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by vegardx 7y ago
I mean, that would probably be true if DNS wasn't distributed and highly cacheable. But seeing that it is I would be surprised if you'd see anything other than statistical anomalies on a domain with even a limited traffic and poor
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by vegardx 7y ago
Nothing is going to change on that front until government mandates minimum lifetime for equipment. In Norway these devices are covered for up to 5 years after date of purchase. This follows the product, so unlike some warranties it also cov
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by vegardx 7y ago
You can also just use "git describe" to get more or less the exact same information, which is useful for development releases that are untagged when using versioning schemes like semantic versioning.
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by vegardx 7y ago
That can be said about any versioning scheme. The idea that making things inconvenient suddenly makes people do the right thing is pretty naive, if you ask me. Semantic versioning lets the user decide.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Semantic versioning tells you a lot about the state of a release. Is it supposed to break backwards compatibility or does it just add new or patch existing backwards compatible functionality? I think that sort of stuff is more important tha
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by vegardx 7y ago
They do, for the most part. According to the NPRA around 94% of drivers in cities and 95,2% for longer trips outside of cities use a seatbelt. They claim that around 30-40 lives would have been saved yearly if everyone wore a seatbelt. In N
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by vegardx 7y ago
Seems like a cultural problem, not a crosswalk light problem. Most people (myself included) automatically slow down when driving into a crosswalk. Our intersections are usually fairly small, so it's hard to build up any speed, even if
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by vegardx 7y ago
People would argue that you were driving too fast if you're unable to stop in a safe manner in front of a crosswalk. I tend to agree.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Trains and trams are exempt from those rules, and not just pedestrians, but everyone.
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by vegardx 7y ago
In Oslo at least, the crosswalks (usually) have lights if there's an intersection, and since there are no laws against crossing on red you are free to do so, as long as you don't create any dangerous situations. I'd argue tha
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by vegardx 7y ago
While I haven't used the bike lanes in cities like Copenhagen, Stockholm, London or Amsterdam they at least look better than in Oslo. In London I was was impressed by the sheer amount of bike lanes, but then again, people drive like ma
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by vegardx 7y ago
Another good example of why it would be really great with an audio loop (these inductive loops) bridge, or what you'd call it, of some sort. Then you could use almost all existing hearing aids with this, as it's supported by most
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by vegardx 7y ago
The whole point of hearing aids is to hear better. That they last a few days on a single battery or charge is a nice addition. And probably, a a whole sleuth of gear and cables can probably provide better quality, but it's not somethin
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by vegardx 7y ago
There's something very Her-esque ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ ) over the AirPods, at least when they were first released. There's something futuristic but also realistic about it. Can't rea
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by vegardx 7y ago
The biggest difference is that your wool sweater will keep you somewhat warm even if you're completely soaked. It's also has some nice fire resistant properties, but this might not be so useful for most people.
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by vegardx 7y ago
You can re-activate the fabric by washing it with a special spray that you spray on and tumble dry it with.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Brands like Norrøna and Bergans use Gore-Tex, and it seems like everyone is sold on it being "the best". I guess Gore-Tex is an alright fit for the climate in Scandinavia, as it can be rather humid during autumn and spring. And pe
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by vegardx 7y ago
There's definitively a market for unbundling services from Amazon, but the problem is that people forget what the actual killer feature of AWS is; IAM and Instance Metadata Service.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Heck, opening a terminal seems like the best way to slack off in a corporate environment, as nobody seems to understand what it is and just assumes it's above their pay grade. But you quickly dispel the illusion when you are just as cl
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by vegardx 7y ago
Keep the current system, as it seems to be working well. There are other ways to stop domain squatters, like not letting them abuse the registrar status to hold domains without paying for them.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Why should these TLDs be exclusive for certain people, even more so if they're going to be managed by some kind of global entity? You see no other existing options because the premise is to raise the cost significantly and make it unav
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by vegardx 7y ago
Then you've effectively made it impossible for certain people to buy a domain name. And I wouldn't really trust that UN would be the best beneficiary of such money, it's bureaucratic hell.
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by vegardx 7y ago
News organizations struggle to survive even with government subsidies. Perhaps the problem isn't the business model, but the fact that there is no business. In an open and free country the government benefits from having a well informe
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by vegardx 7y ago
Somewhat unrelated, how long did it take you to figure out how to cancel your Prime membership? For me it took considerable effort, to the point where it started to be funny.
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by vegardx 7y ago
Not really, in many places you're not allowed to record conversations you're not actively engaging in, even on private property.
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by vegardx 7y ago
There's so much talk about false-positives in this thread, but I have yet to experience that on my own car, even when people cut me off dangerously close. Not once has AEB mistakenly been activated by the car.
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by vegardx 7y ago
That's a naive approach. Sure - technology shouldn't replace safe driving, but it sure does help a lot. It was amazing when the collision avoidance system kicked in on my Volvo V60 and did an emergency breaking, stopping in time w
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by vegardx 7y ago
How does pagers deal with dead spots? Since they seem to only be receivers it would be hard to guarantee delivery? I Googled a little and understood that it works a little different than cell towers, in that every tower transits the same me
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by vegardx 7y ago
I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we've both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was hal
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by vegardx 7y ago
This sounds similar to what people on the spectrum of autism or adhd call "hyper-focus". The problem with hyper-focus is that you rarely have control over it. It's heavily skewed towards the interesting part, not what you nee

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