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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
I used to do 4 days, with 80% salary, until I lost that job just before Covid hit. Best decision I have made. I used to hate Monday mornings, suddenly I loved Mondays, and hated Tuesdays instead. Loved the long weekends, especially that one
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
As the article says, he can not farm that field, but the government is compensating him for it. Don't know how much, but this is Norway, so probably reasonably well. And they do take pride in their history, so the farmer might be proud
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
Yeah, I learned this "fact" in school as well. Later I found a simple refutation: If a church window pane would deform by a measurable amount in 1000 years (say 0.5mm), then a 100-year old telescope or camera lens would be totally
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
Yes to night thinking. Once I was involved in hunting down a tricky bug. We spent days and weeks trying various things. One night I woke up, not with a clear solution, but three new things to try. Tested the first one, and it worked. Told m
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
My default Apache 404 page got a 38% of users will like it, 26 points for visually average, 20 for visual and 30 for clarity. After a few different URLs, my fail2ban kicked in, and the site complained about the URL being invalid. Fair enoug
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
Depends a lot where you are from. Here in Copenhagen, biking is a fairly safe and well respected way of transport. Pity it does not seem to be so in many other places.
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by heikkilevanto 6y ago
Already now this looks like a very useful tool for a person who is bound to a wheelchair. It can easily reach things at different heights, including floor level, which is hard from a wheelchair. Its base is smaller than a wheelchair, so it