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How awesome ended up with Lua and not Guile – Julien Danjou [pdf](julien.danjou.info)
5 points by ciconia 9y ago|2 comments
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SCADA – Gateway to (s)hell(youtube.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
Here's one: http://elforyn.info/Materialen.htm
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by ciconia 9y ago
In addition some electricity providers will sell you "green electricity", meaning they'll commit to buying the amount you consume from renewable sources.
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by ciconia 9y ago
Our family car does 7l/100km on country roads, which is about 10€/100km at current prices.
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by ciconia 9y ago
About a month ago I bought a used electric car as complement to our gasoline-powered family car. We live deep in the French countryside and virtually all our day-to-day rides are within 25km of home, and we drive about 1500km/month, no
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by ciconia 9y ago
Why ridiculous? After all, it's been put in place for the express purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions [1], and at least in Norway it seems to be effective. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/tran
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by ciconia 9y ago
I've already come across a bunch of YouTube videos with artificial voiceover. Personally, I'd rather listen to a person who stutters or he a bad accent, than a machine.
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by ciconia 9y ago
We've been a no-tv family since forever. We do have a Netflix subscription (though we do find the selection of shows and movies too small, but still...) My kids have a genuine aversion to commercials. With Netflix and YouTube, they can
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by ciconia 9y ago
Is anyone else here sick and tired of sensationalistic journalism? "Shockingly bad", "a nightmare"? It's just a fucking security bug, why can't you just report the news in a calm, responsible manner?
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The Loneliness of Donald Trump(lithub.com)
2 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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Easily insert music notation in your Google Docs and Slides(blog.flat.io)
8 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
> Of course, everybody hates paying taxes. I don't.
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by ciconia 9y ago
> part of the continued fracturing of western society into individual-sized pieces. For the US, yes. For (some) European countries, not so. There's still a strong concensus around paying taxes and getting your money's worth in
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by ciconia 9y ago
> As sad as this is, the reality is that nobody cares. More precisely, too few care, and only a fraction of them are really doing something about it. I think in many ways the apparent environmental crisis we've been experiencing is
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Santa Rosa ignored nature’s warning(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
Buy a piece of land (a prairie, woodland, marshland, whatever) and either let it sit without touching it, or take action to improve the ecosystem.
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by ciconia 9y ago
A heartfelt thank you to all PostgreSQL contributors for such a wonderful solid, well documented and versatile tool. One of my absolute favorite pieces of software.
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by ciconia 9y ago
Just like everybody else I'm really blown away by what SpaceX does, but at the same time I think the question begs to be asked: Has humanity already given up on earth as a home? Is the future really about planets as disposable habitats
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by ciconia 9y ago
Nothing can be more destructive to a person's competence and skills than an abusive treatment by his superiors. As far as I'm concerned, the true test of leadership is dealing with a subordinate's shortcomings. It's not
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Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s Code(fastcompany.com)
4 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
That looks really cool. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention here on HN. One thing I would have liked to see is smarter display of JSON/JSONB columns for PostgreSQL.
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Conductor sacked by music festival after 'racist' joke with Afro-American friend(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
The way I see it those janitors, security people and other such workers whose jobs are today almost universally outsourced, are also contributing in their own small way to the company's bottom line and to its success. Why should they b
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by ciconia 9y ago
For all those complaining about the (lack of) taste - the best tasting tomatoes are the ones you grow yourself in your back yard, and this is from personal experience. You can muse all you want about how Italian tomatoes are superior to Dut
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by ciconia 9y ago
> The only traits that illegal immigration selects for are desperation and a willingness to break laws and live on the fringes of society. So those Microsoft DREAMers Nadella is talking about are nothing but miserable, desperate nothings
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by ciconia 9y ago
What's the point of using HTTPS on a local network? If you want to expose an IoT device to the internet (assuming you can deal with the NAT barrier), why not use a domain name like for any other server?
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After CNN interviewee erupts in anger, disaster reporting comes into focus(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ciconia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 9y ago
Would this be a viable alternative to containers?
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by ciconia 9y ago
> I hope in the future they teach children to find out where there food comes from Who's they? Isn't it our responsibility?

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