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by kpil 8y ago
I overheard a guy on a bus. It seems that he got axed, and that Oracle are slashing a rather wide cut over all java (jvm) development, not just Mission Control.
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by kpil 8y ago
There are also a whole system of account categories and mandated systems for reporting. Nice intro here : https://www.accountingcoach.com/debits-and-credits/explanati...
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by kpil 8y ago
Wouldn't hard for the politicians to mandate a temporary emergency credit for chip cards and readers, to be used when the network is down. The banks and Visa could share the credit risks, to give them some incentive to make services t
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by kpil 8y ago
I would. There are thousands of other species of mosquitos. I don't think there would be any noticeable consequences at all after a while.
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by kpil 8y ago
There was malaria in Sweden and it was relatively common 250 years ago, especially in the archipelagos around Stockholm. The climate is probably not the best for the parasite, but there was a number of changes that more or less unintentiona
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by kpil 8y ago
Php is important in the way it exemplifies the total failure of the software industry to take advantage of it's 40-50 years of accumulated knowledge...
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by kpil 8y ago
... I must say I have never really thought about the complex rules - I had to compare and I'd say Swedish is more complex than the other Nordic languages. Although they kept the cases - that there are only traces of left in Swedish -
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by kpil 8y ago
Well, the Danish are more relaxed about most things... Swedish is a bit more complex with arbitrary assigned neutral or uterum gender and definite articles. But you'd probably be understood using -er in spoken Swedish for a large group
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by kpil 8y ago
I liked the story of young web developer who suggested a new glyph for 'Th' since it was clearly missing, blizzfully unaware of the letter Thor that had been used in English until printing became available.
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by kpil 8y ago
Must do, actual Old Norse is similar to Old English and have similar plural endings and a generally similar grammar. Many irregular verbs share a common ancestor and are similar even today. Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian have kept more of t
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by kpil 8y ago
>The bulk of people in the West are apathetic without much care for their work In my experience, most people put a lot of energy and care into their jobs, and most are proud over what they do even when they are not doing especially impor
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by kpil 8y ago
I made a few generalisations based on observing the world for a while, as an attempt to understand why kids destroy things for no apparent reason other than passing time - it's not exactly a scientific study. But ok: My hypothesis is t
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by kpil 8y ago
As long as it not fills with water, I'd say it will right it self. On a traditional boat the sails can dig down in the water and needs to be released rather quickly, and you don't want the hatch to be open, but neither of this see
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by kpil 8y ago
My theory is that classical music is so much complex so you literally have to level up your musical listening skills to make any sense of it. Also they dynamics is different, typically a piece is building up some sort of context that adds t
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by kpil 8y ago
I'm not sure 1995 - 2000. I doubt it will work out better this time - rather the opposite if I'm allowed to guess, and it's just sad that this particular mistake is repeated as a consequence of ideologically induced reality d
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by kpil 8y ago
Driving isn't exactly free, but it's most likely so that petrol and the roads are not taxed in proportion to the true costs for the society. I believe that costs should be made as transparent as possible. Public transport only mak
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by kpil 8y ago
I think it specifically is not used because it's a more complex idea that requires a lot of initial effort and mental work until the benefits are apparent. I guess it's just like most other "actually better than x" langu
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by kpil 8y ago
I think this is bullshit - from a psychological perspective. We need to foster our children that our actions take a toll out of our shared resources. It's clear that "free" sometimes is valued as "worthless" - The S
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by kpil 8y ago
While a bit unergonomic to work with, the .7 protocols uses ASN.1 for defining and describing a lot of the protocols and messages. ASN.1 have some nice ideas that the developer community has failed to grok, reverting back to simpler ideas t
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by kpil 8y ago
I have three old solar panels in my boat for a total of 105 W, and 2 cheap 85Ah marine deep cycle 12 V batteries. It copes with keeping a number of phones, radios, tablets and a small laptop charged, some moderate use of lights, an occasio
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by kpil 8y ago
It's hard to tell isn't it? Since it's know, the bad guys would be stupid to plan something that involved dragging weapons or explosives through the security checks. Some where stupid and tried and succeeded. A limited number
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by kpil 8y ago
I just had a glass of a too chilled red wine... It's warm outside... There are wines that are bordering to each other and some are all over the place, but I'd say I could most likely nail a chilled red wine just on the tannins, un
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by kpil 8y ago
I can't be bothered to actually read the actual paper, but I assume that snails that have been stabbed and injected with something similarly irritating are absolutely chill with that and won't withdraw any sensitive bodyparts none
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by kpil 8y ago
My house can load 105A. I sometimes use 120 kWh on a really cold day, so it's not peaking anywhere near that current, at least not for long. I'm not driving 400km every day so the grid will definitely handle it. But there is a lot
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by kpil 8y ago
Large vehicles certainly causes dust from the additional wear. And I'm not questioning reduced pollution in fully laden busses or reducing congestion in crowded routes in the rush hour, but I haven't seen anything about total syst
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by kpil 8y ago
It seems to me that it's mostly dust from the road - busses are heavy, have larger tyres and wider track width. Combined with the fact that the roads are heavily sanded and salted half of the year, and that they are swept rather than w
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by kpil 8y ago
It kind of works for Venice, it's so nice to be in a car free town with a slow but nice public transport (the vaporettos) so I started to dream about if it would be possible to a similar thing with buses, combined with the existing sub
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by kpil 8y ago
I suppose it works like ordinary sails, but without decent trim - the shape of the hull and rudder counterbalance the perpendicular force and you steer slightly crosswind to compensate for drift. You won't be able to go directly into t
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by kpil 8y ago
Your pension fund, rather...
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by kpil 8y ago
5 % is quite a lot of misdiagnosed babies if this is implemented as a mass screening activity, 2-3 times higher than than what the internet seems to think is the actual ASD incidence, and I imagine that that number includes a lot of "

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