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by elric 9mo ago
They used to, and some still kind of do, but no longer for consumers.
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by elric 9mo ago
Evidence of what? Of the existence of open source? Of "open source" what? Software? Hardware? Its usage? The the communities behind various open source projects?
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by elric 9mo ago
You jest, but an actual "digital wallet" device is something I'd quite like to see. Something that's actually secure (like not running an ancient android version that never sees security updates). That only deals with mo
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by elric 9mo ago
There's no laws banning this in any European countries that I'm aware of, except maybe Hungary? It's just banks being stupid, consumer-hostile, and anti-competitive.
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by elric 9mo ago
Many projects made with government money are developed under the EUPL. Including some of the ones I've worked on. Oddly enough, they aren't available for download anywhere.
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by elric 10mo ago
I'm aware. And it sucks. It's a poor description of an object model, it barely explains how things interact or what their significance is.
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by elric 10mo ago
I've built a couple of Odoo integrations for clients. For the longest time, they only offered XML-RPC as an external API. At some point they also added JSON-RPC, which is the same kind of suckage. But now they're suddenly planning
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by elric 10mo ago
> I also have one credit card for strictly recurring expenses I do the same. I have a bank account dedicated to all those recurring expenses I track. Every year I make a budget for those categories, work out the monthly average, and set
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by elric 10mo ago
I used to track every single payment, thinking I was doing excellent budgeting. But in reality it was mostly bikeshedding. The current approach works well for me, but I can totally see a use for tracking more in some cases. If I were a smok
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by elric 10mo ago
Doctors don't have the time or capacity to know their patients well enough to make personalized recommendations in most cases. If you show up with symptoms of X they can recommend Y and will probably ask you whether you have Z which ca
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by elric 10mo ago
> "you people" JFC. I'm checking out of this conversation.
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by elric 10mo ago
My less obsessive personal finance workflow: I have a spreadsheet. I update it by hand once a month, and have been doing so for ~20 years. Takes about 5 minutes. I only track the categories I care about. Those have varied a bit over time, b
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by elric 10mo ago
> 1) if you've ever been exposed to HPV already, then the vaccine is useless This is patently incorrect. The vaccine protects against 9 variants. Having been exposed to all 9 before vaccination sounds like really bad luck. > 2) t
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by elric 10mo ago
Apparently HPV is responsible for some ~70% of throat cancers and ~30% of penile cancers in men. Seems pretty significant to me. If nobody knows a guy who knows a guy who had penile cancer, that's probably because people are very bad a
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by elric 10mo ago
> However, the vaccination is expensive (~1k) Depends entirely on where you are and what your healthcare situation is. Mine cost me ~100eur.
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by elric 10mo ago
I, a male, got vaccinated with the Gardasil 9 vaccine shortly before turning 40. Convincing my doctor to prescribe it wasn't terribly difficult, I told them a few things about my sexual history and explained some of my sexual plans, an
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by elric 10mo ago
This is depressing. From what I can piece together while the site is down, it seems like they've uncovered 14 exploitable vulnerabilities in GnuPG, of which most remain unpatched. Some of those are apparently met by refusal to patch by
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by elric 10mo ago
You'll be pleased to know that there's another 20 or so books in the same universe, both by Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont. Not all of them are as good as the Book of the Fallen, but most of them are pretty close, and some are e
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by elric 10mo ago
I can warmly recommend anything written by Leckie. Her scifi is great. But her attempt at fantasy (The Raven Tower) is also most excellent.
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by elric 10mo ago
What did you think of The Disappearance of Rituals? It's been on my radar, but I've already got a big pile of books waiting to be read.
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by elric 10mo ago
Expecting it to be "cohesive" seems like an odd thing, considering it's literally a bunch of musings & meditations which were taken from a man's private journal. I've found many of the individual musings to be q
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by elric 10mo ago
Fiction: some more novels in Steven Erikson & Ian C Esslemont's Malazan Empire universe. These two produce some of the best fantasy I've ever read, and I've read a fuckton. Non-fiction: A System for Writing by Bob Doto wa
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by elric 10mo ago
I should work on getting better at selling myself. I'm doing alright at scoring longer projects (mostly in the Java/Fintech sphere), but I'd like to take on some smaller projects as well. Things like self-promotion and networ
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by elric 10mo ago
Probably not an issue in practice: no one owns them anymore, no one walks around with them 24/7, and they're nigh impossible to use covertly.
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by elric 10mo ago
If the 18th century was about Enlightenment, the 21st century is about Distrust. We need to stop this nonsense. Fear, surveillance, and distrust are out of control.
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by elric 10mo ago
> This is a very "live to work" article. That's not the impression I got. It's about wanting a career that's meaningful to you. Whatever that means to you. Maybe your answer to "What would I do in my career
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by elric 10mo ago
This reminds me of a take on art, that goes something like "you don't need talent, but you do need to have taste". Taste is the same kind of driver as direction in this case. Probably butchered the quote, can't remember
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by elric 10mo ago
Makes me wonder about how safe lidar is for humam and animal eyeballs?
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by elric 10mo ago
Can I ask what your tech stack is for creating courses? Or is that a trade secret?
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by elric 10mo ago
I've been bamboozled by Udemy a couple of times, thinking a course was recently made, only to discover the videos were 10 years old and most of the content was woefully out of date, with a few "recent updates" videos tacked o

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