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by dagw 2y ago
Pretty sure D-Link is Taiwanese. And Taiwan has reasons to want to be on good terms with the US. That being said, my money is still on incompetence.
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by dagw 2y ago
It'd be more correct to say that the Nazis were big on Swedish topics such as eugenics. Sweden was world leading in eugenics 'research' for decades before the Nazi party was founded, and the State Institute for Eugenics Resea
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by dagw 2y ago
The other problem with the charging networks is that each country has its own charing companies doing their own thing with their own apps and payment solutions. Even though I've never driven in Poland or Lithuania, I'm very confid
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by dagw 2y ago
Yup. I used to think I was a massive YIMBY, right up until learnt about plans to build student housing on a park and playground where I played with my kids every day. Rational me could make lots of arguments about why the city needs more s
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by dagw 2y ago
The thing with art is, everyone is entitled to an interpretation. The statement that kicked this off was not a statement of interpretation, but a statement of fact: "Asimov wrote the three laws as a parody". This is a statement
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by dagw 2y ago
I've seen it happen too. No amount of "don't" was enough to convince them...6 month later they had a weird hacky solution that solved their problem and was used across the company and on the whole seemed to do what the r
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by dagw 2y ago
The only three possible explanations I can think of are 1) Things have radically changed since I last lived there 20+ years ago 2) My view is heavily biased by only having lived in/around Oslo and the rest of the country eats a lot mor
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by dagw 2y ago
Why? Honestly no idea. They just don't. Growing up the only fish we really ate was fish sticks and heavily processed fish cakes. When going out to restaurants I have no real memory of anybody really ordering fish. Even when I was liv
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by dagw 2y ago
The difference is the Gammelost isn't actually a thing in Norway. I grew up there and never saw it. Whereas Brunost is staple food eaten every day by a large part of the population.
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by dagw 2y ago
There is none. Someone somewhere was given a KPI to increase their departments ad revenue by X%, so that is what they are doing, rest of the company be damned.
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by dagw 2y ago
What fish stuff? I grew up in Norway and lived there for a chunk of my adult life, and honestly Norwegians (at leats in/around Oslo) seem to eat less fish than most other European countries I've been to.
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by dagw 2y ago
Yea, they found one in Sweden last year, but this one is much bigger. Also two entirely different deposits. The one in Sweden is right at its northern border, and this one is in the southern part of Norway.
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by dagw 2y ago
They seem to be pretty widely distributed in reality That's the problem. They're 'everywhere', but generally in such low concentrations that it just isn't profitable to extract them.
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by dagw 2y ago
What I'm kind of missing with Blender and the likes is the procedural 'magic' and surprise of POV-Ray. How just typing a few lines of 'code' into a text file could produce wondrous and mind blowing images, and then
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by dagw 2y ago
Depends what you mean? If you want a modern high performance ray tracer with support for all the latest hardware and implementing all the cutting edge ray tracing research, there is Embree and OptiX. They don't however come with their
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by dagw 2y ago
POV-Ray itself dates back to the early 90s (and was based on code from the 80s). The FAQ in question was last updated 2013, and the paragraph about graphics cards is probably older than that.
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by dagw 2y ago
Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to? Microsoft seems to have lost all internal cohesion and the ability to focus the entire company in one direction. It's just a collection of dozens of small fiefdoms only caring about hitting the
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by dagw 2y ago
Of course the funny things with that cartoon is that today the 'hard' task is just as easy as 'easy' task, if not easier. Which I guess only goes to show that not only is it hard to tell what is easy and what is hard, i
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by dagw 2y ago
do those junior extremely motivated people who are doing the impactful work want to work in the office? Much more so than the senior people I find. Post Covid, as soon as we were first allowed back to the office if we wanted, I observed t
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by dagw 2y ago
Even if your company doesn't outsource your job, your customers might 'outsource' their business, and you'll end up with no job either way.
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by dagw 2y ago
Honestly in the real world, I'be never found repairability to be a huge factor for me. My employer pays for my laptop, including warranty and service contracts. If I break it, which has honestly happened literally once in 12 years, I j
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by dagw 2y ago
Very little research can be done by just one person working alone. A huge part of 'doing research' involves getting other people to do research in support of your research.
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by dagw 2y ago
The best researchers won't be much better at 45 than 25 To get great research done you have to be great manager who can prioritise time and resources, balance a budget, forge connections with other researchers, get the most out of th
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by dagw 2y ago
I don't know about Corvette, but I've known a few people who daily drive their 911s as their main or even only car. I guess these people might care a bit.
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by dagw 2y ago
Depends very much on the track. Rather simplified a corvettes tend to be slightly faster on the straights and 911 faster in the corners. Of course it also depends a lot on exactly which 911 and Corvette we are talking about. The performance
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by dagw 2y ago
Getting your money into a crypto coin that tracks a stable currency can in some cases be cheaper and easier than getting your money into that currency.
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by dagw 2y ago
T+0 settlement is something blockchain has solved that tradfi has not The reason 'tradfi' doesn't offer T+0 has nothing to do with technology (or lack of). It's an intentional policy choice and not due to technical lim
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by dagw 2y ago
I'm not talking about people moving to the country, I'm talking about people who buy a holiday home there. And on the tax front I suspect people staying at hotels and eating at restaurants pay every bit as much tax as people stayi
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by dagw 2y ago
It's a lot cheaper than you'd probably realize International travel has gotten a lot more expensive over the past few years. I'm literally paying double for the same flight and hotel compared to 5-6 years ago.
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by dagw 2y ago
By what definition? If I own an apartment in Spain and pop down there a few weeks each year to relax and chill, how am I not a tourist.

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