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by olau 4y ago
> Nowadays I use Python for complex scripts, but it's not the same as a language with native support for redirection and pipes! While this is no doubt right, I think you could build a little abstraction that simplified piping syntax
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by olau 4y ago
All university towns in Denmark are bike-friendly and improving. Copenhagen is definitely further along that path, even car-unfriendly, but also with much more expensive housing. Danish culture is (statistically) not authoritarian. People a
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by olau 4y ago
No, the wind and solar capacity is not massive, in fact it is far too small. If it were much bigger, you would have much lower prices. Electricity in Europe is expensive at the moment because of fuel prices. Also, I don't have the numb
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by olau 4y ago
Work on reliability. Then there are sysadm companies out there you can pay for part-time services.
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by olau 4y ago
Put yourself in the kid's place: You don't know how to calm yourself, you don't know how to keep yourself warm, you don't know how to get around, you don't know how to get food. You are 100% dependent on people arou
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by olau 4y ago
I've seen people lose email with gmail. It's sent to the gmail account, but it never shows up, not in the inbox and not in spam.
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by olau 4y ago
I get > 1 spam per day on gmail.com. But I don't find that burdensome at all, in fact I'd prefer that gmail let more stuff through to my spam folder instead of swallowing things that it misclassifies, because I have seen severa
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by olau 4y ago
Aurora doesn't work with a query that computes a temporary table larger than memory either. Amazon's Postgres things are not Postgres.
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by olau 4y ago
Just to save time for other people who might be wondering how Wikipedia could get this wrong, bndr seems to have forgotten to read the last part of the admittedly long sentence in Wikipedia. It lists several vocal groups.
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by olau 4y ago
I wouldn't know about the situation in Sweden, but in other Nordic countries, you can get a little hardware TOTP device for bank and government authentication since they're not comfortable requiring everyone to have a computerized
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by olau 4y ago
Well, could be. You do need to be self-driven, and also be able to see the bigger picture so you actually help your clients. I think some distance is helpful, too. Some clients can be really dysfunctional in the sense that they will spend a
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by olau 4y ago
That's not really true. The main problem with Linux on the desktop is that it is not preinstalled. There are commercial vendors like Canonical where you can get support, if you want to. Now, 20 years ago we could have argued about appl
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by olau 4y ago
On 2, are you saying that Caddy is as frugal as nginx, or were you just commenting on the stability part? I think the ACME integration in Caddy was a really smart move, it's great to see some competition.
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by olau 4y ago
Storing heat is actually much easier than storing electricity. In relatively dense areas with district heating, you can even establish storage that retains heat from the summer. Yes, it requires investments and scaling up of the production
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by olau 4y ago
I used to do that too on paper, but at some point I ended up opening a text file in Emacs and do exactly what I would do on paper, just in Emacs. It's only a small chunk of text, so I don't use org-mode or anything like that. But
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by olau 4y ago
Some examples of small interesting distributed systems that occur even with a traditional stack: With multiple visitors on a web app on top of a relational database, you have a small distributed system if they can somehow interact. Even som
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by olau 4y ago
I don't know if you're familiar with the book but "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber examined this phenomenon. He found that many people with bullshit jobs are struggling with deep unhappiness. Quit as soon as possible.
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by olau 4y ago
I'm not an engineer, but I've been following the various rock storage projects, like this one https://www.stiesdal.com/storage/ for some time, and water tanks are simpler. When you set up a water tank, you ju
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by olau 4y ago
This is besides the point you're making, but I personally feel that being a parent is mostly a ghost job. You need to figure out how to put the children in positions where they'll find things to play with themselves, and then let
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by olau 4y ago
Are you aware that there are grade-free and exam-free schools out there and that they have been operating for decades? Measuring the effectiveness of school systems is difficult because of selection bias, but I'm sure you could find so
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by olau 4y ago
The comment you're replying to is discussing using heat for pressure, not electrical pumps.
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by olau 4y ago
Well, it says it fixes visual representation of intervals and huge inconsistencies between how similar notes are notated. Meaning new students would have a much easier time learning naming notes and where they are - in my experience the typ
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Boring Company aim to build a working Hyperloop system in the next few years(teslarati.com)
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by olau 4y ago
Simple constricting joins are usually okay, but if you have joins with "or" conditions on largish tables, that can easily throw it off completely. I find that I often need to rewrite those to use union.
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by olau 5y ago
We do, with a slightly charitable interpretation of LAMP. We did have a brief stint with AWS, but that's thankfully over, partly because their Aurora Postgres-like cloud thing regularly would thrash to death because it doesn't hav
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by olau 5y ago
UTF-8 CSV with a few HTML tags for formatting? You could call it CHU. Now you just need to make Excel accept it.
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by olau 5y ago
What's the lifetime of that plastic liner? It will break down eventually, no?
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by olau 5y ago
IANAL, but from my understanding the GDPR itself does not make this distinction. It's okay to store things to implement functionality, like login or shopping baskets. Tracking people is not okay. Now, there was a different directive pr
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by olau 5y ago
I've looked at studies from researchers running simulations on weather data sets, and yes, you need some dispatchable sources in Europe. The question is how much you need. Generally, the biggest issue seems to be heating in the winter.
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by olau 5y ago
Well, it's a one-man team. I'm not a Debian developer, but did email Rob Browning some years ago, asking if he would perhaps consider trying to make it a team effort. I don't think I ever got a reply. I appreciate the work he

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