roel_v

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by roel_v 8y ago
To an extent you're right. I've used vim for 20 years, and in the first say 5 years I would spend a lot of time tweaking configs, learning new commands etc. I don't think I will ever make back the time I spend on that in save
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by roel_v 8y ago
In Europe, a Masters is not 'graduate' level. A masters (in Europe) is just a continuation of a bachelors, and someone graduating with just a bachelors is basically someone who's only half finished their education. Consequent
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Raising children is the primary function of society." Uh, says you. If people can't afford something, maybe they shouldn't get it - children included.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Most of that research has been shown to be bunk.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Not only is she alone (as in 'single' - not to equate 'single' with 'alone' or 'lonely'...), she adopted three special needs children, too (I got this from following the link to her blog and then the
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by roel_v 8y ago
"I think we’re probably just a decade or so away from having lab grown or “impossible burger” style fake meats able to compete with factory farming on price." I hope so. "I’m less sure how that will apply to milk and dairy th
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Does going to a top 10 law school matter more than graduating from a Top 10 CS program? " I have both law and software engineering degrees and I can tell you without a doubt that yes, the school you graduate from matters much m
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by roel_v 8y ago
Small farms like your aren't commercially viable for much longer (they already aren't in Europe, I'm not very familiar with the US situation, but I have no reason to believe it's different in the medium term). The constr
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by roel_v 8y ago
Lol. Technical articles are the worst, there is always someone who needs to push their open source/free software morals and agenda on anything software-related.
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Go inside your house! Letting the neighbours in your house to grab books." Well I was thinking more of a 'we're open Saturday mornings only' kind of deal, I can assure you I am far from the most generous, kindheart
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by roel_v 8y ago
"I operate a Little Free Library that is a net source of books (people in the neighborhood drop off boxes of books)." Quite OT, but I've thought about doing this - how do you do this, practically speaking? Do you have a cupbo
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by roel_v 8y ago
I want to buy these apps. I want to buy them for my children. I spend time every couple of weeks looking for one-time-pay, no ads, no tracking, no 'optional' micropayment ads. I can find them only very rarely (Stardew Valley was r
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by roel_v 8y ago
Do you mean that as a positive or a negative thing? Also, apart from what I mentioned above, I've also found out that with Signal it's very hard to transfer your chat history to another phone. (involves manually copying over a bac
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well yeah but it's not the mess the gp alludes to.
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by roel_v 8y ago
What is the difference?
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by roel_v 8y ago
Having just installed Signal yesterday, in what respect is it worse than Whatsapp (from a UI pov)? The only thing I found so far is the bad integration with contacts.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Nobody cared. I submitted CC numbers over http connections for years in the late 1990's. I emailed them sometimes, too. I also used telnet across the public internet and never got my passwords sniffed or mitm'd (only on hacker mee
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by roel_v 8y ago
Did you make it to the end (I'll admit, not an easy feat)? Because that's not what it's about at all.
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", to save others a google.
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by roel_v 8y ago
This is very hard to pull off, IME. Even when you have a group of friend who all have children (as opposed to 'we all have children who are friends, so now we are de factor friends') it takes a lot of coordination to keep someth
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by roel_v 8y ago
Cannabis has never been 'completely legal' anywhere in the Netherlands. It depends a bit though on how you define 'completely legal'. Wikipedia has the details.
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by roel_v 8y ago
"styrofoam" Nitpick / clarification: this is not 'EPS' which is what is commonly known in the US a styrofoam (although according to Wikipedia, the trademarked name 'Styrofoam' actually referes to XPS); so
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Heat pumps work best when you maintain a room at a stable, comfortable temperature." Right, but for this to be economical, you need to have a well-insulated house, which is pretty much impossible to retrofit. So practically speak
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by roel_v 8y ago
The vapor barrier should be placed on the 'warm side', i.e. the side where the temperature is higher (as you say). So yes which side that is (what side of the insulation) depends on whether you're mostly cooling or mostly war
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by roel_v 8y ago
Oh but this is only the beginning. With boost MPL, you can do full metaprogramming at preprocessing time (I'm not 100% sure but I think the C++ preprocessor is compatible with that of C? So that would make MPL applicable to C code as
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by roel_v 8y ago
Someone motivated could build an implementation that uses Direct2D underneath. I think MS has one already. There are provisions in the proposal to expose handles to the underlying graphics systems, for example if you want to render text wit
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by roel_v 8y ago
People don't value their time like that, at least, most of them don't. I mean, some do, but at my hourly rate the time I spend on driving and shopping is much more than its cost and I still balk at paying e5 for grocery deliveries
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by roel_v 8y ago
I have the exact same problem, I've tried many things over the last 10 years and the solution you're using is (imo) by far the easiest, most flexible and robust. It feels hacky but it just works. If you want some interactivity (di
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by roel_v 8y ago
It's right there in the toolbar, the "P"-ish looking icon.
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Almost supermarket prices" This is the problem - it's not going to be 'almost supermarket prices'. It'll be a 10-20% markup, which is a lot for food.

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