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by nickez 9y ago
What is your take on Ion? https://doc.redox-os.org/ion-manual
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by nickez 9y ago
Also from the article, his actual PD is 69mm...
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by nickez 9y ago
> The claim is that only men are taught to code? At least at the university I went to it is something like 5-10% women in computer science and electrical engineering.
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by nickez 9y ago
Because you don't benefit from half of your population if you only teach men to code. The same applies to other minorities. Of course it is essential that we can get everyone to code so that everyone can contribute in the future when a
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by nickez 9y ago
"Her employment contract might very well include a clause preventing her from leaving a few months later for a job with a rival pest-control firm, since she could be taking crucial in-house information with her. And that’s perfectly re
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by nickez 9y ago
> Self-driving electrical vehicles could greatly reduce congestion They could. But they could also greatly increase congestion because travelling with car will be a lot more convenient. Especially if the car can drop you of at your locat
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by nickez 9y ago
I would say that it might be easier to read if you are native in some other language because it depends on sounds of letters that you might be unfamiliar with. I'm a Swede and I find it quite easy to read..
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by nickez 9y ago
How do you pronounce it then?
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by nickez 10y ago
Commuting more than 60 minutes a day (in total) is not acceptable for 8 hours of work. I simply cannot understand why you would spend your spare time commuting. I have 15 minutes by bike to work right now which gives me a lot of time to do
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by nickez 10y ago
Use a different browser worked for me.
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by nickez 10y ago
You have to go look at the source code of Grubers implementation to figure out what markdown actually is. Or do some empirical studies with different inputs. That is what I mean by underspecified. His specification is not detailed enough to
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by nickez 10y ago
Last release is from 2004 and he is not interested at all to fix the fact that it is severely underspecified..
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by nickez 10y ago
I'm from Sweden, way above 30%, still love to pay taxes. Countries where they avoid to pay taxes at all cost like Greece is usually a reminder of why it is important that the government really enforces tax paying and that the taxes are
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by nickez 10y ago
> This would be a lot better if it used vertical scrolling and not sideways scrolling. Why? Since there is no vertical scrolling your mouse scrolls sideways.
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by nickez 10y ago
We have similar people in Sweden that think that they are better than other people simply because they are born in Sweden (I'm Swedish). I would say that a significant fraction have the mindset that the Syrians deserved what happened i
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by nickez 10y ago
On the shattered webpage: This attack required over 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 SHA1 computations. This took the equivalent processing power as 6,500 years of single-CPU computations and 110 years of single-GPU computations.
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by nickez 10y ago
This is great for everyone! Hopefully they will get a higher salary and I guess the company will pay more in taxes and social benefits (or whatever it is called in English). I don't get how tipping can be legal, or do you actually pay
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by nickez 10y ago
> I'm not sure, but I think that's what fuel tax pays for? The high taxes on cars and gasoline usually goes to improve public transport.
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by nickez 10y ago
Me too, why would you even drive to UPS if self-driving cars are the norm? UPS would drive to you, where ever you are and pick up the package... I think self-driving cars and the ever cheaper cost of electricity will fundamentally change
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by nickez 10y ago
Unless the owner of the truck keeps whatever he paid the driver..
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by nickez 10y ago
Mine too, or rather, for my first rust project I initially had all the code in main.rs and then I found it very difficult to split up the project into several source files. I think with some better documentation it wouldn't have been t
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by nickez 10y ago
Should the title be a show hn?
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by nickez 10y ago
> In America, part of the reason we feel this way is because of our vast travel distances compared to other areas of the world; it isn't unknown for people to commute to work over 50 miles (80 km) one way. Or to travel that far to g
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by nickez 10y ago
> Cars == freedom That is a very American statement. For me it is freedom not to have a car.
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by nickez 10y ago
> clueless about technical work scope Do you mean that it would be impossible for a team of experts in C and rust to rewrite pg in 5 years? That is essentially what he is proposing. (Which probably isn't a great idea, but I think th
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by nickez 10y ago
Except it's not.. the requirements for getting a bonus should be well defined
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by nickez 10y ago
Could you maybe specify better how this is implemented in hg so that I can understand why it would be better than: git branch --contains <commit>
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by nickez 10y ago
It is a 6MB file produced from several source files.. Does any library count if I concatenate all the source files to a single file?
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by nickez 10y ago
> Where would you park the self-driving cars then? They will be driving around and not be parked.. > Considering in most cases > 80% of cars are on the road at the same time during rush hours, you can't save much with self-dri
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by nickez 10y ago
It works pretty good for CERN. http://www.ohwr.org/

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