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by rhblake 8y ago
In France firefighters are also paramedics. They provide ambulance services and are usually first responders for any medical emergency.
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by rhblake 9y ago
In 1996, with a typical 28.8k modem, that page would've taken more than 20 seconds to load. I'm quite sentimental and nostalgic about the web of yore but let's not pretend everything wasn't a lot slower for most people
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by rhblake 9y ago
Even better, with Mullvad you can now use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN, for considerably better performance and possibly better security. I've configured my EdgeRouter Lite to route all wifi traffic on my default home network through W
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by rhblake 9y ago
Compared to the Nordic countries or Netherlands, 'exceptional' might be the wrong word. But certainly compared to, say, Germany or France, the level of English is in my experience considerably higher in the Baltics (and in Poland
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by rhblake 9y ago
`apt install ifupdown net-tools` and you have those tools again.
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by rhblake 9y ago
Just to be clear, you don't pay the gov't €5000 to start a Swedish AB, but you need a minimum of €5000 share capital. If you want to be a sole trader (enskild näringsidkare/enskild firma) you need zero capital and the registr
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by rhblake 9y ago
Would be better if they weren't straight-up lying. Without DNT and uBlock (i.e. the settings of an average user) that page results in more than a hundred cookies and hundreds of requests to more than a hundred third parties. A great de
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by rhblake 9y ago
Re: "bunch of weirdos hanging out in the foothills of the sierra nevadas", part three in Steven Levy's excellent book "Hackers" is about this -- mainly about Ken and Roberta Williams and Sierra in the 80s. Very much
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by rhblake 9y ago
I don't think Outlook.com supports catchall/wildcard aliases though, which makes using unique addresses for everything a bit annoying, which makes address reuse more likely.
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by rhblake 9y ago
Same here. I simply set up a catchall alias so <anything>@somedomain forwards to foo@regulardomain; very convenient. The fact that FastMail supports multiple custom domains, at least with standard accounts, is also nice -- even more s
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by rhblake 9y ago
Both Hack and Menlo are based on DejaVu Sans Mono / Bitstream Vera (the DejaVu family extends Vera). Very little difference indeed.
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by rhblake 9y ago
But there were some discussion and reasoning behind the changes. For e.g. RSS limit, see https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/3145 . Nobody was against it, as far as I can see. If someone think it's a
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by rhblake 9y ago
Hugo is still at 0.x. Hasn't stabilized yet. Breaking changes are to be expected.
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by rhblake 9y ago
It's an Electron app so the source code comes with the package. They've also tweeted "We have a plan release it for Linux with the first stable version" [0] and that a proper source code release is planned. [1] Haven&#x2
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by rhblake 9y ago
I believe Klarna (dominant payment service provider in Sweden, handling >$10B/yr) is starting to do some stuff in Elixir (having already invested heavily in Erlang).
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by rhblake 9y ago
The police identified 53 exposed zones, of which 15 are in the most serious category. It's indeed a big problem (hence this report and a lot of talk about it in Sweden). At the same time I think a lot of people from countries where you
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by rhblake 9y ago
Are you sure you're not looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses? Not trying to coat anything, but I very well remember people talking about the country going down the drain 15-20 years ago too, following various incidents/
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by rhblake 9y ago
Not saying problems don't exist. Just trying to be realistic. Shouting about how everything has gone to hell and the country has become a joke can also be a dangerous theme feeding populist movements. Let's focus on what's a
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by rhblake 9y ago
But crucially not intent to commit treason . Gross negligence, sure (this she also admitted to). And I agree that she - and several others - ought to be punished much harder. But being naïve and incompetent (basically "yeah this is a
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by rhblake 9y ago
It's a "soft" paywall - the content is still there. Use uBlock Origin or similar, and don't let the site set cookies, and everything will be fine (Firefox: right click -> View Page Info -> Permissions -> set &q
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by rhblake 9y ago
Straight from the source, in English: http://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-govern...
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by rhblake 9y ago
Well, she was also fired (finally) and her career is finished. I agree it was monumentally stupid. But "punished as high treason"? Treason requires intent. She most certainly did not intend to be criminally disloyal to the count
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by rhblake 9y ago
It was reported by DN who received a copy of the Swedish Security Service's (Säpo) preliminary investigation [0]. My translation of a few paragraphs from the article: "Swedish IBM used up to 11 subsidiaries and subcontractors in d
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by rhblake 9y ago
I don't know how much blame you can put on IBM here. - The Transport Agency decided to outsource operations, and IBM won the contract (April 2015) - The following month, the head of the agency decided to ignore certain laws about pri
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by rhblake 9y ago
It's the latter: ( intentional ) use of (illegal) drugs is illegal, and having THC in your blood is proof enough to convict you (even if you've consumed it in a different country where it's actually legal; there's preced
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by rhblake 9y ago
Depends on the country. In Sweden it's illegal to have certain drugs in your system. E.g. if THC is found in your blood you can be convicted for a minor drug offense. We're sadly pretty extreme with regards to drugs though.
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by rhblake 9y ago
For any fans of Moriyama I'd also like to recommend Ko-Ji Yamasaki, who's been documenting his life in Osaka for more than twelve years now and publishing everything online: http://www.yamasakiko-ji.com/ The book
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by rhblake 9y ago
I think GNOME 3 has come a long way but years later I'm still bothered by their killing type-ahead navigation in the file dialog and replacing it with search -- however useful searching may be (and despite recent improvements), it sl
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by rhblake 9y ago
I upgraded from Fedora 25 to 26 alpha a few months ago and even then the process was smooth and the resulting system stable. Haven't tried the KDE spin but I did try KDE neon briefly earlier this year. Quite slick but I quickly ran in
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by rhblake 9y ago
David Kushner's excellent book "Masters of Doom" certainly paints a picture of Carmack being mainly interested in solving problems above everything else. Made me think of this passage from the beginning of chapter 4 (before b

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