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by jjcob 1y ago
So as someone who spent the last few years caring for a kid with a genetic defect.... I really don't wish that on anyone. If there is a way to detect or prevent genetic defects before the kids are born, we should really allow people to
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by jjcob 1y ago
Austrian newspaper Der Standard [1] is reporting that he was using a camera attached with a string, and authorities are considering the possiblity that it got caught in the propellor, leading to a collapse of the parachute. Allegedly he t
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by jjcob 1y ago
Do you get useful insights from blood oxygen data? The measurements seem pretty erratic on my Series 8 watch, and I'm not sure what conclusions I should draw from them. Do you suffer from a health condition that requires monitoring O2s
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by jjcob 1y ago
VO2max is an estimate of your maximum oxygen consumption per minute per kg of body mass. It is not related to your blood oxygen level.
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think we disagree on what we consider bland. I consider people reposting right wing memes on facebook extremely bland. People who blame all the problems on "the foreigners" are so common that I just don't care to listen to
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by jjcob 1y ago
You shape your public image by deciding what you talk about. Do you want to be known as a legendary skydiver? Then talk about the amazing achievements and plans for the future you made. Do you want to be known as a former athlete with quest
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by jjcob 1y ago
It's relevant because that's what most people in Austria remember him for. First he got famous for the Sky Dive from space Then he made headlines for his facebook posts, sharing questionable opinions with the media, and supporting
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by jjcob 1y ago
I don't get why people can't just keep their stupid opinions to themselves. That guy achieved some pretty amazing stuff, and I loved watching him, but then he starts publicly talking political bullshit to the media and it gets a b
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by jjcob 1y ago
Yeah, non-sandboxed apps can iterate over open file descriptors. It's quite useful to detect eg. which app on your local machine is connecting over TCP. I hope they don't lock it down. It doesn't allow intercepting traffic, b
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by jjcob 1y ago
I really think that most people should not use robots.txt If you don't want people to crawl your content, don't put it online. There are so many consequences of disallowing robots -- what about the Internet Archive for example?
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by jjcob 1y ago
People don't just go to the cinema for the image/audio quality. Most people go to meet friends.
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by jjcob 1y ago
We watched a lot of films in divx or xvid or whatever that format was called where you could compress a movie on a CD. Quality was atrocious, but a good story is still a good story...
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by jjcob 1y ago
I was on a student exchange in the US at age ~15 and was offered both weed and alcohol. Funnily enough, weed seemed to be easier to get since dealers don't care about your age. For alcohol you needed to find someone older than 21 who&#
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by jjcob 1y ago
The saddest part of this whole fiasco is that Apple itself is suffering from the lack of competition. Apple Watch for example gets a huge boost from being the only wearable that integrates with iOS. But it has a lot of quality issues, and i
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think at this point we should change the law so that Gatekeepers aren't just required to enable competition, but are somehow forced to actually support competition. I'm not sure how we could enforce that, but maybe the law c
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by jjcob 1y ago
Your logic seems to assume that there two disjoint groups of people: 1. Developers who work on the open source project 2. Developers who work on proprietary software based on the open source project In reality these groups overlap. Develope
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by jjcob 1y ago
I'm building a tool that makes working with the big open source project easier for some users. It makes the open source project accessible for more users. In theory, it would be nice if my tool was open source / free to use. But n
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by jjcob 1y ago
I'm not sure what you are suggesting. My tool is classic shareware: You download a free version, and if you like it you pay to remove feature restrictions. Companies pay per device the tool runs on. I'm not sure how I would implem
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think you misunderstood. My software is not permissive. My software is closed source, but based on a big open source project with a permissive license. It's a tool that helps users of the big open source solution. I can sell licenses
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by jjcob 1y ago
Permissive licenses enable small or individual developers (like myself) to sell software based on them. With copyleft licenses, developers always have to sell stuff adjacent to the software (support, individual development, software-as-a-se
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by jjcob 1y ago
That and crypto-blackmailing. I am convinced that the only use case for cryptocurrencies is criminal activities.
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by jjcob 1y ago
What I was getting at was that maybe typing speed is not the bottleneck. You have to look at how much time the clerk spends typing vs. eg. talking to the customer, clarifying details, explaining the process, reviewing documents, etc. If the
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by jjcob 1y ago
Maybe it's not that important? Taking 5 seconds vs 2 seconds to type a name is probably not that much of a difference? Especially when most of the time you are typing stuff that you need to ask how to spell anyway?
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by jjcob 1y ago
Yeah, I use pear to marinate thinly sliced beef (my variant of bulgogi). I wouldn't let that marinate overnight either. An hour or so is enough. Too much pear for too long and the meat becomes so soft it almost falls apart.
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think for a lot of things it doesn't matter, so either 10h or 32h are okay (eg. soaking beans, marinating meat). If it says overnight I assume the time doesn't really matter that much.
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by jjcob 1y ago
I guess my question was "why offer a pause that ends after 6 months when you have surely forgotten about it"
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by jjcob 1y ago
I recently got a physical exam, including ultra sound, two urine samples, and bloodwork, at a private doctor in Austria and it cost 150€. You Americans are crazy. I'm not sure how a physical would be more than 15 minutes of work. Lab t
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by jjcob 1y ago
Yeah, but they don't work for most people. For example, I could say, just start running/cycling/swimming if you want to lose weight. It's really easy! If you slowly work up to working out 5 hours a week, and keep at it,
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by jjcob 1y ago
Why are you taking testosterone?
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by jjcob 1y ago
WTF? Why offer a "pause" on your subscription at all? The only reason to do that is to trick customers. If the company was honest, they'd get confirmation before resuming the subscription. I hate that companies use sleazy pra

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