more discretion than you claim they do, they are not entirely passive and rules-driven. Even where they are, they do change the rules from time to time. They are also trying to please a
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by achamayou 9y ago
Straw man. I don't know why you think it's silly to diversify into less volatile asset classes for retirement purposes. Returns aren't everything, risk matters.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Quoting the document you linked: "Constituent selection is at the discretion of the Index Committee and is based on the eligibility criteria". The methodology is published, but largely defines eligibility; it isn't completely
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by achamayou 9y ago
They're definitely not bad, but government bonds or corporate bonds are also decent long term investments, and real estate generally also is, since it's connected to inflation and cost of living.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Stocks aren't the only asset available for investment, regardless of geographical location. They're also fairly volatile, so retail investment often consists of blending that with more stable fixed income assets.
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by achamayou 9y ago
Investing in an index fund effectively means letting a financial services company such as S&P Global manage your investment without you being their customer. And if you're not paying for it... Sure, you'll pay a low fixed comm

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