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by luca_ing 10y ago
> EV owners often report that charging is more convenient, because you wake up with a full charge every morning. Plugging in to a charging point takes just a few seconds. Well, this plug-in hybrid owner disagrees. I find it very tedious
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Maybe the US is different, but I've been commuting on my bike, on public roads in a major city, for literally two decades. Admittedly I've had a few accidents over the years, but none that drew blood (as far as I remember), and ce
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Algo/puzzle/riddle is not the same as whiteboard. I'm all for getting rid of the former, but I have no problem getting up and writing on a whiteboard as long as it's used for its correct purpose, viz. as a tool for
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> The 2017 Chevy Bolt claims a 238 mile range. The Honda Fit get s 32 city mpg and has a 10.6 gallon tank, for 339 miles of range. One charges in 5 minutes, the other in a night or so. > So EV's are not that far behind convention
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I went on a five-day hike on a whim, and was pretty badly prepared. I suddenly found myself at the head of a trail, and decided to give it a go -- the things you do when you're young and invincible. I had a few packets of ramen. I&#x27
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> When you carry your gear for a thousands of miles, you reevaluate what you really need. True. There is one interesting exception though: everyone I met who traveled (not hiked per se, but lived out of a backpack), had one "luxury
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> They solved the Hail A Cab From The Street Problem. [...] The App For Cabs, is useful compared to the previous world where you stood on the corner waiting for a taxi to stop You could already call taxis by phone (including your mobile)
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> I don't really understand why one would actually want to work at Uber. You make good points. There's one that I'd like to add: For me the biggest red flag is that this company's business model is based on blatantly
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I use rsnapshot to aggregate a bunch of machines on my NAS. I've been intending to for a few months O:-) to then save this aggregated backup somewhere on the internet. Not sure if e.g. tarsnap, or a minimal vserver with rsnapshot or rs
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by luca_ing 10y ago
My favourite in that respect is a kind of mushroom that you can buy in Finland. It's deadly poisonous. Unless you cook it thrice and discard the water each time. I can't fathom the thought process that went into finding this out.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I've been using ZFS on all my desktops and my personal NAS for, I can't remember, probably 4-5 years. Including ZFS root filesystem, and swap on a zvol. I have to say, I really like it, and I'll use it again if I have to redo
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by luca_ing 10y ago
You're right. But they also deliberately shrunk the staff levels a few years ago to save money.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
They require lots of very specific applications. From what one hears (Munich native here), many of them are pretty bad. Now, being bespoke apps, they'd probably just as horrible if they if they were Windows apps, but it just gets rolle
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> I am deeply suspicious of the motives here... Munich native here. Not even the mayor's office denies that the entire public service organisation is woefully understaffed. While I've heard disconcerting things about the qualit
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> It's massive staffing issues. There are way too few people employed at the public service desks, and it's easier to hide this by blaming IT. This was the case years ago, and it still is. Thank you for confirming my suspicions
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by luca_ing 10y ago
There's pass, which should be right up HN's alley: https://www.passwordstore.org/ I've been using it for a few years. Works for me.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
From the pass website[1]: -------------------- The community has even produced a cross-platform GUI client, an Android app, an iOS app, a Firefox plugin, Chrome plugin, a Windows client, a pretty Python QML app, a nice Go GUI app, an intera
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Management, you say? Management ordered the creation of new software. Shouldn't that be enough? The project lead was responsible for this design, and above him there was nobody with any expertise in the matter. From what I've hear
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I'm currently working on the reincarnation of a project that was killed by technical debt -- TWICE. The original codebase was about 20 years old. It was control code for something best described as an industrial robot. Written for the
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Well anecdotally I remember it being true back then :-)
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> > Google the laptop model + Linux before you buy it. That increases the odds of getting a "it works out of the box" experience. > I would happily do this when was a university student about 20 years ago. > Nowadays,
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> The fact that hardware - though much improved in the past 15 years - is still a crapshoot on Linux, particularly when it comes to laptop hardware, is so frustrating. Anecdata: I've only ever had good luck with my laptops. All boug
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by luca_ing 10y ago
The old Microsoft Crypto API (the newer one is better, but still bad) It's been a few years, but from memory: IIRC you could e.g. install new keys, but not quite list them (somehow only almost), and you couldn't remove them again.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
What do they measure, and how?
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> Besides, the sensors on cars are more than capable of driving at 150 KM/H. While they cannot "see" as far as a human, they require much less time to process what they do see. And then you get something like the adaptive
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by luca_ing 10y ago
Any modern device connected to wall power.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
A simple toroidal magnet creates a complicated field, while this complicated magnet creates a much simpler and more benign field. AFAIK, in Tokamaks you need to permanently increase the plasma current to keep it stable, which puts an upper
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by luca_ing 10y ago
So would you find it acceptable that I reject to be tracked and treated to ads on paid services? (NB: honest question. No aggressivity intended). I'm asking because paid services are treating me this way, and honestly I resent it.
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by luca_ing 10y ago
> consumers don't get the content they desire. But I do get the content I desire. I'm quite capable of choosing by myself. And what's worse is that the opposite also happens -- I may get content that I actively resent. Y
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by luca_ing 10y ago
I think the alternative was coasting, not braking.

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