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by rlkf 8y ago
I think this is actually a better analogy than debt (notice that equity and debt are on the same side of the ledger); just as future valuation of the company is uncertain, so may also be the business value of the quick hack. I.e. in the sam
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by rlkf 8y ago
People probably mistook "by that time" as "at that time" instead of "since", which was what you meant. Also, use "has been" instead of "is", as the open-sourcing happened sometime in the pas
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by rlkf 8y ago
Garbage incinerators with CO2 capture and geological storage; that is a net CO2-negative process, and you can recover energy in the form of domestic heating, too. This is not a fantasy technology; everything needed to do this already exists
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by rlkf 9y ago
Off-topic, but still: There are several frightening realistic aspects with that series, but the key premise - that the U.K. would willingly allow Russia to take control over one of its energy sources - is so utterly bonkers that it spoils t
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by rlkf 9y ago
> pronouncing the Danish/Norwegian word "dag" (day) in Norwegian. ... In Danish it's pronounced like the English "day". WTF? This is consistent with the pronunciation of "jeg" (=I, as in myself) in
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by rlkf 9y ago
> they had OSX running on x86 for years before the switch (in fact they had OSX running on x86 before it even was OSX Although NeXTStep ran on x86, the MacOS build on x86 was John Scheinberg's personal skunkworks project until it be
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by rlkf 9y ago
If the environment variable HISTCONTROL contains the keyword ignorespace, then commands starting with a space won't be saved in the history list; usable in situations like this. (Of course, the command will be visible in the process li
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by rlkf 9y ago
Maybe not in the U.S., but in Norway, as part of getting the driver's license, you'll have to take an ice driving course, where, amongst other things, a dummy is swung at your car while driving on an oiled lane in 30 mph. (It is p
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by rlkf 9y ago
Is the incident with the matching checksum that he mentions because APFS only checksum metadata (which are on preallocated space on the image), or is it his own checksum (say sha1sum), I wonder? It seems strange that the filesystem driver w
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by rlkf 9y ago
Who should determine the will of this corporate-person? The shareholders? The board? The managing director? If I own a stake in an index fund, how do I propagate my will proportionately to the actions of these corporations? Corporate-person
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by rlkf 9y ago
Techies get treated well probably equals higher employee retention, again leading to higher institutional memory, meaning bugs have a chance of actually getting fixed. More happiness probably also correlates with more creativity, meaning th
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by rlkf 9y ago
You may say this in jest, but RyanAir actually applied for permission to do flights with unseated passengers. Fortunately, we still have an aviation authority (in Norway) wise enough to throw it out, sneering.
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by rlkf 9y ago
But the society need not be based on internal oppression, to be an adversary to us: I don't think the kingdom of Castille in 1492 necessarily was a beacon of stability and lack of conflict; yet it financed an expedition westwards.
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by rlkf 9y ago
Not even that: The Norwegian government plans to connect the garbage incinerator at Klementsrud to a CO2 capture station, pressurize it, and ship it to an abandoned gas field for storage. And since the capacity of the storage site is so muc
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by rlkf 9y ago
I know, and it's a shame, because it actually takes very little effort to do better teaching of left-handed: http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.html
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by rlkf 9y ago
Although a bit subtle, I think the line of exchange from top and down to here is amongst the best I've seen.
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by rlkf 9y ago
> this claims Edge sends all visited URL to Bing? Yes. So if you instead of attachments of large files in email send an URL such as https://acme.pri/?id=cafe-babe-deadbeeff00d , which is not secured by any other method th
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by rlkf 9y ago
At my previous work, we attempted to find the correlation between faulty code and the time of commit in the version control. Most bugs were written after 14:00. (And no: we didn't check-in all code at the end of the day).
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by rlkf 9y ago
This reminds me of the Norwegian Butter Crisis of 2011, although that one was caused by a demand-side shock from low-carb diet fads. Our condolances to the Japanese people; our hearts are with you.
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by rlkf 10y ago
Observations and models don't match, so there is some input that is missing. In this case it seems to be a heavier atmosphere (which has later blown away). Their hopes are that this added assumption will reconcile the observations and
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by rlkf 10y ago
These kind of studies tend to be riddled with methological errors. For instance, one of them found (as usual) that autumn-borns had lower grades than spring-borns. However, once adjusting for the parent's education level, the results w
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by rlkf 10y ago
I love the Internet Archive, so it would be great if some kind of archiving function could be worked out. But if it's on GitHub now, it should be exported to Zenodo today, so there's at least one reference version around for Inter
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by rlkf 12y ago
Being a European, I find this very... surreal. It is often considered that our labor regulations and unions encumbers businesses, but when I read stories like this I can't help thinking that it's actually the other way around.