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by jgilias 4y ago
Where I live most electricity comes from hydro and wind. The main reason I got an EV though was not striving to be green. It's just so much nicer to drive. I also like how I can pretty much neglect the running costs. Like, how much I d
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by jgilias 4y ago
Thank you for the very valuable in-depth insight! What I had in mind was actual, demonstratable instances of being wrong. Such as assuming a parameter in a function of a library works a certain way based on how it's named, and what _sh
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by jgilias 4y ago
They don't take local factors into account at all. The local Russian speakers have emigrated at a larger rate than say ethnic Latvians. So, if they just project past trends to the future they are bound to be wrong. Also, immigration is
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by jgilias 4y ago
One example of right/wrong I was talking about was appropriateness of using a particular English phrase in business communication. The person criticised someone for using it when the usage was completely in line with the dictionary, bu
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by jgilias 4y ago
I have a question about autistic experience that I've had for some time that I'd be very happy if someone could answer from their perspective. The (highly functioning) autistic people I've known in my life all have this issue
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by jgilias 4y ago
+1 from me here! The book arrived yesterday (yes, I'm a luddite like that), and now I'm at chapter 8. For me, I'm already aware in one way or another of most things in it, but my knowledge is spotty in places, and all over th
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by jgilias 4y ago
Having lived in both Sweden and Norway, I can say for sure that it's used in both places. I'm not sure though if I could've used my Swedish bankid to log into a Norwegian bank.
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by jgilias 4y ago
Why are you using it instead of LibreOffice? Genuinely curious.
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by jgilias 4y ago
There are a lot of posts that don't make it to the frontpage. Only the ones that 'we' as a community reading this forum find interesting do. Sometimes one has to accept that 'the community' might value one or anothe
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by jgilias 4y ago
For what it's worth, there's Gemini. You can't really call it rich document though, as styling is left to the user consuming the content.
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by jgilias 4y ago
In principle, yes. But bear in mind that Rust doesn't depend on a runtime, and compiles to LLVM IR, so what it depends on to run on the target system is a lot less than something like PHP, Python, or JS. So to really end up in deep shi
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by jgilias 4y ago
I recently was thinking about how smart/not-smart would it be to become a full-on 'Rust developer'. So I thought, OK, what happens if two decades from now I'm a grey-beard Rust programmer, and the only jobs I can find ar
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by jgilias 4y ago
And the Turkish lira is liable to the whims of an authoritarian leader who doesn't believe in fiscal orthodoxy and keeps firing his central bank leaders as soon as they even hint at raising the interest rates in order to try and reign
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by jgilias 4y ago
No need to put private currencies in quotes. Here ECB talks about the interplay between public and private money [1] when discussing their CBDC (digital EUR) plans. I think this is a pretty interesting topic and just reducing it to 'pr
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by jgilias 4y ago
Sure. But even if Germany falters, the Baltics, the EU Nordics (maybe even Norway though), as well as Poland will be there as soon as it would be possible.
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by jgilias 4y ago
I've found that it's relatively easy to figure out if someone is bullshitting. It just takes some work on your end by researching the candidate's application a bit deeper, thinking about relevant questions beforehand, and the
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by jgilias 4y ago
Nope, I can not, actually. This just doesn't correspond to reality. Name one city that has suffered the fate of Mariupol from US actions. Even NATO bombardment of Serbian cities doesn't come even close to the level of destruction
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by jgilias 4y ago
Yes, it's a problem that there are co-dependencies with Russia. Yes, it's a grave mistake that Europe didn't untangle from those right after 2014. But not untangling them now would be completely brain-dead. I mean... Russia i
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by jgilias 4y ago
If it was _just_ getting colonized, that's one thing. The alternative for Baltics is not that benign. See Mariupol, Buchi, Irpin, etc, etc, etc...
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by jgilias 4y ago
Here's the breakdown from the Estonian statistics bureau: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665931#31666116 Increase in housing prices contribute a lot. From what I know this is also the case in Lithuania and Latv
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by jgilias 4y ago
Exactly. If you notice, the second and third place are taken by Lithuania and Latvia respectively. A lot of 'cheapness' in all kinds of sectors came from RUS/UKR/BEL somewhere upstream. Building materials being a prime e
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by jgilias 4y ago
Yes, annualized.
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by jgilias 4y ago
Rust's memory semantics are definitely a kind of 'automatic memory management' though. I mean, that's the whole premise - to have the kind of guarantees about memory safety that until Rust where only available in GC&#x27
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by jgilias 5y ago
Nice initiative. Any exploration into funding publicly used software is a good thing. May I suggest using the Business Source License as the basis for this instead of the Openfare Commercial License? This way older versions of software woul
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by jgilias 5y ago
What otrahuevada is describing is a situation in which the software developer determines under what terms a particular user may use the software, not a situation where the user makes this choice. Only the latter situation is (can be) dual l
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by jgilias 5y ago
What you suggest is not really dual licensing though. It's a source-available license with a free tier. Dual licensing means that there are two licenses that the user can choose from at their discretion . This is why GPL may work toge
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by jgilias 5y ago
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I got kids.
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by jgilias 5y ago
Yeah, curiously, I think Laravel is just getting started in a way. Taylor seems to have a superb vision about what it is that he wants to achieve with it and in what way, and I don't think the 'rest of us' have fully grasped
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by jgilias 5y ago
I get your point. I get involved in these discussions because I am not really satisfied with the current status quo. I want OS creators to have their cake and eat it too. Well, at least have a cake to eat. And the problem with your consciou
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by jgilias 5y ago
Obligatory disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer. I'm pretty sure your text doesn't do what you think it does. Dual-licensing means that there are two licenses and the user can choose which one to use. The GPL + commercial combo work

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