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by gernb 5y ago
Left over from some expo in Osaka might be the most amazing and also ugly giant thing ever created https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/02/12/the-1970-osaka-wor... The Tower of the Sun https://www.g
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by gernb 5y ago
I stumbled on this amazing documentary, "Expo - Magic of the White City" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6HuBYiQEeM The first 10 minutes are a little cornball but the rest is amazing. I'd never have even loo
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by gernb 5y ago
Are plastic cutting boards a net win (less bacteria?) or a net loss (adding shavings of plastic to cooking)?
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by gernb 5y ago
Isn't that changing? https://www.intelligentliving.co/ikea-mushroom-based-packagi...
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by gernb 5y ago
unreal is not "open source". "open source" has a specific meaning and Unreal doesn't fit. Some people call unreal "source available" https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+definition
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by gernb 5y ago
Could it be social life is harder now? I'm atheist so this is not for me but if the majority of people used to go to church they had at least one chance a week to meet people and not only just meet random people to but to get to know p
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm still not following your argument. No matter what it's cheaper for the employer to allow employees to work remote. It doesn't matter if they already signed up to pay for the building for another 5 years or whatever. Rent
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm super sympathetic that someone is not paying for you for the time you spent making the content (me, also a content creator) But, just a suggestion, you need to find a better way to put your message. As long as you call it theft &#x
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by gernb 5y ago
So I someone that would prefer to be at the office. I like socializing and getting lunch with coworkers. I like casually asking question, running ideas by others, all things that, FOR ME, don't work remote. Unfortunately, at least so f
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm sure a few people were caught doing something like this but is this really a problem? Are 15% of employees doing this or 0.0001%?
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by gernb 5y ago
The building argument doesn't seem to make business sense so I doubt that's the reason. An empty building is not consuming as much power as a full building so even if the business is wasting money on a building and has to because
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by gernb 5y ago
Honestly, not very many. I've signed up for 300+ companies, maybe more, everyone with a different email. Many of them signed me up to their mailing lists that I didn't ask for and didn't want but they usually made it one clic
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by gernb 5y ago
Well if the person isn't following the license that's bad. MIT says you must include the license which means they would get credit.
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by gernb 5y ago
Much of the software we use every day does benefit from this level of scrutiny. There was a popular post today about changing C++ std::sort for more perf. There's JavaScript engines running 100x faster for a given CPU than they were in
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by gernb 5y ago
Is it sad? I recently put up a game with MIT license. The game IMO is pretty fun. I didn't need to write this in the README but just to be clear I wrote "You're free to ship this in a commercial app". I intentionally mad
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by gernb 5y ago
SF Used to (still does?) have the Workshop Cafe that charged by the hour. It was usually packed! I think they shutdown during COVID and have not re-opened (yet?) https://www.workshopcafe.com/
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by gernb 5y ago
I feel like the Richmond and Sunset districts of SF are pretty safe places to ride bikes. Plus both of them are near Golden Gate Park. I ride in those areas on weekends and except for a few hot spots there aren't that many cars and st
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by gernb 5y ago
Unfortunately vocal people on both sides of the spectrum hate that. The people calling CPS hate it because they think parents are being negectful. Certain people hate it because they imagine kids getting indoctrinated into religions they do
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by gernb 5y ago
go on to okcupid, filter on Q:"Would enjoy a night playing video games" A:Yes - Result: x women within 50 miles of SF where x is < 1%
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by gernb 5y ago
I suppose it was my bad for using lines-of-code as a metric. What meant to convey is I feel like I've done the same amount of work in 10 days on hobby projects as 9 months on work projects. The difference to me is the hobby project is
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by gernb 5y ago
Yes, I've written less then 100 lines of "real" code and at most 1900 of tests.
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by gernb 5y ago
Something that came up recenty for me. I took a job at FAANG company and my productivity from my POV sucks! I doubt I've written more than 2k lines of code in 9 months! I'm debugging hardware/driver issues in a giant code bas
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by gernb 5y ago
I ran into this issue moving from the USA (owning a car for 15yrs) to another country where public transportation is the norm. Lived without a car for 15yrs. For the most part I didn't miss the car. I just took it as "life".
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm sure this isn't enough money but ... car users pay taxes on gasoline to maintain the roads. Cyclists pay nothing equivalent. Of course cyclists pay normal taxes like everyone else. It does raise the question of should their be
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by gernb 5y ago
most important line > Have fridges for Club-Mate Yes please! (So sad that it seems no one outside of Germany likes Club-Mate) (pg: 30, 80-81) Club-Mate: Mate tea soda with less sugar than most sodas but more caffine. (pronounced Klube (r
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by gernb 5y ago
A good reference? https://countryeconomy.com/taxes/tax-revenue I'm not sure what other things to take into account. For example it says tax collected in Luxemberg is $44k per capita. Vs USA at $16k per capita. I&#
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Ask HN: Why no GUI open source unarchive apps?
1 points by gernb 5y ago|5 comments
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by gernb 5y ago
nonsense. The terminal is a place that you run software. Every piece of software you run in the terminal can do all kinds of nasty things to your system and steal info the browser is also a place to run software. There, that software can no
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by gernb 5y ago
> I expect my terminal to be a much more secure environment than my web browser. Wat? Your terminal is 1000x less secure than your browser. Your terminal can do `rm -rf ~/`. your terminal can run `curl -F 'data=@~/.ssh&#x2
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by gernb 5y ago
Agreed, domain admins can also lock down Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS. The school is effectively making the computer a terminal into their system. Their system, their rules. I know the OP won't like this answer but the OP should bu

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