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by bbojan 4y ago
Think of "rare" as "diluted" or "rarified", as opposed to "scarce".
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by bbojan 4y ago
You're saying we've been calling it "Software Development" in error, and it should really be called "Software Production"?
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by bbojan 4y ago
> Imagine having toddlers, having to do heavy groceries, and living in a place with difficult landscape or challenging weather. Here in Switzerland I see people biking with toddlers AND heavy groceries all the time. And the landscape and
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by bbojan 4y ago
Any organism we bred is genetically modified by definition. That's why "transgenic" is a much more accurate term that we should be using.
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by bbojan 4y ago
So facing your accuser is not a thing anymore?
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by bbojan 4y ago
Product categorization on Galaxus is the best I've seen so far. Light years ahead compared to e.g. Amazon.
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by bbojan 4y ago
Or as my former colleague put it: I didn't know I liked tomatoes until the first time I traveled to Europe.
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by bbojan 4y ago
I remember stopping at this gas station a few years ago and using the restroom. I walk an and it's completely dark. I start looking for the switch and the light turns on automatically after a few seconds. I guess it's motion based
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by bbojan 4y ago
If not, there's a business idea!
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by bbojan 4y ago
If you have excess electricity, I always thought it would make sense to use the Birkeland–Eyde process [1]. From what I understand it is very energy inefficient, but scales down well. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by bbojan 4y ago
Both critical bugs are integer overflows. It's unclear to me why our languages still default to modulo arithmetic semantics. I feel Rust had a chance to fix this, but also dropped the ball.
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by bbojan 4y ago
> What matters to the business is that the code works. Yes, but there is a time dimension to "code works". It should work tomorrow when a new OS comes out, and it should work when a library is updated because of a vulnerability
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by bbojan 4y ago
> Also 6: tech debt being another term for "code I personally do not understand," or "software written in a way different than I would write it." Sometimes it's quicker for me to implement a desired change on a c
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by bbojan 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_good
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by bbojan 4y ago
I've always hated YAML, and now I'm glad there's a very nicely written article to back me up. I also notice that I have a preference to procedural as opposed to declarative specifications. E.g. I find conditionals and loops i
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by bbojan 4y ago
Ironically, in Toronto, not every bedroom is required to have a window [1]. [1] BCC Ruling No. 14-03-1366: https://web.archive.org/web/20210422142050/http://www.mah.go...
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by bbojan 4y ago
Yeah, I understand why you would need licenses for fishing. It's a limited resource and you want to prevent overfishing. But why would you need s license for a fish processing plant? Why shouldn't anyone (whose facility fullfils h
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by bbojan 4y ago
Yes. I was replying to parent's comment that concrete produces CO2 when setting, which is clearly not the case for hydraulic cement.
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by bbojan 4y ago
Hydraulic cement does not produce CO2 during setting. Non-hydraulic cement actually consumes CO2 while setting.
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by bbojan 4y ago
Swiss type deal isn't working for the Swiss anymore. EU was putting pressure on the Swiss to accept a comprehensive deal to replace the dozens of agreements that they have. When the Swiss refused, the EU simple lets one by one pass wit
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by bbojan 4y ago
You must have very high standards if you consider reducing costs by an order of magnitude "incremental".
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by bbojan 4y ago
Why not use a bicycle or a regular (non-electric) scooter? Honest question, I'm not being snark.
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by bbojan 4y ago
Mars is smaller and cooled down before Earth. That means it had liquid water while the Earth was still too hot. Therefore, it's possible that life first appeared on Mars, and was later transferred to Earth on a meteorite.
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by bbojan 4y ago
The airplane is dense and very aerodynamic. We would say it has a high ballistic coefficient [1]. The pilot is light would leave the cockpit flat or even bent over, which is a very non-aerodynamic shape. His ballistic coefficient would be l
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by bbojan 4y ago
I see what you did there.
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by bbojan 4y ago
Haha, did the same thing also on a CPC464. I did know about the concept of "assembler", I just wasn't able to obtain one.
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by bbojan 4y ago
I wasn't aware of that. This is my first time assembling a PC after probably 10 years, and I remember TT when they were making (good) coolers.
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by bbojan 4y ago
I just recently had a problem where writes to M.2 SSD wouldn't work due to a faulty PSU. Everything else was fine. Took me 3 SSDs, 2 motherboards and 2 PSUs to figure out what the cause of the problem was. It was a ThermalTake TR2 500W
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by bbojan 4y ago
I just recently had a case where writes to an M2 SSD on a newly built computer would frequently fail. Reads were OK. After replacing the SSD twice and then rebuilding everything using a different motherboard, it turned out it was the PSU. R
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by bbojan 4y ago
I always envisioned a CTO should be something like a Chief Pilot in the airline world. In an airline, Chief Pilot is the highest-ranking member of management that can (and does) still fly passengers around. This gives them unique insight in

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