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by nielsole 8y ago
* lower center of mass * potentially better all-wheel drive * better crash-security (no massive engine crushing your legs or flying around)
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by nielsole 8y ago
To quote you: > At some point, you will realise that your job is not to create an idol to the software-engineering gods but rather to have a working product. > Does this product work? if so, its doing its job. https://news.
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by nielsole 8y ago
"Kubernetes for Android" would definitely raise a lot of eyebrows.
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by nielsole 8y ago
This one is interesting to watch not only for the content but also for the presentation style.
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by nielsole 8y ago
Isn't that the benefit of Iceland - That there is no (or significantly) carbon footprint?
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by nielsole 8y ago
If I would design a service I would rather trust my cloud provider with an SSL connection in between, than a heterogeneous mix of servers that may be physically compromised (there are very few places that could house an "edge" at
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by nielsole 8y ago
note that also phones have air friction, so it might not be discernible
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by nielsole 8y ago
Is there a popular provider for doing this? It sounds like a lot of work to find a solution in which both parties trust (both technically versed and reliability wise). A common notary probably wouldn't cut it, right?
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by nielsole 8y ago
Being too creative about unwanted traffic can backfire. Reminded me of this: Justin.tv used to redirect people who searched for "porn" keyword (apparently high overlap with people being toxic on the platform) to what they were loo
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LetsEncrypt on Kubernetes for Nginx Ingress with Cert-Manager QuickStart(niels-ole.com)
1 points by nielsole 8y ago|0 comments
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by nielsole 8y ago
Climate change is mostly no binary event. There is the risk of runaway effects, and possible extinction (though unlikely) but luckily we haven't hit those yet. The political 2 degree goal is damage control. Climate models are complex a
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by nielsole 8y ago
The linked article [1] appears to be built around a word-play, where "Shortwave"-trading and "High frequency"-trading are ambiguously used as "Hochfrequenz"handel
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by nielsole 8y ago
I accidentally shortened my USB port on a PC in a long chain of USB peripherals and only realized when I almost burned my finger on the most remote (wrongly connected) peripheral. I am really happy my mainboard didn't throw in the towe
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by nielsole 9y ago
I've never been in a Tesla, but they have that prevention by detecting hands on the wheel. There are ways around that using e.g. oranges and sticking them into the steering wheel
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by nielsole 9y ago
Somewhere here on HN I read that in russian there would be a special word for having connections with someone who knows when goods will be in stores. Maybe we need a word like that for every language.
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by nielsole 9y ago
Or movies with high resolution LIDAR and tiles of all surfaces allowing free roaming in movies
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by nielsole 9y ago
Most of the examples you cite are tax evasion, not avoidance. If you use the company car privately you need to pay taxes on it. They may even require you to log your tours (Fahrtenbuch) if they don't believe you. If you rent out the of
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by nielsole 9y ago
I didn't see anything about being 'hooked' in the article. Might have missed it, otherwise the title is clickbait
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by nielsole 9y ago
VCs usually aim for very high ROI. Even if your investment still increases in value more than market rate interest rates, for a VC it might be more valuable to sell them to preserve its own metrics (each year you keep the shares, your avera
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by nielsole 9y ago
Keep an eye on the used graphics card market. If we see a burst / die down the market should be flooded with excess high end cards
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by nielsole 9y ago
Just be aware that the public server in the app has no access control. Your location will be published. You probably really want to set up a private server to use this in practice or even try it out. Otherwise looks promising. A nice additi
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by nielsole 9y ago
This is not so much about the interaction between the two parties, but aboutjust taxes. if companies can go wherever taxes are the lowest, without impact on profits, there will be a race to the bottom in corporate tax laws. In order to hav
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by nielsole 9y ago
Hey John, thanks for reaching out. The individual case was resolved (found a local copy). But I find the policy worrisome for future projects. If the customer support was happy to reenable access for me, what is the point of the current pol
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by nielsole 9y ago
> Luckily I found an old local copy of my project [...] I haven’t tried contacting customer support, but as this appears to be official policy I would not expect a change there. The policy itself needs to be changed, the individual case
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by nielsole 9y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing me to it. I still find the behaviour unintuitive, but at least it is documented somewhere.
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A fork on GitHub is no fork(niels-ole.com)
490 points by nielsole 9y ago|229 comments
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by nielsole 9y ago
I liked how Terry Pratchett mocked this phenomenon: > He remembered once when he'd been stabbed and would have bled to death if Sergeant Angua hadn't caught up with him and how, as he lay there, he'd found himself taking a
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by nielsole 9y ago
> Not dialects. Languages. It doesn't get more specific than that. He/she means languages
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by nielsole 9y ago
https://animalsmattertogod.com/2013/09/13/mahatma-gandhi-hoa... A rather lengthy article that doesn't find any references to a primary source.
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by nielsole 9y ago
> the issue is they don't like taxes and regulations because it interferes with individual liberties It would entirely be possible to make a libertarian argument, because emitting CO_2 reduces the liberties of others. Thus it is imp

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