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by glogla 5y ago
American houses aren't really built from "wood" as in directly from trees - they are build from "engineered wood" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a lot of industrial processing with a lot of oil-based
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by glogla 5y ago
End of Israel _as an entho-state_, which is not necessarily end of Israel as a state. If Nazi Germany could turn into regular Germany, one of the most progressive nations on Earth, so can anyone else.
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by glogla 5y ago
Because being proud of lack of empathy and just ... humanity is pretty fucked up?
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by glogla 5y ago
You're right. But of course by the time of the dramatic events, it will be too late to do anything. Humanity will die off and thats good - looking at the world we built, we deserve it. I fell thankful for being here to witness final mo
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by glogla 5y ago
The benefit of having the queue in the same engine as the main business functionality is that you can do stuff in a single transaction. Having the queue on its own means you have to handle exceptions like "job is done but queue didn&#x
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by glogla 5y ago
I have learned SO MUCH about effective kitchen workflow and organization from those PoV videos. It's a completely different kettle of fish than the fancy videos where you just see conveniently pre-cut stuff falling into a pot.
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by glogla 5y ago
Also developed by guy who is fighting against you being able to install it without involvement with a company that makes money by invading your privacy, who also has a history of working for companies making money invading your privacy.
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by glogla 5y ago
I think that kind of works for negative case - if something is supported by Amazon, Nestle, or Chinese Communist Party, it's probably not something good for the people of the world. Not sure about the positive case - I guess if EFF sup
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by glogla 5y ago
Don't worry, I am overstating it a bit. But even more don't say that in Poland.
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by glogla 5y ago
For serif, I want fonts to be fancy and elegant and I'm in love with Charter/Charis in that regard, and I also really like Computer Modern fonts - but that might be just nostalgia. For sans-serif, I want fonts to be playful and cu
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by glogla 5y ago
> She went to Prague (not exactly Russia, but culturally close enough I guess FYI those are fighting words in Prague. My people generally hate everything having to do with Russia, after being controlled by the Soviets since 1948 and outr
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by glogla 5y ago
Yeah it's not like you were going ask Shadowrunners for a refund.
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by glogla 5y ago
> Or maybe some professional CIA-as-a-service corporation? Actually I'm pretty sure there are PCMs who could handle it. Crowdfunding mercenaries to go against nation states would be very cyberpunk.
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by glogla 5y ago
I'd rather go the other way around and make EU more like US (in organization, not in approach to solving things).
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by glogla 5y ago
"Is table a heap with indexes on the side or is table a tree with other indexes on the side (i.e. 'clustered index')" is a more complicated discussion. The former makes it possible to have MVCC (and thus gives you snapsh
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by glogla 5y ago
That's not really a question. But if you ask why they choose to, they mostly don't have that much choice. Often, rules say "publish in magazine with impact factor at least X" and that's it. The publishers are the ga
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by glogla 5y ago
Mother Theresa was not really a good person, she probably did more harm than good with her "suffering takes you close to god" approach to helping people. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mot
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by glogla 5y ago
The "Nes" in the name is from Nestle, who owns it - so it being terrible can't a surprise to anyone.
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by glogla 5y ago
Many of the Luddites were successful craftsmen. The way I would frame it is that the Luddites weren't against the technology and automation, they were against the how the gains from that increased productivity were share - with 100 % g
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by glogla 5y ago
Subsistence farming is a lot of work, no doubt. But the work is very uneven. Some parts of the year, there's a lot of work. Whole winter, not so much. Meanwhile factories run all the time.
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by glogla 5y ago
When your body runs out of glucose in blood and glycogen in liver, it starts creating new one from protein and fat [1] for the few processes that need it, while switching most metabolism (including brain) to use fat-derived Ketone bodies as
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by glogla 6y ago
Econ Tusk was a child of rich plantantion slav... I mean Fouth Rafrican Bapartheid farmers long before any payment apps.
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by glogla 6y ago
The first paragraph, > Over the last few years, the software development community’s love affair with the popular open-source relational database has reached a bit of a fever pitch. This Hacker News thread covering a piece titled “Postgr
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by glogla 6y ago
"Anti-nuclear people are the utility version of antivaxxers" has not just nice ring to it but quite a bite. I like it.
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by glogla 6y ago
I like it a lot, but how large scale can it be? If I want to move whole JDBC-accessible database to warehouse or lakehouse (like Postgres or Oracle to S3 with Iceberg or Snowflake or something), do I have to build a set of configuration for
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by glogla 6y ago
Depends on the company. Processes vary, but for my former corporate employer, to give you an example, giving someone money in exchange for SaaS software needs 1) Vendor assessment 2) IT Risk Assessment 3) Privacy Assessment 4) Information S
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by glogla 6y ago
Wow this is so pretty. If only it was not so difficult for our megacorp to give you money, process-wise.
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by glogla 6y ago
I heavily recommend for everyone who wants to make correct decisions about Wi-Fi hardware to read this page: https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html The author visibly knows their stuff and goes into channels
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by glogla 6y ago
You're right, especially now when 10G Ethernet swiches with SPF+ ports can be had relatively cheaply thanks to Mikrotik, but sometimes people need both throughput and mobility.
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by glogla 6y ago
It's not the phones people are overwhelmingly interacting with. Unless you're watching someone bored in public transport reading the news on the phone or something, phones are just the mean, not the end. There are people at the ot

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