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by nrki 6y ago
"May" is English, though. Otherwise, good format.
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by nrki 6y ago
Outline link: https://outline.com/GTwkCb
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by nrki 6y ago
It's not fixed. Many, many apps go haywire for me in HiDPI.
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by nrki 7y ago
I wonder who responds positively to Palantir recruiters? Is the money so good that it is easy to suspend your morals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controve...
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by nrki 7y ago
Money talks, I guess. One thing this doesn't do: incentivise me to buy an iPhone.
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by nrki 7y ago
I posit that we should account for their stock price before the employees of Boeing embarked on the road of corruption, fraud and manslaughter. i.e.: before their profits, especially due to sales of the MAX, are taken into account. I guess
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by nrki 7y ago
This is huge. It confirms basically everything I've read over the past year on the topic (mainly on hn). Culture of concealment, production pressure, self-oversight, conflicts of interest, faulty assumptions. Like many other lessons bo
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by nrki 7y ago
Please can we stop linking to articles with Cookie-walls. https://outline.com/9cuRRS
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by nrki 7y ago
Most of those are a bedroom in a shared situation, or student accommodation.
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by nrki 7y ago
The vast proportion of the 5 million left before the outbreak - for a holiday. Not because of the outbreak.
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by nrki 7y ago
I would encourage anyone to visit Copenhagen and cities in the Netherlands to see how non-car-obsessed cities are like. And generally how well things work. People in general are happy, healthy - they live slow - there are very few homeless.
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by nrki 7y ago
No benchmarks. Cool but just seems like an ad for Oracle.
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by nrki 7y ago
Looks like this took down TransferWise (debit card/forex/payments processor): https://status.transferwise.com
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by nrki 7y ago
Up!
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by nrki 7y ago
Designed for congested/small UK streets where a lorry can't get up to significant speed. Also they are primarily deployed at the entrances to long walkways/bridges, where a lorry at speed would do significant damage to pedest
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by nrki 7y ago
Even better pro-tip: SIN has a rooftop hotel with an outdoor pool, spa, shower, restaurant & bar. $20SGD entry. They even had a deal with free meal & drink a while back. It is AMAZING to get a longer layover and hang out, have a swi
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by nrki 7y ago
It's also a trade-off between a functional computer and a brick. (I upgraded someone's MBP to Lion(?) and the graphic accelerated GUI elements of that version caused it to crash hard, often. Turns out it had a desoldered GPU for w
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by nrki 7y ago
Auto-playing videos need to die.
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by nrki 7y ago
I gather the Singapore government requires renewables, making this plan viable. Unlike the Australian government, who are addicted to their cheap coal-fired power plants, despite the incredibly abundant solar resources on that continent.
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by nrki 7y ago
* embedded in an OSS package used by Cisco's firmware
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by nrki 7y ago
A shortage of availability.
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by nrki 7y ago
Heat, energy usage.
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You can rent an “island republic” in Eastern Europe(viirelaid.ee)
2 points by nrki 7y ago|0 comments
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by nrki 7y ago
Impressive work. Looks a lot like the sedan-like Australian Utes ( https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nmBx_EY3UnM/maxresdefault.jpg ) that are quite popular there.
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by nrki 8y ago
Note that he said "old" as in, probably well past any "use-by" date (that wouldn't have existed back then). :)
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by nrki 8y ago
The attitude that salaried employees are expected to be available at all hours is such a US labour market thing. So much so that a (US headquartered) multinational I worked for gave up trying to get their EU employees to do weekend on call,
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by nrki 8y ago
It is often like this in the ones I've seen. Depends on the area the WeWork is based in, and how oversubscribed it is.
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by nrki 8y ago
It support 2 x 128GB DIMMs, though :)
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by nrki 8y ago
How can they make money off your data if they don't have it? They just want data. They no longer want to make people's lives easier.
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by nrki 8y ago
Yes. You can set your reverse DNS to whatever you want if you own the IP blocks. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656

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