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by voqv 6y ago
As mentioned in another comment, this is not very unusual (summer days are often above 30 degrees C). The town Verkhoyansk is in an extreme subarctic climate, and along with other famous places like Oymyakon and Yakutsk they're known t
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by voqv 6y ago
I heard from random sources that their GPUs are actually (relatively?) very powerful. Better sources/experience appreciated. "Apple claims the GPU in the iPad Pro is equivalent to an Xbox One S, although how they came to thise con
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by voqv 6y ago
All Netatmo owners can put their local weather station on an open service. You can find it by searching for Netatmo Weathermap and the data is very dense in populated zones. I was able to fairly accurately pinpoint the location of where rai
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by voqv 6y ago
Not that I really care, but the original GitHub issue[1] has multiple researchers "kicking up a fuss", why are you just reducing their opinion to "random opinionated commentators"? Also, the original creator did not say
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by voqv 6y ago
LTS Ubuntu with a window manager I learned when using Arch (bspwm)
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by voqv 6y ago
For me, that was ROS (in Robotics). Some people I worked with had issues with Anaconda. I miss Arch though, I learned a lot about Linux through it, but every hour spent fixing something is an hour less spent on actual work.
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by voqv 6y ago
Before switching to Arch, check if packages you rely on for your job are not in the AUR. It became "a hobby" really quick for me to rebuild my entire dev stack because of the bleeding edge approach and "let's update ever
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by voqv 6y ago
Thinking of Europe, I have a feeling that it's just surreal that this launch is happening in America at the same time with the events in Minneapolis
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by voqv 6y ago
It happens rarely, I must admit, but nothing tops the linux community feeling when a vendor marks your driver issue with "won't-fix"
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by voqv 6y ago
Usually the counterargument in that case is that no movement got what it wants by asking nicely.
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by voqv 6y ago
Wasn't it claimed that did not happen on the Thinkpad lines?
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by voqv 6y ago
Only one state (BW) requires payment with no clear indication that others will follow. > you will have to guarantee that you can support your life in Germany What's so special about that?
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by voqv 7y ago
Well the BSD-based OS OP's talking about doesn't run loads of questionable telemetry (just judging by CPU usage) and does not turn on at night to install an update that will reset whatever telemetry settings the user hacked to dis
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by voqv 7y ago
Even if a state of the art machine learning system is going to work 99.999% of the time - with millions of diffs run daily - that's still too many failures. So basically with diff we had 1 problem, with ML-diff we'll have two.
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by voqv 7y ago
In Germany a friend of mine refused to go to a meeting at a client's office where someone tested positive and HR threatened him because he was violating his employment contract.
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by voqv 7y ago
There's a 230W charger for use with current Thinkpad workstations, it's an absolute unit. [1] [1] https://i.redd.it/5ln51upcv8w21.jpg
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by voqv 7y ago
No, why? Not poor, but maybe involving using cars/tech items for longer times or spend more on locally grown food leaving less for vacation flights etc.
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by voqv 7y ago
They're pressured to improve KPIs of economy and life quality (including employment rates) and that's the complete opposite of what fixing the climate requires.
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by voqv 7y ago
The stock option feat is moot, but the fear of "experimentation and inevitable failures" is a major thing and very frustrating, especially when looking for customers as a startup.
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by voqv 7y ago
Same author in 2012: "Batteries are too heavy to ever be used by trucks or other large vehicles, and require a revolutionary breakthrough to power electric cars." And China now [ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/
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by voqv 8y ago
This is super nice! Only nuisance I can think of is that there's no way to start listening even if nothing is being published or if publishing stopped for a while. Not sure if it's worth to fix for these cases.
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by voqv 8y ago
> install it on your own iDevice, you have to pay a yearly subscription fee. Not true anymore [1] [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43932076/how-to-build-ap...
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by voqv 8y ago
I don't get how so many replies to this comment completely miss the point and just say what you addressed...
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by voqv 8y ago
What I meant is, for an unprecedented in human history amount of people life is not poverty, dirt, disease and death at 40. But you're right, just like the observation below, we (this amount of people) also offload our suffering onto
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by voqv 8y ago
For some reason we as humanity have been living really well for the last 50 years and, without thought, we imagine it's just going to stay like that.
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by voqv 8y ago
Won't be surprised that Tesla jumping on the chance to cancel the battery swap program when the reported popularity was low was due to something else. It could be that a quick hot swap is technologically complicated, especially given T
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by voqv 8y ago
It could mean though, that he's a very good tech entrepreneur, but Facebook was hiring him for software engineering, and he didn't meet the standards.