mFixman

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by mFixman 6y ago
It might be different outside of Europe, but we did go through a significant reduction in pre-flight times in our lifetimes: I remember scrambling with my family to arrive to the airport 3–4 hours in advance and spending all that time queui
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by mFixman 6y ago
Besides the points all the other commenters made, there is an issue of congestion. Trains and train tracks in the UK are _massively_ over-capacity. The West Coast Main Line, which is the main connection point between London and most of the
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by mFixman 6y ago
Why not use Imagemagick? It's by far the simplest and most practical tool for image manipulation.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Can you think of a single case where this is true? King George VI publicly praised Chamberlain for appeasing Hitler and apparently preventing another world war. I'd be wary of making _any_ public statement of that sort as a royal with
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by mFixman 6y ago
I thought the SATs were similar to the A Levels. What's the difference?
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by mFixman 6y ago
Covering a camera always seemed like unjustified paranoia for me. If someone can access my camera and spy my unkept beard, why won't they also be able to access my keyboard and spy my main email account password?
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by mFixman 6y ago
To this day I don't understand why standard table formats don't use the standard ASCII unit and record separators. They are there, they are convenient, and they don't require any visible character sacrifices.
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by mFixman 6y ago
I am old enough to have used Google Reader, and I don't get it either. My guess is that the death of Google Reader was one of the last domino pieces to fall in the change from the multi-website internet to the Reddit aggregator interne
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by mFixman 6y ago
The trick from working from home is finding that separation between home and work. In particular, you want to make sure you _don't_ work in the sofa wearing your PJs. I do a fake bike commute before and after work and it's done wo
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by mFixman 6y ago
The world hasn't changed. The way you consume media did. Here's a thought exercise: treat every news article that talks about "proposal" or "suggestion" as a low-quality personal blog. Or even better: treat eve
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by mFixman 6y ago
I was expecting the article to list some technical problems coming from switching `remote/master` to `remote/main`. There aren't any, and reading this article took more time than trying to remember which one to use for this p
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by mFixman 6y ago
15 years ago was 2006. Almost every adult carried a cellphone everywhere back then.
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I feel their quality is about the same of the comment section of a subreddit I disagree with, which is much better than any other online newspaper.
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by mFixman 6y ago
> This means, big project ambitions get cut down to size, and few grand things if any, get done at the federal level. But this is glorious: it is very hard for regulations to become calcified within the state apparatus. And yet, Switzerl
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by mFixman 6y ago
HN is boring. Even if it has no tangible benefit, I'm at a lower risk of l wasting a lot of time here than in Reddit or most other social media sites.
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I might be missing some information, but why not? The Chernobyl disaster happened on a world power with strong scientific and engineering capabilities. I don't see how a power plant that's 15 years over expiration date like Tihang
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by mFixman 6y ago
Is it though? I keep my locked file mirrored in Google Drive and have an Android app to pull passwords. I really don't see how a casual user would find Keepass harder to use than LastPass. I don't understand how Keepass is not mor
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by mFixman 6y ago
> Is there any serious unpredictable danger for people living near Chernobyl? The towns surrounding Chernobyl were completely evacuated. This can happen again. In Germany, the government of Aachen is giving iodine tablets and asked its p
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by mFixman 6y ago
They kill less people than coal if you make a very gross average of total deaths per kWh. 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster there are two uninhabitable subdivisions of Ukraine that will require control for the rest of human history. &qu
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by mFixman 6y ago
Why even get a Mac? Most other high-end laptops have better keyboards and more repairable hardware.
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I got the internship after only one year of college, and I had nowhere near the amount of experience necessary to solve the particularly complex project I was in: I was a very good programmer but a very bad engineer. When I got accepted for
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by mFixman 6y ago
It's hard to overstate how great FAANG internships are for giving a leg up in life to third world university students. Like Dalia, I thought it would be almost impossible to get a good job on a developed country if you didn't do w
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by mFixman 6y ago
According to Firefox I have 217 saved logins in different websites. Even if I only used a fifth of them once a month, I wouldn't want to re-login 521 times every year. This is a big UX decline for pretty much zero privacy gain.
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by mFixman 6y ago
I think this might be more about perception than anything else. I've used Firefox since 2006, and Chrome always seemed heavier, laggier and uglier. Maybe it's the snappy iOS-like animation when you scroll to the bottom of the page
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by mFixman 6y ago
The only fake-resistant review system is one read by critical people. The problem the star average is used as the only proxy for quality. Even without fake reviews it's completely meaningless since different people like different thing
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by mFixman 6y ago
I remember hearing about Bitcoin in HN in 2011. I'm sure that same post convinced a lot of people with better hindsight than me to start mining.
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The rate of information transmission was much higher in 2010 than in 2000. If Bitcoin had been invented in 2000, it wouldn't have been more than a technical curiosity in the hands of a few crypto-nerds in very niche internet forums. Si
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Legal standing is uncorrelated to genetics. An adopted child has 0% of the genetics of their father, and they are still legally their descendant.
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An Amazon Echo works great as an advanced alarm clock: the new editions have a visible clock that you can turn off at night, and you can listen to music or podcasts without having to reach to your phone. Phones are noisy, and phones are dis
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by mFixman 6y ago
Somehow, VLC is both one of the programs with the most useful features and the least bloat I've ever used. What does your project management do right to find the right features without adding bloat? This is the kind of thing giant soft

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