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by roel_v 8y ago
Then why bother at all opening during the day? Surely not for the $5 in profit?
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by roel_v 8y ago
Let's say 'a few' is 3. How can you get any work done when you have to stop every 20 mins (one someone else's schedule) and spend 3 mins making coffee & small talk? This sounds like people saying 'I won't h
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by roel_v 8y ago
* like bookstores and coffee shops and art galleries* Also, martial arts schools.
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by roel_v 8y ago
But many of the plugins are dead. For example there used to be an OSD plugin, but I haven't been able to get it working for at least 5-6 years.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Re your last paragraph, well yeah, it sucks, but it's what we have to live/work with. So while it would be nice to live in a parallel universe where it doesn't matter ('it' = inequality), the current reality is that
906.
by roel_v 8y ago
This article somewhat seems to assume that 'everyone is good at something' (although at the end it veers towards 'it doesn't matter if someone is good at anything', so it's a bit unclear at that). But anyway it
907.
by roel_v 8y ago
Can I use this for my home automation setup? It seems the github link is only part of the product. Do you license this for individual users?
908.
by roel_v 8y ago
The abbreviation 'MSM' is very much not neutral, yes. I haven't done a survey, but I do not think it's controversial that it's a term used by certain online subcultures (just like many others from all sides, again I
909.
by roel_v 8y ago
You're missing the point. Of course I know what 'MSM' means. What I'm saying is that by banning certain phrases that people use to signal something beyond the dry meaning of the word, you get better discussions because i
910.
by roel_v 8y ago
"US/Europa MSM" Totally OT, but I wish there would be a policy on here (and elsewhere, but let's start small...) where a certain list of shibboleths like 'MSM' and 'HRC' and 'triggered' (jus
911.
by roel_v 8y ago
Is this a new thing? Isn't this like the pdb files that msvc had since the late 1990's?
912.
by roel_v 8y ago
Modern wood for building storied buildings is not like 'wood' people think about when they hear the word. It's a laminated material, the strenght of which very much depend on cutting edge expoxy technology. I don't know
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by roel_v 8y ago
When you got your last mortgage, didn't your advisor tell you the 'best' option, taking into account tax breaks and whether you are single- or dual income family? Sure, it's less money we're talking about, but it&#x
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by roel_v 8y ago
No offense, but you don't sound like you know what you're talking about if you don't even seem to understand the difference between 'tax avoidance' and 'tax evasion' (or at least your posts and answers giv
915.
by roel_v 8y ago
I have one like that, a Miele with a temperature probe that commumicates with the oven. It does a lot of other things automatically too, holds temperature very accurately, great oven. They exist.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Truncating text is almost always (in my experience) a UI thing, where you pass a flag to some UI widget saying 'truncate this and that on overflow' and while rendering, it can then truncate using grapheme clusters. How often does
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by roel_v 8y ago
"Unix filenames are bytes" Are they? Is the separator 0x2f or / ? Or are you talking about the filename only, not paths?
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by roel_v 8y ago
That's silly. How often have you had to work with grapheme clusters without also using a text rendering engine? But the number of times you need to know the number of bytes a string takes, even when using scripting languages, is much h
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by roel_v 8y ago
If you like nerd humor, you'll also like Standup Economist (standupeconomist.com)
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by roel_v 8y ago
It is. It's convoluted and idiosyncratic for no reason and all together a puzzled together mess. R is not (much) better than Excel. It's better in the same way that getting stabbed in the eye with a hot poker twice is better than
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by roel_v 8y ago
Because it's so awesome. This must be one of this journalist's career highlights, to be able to put something like this in a mainstream serious reporting piece.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Ironically enough, out of the several dozens of wars the Dutch and the English/British fought where both parties were involved, in more wars we fought together rather than against each other (I forgot where I read that the other day).
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by roel_v 8y ago
I was assigned several in lae school, they wouldn't be relevant to you. Any introduction book on corporate structure and corporate governance would do as a foundation (for your jurisdiction) I would imagine, any specific questions you
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by roel_v 8y ago
He's trying to paint the picture that Wallonia is a repressed ethnic minority. My head spins at the level of idea-twisting it would require to claim something like that. Otoh it's also interesting to find a new trope that this guy
925.
by roel_v 8y ago
You should read a book on this, it's not something that someone can/will explain in a one off paragraph comment.
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by roel_v 8y ago
I don't know about that... Salaries in the UK are crap, much lower than in the EU; and I have the impression that London is only up in the stats because of the quant jobs, which while technically 'software development' jobs,
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by roel_v 8y ago
What does this table say? I'm not convinced you can just divide real salaries by PP adjusted numbers and get a meaningful result of the kind you are claiming. Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor, i.e. an inver
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by roel_v 8y ago
That sort of arrangement incentives people in many unexpected ways, like people optimizing for the chance to get allocated a slot that can be sold at maximum price, rather than what is the 'best' for them overall. It then turns in
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by roel_v 8y ago
None of these frameworks (there are many) seem to have support for repeating a certain target multiple times, with different arguments. For example, say you have a data set with per-country data; how do you repeat the same analysis on each
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by roel_v 8y ago
This here. Having someone who doesn't have to social skills of a house plant to talk to the customers, and then have the neckbeards in the back room code it up, is not the way to go, and nowadays I refuse to work with partners who work

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