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by jusssi 5y ago
Better yet, saying they won't invade, then two days later invade anyway.
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by jusssi 5y ago
So when the generals say, hey there's Finland, sitting there all by itself, right next to us. It'll take us two weeks, nice and clean. And Sweden's up next, we can get Ikea and Abba too. But we must hurry, in another month or
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by jusssi 5y ago
> It's interesting how the west has lost it's mind here Do you honestly think Putin will stop his conquest if he gets easy success in Ukraine?
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by jusssi 5y ago
Funny thing about Hue, instead of brighter, I wish they'd go dimmer. If I want more light, I can always get more bulbs. But currently the lowest brightness (at least for the standard white tones bulbs I have) is too bright to work for
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by jusssi 5y ago
This is Putin saying, look what happens when you say no to me. Mostly addressed to his own subjects.
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by jusssi 5y ago
I wonder if it's the half who have no risk of getting conscripted into implementing that invasion. I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
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At least you'll get better at solving that particular kind of problem. So if IQ is defined as your ability to solve that kind of problem, then yes, your IQ will increase.
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by jusssi 5y ago
> By showing them relevant ads? If only. Generally they just manage to show me ads to buy more of the stuff I just bought. Or something I looked at and decided not to buy.
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by jusssi 5y ago
So they set up an EU subsidiary that's independent enough for CLOUD Act to not apply. Problem solved.
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by jusssi 5y ago
Day length in Helsinki, Finland today is 6 hours, 53 minutes. It is now noon. Day length in Melbourne, Australia today is 14 hours, 25 minutes. The sun just set half an hour ago. If you know someone who lives in those places, you can call t
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by jusssi 5y ago
Because we can't make people agree whether punctuation or meaningful whitespace is better: I'd like something that you can view and edit in your preferred syntax style. It would be stored in SCM and run/compiled in some inter
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> Most people that die in car crashes are wearing seatbelts Funny enough, I just recently checked the stats for that. According to the first report I found with a simple googling, 47% of people who died in car crashes were not wearing se
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Also, perceived and actual fairness can have quite a gap between them. People often feel like they're being treated unfairly when an outcome is not favorable to them, even when they're being treated by exactly same rules as anyon
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by jusssi 5y ago
A preorder is a sort of contract. A supplier promises a product with features x, y and z, on date nnnn. They fail to deliver -> breach of contract. Already supported in most legislations, I assume.
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Settled for undisclosed amount after the last court round was at $640 000 (which both sides appealed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau... The point being, in EU you'd be expected to kn
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by jusssi 5y ago
The protection goes both ways though. Court ordered compensations are based on actual damages. No one here dreams of getting millions for burning their mouth on hot McD coffee.
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by jusssi 5y ago
> Most of these settings can be set and managed from AWS Organisations for free, and backed up with alarming and alerts for Guard Duty trivially. Makes me wonder, why are they even settings? Why aren't they just always on?
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by jusssi 5y ago
Just put that "project delivered ahead of time" to your CV and go find the raise elsewhere. That's how the industry works for devs anyway.
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by jusssi 5y ago
Is there now a reliable non-hacky way to do threads or async, to run queries to multiple dbs or backend systems simultaneously in PHP?
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> One way to make it crash is making the simulation crawling to a stop by requiring always more computation to be done by preventing the simulator to take shortcuts in the computing process. Isn't this the reason for mass-induced ti
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by jusssi 5y ago
In practice, most currencies are inflationary because more money is continuously being made. Which means that early obtainers of money actually lose value holding it, instead of gaining more. So currencies would be the opposite of a Ponzi.
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by jusssi 5y ago
A particularly nasty aspect of SQL UPDATE syntax is the predicate order, i.e. SET is before WHERE. So when you type it in order, there's a dangerous phase you have to go through if you hit enter by accident. Having run an `mkfs.ext3 &#
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by jusssi 5y ago
> You can't really wash a 500-mℓ glass bottle with less than about a liter of water, and to sterilize it you need that water to be at least 60°, preferably more like 90°. Heating water from 25° to 60° takes 35 calories per gram; at
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by jusssi 5y ago
I find that often the big gains come from applying knowledge about the data. Take a classic, which order should the DB perform the required operations (scan a.foo, scan b.bar, match keys between a and b) for the simple join: SELECT * FR
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Re: delivery drones, energy efficiency comes to mind. Now when I order lunch with delivery service, there's 1-2 tons of metal and plastic on wheels moving around with dino oil power, piloted by 80 kg of meat, to bring me a 0.5 kg deliv
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> That first set of glasses was a revelation, like entering a new HD world that I didn't know I'd slowly left. That same thing can happen even when you already have glasses. My lenses were something like 10 years old and I thou
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> many otherwise nice countries still apply conscription It may be the case that it is a necessary condition for remaining a nice country. At least if their neighbors aren't always so nice. Most civilized countries with universal co
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Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are in habit of using them, boom.
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You can formally prove that a function always does exactly what the author intended, no less, no more. But it still might be the wrong thing to do. The question is, do you count that as a bug or something else.
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This pattern also nicely expands when you need to select from more than 2 values. And it lets you keep the mapping as a data instead of turning it into logic. {"a": 1, "b": 2}.get(selector(), default_value) for th

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