rowyourboat

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by rowyourboat 3y ago
You would be surprised how many companies don't allow you to work part time, period.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
> Maybe, if this will be used in the future, those can help balance the power grid while not in use NIO are already doing at least part of that by charging the batteries during time of excess energy only
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Yes, we let anybody reduce their work week to 80% - for 80% pay, of course.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I thought that was cultural. There are cultures that don't talk to babies at all.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Isn't the main problem that academics are measured by the number of publications they publish, and reproductions of existing studies aren't published by the main journals, thus there is little incentive to try and reproduce findin
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
> The plan is not to support macros How do you plan on supporting meta-programming, then? Code-generation as a first class citizen a la .NET?
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
The marginal cost of using spare capacity in home computers has risen significantly. It used to be the case that CPUs pretty much always used the same amount of power regardless of load, so filling those unused cycles with SETI@home et al.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Shouldn't parking fees be dependent on area and not weight?
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Actually, it wouldn't, kerosene and diesel are pretty similar, so it would not be surprising if a diesel car engine can run on SAF. That being said, it's by no means a given, modern diesel engines are highly optimized and might ha
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
> because motorcycles require a higher-level of attention and are significantly more dangerous to operate than a car. For the driver. Cars are more dangerous than motorcycles for everybody but the people inside/on it, which means th
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
The only explanation I heard was that they wanted to prevent people using consumer DSL for such nefarious purposes as running publicly available servers (nevermind the rather restricted uplink speed machine this hard at any scale anyway), s
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Yeah, I have a two-word last name. It sometimes gets smushed together by the airlines, but they're inconsistent about it. Lufthansa for example does this in a particularly annoying way, if I give my name as LAST NAME, it will automatic
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
But even then, Apple knows exactly which purchases it consolidated into which payment, making the entire process trivial again
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I don't understand the problem this solves. At least in my experience each transaction on the bank statement has a reference to a business transaction attached (usually an invoice number). The amount of money that just lands on the acc
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
Exactly. That's why I don't build the toy anymore: Too many broken promises of "Yes, we won't put it into production until it's ready", and then my team is left maintaining a system in production that had no bu
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
All the GPL says on source code access is that you need to make the source code available to whoever you distributed your program to. If the program never leaves a closed circle of people, neither does the source code.
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
I don't think the fact that it's sqlx or rust is really relevant. What you're describing is a problem and conflict of interest that's pervasive on open source, and that's what I thought worthy of discussing on hn. I
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
To being able to surveil a country's citizens. These super-anonymous communication technologies are touted time and again to solve the problem of a surveillance state, while they do nothing of the sort. You cannot solve a social proble
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by rowyourboat 3y ago
The solution to this is of course to simply outlaw the use of communication systems that cannot be monitored by law enforcement. India has it, the EU is working on it, and I'm sure the US will do something like that as well.
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29 points by rowyourboat 3y ago|17 comments
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
You can, as I pointed out in that very sentence: > It is illegal to record somebody else's presence in a public space, although fair use examples exist (in the background of a personal vacation photo, for example) If you were to pub
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> Can shop owners in Germany not have surveillance cameras in their buildings? Unless you walk into the grocery store with a mask, you would then be on video and identifiable in some way. They can, but you have to be informed of that fa
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
The principle is that people have the expectation that their movements in the public space aren't recorded. Anything that violates that expectation is problematic to straight illegal. I don't find that silly, quite the contrary. I
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
No, of course not. It's about making records.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> If you voluntarily walk into someones private shop, can you demand that the shop owner doesn't catalog that event? Unless you know the shop owner, you would not be personally identified, and yes, in fact, it would be illegal to us
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Right. The +-suffix suffers from the same problem as the dots-don't-matter-policy: While some implementations use + as a separator between a mailbox name and a suffix, there is nothing in the RFC that encodes that, so different server
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I don't quite understand the problem it solves. It has disadvantages over dedicated type for both sighted and blind people. For the sighted, it's harder to read than fonts typically used for signage, and the blind get a cumbersome
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
While it is basically impossible to overdose on Vitamin C, you can overdose on Vitamin D. It is fat-soluble, thus overdosing has a cumulative and delayed effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D However
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I don't know how to get this discussion back on a productive track. I never said it was Youtube's job to support everyone with a camera, nor do I publish content on Youtube. I simply would like to have a discussion about the effec
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> You can't be serious Watch me. > use a different service What service is there for video creators that has a similar reach? In terms of short internet video, Youtube is a de facto monopoly. Moving to other platforms means givi

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