asteroidbelt

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by asteroidbelt 4y ago
Imagine living in cold climate. Heated seats is very nice to have in certain places where temp below -20C is not uncommon. (Paid monthly subscription is a different issue though.)
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by asteroidbelt 4y ago
YouTrack search bar compared to Jira endless clicking in filters is day and night. But I didn’t use Jira for years. I hope I never will. To the degree, I’ll need 20% more pay for comparable job if they use Jira.
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by asteroidbelt 4y ago
You can do it already by installing malware on employee computers.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
It is more complicated. It is not exactly rule of law in Russia. If you are accused of overthrowing the government, having a page on Facebook, which is extremist organization, might be considered aggravating factor.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Sadly no built in KVM. I like my BenQ monitor for having KVM (among other reasons).
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
I would reply, but since those angry warriors downvoted my very reasonable comment, I should not. Perhaps I should stop trying to talk on hacker news at all.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Power waste is not an issue even in summer. Power production is driven by demand. Turn on more lights, and electricity companies will produce more electricity, and eventually they will make it cheap. Turn off the lights, and they'll do
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
At expense of other people. But also at expense of personal growth.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Yes, knowing the context would be interesting although probably irrelevant to the answer. I’d just quit, but calling a lawyer sounds right too. But for example it would be reasonable (albeit inappropriate) to ask medical records of someone
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Calling people you disagree with idiots is not the smartest thing to do.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Are you sure employers in US are forbidden from asking medical records? Wikipedia says about discrimination, not about medical records. Also, it is legal to fire people based on their vaccination status which is obviously a medical record.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> any language that targeted JVM bytecode Any language similar to Java. Small subset of languages.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Java application server could run only Java, had really no control over the application (eg kill it if it uses too much memory or throttle it’s cpu), and provided hard to use APIs. The idea was great, but it was premature and not well thoug
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
We need more stem education, but not as much arts or political science
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> Gmail .. should be on the list as well, because creating email addresses there is so quick and easy GMail does antispasm. It’s easy to create a disposable gmail, but it is much harder (I supposed) to use that address for outgoing spam&
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> They can't do it like that directly Why?
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
True. But revenue would be significantly smaller (other engines cannot afford pay high per click, and lack of competition drives the price per click down), and revenue is already barely enough to cover Mozilla needs (see recent staff cuts).
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
There's enough Chrome alternatives to be considered "amd to my intel": Chrome based browsers like Brave, and Safari.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Google is the largest financial supporters in Firefox, they buy Firefox search bar. If they wanted to destroy Firefox, they’d already do it by simply cutting that revenue stream.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
But also because Good Small Corp D and Good Small Corp E would have to follow the same rules.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> A once is a lifetime catastrophic event This is one point of view. A different point of view is this is comparable to bad flu year, and all hysteria is caused by msm. > It has affected our lives in so many ways It has. But not the p
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
They changed the link. It pointed to a tweet initially.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
I don’t see how that’s fair. If that’s insignificant, why invite them? If that’s significant, why not mention them?
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
From Wikipedia: > NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) will also perform spectroscopy over the same wavelength range. It was built by the European Space Agency at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands. and more.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
No mention of ESA again, looks like it is solely NASA project, which it is not. Shame.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
There’s no goal to reduce emissions from planes. There’s a goal to reduce overall emissions. If (hypothetically) co2 tax would lead to reduction in other industries but keep emissions unchanged in planes, this is fine.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
I would not click the link if not "conspiracy" in the title.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Maybe. This is topic for another discussion. For now it would be appropriate for you to admit you were wrong. Factually
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> genius Trump only suggested injecting bleach This statement is still grossly misleading at best. (Especially because this lies about "drinking bleach" was actually spread by Joe Biden and repeated numerous times in left-leani
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> The guy who thought maybe you could cure Covid by swallowing bleach? He never said that or anything like that and we don't know what he was thinking. You are spreading fakes. In a thread about fakes. > I sincerely do believe Tr

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