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by pizza234 5y ago
For a long time, I needed an access point + VPN client, and I've considered the Turris Omnia. Ultimately though, for this type of job, any SBC with Linux does this job (and more); the differences were: - USB wifi cards are unstable and
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by pizza234 5y ago
> But can we get 80% there and then have ma human help out? The problem is that for complex enough projects, the architectural redesign is considerably more demanding than a "remaining 20%". I can imagine it also being quite ir
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by pizza234 5y ago
> it uses up 3-5% CPU while doing nothing This is meaningless without context, as editors typically run indexing processes in the background. I used to use $beloved_native_editor, which in some cases ran at 100% single-thread for extende
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by pizza234 5y ago
The amount of informations around is surprisingly poor; it's hard to find technical information. At least a significant difference is MariadDB's addition of several specialized engines - see https://mariadb.com/kb&
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by pizza234 5y ago
I give an extremely simple answer, where I state that in the present, for $real_reason, I'm not looking for other opportunities, but in the future, I may. It worked! I actually spend a little bit of effort to filter out (block) incompe
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by pizza234 5y ago
> The team tried to use stock electron but the performance was not good. Can you provide references of this fork? It you actually look at the VSC manifest, you'll find that the vanilla "electron" is a dependency. > And
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by pizza234 5y ago
I agree with all, but this is a misrepresentation: > Electron may be new but it's as efficient as software has always been: insultingly, laughably so Electron is definitely bloated, but it's possible to write sufficiently fast¹
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by pizza234 5y ago
Gist of the article: > Dr Hurley-Walker said the observations match a predicted astrophysical object called an ‘ultra-long period magnetar’. > “It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically
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by pizza234 5y ago
> But most of it is selling that next productivity upgrade that we communally all seem to obsess over here. True, this is the "tool fetish" that is associated to any activity, for example obsessing over sneakers when the object
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Much, much higher salaries - like 2-3x higher than Western Europe _before_ income tax! Where does this number come from? Assuming SWE, a senior SWE in Europe will generally take around 80/120k € (non-FAANG). 2-3x means a range of
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by pizza234 5y ago
> a handful of instructions are needed for turing completeness and you can ignore most of the rest. This is an idea that assumes spherical instructions in the void, in other words, just passively staring at a listing (or at most, writing
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Did someone tell you assembly is hard? I will tell you that assembly is easy, very easy. I like assembly, but the idea that assembly is easy is not realistic. On one end, there are CPUs like the 6502, which have a stupid easy instructi
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by pizza234 5y ago
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't; I develop on Linux. Ignoring this, within my very limited usage of Windows, it seems to me that MS has become increasingly more hostile over the last few years
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by pizza234 5y ago
> Most people in the hospitals for Covid are vaccinated. Again, the fact that the numbers don't reconcile still stands, and without clarifications, that table and any references are meaningless. From page 7: - Rates Admitted to Hosp
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by pizza234 5y ago
> You have to be prepared to factor out the key parts of the code into faster languages like C++ with bindings, if necessary Stripe had the innovative idea of compiling ahead of time parts of the code (taking advantage of type annotation
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by pizza234 5y ago
Here's the opposite "hard proof", CDC official: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi... . I've actually had a look at the document you pointed. It's very confus
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by pizza234 5y ago
And so what? There's no evidence (and it's impossible to assess) that they're in a worse position compared to a hypothetical scenario where they would haves started from the beginning without free plans. Some people will dist
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by pizza234 5y ago
Several companies have their own URL shorteners (Amazon, Youtube...); this is nothing new or wrong. It's actually reassuring to know that one can it in the code (comments) knowing that the service provider doesn't do anything dodg
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by pizza234 5y ago
> That's actually eliminated/reduced the needs for translators This is a radically misinformed statement. These are the real-world experience I've had with translators: - translator with degree in languages, occasional tra
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by pizza234 5y ago
Spam was one reason (I've actually asked to the admins, which were very pissed off by it).
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by pizza234 5y ago
I think one use case was subtitle downloading (typically, a client like Subdownloader) for VPN users, whose requests would be denied if unauthenticated.
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by pizza234 5y ago
This is indeed the description of the "Lump of labor" fallacy¹. ¹= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy .
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by pizza234 5y ago
To a certain extent, high level jobs of today are low level jobs of tomorrow. Imagine what one can do today with just a mobile phone, compared to what could be done 50 years ago. Nobody could translate in all the languages 50 years ago; tod
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by pizza234 5y ago
Could you elaborate on how would one sustain themselves without UBI in the US (according who those here who would say the same)? Things that I typically read: - the lower class struggle even to sustain themselves for days/weeks in betw
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by pizza234 5y ago
The article starts with a statistic (as opposed to anecdote): > These findings demonstrate that such cases and hospitalizations have occurred in New York State, but at levels substantially lower than among unvaccinated people Of course,
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by pizza234 5y ago
> No one has claimed with a straight face that gimp will let you replace photoshop overnight. Sure there is: [Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7480806 ). The author of t
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by pizza234 5y ago
Very good news, especially the potential class action. Something that I find very interesting is how the individual lawsuits will end. I remember (but can't find) a David vs Goliath case from some time ago, where a user brought Google
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by pizza234 5y ago
That a problem of any banking institution. Differently from Paypal though, the last time that there was a suspected fraudulent transaction in my bank account, I had a physical and factual meeting at a bank branch, rather than having my acco
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by pizza234 5y ago
Is there a formal distinction between lobbying and this activity? The article is also fuzzy about the reasons why this is presumed illegal: > Gardiner also employed a son of Lee’s as a diary manager. He said the son had resigned after MI
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by pizza234 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29921505 .

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