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by bartvk 6y ago
It'll take some time before you can confidently make that assessment, though. It took ten years for Perl 6 to come out, and then actually it didn't come out as Perl.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I live in an old, three story brick house from the 1930. It's small, 100 m² (1075 sq.ft.). The 5 GHz from my Airport Express can barely reach the kitchen. My solution is to put additional APs in the house, but with low transmit power.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Not all of them. The Apple stuff, I agree with you.
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by bartvk 6y ago
The protocol isn't too bad but that humongous connector... hoo boy. I think everyone nowadays just hooks it up with those USB-to-GPIB connectors, but the drivers under Linux are often iffy: if you get the wrong one, you need to supply
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by bartvk 6y ago
It's good that you mention it, but it shouldn't deter anyone really interested. The power quickly dissipates (over the course of minutes), but you should short it with a resistor before working on it, of course.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Correlation is a pretty fickle thing. Multiple hedges make for a nice diverse portfolio. So yeah, I consider gold a good component as well. Why add bitcoin as well? Because it makes for a nice bet. We used to all rely on bonds and bills to
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by bartvk 6y ago
BTC also could be useful as a hedge against other assets, for example the stock market or the currency you save in. I view it as a possible hedge against the Euro. This is the currency I daily use, but I definitely keep the Greek Debt Crisi
728.
by bartvk 6y ago
> Bitcoin may be a bubble Also, what is not a bubble nowadays. Just look at the gold price, the housing price, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put#Everything_Bubbl...
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by bartvk 6y ago
> Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency I'm not deeply steeped in macro-economics. Is this a theory, or an historical observation? Where can I find more about this?
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by bartvk 6y ago
Indeed. The big boys all made their own CPUs, and the growth market has been mobile. And x86 isn't there. The architecture is still big, but under pressure from both sides.
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by bartvk 6y ago
What's great about Simplenote, is that it's backed by a nice company that seems to be a good steward year in, year out. No unnecessary features, just continued stable maintenance.
732.
by bartvk 6y ago
I think the author is specifically talking about those cases where performance really matters. You could still have callback hell, but a lot less so. As an aside, there is an alternative: passing a default value. This is Swift syntax: l
733.
by bartvk 6y ago
Although it looks bad, I'm actually curious how many people turned this on. I have barely any experience with Synology; when you start using one, does it actively ask you to use btrfs?
734.
by bartvk 6y ago
I don't get it, what are you trying to say?
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by bartvk 6y ago
It’s been a while, I actually forgot a bit about the process, and I got it mixed up. Point being: tasks without a clear business driver were regularly brought into the sprint by devs.
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by bartvk 6y ago
At my previous client, the scrum master didn't decide 100% of the work, we could pick a small percentage of technical items to work on.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I very much experience a difference using Xcode, between my 4 core 2016 MBP and my 8 core 2019 MBP. Since both are base models, I think I disagree with your statement.
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by bartvk 6y ago
> As far as I can tell, this is an open forum Your original point may very well still stand, but I'd like to point out that there's actually a whole bunch of guidelines for posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by bartvk 6y ago
It's magnificent in that way, the man in question really is honest and open about it. I especially found the last answer pretty funny: "I had the nurse coming in at night showing me her feet. I actually took her out to dinner a co
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by bartvk 6y ago
If someone would say "processor", I'd expect them to mean the CPU, meaning the Central Processor Unit. The rest, I'd call them ICs.
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by bartvk 6y ago
> generous defined-benefits government pension You have to make sure that this pension actually pans out. I've worked at a semi-government job for 10 years. However only 1 of the ten years, they indexed their current payouts with in
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by bartvk 6y ago
Yup, I also couldn't find what exactly almost crushed them. That would've been the most interesting here.
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by bartvk 6y ago
A net positive in what sense? What is positive about it?
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by bartvk 6y ago
I have a Spigen case too, but for my iPhone. It's this really simple black case, and I haven't been able to discover a single disadvantage. It's sturdy but not too thick, it wraps tight but not overly, etc. I'd like to g
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by bartvk 6y ago
It's not just web-based clients that implement dark mode, macOS Mail also does this. That's why I was a bit disappointed to see "background-color: #ffffff" in the screenshot.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I don't think a 150 ml of lotion is going to do it for me. Are there plans for bigger bottles. I'm thinking litres, or gallons for you non-metrics.
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by bartvk 6y ago
The way it's now done, will put the spectrum there, where there's the most value. However the result is that it's actually a tax which the consumer will indirectly pay.
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by bartvk 6y ago
I used `bc` for years and years
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by bartvk 6y ago
FYI, Eric has replied to your post, but on the root of the discussion.
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by bartvk 6y ago
Sounds quite long, actually. I’ve recently found that external SSDs have become affordable enough for me to use them for backups. Good on you for digging in and finding the issue, by the way.

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