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by alibarber 1y ago
It's not hard to understand why though surely? You might have to show a passport when you enter France, and have your baggage and person (intrusively) scanned if you fly there, for much the same reason. People, some of them in position
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by alibarber 1y ago
I moved to Finland from the UK and found exactly the same thing you mentioned in France. Plus extra layers of beauracracy (there's no national health service, there are public hospitals that send a bill to the public insurer and you ge
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by alibarber 1y ago
But now we have amazing vibe coding tools that mean that you don’t need to be technical or whatever - you can just deliver results. After all, the best LinkedIn influencers and founders don’t care about how something is delivered, just what
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by alibarber 1y ago
To be fair, I've had reasonably similar experiences here in Finland. And I agree with your second point too - I don't really know what's going on with education, or more generally, the culture surrounding it these days (old m
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by alibarber 1y ago
Indeed - it reminds me of a story I heard about potential Lithium deposits being found in Sweden. Initially this would be a good thing because it would help Europeans build and drive more electric cars which are a good thing because they ar
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by alibarber 1y ago
With all due respect, there's not a huge shortage of programmers in Europe. What is needed is capital, world leading expertise (yes, top of the field - the people who can command the famous $100M sign on bonuses we hear about), and mor
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by alibarber 1y ago
What is Europe offering those we need? Lower salary and more taxes? The first thing that springs off everyone's lips is 'healthcare' but the types of people we need aren't exactly going to struggle to afford higher quali
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by alibarber 1y ago
This is timely for me! I personally run a small instance with Hetzner that has K3s running. I'm quite familiar with K8s from my day job so it is nice when I want to do a personal project to be able to just use similar tools. I have a M
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by alibarber 2y ago
Whilst I appreciate that there are national and security interests to consider, I'd still say fish aren't one of them. I think a lack of seafood would have less of an impact to the general population than say, lack of satellite na
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by alibarber 2y ago
It's an extract from a book - which I would hope digs into it.
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by alibarber 2y ago
I think that the actual bug was indeed found and proven, most likely by the company themselves or an auditor (or perhaps even from their supplier). The article states that this happened 14 times over a period of 48 days so there must be som
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by alibarber 2y ago
I'd wager that for the sort of person who has the desire to care deeply about stopping windmills being built (perhaps feeling a need to 'conserve' the old way of doing things), instead of say, worrying about putting food on t
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GriSeis: Frequency data from GB electrical grid and carbon intensity(github.com)
2 points by alibarber 2y ago|1 comments
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by alibarber 2y ago
From the page: One way DigiKey helps provide high-quality products at competitive prices is through our Duty Drawback Program, which allows us to recover a portion of the tariffs paid on imported products. However, under this Executive Orde
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by alibarber 2y ago
Yes it does seem a bit strange - I guess the goal here is to encourage them to source and sell me a quality American SMD diode at less than $(0.006 + 10%) per unit. That said I'm struggling to fully understand it all, the site kind of
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by alibarber 2y ago
I’d also like some insight on the foreign buyer bit as DigiKey is by far the best and most reliable supplier to my part of the world despite being the other side of an ocean. I pay local VAT and any local tariffs, all collected by DigiKey,
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by alibarber 2y ago
I'd also be delighted with, and happy to part with cash for, such a thing.
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by alibarber 2y ago
There's a, community supported, Copilot LSP plugin for Sublime. It can be rough around the edges - but I tried it and it was enough to get me to buy a 1yr Copilot seat (at current pricing). Completely understand if Copilot is enough to
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by alibarber 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I’m saying. Apple officially supports third party trackers, who’s manufactures are issued, by apple as a part of their MFI programs, keys with which these third party devices must use to sign their pairing requests
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by alibarber 2y ago
I hold a ham radio licence in a couple of countries, although what's happening here is far outside of the remit of ham operations. I'm pretty certain this is not legal in my locale, but I don't think the author of the article
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by alibarber 2y ago
I think that's the wall in Apple's walled garden here. From reading the official Apple spec. for partners a while back, as part of the pairing process, something is signed by the device with a cert/key that apple issued to th
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by alibarber 2y ago
Don’t worry - in my country (Finland) they already thought of that and instead of the emissions based annual road tax, which would of course be zero, they managed to add a ‘tax on driving power’ to electric cars. Notwithstanding that electr
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Olav's Licence Plate Pictures(olavsplates.com)
3 points by alibarber 2y ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 2y ago
>> If there is one thing the EU has absolutely achieved it is to massively reduce and harmonize tariffs and trade rules, and make the rules less susceptible to the whims of political favor and lobbying of local industry. To a (conside
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Nokia Design Archive(nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi)
1 points by alibarber 2y ago|0 comments
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by alibarber 2y ago
So American and Asian consumers can pay the same price for the same device that can do more, but to protect me, the European, my device must do less? It is I the customer who will pay the tariffs (they are always paid by the importer) - the
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by alibarber 2y ago
But is it a phone that records movies or a movie recorder that can make phone calls? [I jest, but these were almost literally the questions being asked by various commissions]
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by alibarber 2y ago
I also discovered that I couldn't use my Canon SLR to record more than 30 minutes of video continuously. The problem however wasn't Canon, but that I lived in a region (EU) that would have imposed a customs tariff on cameras that
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by alibarber 2y ago
To be fair - it's a repository for academic documents at a reasonably-sized-but-still-quite-small university. Their priorities were probably closer to handling few complex requests and being able to manage obscure documents, not dealin
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by alibarber 2y ago
Yes - I've been quite disappointed by this recently. I'm trying to make something that can interact with embedded devices and wanted to use the web serial JS API. Unfortunately it seems that the powers that be at Firefox have no p

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