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by bartimus 6y ago
I bought a free-spinning flywheel mouse. Apparently scrolling through meters of documentation using a ratchet-like scrollwheel was putting too much strain on my muscles. Now I can quickly skim effortlessly with just a few flicks and breaks.
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by bartimus 6y ago
My last vanilla Javascript project ended up with a library of useful functions which could be used independently. My last vanilla PHP project indeed had some sort of glue layer to tie some things together (routing). But it was more about co
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by bartimus 6y ago
This reminds me of a certain quote: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." It seems a bit reckless to already be transitioning into a situation expecting those solutions to magically come to be.
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by bartimus 6y ago
I would've expected the NFT includes some kind of checksum of the digital work. But it appears it's really just an URL. Which doesn't prove that much.
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by bartimus 6y ago
Does hundreds of gigs introduce a general performance hit or could it still be further optimized using some smart indexing strategy?
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by bartimus 6y ago
It seems renewable strategies are still experimental and will rely on some sort of base load system for the foreseeable future. The base load systems being either gas plants or nuclear plants. We can place our bets on gas hoping we can one
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by bartimus 6y ago
The whole concept of "scientific consensus" is unscientific. It's always politically loaded. It also screws up the concept of checks and balances when the reason of existence for certain scientific jobs (and titles) is depend
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by bartimus 6y ago
People are somewhere on the scale of greatness. At some point it becomes harder and harder to find replacements that will be able to get that job done. People are very capable to steer projects into failure.
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by bartimus 6y ago
Depends how you look at it. If you manage to attain mortgage free home ownership, you'll be free from rent or mortgage expenses.
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by bartimus 6y ago
Not to mention the low interest rates that caused the housing prices to sky-rocket. Also not to mention this new trend where younger generations prefer to spend their paychecks on vacations, smartphones, fashion as opposed to long-terms inv
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Ministry of the Interior hired scientists to justify corona measures (Germany)(welt.de)
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by bartimus 6y ago
Best in-depth explanation I've come across so far
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by bartimus 6y ago
Was happy to play around with Delta Chat today. Very nice progress. That was until one of our friends tried to logon with Gmail on her iPhone. Too much hassle unfortunately.
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by bartimus 6y ago
I organize my folders with 2 ~ 4 letter prefixes: /[CO] My Company/[OR] Organizations/[GOOG] Google/ I then put these prefixes in front of my files: COORGOOGINV-20201214 Some Invoice.pdf The number of prefix characters s
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by bartimus 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a legal violation when you're downloading a copy from YouTube even though you're the original copyright owner of the video. Youtube has a license to distribute the copy according to the
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by bartimus 7y ago
Why is nobody concerned about the next 100.000 years lasting ice age which is already overdue by roughly 4000 years?
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by bartimus 7y ago
Then don't start the argument? Every other western country does it by piggy backing on all the innovation happening in the US. Next there's the costs. Universal healthcare isn't going to make it cheaper. It will get more expe
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by bartimus 7y ago
Increased profits from unknown sources VS decreased profits from known sources. The gained marketing intelligence may come at the cost of the bottom line.
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by bartimus 7y ago
I'm still on the fence somewhat. Searching for "best car engine oil" has certain brands displayed straight on the featured snippet. Who cares about the click if Google found your customer for you and got your message through
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by bartimus 7y ago
When the weather is nice in my city every last electric scooter is parked at the beach.
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by bartimus 7y ago
The regulatory world is also a world of calculated risks. In any case. The result of the calculation will always be: "crashing planes = not good for our company"
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by bartimus 7y ago
It was a private non-profit company: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34519184 https://theicct.org/mission-history
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by bartimus 7y ago
In a deregulated world banks wouldn't get bailouts. They would go bust. Governments wouldn't pressure France with import tariffs to protect their aviation industry. In a heavily regulated you still got dieselgate. It got exposed b
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by bartimus 7y ago
This Also the lower interest rates have caused housing prices to increase causing the younger generations to live with their parents longer. Owning a car is perceived to kill the planet. So what do you do when you're not saving up for
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by bartimus 7y ago
Also more CO2 means increased plant growth.
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by bartimus 7y ago
Since neural networks train using the data of the masses I would exactly expect the effect to funnel towards consensus as opposed towards controversy. Let autoplay run long enough and eventually we all get the same videos. I think there&#x2
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by bartimus 7y ago
Birthrate US: 1.8, China: 1.62, Japan: 1.44, EU: 1.6 Just allow the situation to resolve itself?
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by bartimus 7y ago
Then also the market isn't only about the highest-end CPU. There's plenty of market for lower-end CPU's. Both AMD and Intel have their offerings and production capacity. The market shifts will be marginal I think.
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by bartimus 7y ago
I'm mostly surprised how there's still people not aware of in-app purchases in 2019.
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by bartimus 7y ago
> At 13:37 TeamCity built the rules Hmmm...

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