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by jopsen 5y ago
> Screws are convenient, sure, but they are necessarily much harder than nails and are prone to embrittlement and cracking,... That sounds like bike-shedding :D
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by jopsen 5y ago
Tiny living makes sense when remodeling a tiny downtown apartment to suit your needs -- saving you from having to buy a house or larger apartment. But tiny houses in the middle of nowhere makes no sense.. Same with EVs if you are otherwise
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by jopsen 5y ago
> I meant it more as a joke as every year we expect it to be a year of Linux desktop. Nevertheless, I am quite happy with Linux these days. Now, if only we could have a Beowulf cluster of Linux Desktops! </joke>
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by jopsen 5y ago
> - EU/US will yield to Putin on Ukraine Was there any chance NATO would accept an applicant that is currently fighting a war?
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by jopsen 5y ago
- pandemic counter measures will go away, even as new variants emerge -- due to a combination of vaccinations and lack of attention span. - Supply-chain issues will fade. - inflation will slow. - interest rates will go up slightly, almost
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by jopsen 5y ago
When you add accounts to your authenticator app, you can just print out the QR code (take screenshot). Then you have a physical offline backup of the TOTP secret in a QR code with error correction. Store those sheets of paper in a folder so
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by jopsen 5y ago
I bought qcad a few years ago (used it for a hobby project), I payed for it because compiling from source would have been a hassle. Note. qcad is open source. But yes, there is a limit for what you can charge and how far you can scale that
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by jopsen 5y ago
> if we simply had real and effective product liability rules... Isn't there a risk it software would become as ineffective as healthcare? It seems to me that private enterprises aren't good at handling huge uncertainties (like
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by jopsen 5y ago
Compared to the XDG directory specification that MSDN link is garbage. Just my personal opinion.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Does homeschooling even have a fair shot at providing the same academic level?
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by jopsen 5y ago
By that logic it could also be the British. Essentially it's unsubstantiated claims made largely out of thin air. It's useless.
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by jopsen 5y ago
> it seems like proper counter-intelligence to track all diplomats pretty closely because at least some of them are going to be intelligence operatives. Curious, do you happen to know what such spies do? I'm wondering if it's j
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by jopsen 5y ago
Nor can arbitrary people weigh the balance between accepting technical debt and shipping a feature. It involves a risk / benefit analysis. On the other hand, maybe you can build a relationship with contractors that focus on reviewing c
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by jopsen 5y ago
Releasing an open source doesn't mean you have to accept contributions. You don't have to be an open source project. And as an open source project it is fair to say you don't want a contribution because, you can't forese
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by jopsen 5y ago
Time to start a GNU Automobile project? :) But yes, in a future where software is the most complicated part of a car, maybe that's what we'll be paying for. But, IMO then there should also be competition on the software side.
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by jopsen 5y ago
> Once money finds a path, my belief is that the path gets widened Maybe, but it does go the other way too... I used to pay per sms :) Disruption can happen... with cars it'll probably happen when all cars are self driving, rented p
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by jopsen 5y ago
Yeah, this goes pretty much everywhere. I guess our industry is still ripe for disruption. Should someone figure out how make quality software cheap :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
It might be more to do with stop signs, driver training/tests and poor visibility. SF has lots of stop signs, technically a pedestrian barely has to look. And cars don't expect there to be pedestrians. (Generally, they are so anno
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by jopsen 5y ago
I think I've often seen a feature land, followed by 2-3 small PRs fixing corner cases discovered during dev-release testing. Or you agree to land a PR with some aspects left to be fixed in follow up PRs. Typically, when projects are no
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by jopsen 5y ago
Maybe... My point was that often these taxes are actually targeting imports, and not necessarily "luxuries". Well, that also depends on how you define luxuries :) I personally don't mind taxes, but consumption taxes, even on
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by jopsen 5y ago
> But those taxes are everywhere, named like "Luxury Consumption Tax". Are those taxes effectively targeting products that are imported? It's classic trick to improve the trade deficit.. I would guess that getting rid of t
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by jopsen 5y ago
Mileage is really a mess... Some place in the EU uses L / 100km, others km/L, I was using Google so I think the unit was correct. Any case, my car does roughly 17 megameters / meter^3 -- that's proper SI units :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
My Toyota Yaris is rated at 27 km/L = 63mpg But maybe that's only downhill -- I'm certainly not reaching it :) But other mini cars like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo Or so I hear...
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by jopsen 5y ago
35mpg == 15 km/L Wow, that's not good... A large Sedan from early 2000s driven well can easily beat that.. I regularly hear about small cars doing 70 mpg == 30km/L My Toyota Yaris is not fuel efficient at 130 km/h on the
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by jopsen 5y ago
Hehehe, I bet that's true :)
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by jopsen 5y ago
I'm curious... how is cryptocurrency not just a big money laundry machine? If you can put earnings from cryptocurrency trading into the banking system without explaining where the earnings came from, other than saying you bought bitcoi
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by jopsen 5y ago
> What if "Web4" made it impossible to turn off a specific portion of content without turning all of Web4 off. I'm joking a bit.. but my first thought is: ad companies would love it, if I couldn't turn off ads.
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by jopsen 5y ago
Don't we have vaccines? I mean sure an outbreak would be pretty horrific. But once the pictures start circulating, I suspect vaccine hesitation would evaporate pretty quickly. Yes, yes, we should go far to avoid an outbreak, but would
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by jopsen 5y ago
> We really do need solutions around how we prevent China, Russia.... Technology won't defeat policy. We can't code our way out of laws that govern information, whether that be copyright law or censorship laws. We can probably
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by jopsen 5y ago
Lots of people go variable interest rate. It's cheaper and has been for many years.. The argument is that when interest rates go up, you refinance at a fixed rate while you can afford it, or sell stocks to payoff a larger portion of yo

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