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by logifail 1y ago
> probably get another 5-15% by upgrading from oldoldstable Debian 11/Bullseye with kernel 5.10 to something modern like Debian 13/Trixie For the on-prem/homelab crowd: I upgraded my desktop from Debian 12 to 13 yesterday
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by logifail 1y ago
> it’s bad form to deadname someone even if you are referring to a period when they went by the deadname I try really hard to avoid getting anywhere near these contentious things ... but I think Wikipedia's handling of this seems re
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by logifail 1y ago
> I just stopped having a filter. When I think of someone, I just fire off a message This. I'm spending the week in my hometown with my 9-year old daughter to give her the chance of some time with her grandparents. We live hundreds
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by logifail 1y ago
> PP was asking to clarify your English, not your French, so that readers could understand... (This is the first time I've had this on HN) but I have no idea what you mean. Is someone really not understanding? It looks like they&
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by logifail 1y ago
> En masse? My French is just fine - merci beaucoup - yet unfortunately yet another HN thread gets distracted from the intention of a post by someone determined to focus on semantics :/
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by logifail 1y ago
I've travelled quite a lot in the top half of Italy over the decades for both work and pleasure - Milan, Venice, Florence, Siena, Verona, Bologna, Pisa, Parma. I would suggest that from the outside it could be easy to underestimate jus
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by logifail 1y ago
> for example my bank has a £25 service change to send money overseas OT but the kind of bank that charges £25 for something like that is almost certainly robbing you blind on the exchange rate, too.
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by logifail 1y ago
> when you are given the option to give a tip before any service has been given [...] why would I give a reward for good service Are there still customers giving tips as "a reward for good service"? I'm trying to imagine a
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by logifail 1y ago
So an honest conversation about the West's emissions having been offshored would also be very relevant.
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by logifail 1y ago
Asia appears to be the epicenter of future emissions growth. Wouldn't it be good to hear more about countries/regions likely to increase their CO2 emissions in the coming years/decades? "India: As one of the world'
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by logifail 1y ago
The author writes: > "Here is the URL from that email [..] https://sites.google.com [...]" THAT link is the first red flag, and I think the author should say so right there , not three paragraphs later.
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by logifail 1y ago
Clickbait title much?
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by logifail 1y ago
Q: Can you tell in advance whether your query is one that's worth paying more for a better answer?
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by logifail 1y ago
> Reading reviews for the thing you are buying on the platform that you are buying it sounds a bit sketchy anyway Although at least the platform can know if the reviewer actually purchased the product(?) > Searching the product and re
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by logifail 1y ago
> Maybe it's easy for the Fed to acquire more cash as long as it's guaranteed not to be spent. Based on Fed policy since 2007, they may be happy to hand out cash especially if it's going to be spent. "Money printer
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by logifail 1y ago
> I've seen SDRs being used to track civilian airplanes using TV transmitters I was reading about that and was really interested in trying it - got quite close to buying some kit (KrakenSDR) - then it seemed that particular capabili
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by logifail 1y ago
> The article is specifically about the price increase in the last 6 years My point is that six years ago the cheapest new cars cost less, in many cases a lot less, than $25k. The article itself lists several examples.
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by logifail 1y ago
$25k ?! The last car I bought cost just less than $12k USD new ( on the road including all taxes and fees) around 5 years ago. I know inflation's been high, but not it's not been that high.
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by logifail 1y ago
> an internal financial model Written on the back an envelope? Way back when, we ran a vending machine at school as a project. Decide on the margin, buy in stock from the cash-and-carry, fill the machine, watch the money roll in. Then
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by logifail 1y ago
> Government IT spending doesn't follow the same fiscal rules as your basic household budget. It's not the case that the government has a finite pot of money to spend and when it's gone it's gone. Assuming that govern
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by logifail 1y ago
If someone's shown that they can be dishonest once, why would one trust them ever again?
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by logifail 1y ago
> building the software that can build all other software All other software? I'm afraid I stopped believing the author at that point...
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by logifail 1y ago
> Part of it is that it absolutely invokes AAVE. It forces people to consider and be reminded of Black American culture If you don't already know what "Juneteenth" means, the word itself gives you nothing to help you und
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by logifail 1y ago
I'd not really considered connections or which trains which run in which track/tunnel once it's finished(!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_line_2_(Munich_S-Bahn)#/... > zwei Stammstrecke wil
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by logifail 1y ago
If anyone's interested, there's a massive project in Munich to expand capacity, improve performance, and reduce journey times on the suburban lines that run through the centre: https://www.2.stammstrecke-muenchen.de&#x2
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by logifail 1y ago
> the location of telephone exchanges was a UK state secret I found myself wondering whether the locations of electricty substations powering critical infrastructure might count as "secret", for instance the three[0] substation
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by logifail 1y ago
> Do you know every common programing language? A long time ago my OH was introduced to someone who claimed "to speak seven languages fluently". Her response at the time was was "Do they have anything interesting to say in
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by logifail 1y ago
> most devices like this use motion sensors to go into low-power mode when stationary and only transmit on the move I've been working with (non-covert!) tracker devices for a project, and use exactly this approach, when stationary t
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by logifail 1y ago
> People think R&D expenditure shouldn't be amoritized because it hurts startups (Not trying to be deliberately obtuse but) which people "think this"? Startups and their investors, obviously, but who else? If world
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by logifail 1y ago
> it classifies all software development as R&D by definition We may need to argue about the word "development", but in any case, do you have a reference for that? https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/p

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