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by atoav 3mo ago
Consider reading the post I commented on.
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by atoav 3mo ago
Until drones deploy counter-blinkenlights. As someone who has built a realtime people tracker art installation in a disco: Stroboscopes are highly effective at confusing these models.
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by atoav 3mo ago
Current metric time can be seen here: https://metric-time.com/
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by atoav 3mo ago
I mostly agree with the points made, however I would not call this "invisible" as it was chosen to be called in the title. Good tools should be obvious, with the main ways to use it being very low friction and low cognitive overhe
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by atoav 3mo ago
I'd did not claim that things do not have downsides. I said tech embargos are the wrong way to deal with that specific downside and even proposed another way to deal with it (targeted, stochastic checks). If the people making those che
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by atoav 3mo ago
To play the devils advocate: It is efficient — for them. It is a bit of a myth that everybody in Germany talks English. Sure in an academic or business environment, or in certain social circles that can be taken for granted, but there are
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by atoav 3mo ago
If you want people not to have out of spec tractors that is a regulation and oversight issue, not an issue of locking down tech. Right to repair argues the tech should not be locked down, it doesn't argue you should be free to break th
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by atoav 3mo ago
Yes? But if you want to solve that issue locking down the tech is not the solution. The solution is to have an inspector show up unannounced and give you a hefty fine if that screw is set incorrect. So if that is really an issue, apply the
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by atoav 3mo ago
"I did not plan to relocate, but the opening at $your company made me reconsider. I then delved into $location history and culture, and found it really fascinating. Since I am [young|experienced in $oldcareer], I decided it would be wo
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by atoav 3mo ago
> I don't think it's a matter of "resisting or not", they literally have no choice and can typically also not tell anyone because of gag orders. I would not rule out there are organizations/companies in the US wh
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by atoav 3mo ago
I get the difference between business and academic note taking, but I still think it is benefitial to do it yourself in a business meeting, because as you write down the notes you may realize a point hasn't been made as clearly as you
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by atoav 3mo ago
Actually I think one of the main values of note taking isn't that you get notes, it is that engaging your brain to summarize points makes you understand and remember the points better, even if you throw your notes away right after. It
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by atoav 3mo ago
Well in this case it is a documented trail of defering needed maintenance with the argument of needing to safe money. I did not argue that this is a outcome that can only happen to conservative governments. In fact I am convinced it is a
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by atoav 3mo ago
The issues you see now in Germany are the direct consequence of the Merkel era conservative government and its austerity policy. They really wanted to get the deficit down at all cost. And all cost included any sort of needed maintenance on
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by atoav 3mo ago
I always bring the receipts, so if I say it is them, then the chances are it is them. Pointing fingers before investigation the cause is a waste of precious time.
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by atoav 3mo ago
Yes, but if any US three-letter agency knocks at a US companies door and says: "Nice business you have there", will they resist just to not sell out their EU customers? I don't think so. And the patriot act exists, so this is
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by atoav 3mo ago
I know that capacitance multipliers are commonly used in audio circuits like specific Equalizer circuits, mainly to allow to use smaller capacitors.
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by atoav 3mo ago
XML is ok, the problem IMO is that the way some people use(d) it is utterly unhinged. So a return value that could have easily been two lined of text is now a nested demon of XML. The complexity isn't what that application does, the
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by atoav 3mo ago
Then it shouldn't be allowed to call it "buy" they should be forced to call it "rent".
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by atoav 3mo ago
"We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong"
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by atoav 3mo ago
Button ≠ Button. People like to believe they should all be the same, but they really should not be. On physical keyboards we already have three different kinds: normal buttons, modifier keys (shift, etc) and toggle keys (caps lock). High st
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by atoav 3mo ago
Bad programming. People who have experience with embedded programming knows that reading out a button usually means denouncing. At the speed a microcontroller can read out a button it will change it's state multiple times per press bec
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by atoav 3mo ago
It is not that complicated. You need to introduce CO₂ threshold levels that make sense from a medical standpoint. Then you need to enforce them in the same way other basic environmental regulations or worker rights are enforced in regions o
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by atoav 3mo ago
What does wonders for me is to go out into nature, a beach, a lake or a park, or even a longer train ride, with nothing but a pen and notebook, while keeping the phone in my bag. When I return usually I have a few pages of ideas. Sometimes
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by atoav 3mo ago
Tutorials are fine, especially if you know nothing doing the motion is often better than fooling around. Just like with languages there are passive skilla (your capability to understand a certain thing) and active skills (you capability t
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by atoav 3mo ago
Nothing is as sad as seeing some young motivated student losing patience if the task doesn't turn out to be a quick, easy win. The saddest however are students so eager for the quick, easy win that throughout their academic career they
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by atoav 3mo ago
According to wikipedia Linus Torvalds has dual (finnish/american) citizenship. Odd to leave out the country where he was born tho.
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by atoav 3mo ago
Just be wary that you might not like the middle ground between a serial killer and someone wbo insists all human life is sacred.
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by atoav 3mo ago
Yeah nah. For all relevant level metering you use a A-weighting curve (weighting the frequencies by human ear sensitivity) so that is not how any of that works.
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by atoav 3mo ago
I feel the question what the best approach is entirely depends on the people or organization. E.g. when you tackle a new problem, my answer would be to first solve it quick and dirty and then do it properly without over-engineering. If

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