brtkdotse

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by brtkdotse 3y ago
The ratio of housing cost vs real income almost tripled over the last 20 years in Sweden. Add a looming climate crisis and a self-fulfillment-oriented culture and you get very few new babies.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
“Personal space” for anyone below the rank of, say, a duke is a very recent trend
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
The Soviets used a handwritten HTML file served with Apache
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> Making housing cheaper also means making higher quality housing cheaper. Or, much more likely, builder profits higher.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> I've been wondering for a long time why we don't have whole-house heat recovery systems. Every house in the Nordics built after 1985 or so has this.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Seeing how sewage treatment plants need to heat up the sewage for the treatment processes to work it’s a zero-sum move at best .
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Every time I suggest “just rent a ICE for the edge case trips” people look at me like I’ve just kicked their dog
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> clear separation between your API(s) and your Client(s) The problem is that the SPA way of thinking has infiltrated every nook and cranny in this industry. The ratio of APIs vs clients consuming those APIs come scarily close to 1, at l
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> 40 metres to 12 metres So they sacrificed the freedom of design to save €100?
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
You forgot the dancing robot.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
The secrecy around privately held companies seems so… childish and petty.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Just a heads up: If you're not using a Merchant of Records like LemonSqueezy or Paddle you're 99,9% certain of committing tax fraud. Even within the US different states require you to collect sales tax, international sales make th
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
The biggest selling point with Canva is it's myriad of templates. I doubt you're going to find that in a open-source alternative.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
After numerous failed attempts at reading Clean Code, I'd say (1) and (2) are very much at odds.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
I never fully understood why CEO:s resign when there's a scandal. Like, stay on and clean up the mess you made instead of bailing with a golden parachute?
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> Well for Blazor Webassembly at least, you need to download the entire .NET runtime It's a one-time download that's smaller than the initial load of the Facebook feed
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> It will load slowly, work slowly Why do you think this will be the case?
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> I don't have to maintain the cognitive overhead of translating domain models into JSON models and vice versa. I’m more happy about not having to maintain working knowledge of two sets of IDEs, build tools, CI/CD pipelines, ho
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Our neighbour has a modern, top-of-the-line, highly efficient wood boiler. Still makes the area smell like a parking garage for a couple of hours each day during winter.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> The only decent GUI framework for Windows is Electron What a peculiar way of spelling “WinForms”
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Once you add kids to the equation the whole bathroom + a good portion of the connecting hall is now a wet zone.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here. Hah, funnily enough every time I’m in the US I reflect about what a weir
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Not necessarily. There’s also something called air-to-water heatpumps which work like a mix of geothermal and air-to-air. My house (~1900sqf/200m2) is currently warmed up by a 10kW Nibe 2025 that’s connected to a 300L buffer tank. It d
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
You’re right. That was a poor choice of words on my part. My point was that it was obvious SAAB cars (neé SAAB Weapon Systems) wasn’t a viable business and the last few years were extremely drawn out and full of drama.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
I'm sure someone has a good writeup¹, but as to my understanding they had a really weird lineup where the 9-5 competed with 9-3 and both were basically low-end luxury sedans marketed as family cars. ¹) Yep, see dagw's sibling comm
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Frankly? Yes. The drawn out death rattle was annoying to follow. But if you list the causes of SAABs demise you get pretty far down the list before coming to "2 months vacation and 36 hour workdays" (it's 25 days and 39 hour
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
> Saab died Under GM management.
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Swedish union declares strike for Tesla employees(ifmetall.se)
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
30 hour work week with full pay.
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by brtkdotse 3y ago
Since becoming a freelancing contractor I’ve experimented a fair bit with my work week and for me the sweet spot is 5 6-hour days, split up as 2x90min, 2 hour lunch and another 2x90min. I prefer a five day workweek with shorter days because

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