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by rlonn 7y ago
I'm sorry, but how can anyone say "what kind" of free speech...? Don't you see that labeling or discriminating between "free speech of type A, allowed" and "free speech of type B, disallowed" defeats
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by rlonn 7y ago
Stockholm is not bad at all for a nature loving SW developer. I know lots of people who moved from here, to the valley (biggest opportunity), London/Berlin (bigger than Stockholm while still European cities) and lately some successful
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by rlonn 7y ago
The words "well-maintained" and "curated" don't usually rhyme very well with "nature", IMO. Real nature is by definition unmaintained. When it's maintained it becomes a park/garden, and loses mor
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by rlonn 7y ago
The protection-from-predators theory is interesting, and sounds plausible. I've always disliked nature that was too much groomed also, like perfect lawns, shaped bushes, parks with only two types of trees in them, or whatnot. Sterile,
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by rlonn 7y ago
I think it may be more complex than just "faking it makes you a winner". Faking it is easy, authenticity is hard. People who fake it every chance they get regress their character, while being authentic builds character. Authentici
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by rlonn 7y ago
Try measuring your resistance with a multimeter. You'll find that it is way more than 10 Ohm, which is why 12V is not dangerous to humans.
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by rlonn 7y ago
not with 12V. 12V batteries are pretty safe for human skin contact. If you put your wet tongue across a 12V battery it will hurt, but not more than that (it's a good way to test 9V batteries actually)
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by rlonn 7y ago
Electric submarines have pretty large batteries with very low-voltage cells but where a cell is big enough to deliver huge amounts of current. Completely safe to touch with bare hands, even wet hands, but if you drop a metal tool that short
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by rlonn 7y ago
Usually, lack of insects near humans is because humans destroy or remove their habitat and food - mainly decaying plant matter (fallen trees especially). Insect populations then dwindle, which means bird populations do also. If birds start
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by rlonn 7y ago
Recipe for getting things done: 1. Place every new & cool technology into mental quarantine for 3-5 years. 2. If, after that: a) the tech is still widely used, and doesn't seem to be getting overtaken by something else b) you&#
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by rlonn 7y ago
Almost the same in swedish: lekskola (or "lekis") and dagskola ("dagis") but they have now been replaced by the more pretentious "förskola" as we like to be pretentious over here. "barnhage" is a smal
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by rlonn 7y ago
I think your kids are very lucky. You seem to know what's important and be determined enough to get it. The only thing I can add that I didn't see on your list is "Take care of yourself also". My dad died young because h
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by rlonn 7y ago
I have a partner yeah, and the kids are reaching an age now (5 and 7) where they don't need as much help anymore. Dressing, eating, tidying etc they can do on their own so things are also getting easier. With them, at least. We also ha
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by rlonn 7y ago
Yes, in Stockholm (and I guess most of Sweden) noone local raises an eyebrow when a dad comes pushing a pram. I think there's been a change the past 10-15 years when new parental leave requirements has forced both parents to share the
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by rlonn 7y ago
Sounds like you need to try some Minecraft mods :)
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by rlonn 7y ago
I agree. There are lots of things about raising kids that are intellectually stimulating and fascinating. I really enjoy seeing them grow mentally and figuring out ways to help them along, and also think up ways to make things fun of course
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by rlonn 7y ago
Those complexes are retirement homes. It's a very cool concept - they build a horseshoe-shaped apartment building and then glass over the central courtyard to create a huge indoor park for the residents. The apartments all face the ind
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by rlonn 7y ago
Pleasing all pleases noone. Successful products and projects come from a vision that is executed with discipline. Design by committee never works if the committee reaches a certain size. Instead of whining and trying to sabotage Go, why don
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by rlonn 7y ago
That's true and bandwidth is actually something I've been wondering about: what kind of bandwidth can an inexpensive ground-based system get, reliably? Sending bits in a fiber is famously free of interference, while hundreds of
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by rlonn 7y ago
At Load Impact we faced this issue also: us wanting a predictable revenue stream, and the customers often preferring a pay-as-you-go model. In my mind you should always be customer-centric and offer what the customers want. Otherwise someon
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by rlonn 7y ago
Great work w Loadster. Didn't know it was a solo effort! I founded another load testing service - loadimpact.com, which is doing very well but certainly not a solo effort and has taken on investors along the way. I'm now trying t
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by rlonn 8y ago
The day you wake up and consider yourself "adult" is the day you start to die.
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by rlonn 8y ago
There are 23 species of crocs and some are smaller than Komodo dragons. Temperaments vary quite a lot between species also, with crocs from the alligator side of the family considered to be "easier", though they're all crocs
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by rlonn 8y ago
If you don't feel like setting up and maintaining your own data storage & visualisation solution for your time series data, you could use adafruit.io or blynk.io. And if you're really lazy or impatient you can try my ridiculo
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by rlonn 8y ago
Thanks for all these great tips. The site looks the way it does because I learned as I went along. I did some refactoring of the JS when adding the blog section, but a lot more is needed. And the CSS is on a whole other level of ugliness. I
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by rlonn 8y ago
I actually agree on this one. The standard library is pretty basic. I guess my background as a C programmer means I'm just not very spoiled with great standard libraries. I do think that I'm going to have to start using moment.js
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by rlonn 8y ago
I'm not operating from any assumptions, I am just stating observations. The observations were: - ~6MB JS file produced by `npm run build` compared to ~400KB page weight for all items in my vanilla app - Page load times from that Greek
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by rlonn 8y ago
No math involved. I simply looked at the load times in the browser. As to the cause, that I don't know but it seems likely to be a lot due to inexperienced developers, like others suggested. Maybe don't focus too much on a side no
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by rlonn 8y ago
Yes, that is probably very true. Another project of mine is a crossword puzzle game for kids (puzzlepirate.net), written in React by a friend who as opposed to myself knows what he's doing. The client there is not a lot heavier than pu
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by rlonn 8y ago
Well, I can fill you in on the fact that a fair bit of the contents described how useless my front-end coding skills are! Also, the whole blog section, with comments etc, was done in the past couple of days so I haven't tried to fix re

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