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by dancek 8y ago
Why change if you don't see benefit in it. You won't know everything about your current work in two years, and you probably get the chance to do different things anyway. Enjoy your good fortune and be grateful. A lot of people hat
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by dancek 8y ago
In the US. Not in Finland.
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by dancek 8y ago
Well, all taxation can be considered unreasonable. It's true that the system doesn't work similarly for cryptocurrencies and stock, but that's no reason not to pay your taxes. It's not like the system came as a surprise
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by dancek 8y ago
There are some very useful features there, but I can't help but think that MySQL should have had them a long time ago. Is there something MariaDB doesn't have? I'm genuinely curious as I've only really followed PostgreSQ
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by dancek 8y ago
Driving backwards is much more difficult than driving forward because the bike doesn't self correct that way and the steering is quite unstable. I tried to learn riding backwards last summer, too. Eventually I stopped because I needed
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by dancek 9y ago
Sure, kdb+ would probably be worth every penny even at $100k/year when it's the right tool for the job. I gather it's genuinely the best in-memory database for computing arrays of varying rank. But a lot of the use cases thes
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by dancek 9y ago
The problem with that might be the licensing costs once you use it commercially (eg. at work). IIRC the license prices aren't public, but you're looking at over $10k in any case. I personally prefer J to K in the APL family of lan
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by dancek 9y ago
To nitpick even more, gawk (GNU Awk) is a superset of POSIX Awk. I'm not very familiar with the differences, but I always use specifically gawk---I got too annoyed with some of the BSD userland that ships with macOS, and learned to pre
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by dancek 9y ago
This looks like a great resource. The tools you'd like to have for a specific problem are often quite un-googlable. So you either need complex hacks to get inferior tools to work or you spend an hour googling the tools for a tiny probl
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by dancek 9y ago
There's also a nice comment system based on Github issues that you can install on a static site: https://utteranc.es
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by dancek 9y ago
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed. This is a very good point: just like a human driver should slo
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by dancek 9y ago
It might be possible, but at least for me achieving the same position in a different rotation requires a lot of strength (due to gravity). And I can't poop while flexing half of my muscles.
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by dancek 9y ago
Yeah, I meant that by single (English is my second language). And of course cloth diapers are probably a good idea for twins too, but I just couldn't handle it. There comes a point where you'll give almost anything to get five m
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by dancek 9y ago
Well, that comes down to cultural or personal preference. Some cultures consider feet unclean. Some people consider the anus unclean. How clean you try to make a body part depends on how clean you consider or expect it to be.
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by dancek 9y ago
Here in Finland, some public toilets used to have a piece of wood attached to a chain in the early 1900s. Everyone carried their own puukko (a traditional Finnish knife) and could carve shavings for cleaning up. I always knew Finnish peop
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by dancek 9y ago
That's a common argument, and a flawed one at that IMHO. If a bird pooped on a table, would you rub it off with your bare finger with some soap water, or would you use paper? (Granted, even this might give you the hint that dry paper
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by dancek 9y ago
I use things similar to that Squatty Potty and it feels better for me. I discovered this a couple of years ago. Coincidentally we have brand name ones at work, but any stable platform will do--my favorite might be this kids' stool from
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by dancek 9y ago
Props for doing that. We tried with our twins, but eventually decided cloth diapers are for people with single kids that aren't burnt out.
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by dancek 9y ago
It's not about affording diapers, it's about affording clothes and food and healthcare and baby strollers and a bigger apartment and babysitting and diapers. The costs of everything you need to raise a child come as a surprise to
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by dancek 9y ago
Yes, you're absolutely correct, but stamina comes with practice. The biggest issue IMHO is motivation: if you don't have it, you're not going to keep exercising for long enough. Riding 22km once was no problem, and shouldn&#x
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by dancek 9y ago
The client that sends SNI is, AFAIK, the browser or a similar piece of software. Some older browsers don't support SNI so they can only access single-vhost-per-ip over https. This means you'll have a really hard time trying to get
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by dancek 9y ago
If you want to get something done with microcontrollers, ARM Cortex-M tends to be much more powerful and is already great fun to write Rust for. It's a bit of work to get started--certainly a lot compared to Arduino which abstracts awa
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by dancek 9y ago
Agreed, but there's an exception in my personal experience. If you start commuting by riding a bicycle, you can easily get 5-10 hours a week at around 70% max heart rate (average). Of course it's difficult to motivate yourself to
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by dancek 9y ago
I think this is an important piece of organization culture. If the first reaction to problems is blame and punishment, issues are covered up. But if finding bugs and fixing them is considered valuable, there will be less issues in the long
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by dancek 9y ago
On re-reading the grandparent I have to admit I missed the point. Considering CloudFlare offers to do SSL on their end, it'd be technically viable to only tell CF which domain you want.
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by dancek 9y ago
Well, you can use a browser that doesn't support SNI (IE8) or one that makes it configurable (I don't know if any do). But a large amount of sites won't work without it. It's very common to run multiple sites on same ip&
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by dancek 9y ago
Fair point, although most people don't get that kind of ROI for their extra money in practice (instead most of the money is "lost" in all kinds of fun things). I could argue that $25k/year is still very high compared to
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by dancek 9y ago
Agreed. If raising a child were to cost $1M in 20 years, that would average $50k/year. I earn about as much and have two kids, so I imagine I would have noticed if it was that expensive.
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by dancek 9y ago
This comment elegantly displays what's wrong with modern society. Yes, kids require a lot of things that cost money and a lot of time from the parents. Yes, they make you significantly less productive at work when something is wrong. Y
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by dancek 9y ago
This is not what I understand a leaking (or more commonly 'leaky') abstraction to mean. Instead, assume the previously mentioned Logger does internally write to a file. Now, when the disk becomes full, Logger throws an exception a

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