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by hiq 3y ago
> this sentiment is widely shared across europe Citation needed. Anecdotally there are articles such as https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=89&furtherNews=ye... claiming that "half of Europeans suppo
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by hiq 3y ago
Asking as a hledger user: why do you still use Gnucash, is it only so that you can have a UI?
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by hiq 3y ago
Mostly some version of GTD. A todo list managed by http://todotxt.org/ . Items are dated and I make sure I review (remove or modify) items that have become stale. A similar list for non-actionable ideas (called inbox in GTD)
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by hiq 3y ago
Full for seven years according to https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
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I'm with you there. I just look at the transcript when I'm interested in the content and can't find a proper written alternative. On the other hand, if there's no written alternative, chances are that the content was irr
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by hiq 3y ago
Apparently you can get anyone's declared income with just a phone call, maybe that's what they're referring to: https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-salaries-freely-avail... If that's possible, you can
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by hiq 3y ago
You'd write "catalalang" just like you write "golang", if you really need. I think in most context, search engines would be able to infer the context.
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by hiq 3y ago
How do you deal with people who don't or barely talk in group settings? Is this just a no-go and they're out?
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by hiq 3y ago
This is misleading, as the firmware (binary blobs) most likely do not get updates.
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by hiq 3y ago
> There will be fewer flights, but the ones that remain will be more expensive and more polluting on a per-seat basis. So less polluting in total, which is at least one of the goals? > The wealthy will continue to pay and enjoy less c
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by hiq 3y ago
Many say that `expected revenue > expected expenses (including legal)` given the current regulatory framework, and maybe that's true and would explain this move. If Copilot becomes more widespread, it might also force regulators to
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by hiq 3y ago
You can consider your best token predictor as a lossy compression of the corpus it was trained on.
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by hiq 3y ago
> I'm sure that the argument could be made that all AI should be illegal as all ideas worth having have already been had From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright : > Copyright is intended to protect the o
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by hiq 3y ago
You just reminded me that Windows 8 was a thing, I had to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Version_hist... to remember it.
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by hiq 3y ago
Repeating myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37162506 In which case was it an actual problem for you? What about switching to testing or unstable? In my case I like to mix stable with a few packages from testing &
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Bitcoin Plunge Spurs Liquidations as SpaceX’s Token Sale Weighs(bloomberg.com)
2 points by hiq 3y ago|1 comments
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by hiq 3y ago
> If you're running a desktop system, you should probably use "testing", despite the name. I'm not sure I agree, maybe a better compromise is: * run stable by default * if at one point there are too many packages that
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by hiq 3y ago
What is "work" in this context? Why were you editing config files all the time? I find Debian very user-friendly, there shouldn't be much config file tinkering, especially if the machine is well supported by Linux. The situat
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by hiq 3y ago
The author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia
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Corey and the Robots(backofmind.substack.com)
1 points by hiq 3y ago|0 comments
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by hiq 3y ago
You're not on Uber because of all the other users. Heck, you're not really there because of most the drivers, you're only there because there are enough drivers such that requesting a ride won't be a hassle. It's qu
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by hiq 3y ago
> The frauds and bad scientists will be found out, eventually. The Stanford president mentioned is 63 years old and had a full academic career before being found out. It might even be that he remains financially well-off (I'm assumi
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by hiq 3y ago
One thing though is that is unlikely that everyone would cash out below a certain price for a stock can be sold for parts. There would be at least some people realizing that they might as well hold, liquidate the company and make a profit o
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by hiq 3y ago
> What I don't understand is why even people working in the office all day every day end up with laptops hooked up to docks and dongles. I just need to connect one USB-C cable to get all the devices when I'm at my desk, and I s
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by hiq 3y ago
> It's not unusual to see uptime numbers in the 300s or longer for some people. Do you mean 300 days? Which consumer OS allows you to skip any reboot for that long? In practice IIRC macOS and Windows basically force you to do it reg
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by hiq 3y ago
The admission rate alone doesn't tell you if, as a candidate, I have more chances of getting into this or that university, because it doesn't say anything about who applies. There might big differences between the pools of applica
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by hiq 3y ago
People do get kicked out of ETH, the selection is after admission, not before (as opposed to e.g. most US universities), at least when you enter right after high school. So it's not comparable. Granted it's still easier to &quot
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by hiq 3y ago
According to https://www.who.int/initiatives/behealthy/physical-activity , the recommendation you mentioned is for children and teenagers up to 17 years old. "Adults aged 18–64 years" > Should do at le
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by hiq 3y ago
> the published source had known bugs and was not updated for months That's the server code, not the client code. > the article does address the verifiable builds point, pointing out that it doesn't and can't really wor
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Crypto Can Run, but It Can’t Hide(wsj.com)
1 points by hiq 3y ago|1 comments

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