lokedhs

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by lokedhs 9y ago
Been working in Singapore for 13 years now. Originally from Sweden. In my case, I already knew I needed to move there for family reasons. Before that I had already considered moving abroad but it wasn't until I knew where I wanted to g
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by lokedhs 9y ago
The Jupiter Ace is particularly valuable. There's one on Ebay right now at 1400 dollars.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Have you considered Kotlin? It does address specific pain points of Java, such as extension methods. That said, I personally don't think Kotlin went nearly far enough, and some of their design decisions are questionable but if need to
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I joined an instance which focuses on the things I'm interested in, and look at the local timeline. That timeline contains original posts (i.e. not replies) posted from that instance. I'd follow pretty much anyone posting anything
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Uber is preparing to sell Southeast Asia unit to Grab(cnbc.com)
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I think this is a case of everything looking like a nail if all you have is a hammer. A lot of programmers these days have been brought up on JS and web technologies so they literally do not see any other solutions, regardless of how much b
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I tried Twitter a long time ago, and never enjoyed it. I've been quite active on Mastodon (@loke@functional.cafe) for the last several months, and enjoying it a lot. It's not perfect, but it gives me more satisfaction than Twitter
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by lokedhs 9y ago
The GDPR does not forbid you to do those things. It does require you to treat the information as PII, which is going to give you some hassles, but you are not banned from recording it.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
The first version of OSX looked horrible. The horizontal lines over the menus made them almost impossible to read. Over the next several major releases the lines became less and less pronounced until it wasn't terrible anymore around 1
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I had to read the comments before realising that the headline referred to the US state, not the country. Perhaps it would be useful to add (US) after the name to avoid such confusion?
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I'd like to mention Geocities. And not in a completely jokingly manner as others have. I'm not mentioning them because of the quality of the content on there, which was mostly terrible. I'm mentioning them because they repres
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Or just use the RSS feed. It also gives you a chronological views, and your reader will keep track of which ones you've already seen.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
I have been using IRC for as long as you, I guess (mid 90's). And I am active on a large set of channels with very active and stable groups. They're mostly centred around various technologies on Freenode, so I'd recommend you
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Same here. In fact, I landed here right now from Digg Reader. Reading the HN feed using RSS is much nicer than going to the main page.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
They exist in other countries too. I don't know if there is any crossover when it comes to the content though.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
This one is old, but I don't think things have improved much since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec It's worth a watch. Hilarious, despite the bad sound quality.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
The Stockholm stations are nice in a different way. That said, I'm from Stockholm, so I might not be the best person to judge.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
It's hard for pictures to convey just how stunning these stations are, and the fact that the photos in the article were not particularly good didn't help. I'd recommend anyone to visit and see this for themselves. It doesn&#x
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Back at the end of the dotcom bubble, I was working at some expo, messing with some servers behind a small stage that the vendor had set up. At the stage was the former finance minister of Sweden speaking about "the new economy" w
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by lokedhs 9y ago
If that happened to you, wouldn't you investigate it and try to explain it? In practice, if you saw this happen you'd have probably notice that something was off. The coin is probably weighted, or some sleight of hand tricked you.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Brussels is the centre of power in the EU. I have nothing against Toronto, but just because its population is higher doesn't really award it the status of being more "major".
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by lokedhs 9y ago
"Econ 101: The price of a currency is based on people's trust in that currency." Right, but how many people really trust Bitcoin? And by trust, I mean trust that it will retain its value for the foreseeable future. I have tru
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Or a new citizen of York, England.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
It would be much safer, and cheaper for him to just buy an airline ticket if he wants to get up in the air. He'll get much higher as well, by several times.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
They could just look at the sun. The stuff you see is mostly plasma.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
Why? It's correct. You run a tool to convert the Web source to Pascal. If you want to compile TeX on modern computers, you run another conversion step to convert the Pascal to C, but Knuth used a real Pascal compiler when he made TeX.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
My MBA is still on 10.10 with no intention of upgrading. It has an almost full 64 GB SSD, so I hope that will stop an automatic update.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
From Singapore: $ ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=2.04 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=1.96 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 tim
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by lokedhs 9y ago
All of it goes to the publisher. You also forgot to ask if the peer-reviewer gets anything, and the answer to that question is also no.
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by lokedhs 9y ago
It worked for me as well, but it was a constant hassle. Once I realised that I barely used any Mac-specific software anymore, the choice to move back to Linux was easy.

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