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by nickserv 7y ago
I do, to the extent that I won't work for a company that I believe is actively harming. I've also chosen a salary cut for working for companies that I believe are actively helping. Most of my IT friends think alike (which may be p
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by nickserv 7y ago
Indeed, disk brakes were first used on race tracks before being available on street cars.
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> will it be the object of a contemporary “architectural gesture”, as suggested by the master-mind of Notre Dame’s restoration, President Emmanuel Macron? Please, no. Restore it to before the spire, or with the spire, either is fine. But
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by nickserv 7y ago
If it's agreed that the behavior is damaging, why allow it? If you take the slippery slope down, then you could simply pay off any negative behavior like rape or murder.
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Bolivia's capitalLa Paz is at more than 3500m, El Alto in the same metropolitan area is at more than 4000m. Not saying this is where they were tested (I have no idea), just pointing out that these altitudes are not necessarily far from
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by nickserv 7y ago
Good stuff right there, as it requires no industrial products. Will come in handy during the coming climate apocalypse.
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by nickserv 7y ago
It's using the wxWidgets library for the heavy lifting, so should be fast and have native feel on multiple platforms. Very cool, going to try this out for some of our internal toolkits. Easier than reading the help files for newbies, s
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by nickserv 7y ago
Agreed. At this point I'm more inclined to follow the "seize their assets and jail their leaders" doctrine rather than a "let them continue to profit" one.
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by nickserv 7y ago
Hi, pedant here. That's the original meaning of the word: to inspire awe, and there is always a bit of terror in awe. A hurricane is awesome, as is a $deity that sends one. But alas, language has changed and these kids won't get o
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by nickserv 7y ago
I keep to sub 300€ or even sub 200€ since I don't game and prefer my DSLR for photography. So a screen replacement on a phone that's not getting software updates is not really interesting to me.
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by nickserv 7y ago
Not a very easy sell to management, unfortunately. I'm using it for a personal project though, mainly thanks to Phoenix.
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I've replaced my last 4 phones not because I wanted something faster or thinner or any hardware improvements at all in fact. Just that something broke and fixing it was almost as much as getting a new one. Or the software was full of s
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by nickserv 7y ago
I'm new to the Rails ecosystem but from what I've seen and also with many years using Django (which is very similar), I would agree with your assessment regarding Rails. The complex monolith that speeds up development very much ha
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by nickserv 7y ago
Perhaps not the best introduction when the site gets an "unresponsive script" pop-up on mobile Firefox.
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by nickserv 7y ago
You need at least 2 people to enforce the law and at the same time avoid excessive zeal/abuse. In my city the ticket checkers are always in groups of 3.
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by nickserv 7y ago
Or are humans mimicking chimpanzee behavior? In actuality, this and many other behaviors we share with chimps were most likely present in our last common ancestor. Tool use and complex social hierarchies are other shared behaviors. The spli
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by nickserv 7y ago
Wow what horrible ad laden site with tons of useless videos and JavaScript. Official site: https://www.isro.gov.in/chandrayaan2-latest-updates
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by nickserv 7y ago
The other day at the office, I was the only one that had heard of, let alone used, Slackware. I am also the oldest in the team, this is probably no coincidence.
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by nickserv 7y ago
They're separate binaries, and can be easily unbundled. That they're part of the same project is actually a win for me, it helps to make the various components work well together. Also there is a common thread or philosophy in how
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by nickserv 7y ago
It's because the shipping containers belong to the shipping company, and are rented out for the trip. So the shipping company will have a bunch of empty containers at the port of landing (destination), and needs to send them back to th
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by nickserv 7y ago
Don't know about air mail, but for maritime and rail transport, there is much more going from China to the EU or US than in the other direction by volume. This means cargo carriers have to send back empty containers to China. As a resu
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by nickserv 7y ago
There are other languages of similar difficulty (all constructed), but they are spoken even less than Esperanto.
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by nickserv 7y ago
I think you mean: Más despacio, por favor. You said "more space, please".
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Because European countries have a long history of peaceful coexistence...
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by nickserv 7y ago
Seems like solar power would be perfect for this situation, maximum production at time of greatest use. And Texas has plenty of land where putting in massive solar plants would do little ecological damage.
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by nickserv 7y ago
How is the execution time when resolving a non-trivial project? Like your typical Django app, for example.
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by nickserv 7y ago
eMicro escooters are light and pretty powerful, but range is not the best. Egret escooters have better range but are heavier. Both brands are well built and durable, but not cheap. I've had my Egret 10 for over a year, use it every day
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by nickserv 7y ago
They're also useful for 'last km' transport, like getting to and from the train station. The smaller ones can also be taken on the bus or subway.
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Also in Caesar's book about his campaigns in Gaul (oddly enough there is no account of a tribe with a magic potion): https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/romans/BelloGallico1.h...
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by nickserv 7y ago
The point of the F22 is that you don't get into a dogfight in the first place, you blow the adversary away from beyond visible range. The Rafale is a very good plane, but is not as stealthy as the Raptor. In any case, it will be years

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