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by roel_v 6y ago
The spec sheet on that link says '2x FPC interface', what does that mean? When I google 'fpc to hdmi' I get a bunch of generic hdmi cables. Is 'FPC' just a form factor to transfer an hdmi signal? More to the po
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by roel_v 6y ago
Looking at this from the other side, I gave remote desktop control to a printer tech a few weeks ago and I felt weirdly violated for a long time. Even something as simple as people moving my keyboard halves into weird angles is unsettling,
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by roel_v 6y ago
"By medical standards you still have a sedentary lifestyle" Is it? Is 1h of strenuous exercise at a time and sittimg the rest of the day not better than getting up every hour and doing some simple stretches or just walking around?
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by roel_v 6y ago
shrug The Unreal engine mentioned elsewhere in this threat also seems very simple (an order of magnitude more straightforward as what we're talking about here I'd argue), yet if you go on the Id forums you'll find many ques
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by roel_v 6y ago
While I have never practised as a lawyer, I do have a law degree, and I've written several papers on IP and IP licensing when I was in law school. And I will also add that I did not do my degree in the US. Still, I am quite convinced t
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by roel_v 6y ago
"I mean, this is a fairly trivial loophole to close if you have a lawyer who knows what they're doing." In the same way that it's trivial to write a twitter clone in a weekend, yes. Hundreds of goverments have tried for
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by roel_v 6y ago
From an identity politics point of view, this article is quite the rollercoaster, as evidenced by the comments here.
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by roel_v 6y ago
"You also gets up to 80% of your former salary provided by the government until you do." Also when you were self-employed, and/or if you quit your job? In Norway can you quit your job for no reason and get 80% of your salary
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by roel_v 6y ago
" (currently working on disconnecting power when not in use" Watch out, modern printers run a full OS that doesn't expect power to be fully cut regularly. My Xerox does a full filesystem check every time I turn the power to i
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by roel_v 6y ago
Did you measure power usage? I've found printers, even in standby, to be surprisingly large power consumers.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Don't buy modern Xeroxes though! I have a Versalink with huge useless OS that takes forever to boot and errors that require multiple reboot to 'fix'. Guy on the phone said it was because of drivers on client machines (what so
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by roel_v 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by 'control a zoom session', but yes I use it with Zoom. I use OBS to composite video and some audio, I use the OBS virtual camera as the camera device in Zoom, for audio I usually use the straigh microphone
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by roel_v 6y ago
These exist, e.g. the Elgato Stream Deck. It's basically a keypad with x buttons (there are various versions) that each are small lcd displays that you can program to show and do anything you want (so you can make it do the 'on ai
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by roel_v 6y ago
The company should be saving up some of its profits for future investment, yes, but the question was (at least that's how I understood it from the way it was phrased) how much to save up before actually starting. My point was that one
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by roel_v 6y ago
That's the wrong way around. You start small, part time if possible, and grow (and hire) as you get more steady work. Do not save up 2mm, hire 5 guys, then the next Monday morning say "ok guys let's find some customers".
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by roel_v 6y ago
Is there a summary somewhere of what's wrong with x.org/x11? I haven't been keeping up.
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by roel_v 6y ago
That's not what rent seeking is, though. If only we'd have bots on here, I could post this comment automatically, as I haven't seen anyone use the term correctly in the say 2/3 years since it became hip to mention it eve
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by roel_v 6y ago
Looks cool as a toy, but the advantage of qnap is not the hardware (which is just cots), it's the software. Ain't nobody got time to mess about with mdadm. And no, Webmin isn't even remotely in the same league. I totally love
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by roel_v 6y ago
Usually the people answering this way don't know how to fix the problem being asked, they know something that upon first reading looks sort of similar and they want to look smart so they shout "xy problem". This is part of wh
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by roel_v 6y ago
"The moral is that you can tame wild ducks, but you can't wildify tamed ducks (that's why there isn't even such a word as wildify)." Well, I don't know about ducks, but it's certainly possible to re-introd
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by roel_v 6y ago
But... this answer just makes it more opaque? The blog posts starts out with "I am looking to serve small communities that would have trouble hiring someone at all to do planning and economic development work for them.". So I&#x27
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by roel_v 6y ago
What sort of services is this author offering? From experience I can say that at the pricepoints being mentioned (a few thousand USD, which is a few days of work, if that), you can barely break even on just the amount of effort small towns
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by roel_v 6y ago
"What am I going to do in court as someone with a single copy of Windows 95 and Windows 98?" Entertain the rest of us, of course!
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by roel_v 6y ago
It's been a while since there have been posts on Supermemo here (meta: I miss the times when HN was mostly about bootstrapping software businesses, nootropics and self hacking), so I'm wondering - are there people who (still) use
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by roel_v 6y ago
Also Dutch
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by roel_v 6y ago
So I typed a 10-paragraph post here arguing my case but ended up deciding there was too much identifying and non-public information in it for me to be comfortable posting it here. If you post an email address or add one to your profile, I c
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by roel_v 6y ago
Have you actually done any permaculture, and/or run the numbers on what it would take to move away from synthetic fertilizers? The reason permaculture isn't part of the default is because it's a pipe dream. A hobby for those
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh, and how that is related to current practice (because I lost my train of thought somewhere) is that 'modern' (=ML-based) experimental sentencing guideline systems try to overcome this 'subjective bias' by injecting an
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by roel_v 6y ago
I really really strongly disagree. I'll admit it's a personal thing - I know of some people who can only learn a language by memorizing all of its rules (typically people who have gone through their education based on rote memoris
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by roel_v 6y ago
Dutch public prosecutors used (until 2015) a software system called 'BOS/Polaris' for sentencing guidelines. This was an 'algorithmic' system in its most 'pure', CS/math meanings. It was a fairly simp

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