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by patrickk 6y ago
Is there a need for that? Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies employees for polluting the earth? Farmers for allowing run off into rivers? Pharma em
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by patrickk 6y ago
Protonmail users must be getting nervous.
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If you’re in a rush in the morning to get to work, arriving sweating after cycling intensively isn’t a nice experience especially if you don’t have a shower or changing facilities at work. Maintaining a higher speed while reducing or elimin
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by patrickk 6y ago
If you have a hub motor ebike, installing puncture resistant tyres are essential in my opinion. I also have had bad experiences with local bike shops, and the cost of replacing a normal tyre with puncture resistant ones is made up as soon a
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by patrickk 6y ago
If you ran for a few meters and tried to control a ball at your feet, you'd understand somewhat. Even that is extremely difficult to do well- shifting the ball and keeping it under control of your feet and away from defenders. Now try
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Are the results any good? Can it really generate quality copy? How is it for research on any given topic?
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I wonder how many GPT-3 bots are running around already on HN and reddit (perhaps hooked up to PRAW) as experiments. It's very meta, since GPT-3 (GTP-2?) was partially/wholly trained on the reddit corpus of text. Very strange to
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by patrickk 6y ago
That's very depressing to hear to be honest.
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I'm guessing the extremely expensive Norwegian labour costs make that viable? In Ireland, I never heard of sheep shearers being brought in from Australia or New Zealand (in fact the flow of young workers has been in the other direction
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Another one adding to your point is huge number of women entering the workforce all at the same time. You are drastically increasing families' spending power and discretionary income = inflation. Of course, when you double the supply o
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by patrickk 6y ago
It's worth checking out the /r/homeassistant subreddit. There's some great projects on there like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/ev9hr8/prett...
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by patrickk 6y ago
I was flicking between US election coverage on CNN and Fox and the BBC UK coverage (I don't live in the US), the contrast was stark. I could actually feel my blood pressure rising when watching the US channels, as if everyone on there
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by patrickk 6y ago
You can create a RES[1] filter to remove the Trump keyword, or any other of your choice. Carefully pruning your subscribed subreddit list makes Reddit worth it. I still get value from buildapc, homeassistant, patientgamer, ipod, rugbyunion,
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by patrickk 6y ago
> If COBOL is so domain-specific, why not teach it as such on the job? Why is it the public’s fault for not investing in it? That's what my comment was saying. According to the article, the banks used to pay for their staff to le
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by patrickk 6y ago
In the EU, SEPA was forced through via legislation[1]. The financial industry had to be dragged kicking and screaming along. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
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This mention this in the article. They used to grab people off the street and teach them COBOL, paid for by the banks. What happened between the 1960s and today that this type of practice stopped?
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Sure, its this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757960-the-shortest-hi...
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Fanta also has an interesting history: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-naz... Also overlooked in the post WWII analysis (apart from historians) is the influence of the Adenauer government: htt
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https://blog.parsecgaming.com/a-slingbox-on-steroids-streami...
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> Serge quickly discovered, to his surprise, that Goldman had a one-way relationship with open source. They took huge amounts of free software off the Web, but they did not return it after he had modified it, even when his modifications
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by patrickk 6y ago
It would be amazing if even if we’re possible for a bedroom. The positions of the occupants are predictable. Cancelling out road vehicles, trains, planes (loud drunken voices?) would be a huge boost to countless people across the world.
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by patrickk 6y ago
Foobar2000 with an iPod add-on[1] and a podcast add-on[2]. You don't need iTunes directly, but probably an older version of iTunes in the background for compatibility when syncing. Oldapps.com has you sorted for that. I personally use
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Yeah it's from Germany. I can personally attest to its effectiveness. Another colleague who is approaching retirement does it twice per year or so, and he's in great shape and looks great for his age. It was very eye-opening to se
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> 1200 calories at least to stop your body from using muscle for sustenance. This is only true up to a point. A colleague put me onto a fasting method called “Buchinger’s Fasting”. I fasted for around a week and a half, muscle maintenanc
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iPods are still cool, and becoming quite collectible. I'm starting to collect them myself, especially older ones that are repairable, and even upgradable with higher capacity batteries and CF to SD card converts - so you have a higher
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Yes the copper story instead of fiber optic is really important to understand. I did some digging after suffering through poor internet in a major German city for some years now.
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> The cause of the internet seems to be a mix of the mobile frequency auctions that didn’t leave any money for a good network combined with low competition. The version I read for Germany was that when the mobile broadband spectrum was o
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Often the TV box apps run better, gets obsoleted much more slowly and you can customise it much more easily than your smart TV (e.g. you are out of options if your TV doesn't support some new streaming service). I have a random, no-nam
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> Car infotainment systems these days should be little more than a largely dumb interface to my smart phone so that for the 10-20 years I own the car, I get regular updates on its utility as my smart phone and its apps improve. That does
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> In April, Kevin reached out to me asking if I was interested in selling Tweet Photo. He had a strategic interest with his other products CreatorKit and Top Nine. It seems like a complimentary product to the acquirers other portfolio of

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