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by roel_v 6y ago
Quite often it just doesn't matter that much. It's a matter of 'taste', as are so many things that are 'designed'. And yes you'll make mistakes a few times. The correct response to those mistakes is to tak
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by roel_v 6y ago
Does that make them bad employers? I would expect it to be quite logical that employers want to hire the best workers, where the 'best' is those who can process the most items. I used to work in a brush factory when I was a teenag
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by roel_v 6y ago
I have never heard of 2 year phds anywhere in Europe and I'm in European academia, working a lot in European projects so I have quite a bit of exposure to academic cultures across the continent. Nominal time is 4 years, 3 years is alre
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh that is a great find, thank you, that one looks like it would work great for my use case!
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by roel_v 6y ago
I used an Ergodox ez for over a year (mayne even 2?) before the uhk came out (ordered them around the same time, uhk was very delayed). Today (so for the last 2 years or so) I use the uhk because it has labels on all keys, ergodox only has
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by roel_v 6y ago
Because it's much better than qgis. It's like Photoshop vs gimp. Technically there is nothing you can do in one that you can't do in the other, but the same can be said of MS Paint...
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by roel_v 6y ago
There was a post in here a while ago on this, I think it was this guys company: https://www.google.com/amp/s/singularityhub.com/2017/02/03/t... . Not sure if it ever went anywhere.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Those videos show up in my Youtube feed the last few weeks too (although these saws have existed for many years now), but I still wonder - why do they always use hotdogs in the demo videos? Can't they find anyone who's willing to
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by roel_v 6y ago
What runs on the gpu?
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yeah, really tiny... At first I thought 'wow this is a game changer', but then I looked at your link and thought 'what's the point?'. Can someone explain what real problems you can solve with just the headers in the
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by roel_v 6y ago
I'm not sure what part of 'the industry' you're referring to, but last time I looked (which was admittedly more than a year ago), there is only one serious SYCL implementation, it's proprietary and the only people p
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by roel_v 6y ago
"(Norton Commander, anyone? to this day there is no comparable tool)" If you're on Windows, try xyplorer. I can't remember anything NC did that xyplorer doesn't, and it does a lot more, too.
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by roel_v 6y ago
I'm currently looking at various mortgage options in Belgium, between 1 and 2% for 25 year term. But what makes it even better is that, by law, (variable) mortgage rates can never more than double (in Belgium). Yearly variable mortgage
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by roel_v 6y ago
"At least in the EU, there are nice and safe places with very low real estate prices, quite decent socialised medicine, very low taxes and easy cheap transportation links around the continent. " Oh? Like where?
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yeah I don't really agree. I have both software engineering and law degrees and would love to do something on the nexus tech/law/security but there are very few jobs where deep knowledge of several is a real plus. It's a
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by roel_v 6y ago
Of course, and not only that, but very strongly held opinions too :)
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by roel_v 6y ago
You can't query those for the current room temp, current settings etc. So then if you mix the OEM app & your home automation app, things get messed up. IR bridges are a hack in home automation, when buying new stuff avoid them.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yeah then it makes sense
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by roel_v 6y ago
Should've bought Daikin A/C's - their network bridges speak HTTP with a simple REST service. Highly recommend, it was very easy to integrate them into my home automation setup.
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by roel_v 6y ago
I quite like the model - either you pay for Youtube or you don't. If you do, you get a bunch of stuff, some of which you might not use; but the total is still cheap, so who cares. I'd hate it if all-you-can-eat restaurants would m
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by roel_v 6y ago
Is it? I see Patreon as OnlyFans for nerds - and I don't think OnlyFans is that dissimilar to Zynga...
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yeah, also I used to store the music egg in the fridge along with my normal eggs, and I think that didn't help the accuracy either. I should ask the Egg Timer app people to implement playing custom songs though, these comments have thr
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh I had a fun one like this just this morning. I have (C++) code spanning back to the early 1990's, although some of it was written (as C) a decade before that. It relies on checking the floating point unit status register for a bunch
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by roel_v 6y ago
I had one of those many years ago, but they're not very good. The sound is muffled a lot by the water and it's just not accurate all together. The Android app 'Egg Timer' gives much better results. I do still see the app
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by roel_v 6y ago
That's part of the RFC email address spec. Ignoring .'s isn't, AFAIR.
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by roel_v 6y ago
How good is a ReMarkable as an ebook reader? I don't care that much about the writing, but having a large size ebook reader that can display A4 pdfs in acceptable quality would be a game changer for me...
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by roel_v 6y ago
Who says anything about statistical models?
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by roel_v 6y ago
"A company like Spotify may want to change the UI without updating the installation" I did that 20+ years ago too and no I didn't need an 'HTML- of JSX-like framework'. Again, when all you have is a hammer...
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by roel_v 6y ago
Not sure what the point is on the first two - you wouldn't even need that with a non crap ui framework. Video - I drag and dropped video players onto UI forms 20+ years ago. <video> is a joke - you need something like video.js to
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by roel_v 6y ago
"but it's a giant codebase that does things that would be simply impossible in Qt, GTK, Swing and others. " Like what?

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