digikazi

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by digikazi 6y ago
Reading books that are unrelated to what you do for a living is not a waste - not in my opinion at least. The stuff you read "for work" will undoubtedly increase your technical knowledge and make you a better software engineer, bu
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by digikazi 6y ago
Ha... for some reason I thought Limewire was awful and barely used it. I was however a very big fan of WinMX for many, many years. Happy days! I remember building a massive music collection with it - and sometimes waiting days for a track t
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by digikazi 6y ago
I still rock a TCB 2 - the earlier version with only 2GB RAM. I still find it eminently usable and often have 10+ tabs open(1). It hasn't missed a beat since May 2015 although perhaps recently I've started noticing a bit of slowne
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by digikazi 6y ago
> Is America really such a police state now that you are just supposed to submit to anyone in a uniform? I guess what really surprises me every time I see it is... how can I put it? The level of militarisation of said police; I mean thes
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by digikazi 6y ago
I had the exact same experience myself. I'm from a former Eastern Bloc country. I had to go have my adenoids removed, and it was done with just a local anesthetic - actually, if I remember correctly I was given an injection beforehand
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by digikazi 6y ago
>>start teaching way more programming. The biggest regret of my education was that I was mostly taught how to use Geospatial tools rather than how to make my own.<< This, a thousand times over. During my first geography degree
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by digikazi 6y ago
This sounds brilliant - I'll give it a go tonight! On a different note, I grew up in Eastern Europe before it became capitalist and used to spend my summer holidays in the countryside. Needless to say,almost nothing was pre-packaged or
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by digikazi 6y ago
Can confirm :) Was once driven by a chap who had a very in depth knowledge of Turkish literature; I spent a good 25min listening to him talk about Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak, two writers I had recently read (and liked). Turns out the guy h
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by digikazi 6y ago
I find this deeply worrying, but among the people I work with and my immediate circle of friends and acquaintances I am in the minority. In my experience, people just don't care that much (a fact which I find very, very sad and troubli
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by digikazi 7y ago
That is true, up to a certain extent. I'd say that at university, about half of the medical students I met had one or sometimes two parents who were doctors. The rest seemed to come from comfortable middle-class backgrounds. In my case
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by digikazi 7y ago
The White House ignoring sound advice and doing its own thing... we've had a few good years of that. How is that news? (By White House I mean one person, and I'm saying this in a jokey way)
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by digikazi 7y ago
Any intelligence service worth its salt would have kept a close eye on the situation developing in China, so in that respect this is not unexpected. Personally I knew this could be very bad when I started hearing news about the Chinese qara
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by digikazi 7y ago
Not very drunk at all :) The instructor's name was Andrew Kelly, and the time was May 1998 [1] - quite a long time ago, so forgive my foggy memory. I wasn't on that particular load; I had already done my first jump a few days befo
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by digikazi 7y ago
Pfffff, I used a roundy for my first jump here in the UK only yesterday! I mean 1998. Which suddenly seems like yesterday. Jeez...
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by digikazi 7y ago
I'll bite. Assuming those charity parachutists were doing solo jumps using the static line system, it makes sense. The static line exit isn't dangerous per se, but the landing can be... challenging. For example, the old style roun
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by digikazi 7y ago
Yes, that figure is probably right. I did my first parachute jump in the summer of '98, a year before this study. It was a static line jump, using a round canopy; ancient stuff even then! I had wanted to skydive for a long time, so it
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by digikazi 7y ago
I'm mainly a desktop user, so for me the new design is, how shall I put it politely, utter shite? One of the things the new design has made much harder is the discovery of new subs; in the old reddit you could generally speaking find a
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by digikazi 7y ago
Thank you for that. My chromebook is fast approaching the end of its life and will stop getting updates, so I found that quite useful!
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Two Boeing air disasters demand urgent change – but where do we start?(theguardian.com)
4 points by digikazi 7y ago|0 comments
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by digikazi 7y ago
One of the reasons I visit HN so much is precisely because of these "off topic" articles. Very often they're either interesting, thought provoking or just plain odd/unusual. That's a great thing! I have a wide range
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by digikazi 7y ago
I will attempt to regulate it myself. I have an interest in horology and watch making so it will be a learning curve if nothing else.
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by digikazi 7y ago
Thank you for your knowledgeable reply. I must admit it's not something I considered!
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by digikazi 7y ago
Should that happen, if I am lucky/unlucky enough to survive a nuclear exchange, being on time to catch the train will probably be the least of my worries. Having said that, I still have an Olympus Trip 35 in my collection and since it
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by digikazi 7y ago
That's very true. My two quartz watches, a Seiko and a Timex are both reasonably cheap, accurate and save for the odd battery change maintenance-free. My mechanical Seiko on the other hand.... it's beautiful but it seems to have a
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by digikazi 7y ago
Bruce Gilden springs to mind when you mention "obnoxious" photographers. His technique is to just shove a camera in somebody's face and take the shot. Often there's a flash involved too. Watching a YouTube video of him d
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Using their loaf: Japanese elevate humble art of toast(theguardian.com)
1 points by digikazi 7y ago|0 comments
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by digikazi 7y ago
Atul Gawande is brilliant! He also gave a series of wonderful lectures for the BBC in 2014. They're still avaliable online if interested. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/player?pa... E
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by digikazi 7y ago
You are of course, correct. My first engineering job fresh out of university was for GE. I worked at a (big) site in the British countryside in the Midlands. One of our clients was Boeing, and we made a lot of sensors for them: anything f
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by digikazi 7y ago
You make a very valid point. I was in Central and Eastern Europe during the 2010 heat wave [0]. The combination of Soviet style blocks of flats [1], [2] and no air conditioning was pretty unpleasant to say the least. Eldery people living al
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by digikazi 7y ago
That's true, it does sound a little over the top. But as somebody who has experienced first-hand a European heatwave, I can honestly say at the time it really did feel like hell. I am not a climatologist or a meteo guy, but I was luc

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