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by nelgaard 4y ago
My experience is that no society trust you to be old enough to buy a few beers. So you have to stand there and wait until someone comes and look at you.
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by nelgaard 4y ago
I have a repository with common config files. Whenever possible I prefer to not just symlink files but instead include them (source in shell, load-file in emacs, etc). That way I can still have local variations, work-related stuff, etc.
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by nelgaard 4y ago
low tech can provide control and persistence. I want a real hardware volume dial on my phones and laptops. Mostly so that I can turn them down and be sure that that I will not embarrass myself by making noises at events where silence is exp
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by nelgaard 4y ago
Yes. I use qcad/librecad very infrequently. But I used it for the first time for a renovation of my apartment in 2004 and it isjust great that when I was discussing a renovation with a neighbor I could still use it with the old files.
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by nelgaard 4y ago
The disk you can usually replace. Otherwise just restore the backup to a 5 year old laptop. If you laptop server can run for 5 or 10 years, there is a good chance that during that time, you spilled coffee in the keyboard of another laptop,
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by nelgaard 4y ago
True. But on the other hand an experienced developer usually can give a reasonable estimate. An if he says: "about two days maybe a week" then that is you best estimate. Using story points is just another complication. And points
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Yes, and we all could understand say a 200 percent markup plus international shipping. And even more for a cheap part. But they make it really hard to get the parts. In 2010 my Fisher-Paykel dishwasher broke. I called the repair service. Th
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by nelgaard 5y ago
At least if you use Tor Browser, you will learn a few words in just about every language.
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by nelgaard 5y ago
exercise is one way to lose weight. Those tribes might move more than most of us, but that does not mean they burn a lot of calories. I you have a few hours and do an efficient excercise like cycling or rowing, you can burn about 700 kCal o
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Then just use one of your old cell phones and keep it charged. Even if it does not have a subscription, it can still dial 911/112
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by nelgaard 5y ago
There is a Rødby-Puttgarten ferry route. The ferry takes 45 minutes. In the daytime there are two departures/hour in each direction. On busy days you need a reservation. The ferry cost about three times as much as the fee for the Great
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Yes, those marathon runners mentioned might reduce their TEE from 6200 to 4900 kcal/day. But that is still way more than most office workers eat. And if you check the article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126&#x
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by nelgaard 5y ago
I got an old Bang & Olufsen Beovision 1 CRT TV for free. I use it at a cottage just because I assume no one will break a window to steal a CRT TV, especially one that weights 38 kg (84 pounds) not counting the motorised steel floor stan
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Yes, and no need for a browser, I have small script that outputs Danish teletext to the terminal #!/bin/sh wget --quiet -O - http://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe?request=$1 |html2text -utf8
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Well, not mathematicians. But I once was a physics student. We had a professor which was usually brilliant. But we had a few classes involving arithmetic: Dimensional analysis or practical examples. He would scorn students that took out the
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by nelgaard 5y ago
It is a trade off. How much did they really gain by using ?. A year ago I helped a small company with some issues. One was that some people working with them had some problems using their app with older phones. After some investigation it
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Not officially and not like the US. However for about 10 years there have been issued warrants without the name of the court and judges on them in terror-related cases: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danmark-har
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by nelgaard 5y ago
You should question how it works. And test whether it works. Or find a simpler theory that works as well. Or a theory that can explain more. Postulating that there must be a better theory is pointless. Bell's theorem was never a pointl
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by nelgaard 5y ago
First: no one presumed Einstein to be senile. He was sceptical about qm, and being sceptical is good. He also agreed with Bohr that what mattered was results of experiements. That is why they came up with all those brilliant thought-experie
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by nelgaard 5y ago
I agree. And apart from the legal questions, it is annoying to search for someting, get a website with a copyright 2021 notice and no info that it was actually written in 2016.
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Ereaders have offline dictionaries. My Ereader has one based on Webster 1913. It works fine but it is of course missing words in modern books. But now you can get Wiktionary on many Ereaders which is just great.
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by nelgaard 5y ago
I have done it with Linux. I just ssh in. sidedoor is good if they are behind NAT. That way you can fix things, install programs, handle updates, etc. There are tools to share the screen. But usually it is enough to use X Window to run a pr
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Yes. In 1987 two Danish "tourist" were caught photographing military installations in Poland: https://apnews.com/article/d61c5f558248baf68d0de6377e09c4f1 That was also a stupid plan
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Yes, it is often a matter of sympathy, atmosphere and ambitions more than actual learning. Many years ago as a grad student I was a teaching assistant. One year I was instructing two classes. One was an ordinary class. It was all very pleas
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by nelgaard 5y ago
I once knew a man that was campaigning against a proposed metro line because he feared it would be too noisy, harm the environment, scar his neighborhood, etc. One day he organized a walk along the entire proposed path of the new metro lin
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by nelgaard 5y ago
>I guess this approach works fine for an individual, but if everyone has to run their own guard node to be safe, why would anyone connect to your guard node By the time a few percent or tor users are running a guard node, KAX17 would be
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Doing laundry, dishes etc involves real work and takes time. Getting up from my chair and pressing a switch when I feel it is getting too dark is not really a chore. And it is probably good for my back. I do have a couple of X10 switches bu
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by nelgaard 5y ago
No, it will not. But it depends on the shape of the meat. So if you are not monitoring the surface temperature, go with cold water or the fridge.
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by nelgaard 5y ago
I assume that mr Bradwell will be the next on the deny/excludelist for using the word "blacklist"
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by nelgaard 5y ago
Then you can use a compass and use your magnetic look-up table in the other direction. And only airplanes would then have to use look-up tables. Things on the ground would keep using true north.

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