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by ketzu 3y ago
I don't think many people consider "email" to be a community in any meaningful way. The same way people don't consider physical mail, the telephone network or the internet as a whole a community.
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by ketzu 3y ago
In my CS field, it is common to submit to different conferences at least if a paper gets rejected (because rejections can be very superficial). Fitting for a new conference template often also imposes rewrites, because of different length r
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by ketzu 3y ago
Everything I ever saw points to rising real wages over spans larger than 20 years. e.g., https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N (there's quite the dip after 2008). Could you provide a source?
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by ketzu 3y ago
Just a warning to users: light-on-dark QR codes can not be parsed by all QR code readers, even though they look nice.
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by ketzu 3y ago
Whenever I tried software-kanban tools they always fell into the abyss of things-not-currently-in-my-head and end up unused. I ended up making physical boards, either in a small part of my whiteboard at uni or by getting a small whiteboard
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by ketzu 3y ago
> if you’re preparing your code for others to read—whether on screen or on paper—skip the ligatures. The article should have led with this. Instead this main caveat is buried in a paragraph, where it is preceded by, what boils down to, &
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by ketzu 3y ago
> people can and should do whatever you permit them to in your license I agree with 'can', but I find 'should' a weird choice of words here. I don't think we are better off by phrasing hyper-specific licenses (or
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by ketzu 3y ago
It is fine and works well. I mostly got the smart speakers because i wanted multi room audio for my spotify, and alexa is the cheapest decent quality multi room audio I could get. Also, my morning routine since I have them has simplified: G
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by ketzu 3y ago
Is them cooperating on open source software a realistic outcome? Or will there be many small, unmaintainable, slightly different, open projects? Why are they not already collaborating on closed source software? Looking at the mess of custom
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by ketzu 3y ago
> Why it is not a required that if you get taxpayers' money, the results should be available for free to everyone, let's say after 12 months of grace perioid ?? Probably depends on the development in question, but in general th
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by ketzu 3y ago
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you explain? The 1% and 2% examples are not from the article as one of the losing deposit examples, just my comparisons because I am familiar with them. So I wonder if they also re
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by ketzu 3y ago
They nicely provide an anchor point for reference on how much money is held in accounts: > 9.45 trillion euros held in current, or checking, accounts at banks across the euro zone. Deutsche Bank, one of the examples, reported higher redu
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by ketzu 3y ago
> people referring to different things with the same terminology. Management is not an area I would want someone to be aggressive, as in confrontational, in. But in business aggression, as in ambition, is often seen as positive. My under
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by ketzu 3y ago
My reading of that claim is 10 out of 10 people laid off were from marginalized groups. Not 20% of 10. > Approximately 20% of the company was laid off, and to the best of my knowledge 100% of them were members of historically marginalize
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by ketzu 3y ago
For funny historical reasons, the english tone B is called H in some countries, especially northern and central europe. (English B-flat is called B there) Wherever that figure is from.
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by ketzu 3y ago
Afaik, one of the largest blocker for wind in bavaria is the 10-H rule: the distance from a wind turbine and the closest residential building has to be more than 10 times the height of the wind turbine. This does not exactly seem a concern
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by ketzu 3y ago
> pay a fair I often read a sentiment close to this around the topic of copyright. But what is "fair" seems to be more often than not "we want to pay as little as possible" with no relation to any tangible values, cos
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by ketzu 3y ago
Oh they increased to 2TB? (Seems it was around 2019... wow I am not up to date! https://venturebeat.com/business/dropbox-increases-plus-plan... ) Back when I decided which cloud storage to use, all the big ones were at
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by ketzu 3y ago
> The best way to reduce piracy of copyrighted works is to cut the copyright period by 75% relative to current standards. Personally, I believe this would have a negligible effect on piracy or even online arguments around copyright. I be
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by ketzu 3y ago
They call it out directly, citing > [it means that] the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect
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by ketzu 3y ago
Back then the three big ones seemed to be Blackberry, AMC and Gamestop. If r/BBBY stats is anything to go by, I would say it wasn't that popular before mid 2022 [1] and is gaining traction since january. But it might have been bi
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by ketzu 3y ago
AFAIK it is the newest meme stock, it popped up on the reddit front page the previous few days.
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by ketzu 3y ago
Yeah unfortunately, 40% energy density of gasoline for batteries would be nice.
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by ketzu 3y ago
What do you think is stopping them from doing that right now?
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by ketzu 3y ago
As I can't read the article, I searched around a bit and read [1] on frobes. > Pichai's compensation included stock awards of about $218 million and a basic salary of $2 million, the filing showed. Pichai's stock award is
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by ketzu 3y ago
> (Electron bad, nuclear good, Windows 11 a train-wreck, AI a bubble, ...) Don't worry, with those believes you don't have to post at all! There are hundreds of us that already write the same comments!
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by ketzu 3y ago
> gasoline at around 1200 Wh/kg Aren't you missing a 0 there? Gasonline should be at 12 kWh/kg instead of 1.2. [1] https://chemistry.beloit.edu/edetc/SlideShow/slides/energy/d...
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by ketzu 3y ago
> The article is about volunteers writing code. Maybe I misread, but the article seems to be specifically not about volunteers. (The only mention about volunteers is "[Writing secure and stable software] cannot be accomplished long-
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by ketzu 3y ago
> hold independent volunteers responsible iirc there is already a carveout for free open-source contributions, it only applies to (the very widely applicable) commercial activity. My understanding is, this letter is about developers orga
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by ketzu 3y ago
> If I'm planting trees on earth day, and someone hands me a dollar, am I now paid, and now responsible if the tree falls on someone. Afaik I can't just plant trees anywhere I want and might be liable for damage I do while plan

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