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by dancek 10y ago
In 2015, Finnish electricity production was as follows [1]: - 33.7% nuclear - 16.6% fossil fuels - 44.9% renewables - 4.4% peat Wikipedia says that all the fossil fuels are imported (except peat) but does not cite a source. Wit
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by dancek 10y ago
While I agree with the issues that may stem from using code to express dependencies, there are upsides. I think the main deficiency in Python is the need for virtual environments per project (and the fact this requires a separate tool). If
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I think the majority of work here has been put into designing and implementing the UI. A friend did something like the core a while back, in a couple of days. I'm sure many others have and many others will. I'd also think that app
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by dancek 10y ago
> a whole new era of finding security holes in emulators that allow PCs to be compromised Indeed. People acquire ROMs for emulators illegally from wherever they can get them anyway. Given what you say about ZSNES, I'd be surprised i
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A young man made the headlines driving Uber with his dad's car, where his dad paid for the gasoline and all. I don't remember the exact profit he made but I calculated that wouldn't cover the cost of servicing and fueling the
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Kutsuplus was in Finland. Some of the reasons it didn't succeed is that employing people in Finland is very expensive, there are a lot of regulations to be met, and Helsinki area a very small market so the payback period for any new in
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by dancek 10y ago
Eminem has similar trickery going on in most songs and that's probably one of the reasons of his success. Of course many other rappers do the same, and surely Eminem isn't the inventor of funky rhyme patterns. It's been 15 ye
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by dancek 10y ago
But then can you run Docker on top of OpenVZ? Oh yes, technically you can starting from version x, but I've been told (by a VPS provider) there are a lot of issues in practice. Of course, I'd love to hear if the opposite is true.
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by dancek 10y ago
At least you're missing out on bottles (pre-built formulae) when your prefix is not /usr/local. EDIT: The rationale for using /usr/local has been explained in the FAQ: https://github.com/Homebrew&#x2
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There are lots of minor changes, but nothing major IMHO. The reason for bumping the minor version are a couple of breaking changes: - Disable SHA-1 checksum support in formulae - Disable running Homebrew as the root user (e.g. sud
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I guess my comma use is also a dead giveaway of my first language...
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"How it works" without the question mark is fine, too. The site actually uses "How it works ?" which is a dead giveaway that the author is French. As an ESL speaker myself, I wouldn't nitpick about grammar, though.
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by dancek 10y ago
You Don't Know JS has to be the best and most detailed book about JavaScript that exists. It might be a bit much for a beginner, so just skim it at first and come back when something doesn't make sense.
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by dancek 10y ago
Not sure if I'll ever use it, but intercooler.js would be great for many use cases (that usually end up being implemented using a hugely complicated stack). The only reason I probably wouldn't use it is that I'm happy with ju
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by dancek 10y ago
Indeed. I've seen people who write good code with any JS framework/library, and then I've seen the snake oil crowd that's always in a hurry to create a horrible mess using the latest buzzword.js. This is not to say that
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by dancek 10y ago
This is a very good point. All the JS frameworks I know of solve a real problem. Still most of them are just horrible unless you know exactly how to use them properly. Then again, UI programming tends to be ugly in any case (at least when y
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by dancek 10y ago
> Stored procedures are just that - they get a name and persistence. PLSQL has procedural extensions, but it is still SQL. PostgreSQL distributions come with support for PL/Python, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl and PL/pgSQL (a Post
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by dancek 10y ago
Paying more than the average gives you a 1-year subscriptions for LastPass Premium and a VPN service called CyberGhost. A list of everything included: $1 or more - Breevy - Fences + DeskScapes - Directory Opus 12 Light More t
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Music in a foreign language works for me almost as well as instrumental music. If I hear Finnish, I somehow must listen to the words, but even though I'm proficient in English, I can just let the words go by without thinking about them
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> Give your grandchildren something to care about? Why would they? By the time they come around, everything you've done is old news. Spend time with your kids, keep your marriage together. Love your family. They'll (eventually)
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by dancek 10y ago
Thanks for your comments. This is the side of entrepreneurship that rarely gets told, and you seem to have got most of the possible downsides while still keeping the company running well enough. There's a lot to learn from what you say
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They've probably implemented TouchID support using PAM. If so, using with sudo/su is just a matter of configuration.
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Yep, I've used the Yubikey PAM, and it works just fine. My first thought on seeing the title was: WHYYYYYY? There are some slight usability issues with using custom PAM config. E.g. if you want to unlock the lock screen without passwor
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Are you saying that Xmonad is buggy? I never realized that, but I'm quite new to it. I'd think I've seen other window managers crash with similar amount of use, though. Or are you saying that Xmonad is not buggy? But then I d
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> A couple of years ago I had breakfast with Guido van Rossum -- he almost left the table when I told him I was an academic PL researcher -- and I was quite impressed with the way he dismissed all mathematical aspects of the study of pro
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While this is a very early version, something like it will eventually put most programmers out of work. Probably it'll be another language/tool and it won't be very soon, but at some point writing trivial software will actual
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It is quite superficial. Code being easy to read is much more important than code being easy to write. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to have both, but look at Java or C# that are a pain to write without a very smart IDE (just bec
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by dancek 10y ago
The sources for the emulated devices are very interesting to read. E.g. https://bitbucket.org/pcem_emulator/pcem/src/c3548dff8c8b235... I imagine the emulations are based on some public docs or existing drive
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> Taxiing to the runway consumed 2 tons of fuel. Wow. Just wow. These engines are obviously far from their designed power band when taxiing, but this is incredibly inefficient. So basically the travellers would cause more pollution in th
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You are my new hero. I've become interested in Lisp every couple of years. This fall I even learned Clojure and implemented a Lisp interpreter in Python. I searched a lot for any open-source Lisp implementation in assembly, but found n

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