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by rlkf 3y ago
In my experience "very difficult mathematical code" stems from employing little or no abstraction of the problem domain, mashing together numerical algorithms with physics formula. Using Fortran is IMO as much a prerequisite as a
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by rlkf 3y ago
This also creates a self-enforcing effect: When the SUVs climb high enough in the sales statistics, they start out-crowding the other cars at the dealerships. A few years ago there was a larger diversity of car models - nowadays it seems to
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by rlkf 3y ago
> They don't refine oil locally and would have to buy back gasoline There is a refinery at Mongstad capable of processing 10 mill. tons of crude oil per year. It could have provided all the gasoline used in Norway, but probably not
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by rlkf 3y ago
The hardware seems nice, but to me it is a huge red flag that (1) the communication between the sensor and the phone is encrypted, so that no third-party app can ever be developed, and (2) it seems that your health data is uploaded to the &
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by rlkf 3y ago
The average expenditure on food and staples of a Norwegian household is according to national statistics €235/month/person (not including dining out); based on the general cost difference between Norway and Sweden, this should tra
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by rlkf 3y ago
In one of the supermarket chains in Norway, we have self-service in that you get a scanner that goes along with the cart. You put bags in the cart when you enter the store, and then scan the groceries as you pick them from the shelf and put
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by rlkf 3y ago
> The weirdest part is the HPFS compatibility mode (file.ext:substream). HPFS had extended attributes, but not substreams. You are thinking about HFS; substreams were added to NTFS to support storing resource forks on network shares used
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by rlkf 3y ago
> I don't think it could do os/2 "Presentation Manager" for instance. There was a Presentation Manager subsystem for NT that could run 16-bit OS/2 graphical programs, but it was about as hard to come by as buying
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by rlkf 4y ago
The MindStorms bricks were based on Linux, but they couldn't care to even provide a text-mode uploader for new firmware that worked on Linux. Happy to take from, but not to give back to, the community. Their support didn't even un
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by rlkf 4y ago
Adding tips will probably just cause the business to lower the wages, making the workers more dependent on a semi-random stream of tips instead of a fixed income, making life worse for them. Restaurants now work like that, and workers are v
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by rlkf 4y ago
Mostly it's the start battery that have problems in the cold. The diesel sold in Norway have anti-gelling substances added; cars run fine in -20 degC/-4 degF.
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by rlkf 4y ago
On the other hand, a majority voted later that year to join the rest of Ukraine in independence from the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_re...
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by rlkf 4y ago
You can almost get there if you commit often, and structure your commits such that all the trivial stuff are done in their own commits; for instance, if you introduce an if, you add the if and end in one commit and do all the re-indenting o
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by rlkf 4y ago
My takeaway from your comment is that one should read the code first, and then see if the comments match your understanding of it afterwards, NOT that one should not write any comments.
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by rlkf 4y ago
Not having the bootloader signed is a feature: If the company go bust, the customers can change the firmware and still use their chargers. Having it signed would provide no value for residential customers, where the chargers ostensibly woul
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by rlkf 4y ago
In my twice-the-size European city, kids walk twice that distance to school and back home again, alone. Every. Single. Day. If this place isn't safe enough for kids to walk by themselves, maybe the question should be raised whether the
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by rlkf 4y ago
Not only can you coordinate several chargers (if you are in a shared garage), but you could also coordinate usage across other devices connected to the same residential fuse box (all such in Norway has a HAN interface); for instance you cou
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by rlkf 4y ago
> why is flickering LEDs so common? Maybe you have a "leading edge" dimmer, whereas most LEDs needs trailing edge.
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by rlkf 4y ago
Well, good riddance, I guess. The software side of this product has been completely mismanaged and community-hostile for a long time, and the hardware has always been overpriced. Hopefully this will make market room for alternatives that gi
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by rlkf 4y ago
But there is! With xrdp on the server and xfreerdp on the client, using RFX codec, I can have a remote login across town with 4K resolution through a Wireguard tunnel over a residential DOCSIS broadband.
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by rlkf 4y ago
I use a Dvorak layout for more comfortable touch typing, along with some changes I made to the numeric row to make it more suited for programming. For the "native" letters I use a European keyboard and map the extra key to Compose
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by rlkf 4y ago
Porque no los dos? It seems that function ,foo() { printf "Fooo\n"; } ,foo actually works! (at least in my bash 5.0.17 shell)
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by rlkf 4y ago
> The Russian Empire suffered losses during WWI but survived as the Soviet Union. I think you would find it interesting to read about the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk, where the Russians lost about as much as they've "lost&quo
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by rlkf 4y ago
This is the way we have it, too. I would like to add yet another advantage of this approach: You can designate bags in your cart to where the items go in your house, e.g. for fridge items, bathroom items, dry items, frozen items. When you&#
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by rlkf 5y ago
Is remote desktop still in the same, sorry state on Wayland? Then it is simply a non-starter, no matter how tear-less window dragging is locally.
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by rlkf 5y ago
Juerd Waalboer's "Dvorak Keyboard Training": https://learn.dvorak.nl/ Of course, it will only teach you Dvorak, but then again, you did say that you wanted to type faster...
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by rlkf 5y ago
> commercially supported OS that's built around a unified memory model Doesn't OS/400 work that way? (Of course then there is the question to which degree "commercially" should imply "readily open to third-p
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by rlkf 5y ago
> workaround ... by placing the efficiency cores on standby. ... you would press the Scroll Lock key This reminds me of the Turbo button on my old PC/AT machine, which would clock the processor down from 10MHz to 6MHz, to run PC&#x2
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by rlkf 5y ago
Except that the format of the npm cache is version-specific. You would probably be better off using https://github.com/heikkipora/registry-sync instead.
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by rlkf 5y ago
`npm uninstall foo` simultaneously upgrades all the _other_ packages. Experienced developers they are not.

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