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by microtonal 5y ago
There are some workers that would relocate with the whole family. This means the significant other has to find a job and fit it, kids have to go to school. Like e.g. Berlin, the large Dutch cities are very much internationally-oriented an
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by microtonal 5y ago
Sadly the vast majority of ARM vendors offer only very old ARM cores. Except for the chips intended for mobile phones, the only devices with not too old ARM cores are slow devices with quadruple Cortex-A55 cores. I fear that Asahi Linux o
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by microtonal 5y ago
I just can’t go back to Debian or Arch after this, I’ve tried. I have had this feeling for some time as well. NixOS puts you on a power trip -- you can bring up and tear down systems in seconds; you can relentlessly experiment without rep
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by microtonal 5y ago
Unfortunately, I think the introduction of electronics via ebikes and other "new" technologies for the bike are diluting that standardisation in my perception. You would be surprised. My wife's e-bike was stolen without its
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by microtonal 5y ago
Then I remembered that ebikes are getting extremely popular these days... But for e-bikes, why not use internal gears? You do not really need the fine-grained shifting on e-bikes. Besides that, internal gears require less maintenance and
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by microtonal 5y ago
Why don't more people bike? Because the entire biking community, culture, and market is built around making it hard and dangerous. No, it is because in most countries road infrastructure is built for cars, not bikes. To make life eve
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by microtonal 5y ago
I haven't checked the math, but carbon from the fuel binds with oxygen from the air. CO2 consists of one carbon atom (12g/mol), two oxygen atoms (16g/mol). So, most of the weight comes from the oxygen from the air, rather tha
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by microtonal 5y ago
The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left. Mostly on the Mac. The butterfly keyboard and how Apple handled it, were terrible. And macOS quality had gone down release after releas
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by microtonal 5y ago
I think Apple would be an even more interesting company if he were still around. Maybe not as big or as profitable, but certainly more interesting. I agree. As a user of Apple products, I think Apple makes great products. And I don't
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by microtonal 5y ago
The Wikipedia page has a nice description of the issues of entering Mercury's orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#Research_with...
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by microtonal 5y ago
I went further than that, I profiled with perf and checked that the right kernels were used.