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Promises and async/await fix this. The Node API unfortunately is built around callbacks, but can be turned into a Promise-based API using the built-in "promisify" tool: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v8.x
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If you can, don't just make it about the price you pay in the end. By favoring the cheapest options, customers are creating cost pressure which leads to an extremely low green bean price for the farmers. I like coffee, so I don't
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Why can’t there just be one simple solution for this which is peer-to-peer? Why does it have to depend on the cloud? Peer to peer solutions are more difficult to build because there are more problems to solve: * Peers need to be in the sa
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All of the cloud drives solve this issue. If you just want something simple for personal use, I'd look into the iOS Shortcuts app. Shortcuts can send files that were shared to it via HTTP or SSH (as STDIN to a shell command), and it ca
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I don't have the feeling that the mentality of cyclists and car drivers in The Netherlands is different, they just relaxed the situation by giving everyone enough space. I currently work in Utrecht. Walking around the city center, even
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I googled the 2003 Cisco vs. Huawei case as your post wasn't clear about the outcome. The WSJ article claims that Huawei admitted copying some software. I found this blog post: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-a
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China is a big emitter, but they seem to be taking CO2 emissions more seriously than the US. http://www.climateaction.org/news/china-has-already-hit-its-... I find it interesting that they are in a better position to t
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I think the point of the OP was that pollution and long-term storage are not priced in. Try coming up with a price for safely storing nuclear waste for the next few thousand years.
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"To me, the clear indication that they're serious about this transition to services will be making them available on third-party devices" This just happened: "Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs" - https:&#x2F
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co2meter_server writes measurements to "logs/co2.csv" in the current working directory every 30 seconds or so. As long as there is no measurement, you'll get this error from the web app trying to access the file. Just wa
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The post links to "Podman - The next generation of Linux container tools" ( https://developers.redhat.com/articles/podman-next-generatio... ), in which the author notes that Docker "requires anyone who wa
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Did you search for... "co2 meter python"? The pypi package called "CO2meter" ( https://github.com/vfilimonov/co2meter ) not only works well as a library on Mac OS, but also comes with a web-based dash
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The "TFA Dostmann AirCO2ntrol" devices are popular in Germany. Searching for "co2 meter" on Amazon.com one of the top results is an identical looking device. It measures with an infrared spectroscopy-based sensor, which
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Somebody might have flagged it, or it was a moderator. That's why I generally read HN through http://hckrnews.com/ , they show all frontpage items sorted chronologically.
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"Using the cutting-edge 7nm process, the CPU was independently designed by Huawei based on ARMv8 architecture license" I assume it's the same 7nm TSMC process as for the Kirin 980.
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"The other issue is what value is this all really providing? Kubernetes provides a standard API that abstracts infrastructure and deployments. The benefit that Lambda brings is very simply connecting together cloud services." Ge
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"The U.S. still makes — or at least, designs — the best computer chips in the world. China assembles lots of electronics, but without those crucial inputs of U.S. technology, products made by companies such as Huawei would be of much
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Failing fast is done to reduce risk. The quicker a company fails with an idea, i.e. discovers that there is no market fit, the fewer money was wasted on it. The remaining budget can be used to try other ideas. The big company model, where
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Of course it's a subsidy. If employees are only able to work for my company because they get food stamps, those food stamps make my business model viable. Without them, I would not be able to find employees, so either I'd have to
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Lots of jobs per kWh are only bad if you're a large energy provider looking for maximum profitability. It doesn't mean that solar power is going to be more expensive for consumers. Consumers buy a bunch of panels and pay for insta
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I have worked from a few WeWorks and copies thereof in Berlin. Most of the floor area is private offices, and the tenants tend to be quite enterprisey. Think Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, etc. For the usual startup, WeWork is way too expensive.
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PDF is mostly a subset of Postscript. It improves on Postscript in terms of speed and security. In contrast to Postscript, it is not a Turing-complete programming language. What's left is a bunch of commands placing graphics objects on
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The paper says that there are ways for users to find out their own access tokens and then "impersonate the app". That might be a valid threat model once the machines take over, but for now my access token identifies me and not my
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German police used to have green/beige uniforms and just recently switched to blue. You might have seen an old uniform, rather than a new one. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeiuniform_(Deutschland)#M...
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There is only really one big company on earth that owns an entire map stack from the ground up: Google Here Maps still exist... you might not have the app installed on your phone, but they provide map-related data, software and services t
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The "Dogma of Otherness" might just be one of the reasons why those views are so popular, especially when paired with insufficient reasoning abilities: "Climate change? Sounds inconvenient, I'll just settle on a differen
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To be fair, "the people concerned" might themselves not have the authority to just diverge from the process. The lesson to learn is that rigid processes don't work too well in creative fields such as software development. Eve
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if you try to explain this to the people concerned they still look at you like you're from Mars and complain that we "can't" work like that The way that many companies allocate budgets for projects isn't very comp
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Things should be seen in context. People here are trying to understand The Cloud as a technical term. They then see contradictions left and right because everything seems to be The Cloud now. It's definitely not a precise technical ter
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Apart from quantity, quality of sleep is also important. I just realized how much a little light can disturb sleep. My blinds are opaque but hung 1-2 cm from the window frame, letting in just a few unwanted photons. I temporarily taped the

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