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by vjk800 4y ago
The annoying thing is that it's quite unpredictable. You can sometimes find information on the internet on which laptops Ubuntu is going to work on out of the box, but usually it's a gamble. Sometimes you notice something's n
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by vjk800 4y ago
I never experienced any anxiety from exams or performing well in the elementary school. School was easy for me and also, coming from one of the Nordic welfare countries, I never thought that my life would somehow be ruined if I didn't
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by vjk800 4y ago
> It would be a lot safer for the public if the "easy to understand" version of the code came from those who wrote the original. I suspect it's the same in other professions too. Senior engineers probably have their own in
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> I would very much argue against those (even in this thread), that say that the lay-person isn't the intended audience for lots of contracts, particularly for T&Cs where they are often written by a contracts lawyer, for a contr
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by vjk800 4y ago
To add to my comment: since the financial system is almost impossible to fix, the problem only keeps getting worse and worse. I predict that eventually 99% of the world population is employed in somehow managing the global financial system.
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It's because approximately 100-1000 times more people and resources are used to maintain it than would be needed in any other system of similar size and technical complexity.
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And in the places where you left 'c' it sounds like 's'. You could just replace 'c' with either 'k' or 's' everywhere and get rid of letter 'c' entirely.
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by vjk800 4y ago
So... step one in the plan will then be: make Finland an economic and military superpower.
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by vjk800 4y ago
Indeed. I remember seeing spelling bees in American TV shows and movies (which were subtitled) as a child, before I learned English, and wondered what the point was. It would be trivially easy in Finnish and anyone who knew how to read and
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by vjk800 4y ago
I've played with the idea that the internet should just have mandatory closing hours. Every day at 20:00 the ISPs would just stop routing traffic except maybe to a handful of critical services. In Scandinavia we have a long history of
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by vjk800 4y ago
Did you get into cybersecurity or plants first? Do you have some kind of formal qualifications for the plant research or how did you get started with it? I would very much like to make a career switch to something that allows me to spend ti
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by vjk800 4y ago
> It is no longer meant to serve us, but someone else who will abuse us for money. As predicted by Richard Stallman. People hate him because of the conclusions he draws from his principles, even though they turn out to be right every sin
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by vjk800 4y ago
This is not a fix. It's exactly the sort of extra thing I don't want to deal with when I'm cycling. It really feels more careless to just ditch your bicycle on the side of the road and forget about it than lock it. I admit it
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by vjk800 4y ago
Indeed. I come from a rural village where I could leave my bicycle unlocked over night at the center of the village and it wouldn't get stolen. When I moved to a city, one realization I made was that cycling is just a lot less convenie
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by vjk800 4y ago
I realized at some point that a good portion of harm from sleep interruptions comes from being anxious about them, not the interruptions themselves. I be have always been very sensitive about my sleep, but after getting a child (and suddenl
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by vjk800 4y ago
What kind of games do you play for this effect?
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>don't eat before bed I've always wondered about this advice. I find it very difficult to fall asleep on an empty stomach. And even then I wake up much earlier than usually and very hungry. Usually I try to eat something heavy
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by vjk800 4y ago
> There is no reason a scheme like this can't simply be a standard from some appropriate body, and a few open source reference implementations. Yet no-one did this and I think that's the point here. World is full of rent seekin
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by vjk800 4y ago
This is the real problem. Otherwise the markets would have solved the crappy products problem a long time ago. When I use something at my home, I usually have a constant stream of minor annoyances that could easily be fixed by the manufactu
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by vjk800 4y ago
I really wanted to get into pen&paper RPGs when I was a teenager, but was too socially awkward to break into the only group of people I knew that played them. Can you believe that; too socially inept to have the nerdiest hobby ever? The
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by vjk800 5y ago
This is due to how multiplayer in modern games is orchestrated. In the old days, you would play multiplayer with your friends and their friends on a private server or some kind of community server where cheaters could quickly be recognized
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by vjk800 5y ago
What would those numbers be for the general population or someone who is slightly fit but not a freak?
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Companies have very little interest in investing in their employees personal education, because once they have learned the new stuff, they might just leave to another company and take their freshly acquired knowledge with them. It's th
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by vjk800 5y ago
> government paid health care, so it works out This argument always gets brought up. The thing is, even in much of the Europe, highly paid professionals don't use the government paid health care, but instead get health insurances fr