toberoni

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by toberoni 2y ago
Annual growth rates during the Industrial Revolution where way lower than 10%. In the 18th century it was well below 1%, during the 19th century it was on average at 1-1.5% (the highest estimates go up to 3% annual growth for certain decade
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by toberoni 2y ago
I feel Uber is the outlier here. For every unicorn company there are 1000s of companies that don't need to scale to millions of users. And due to the insane markup of many cloud services it can make sense to just use beefier servers 24
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by toberoni 2y ago
I use Gnome on multiple PCs and my first thought was they use a bitmap font or a 720p screen because everything looks off. The screenshots are not representative of how Gnome's font rendering looks like with a font like Inter & HiD
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by toberoni 2y ago
The numbers are in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) USD so they already measure how many goods in the local market basket can be bought per working hour (on average, as these GDP numbers don’t account for income or wealth distribution).
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by toberoni 2y ago
How much buying power does this income provide for goods & services that the younger generation wants/needs to buy? For example: Over the last decades housing prices, college tuition & stock prices have significantly outpaced t
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by toberoni 3y ago
I'm not so sure that your theory is a fact. There are a lot of plausible explanations for the course of this war. I follow this conflict closely and personally I think the West never had a coherent strategy and there would have been be
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by toberoni 3y ago
This is not a proxy war, neither EU or US are interested in Russian territory. They made it clear that no Western weapons are to be used outside Ukraine. This is defensive support for a sovereign state, not a scheme to topple Putin (who is
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by toberoni 3y ago
I found this info: When it comes to Weird Niche Sites, the co-hosts really capture the weirdness of the web. Spencer reveals his ‘90s-looking website, Disk Prices[link to the site], which is essentially a list of hard drive prices and their
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by toberoni 3y ago
The website isn't the money maker. It's the backlinks that allow it to rank. Getting them requires a lot of knowledge & work, like publishing articles on Medium or receiving links on HN. Unsurprisingly, it looks like the creat
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by toberoni 3y ago
I can see why recommend this book as an example of human cruelty, but I think you should be aware of the author’s past when you recommend his work. Jürgen Thorwald was a real former Nazi propagandist. The German version of Defeat in the Eas
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by toberoni 4y ago
Germany has been lacking a coherent security strategy. They neglected the Bundeswehr for decades and in recent years doubled down on their dependency on Russian fossil fuel (one could argue this was a mutual interdependency as German compan
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by toberoni 4y ago
Thank you for the link. Apparently I received a batch where this problem has been fixed. The hinge is not very wobbly when typing and won't move if I lift the laptop carefully. However, it won't stay in position when moving it qui
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by toberoni 4y ago
I'm writing this with buyer's remorse on my Framework. It's a huge step down from my previous Thinkpads. The battery life is atrocious - a night in modern standby drains the battery from 80% to 35%. Outside the office battery
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by toberoni 4y ago
While this position might be comfortable, I would worry about cardiovascular deseases over the long-term. Emulating bedridden people sounds even worse than sitting (for healthy people). A standing/walking desk seems like a better direc
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by toberoni 5y ago
I have a similar routine and it makes me really productive - stacking different habits is powerful. However, in my experience this approach has one big problem: certain events (changing continents, moving, sickness, finished milestones) com
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by toberoni 5y ago
Unfortunately this is happening with S3 sleep and numerous battery tuning tricks activated. Don't buy the Framework as your main laptop if you plan to travel/use it unplugged a lot - I consider it a broken device for this intended
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by toberoni 5y ago
I'm using a Framework with Kubuntu and I have mixed feelings about it. I like the 3:2 screen ratio, repairability & the expansion cards. However, there are many downsides: - The battery life is ATROCIOUS, even after TLP etc. It&#x2
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by toberoni 5y ago
I consider myself a 'functional' internet addict - as long as I keep my habits in check I can use sites like HN. However Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, Medium and most VC-funded social media products are unusable without heavy modific
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by toberoni 5y ago
3 months might be (close to) hyperbole, but webpack/JS package management is a source of consistent pain. It sticks out like a sore thumb across my web stacks (PHP/WP, Ruby, Elixir) and its brittle complexity causes the most unple
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by toberoni 5y ago
It's telling that most instructions deal with the Javascript toolchain and not Rails itself. And let's hope that everything works and none of the 2000 imported node_modules blow up when this tutorial is 3 months old. I'm look
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by toberoni 5y ago
The victims are humans first (their religion shouldn't be a concern) so I don't find it surprising that many Western people speak up for them. I would be happy to see more opposition from Islamic countries though.
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by toberoni 6y ago
I agree the US provide a very high materialistic living standard if you are well-educated or rich - but as you said, focusing on the tech sectors is a very narrow view on societies as a whole. As an European working in tech I really don&#x2
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by toberoni 6y ago
This looks like a heavily opinionated article with a questionable use of data. Others have mentioned the lacking focus on inequality already, so I want to add some other points: While European countries have lower GDPs, their citizens work
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by toberoni 7y ago
I've been playing around with Elixir and rewrote a small Rails app in Phoenix to get used to it. In the end, the benefits are not big enough to make the switch Pros: - Less magic. It's a lot easier to figure out what's going