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by wuming2 2y ago
Hopefully ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) service will enable the same widespread adoption. With a price of 0.002 euro per transaction it’s guaranteed to become the most convenient solution.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Where is Scott Forstall mark in all of this evolution I wonder. He was responsible for adapting macOS, hence XNU, to iPhone. The most successful Apple product of all times. And where is he now?
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by wuming2 2y ago
They discovered sipping espresso with friends and neighbors. Weird. But Substack gained some clicks I guess.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Care to expand? Also I often wonder what the aggregate statistics of `top` load average and standard deviation looks like over billions of consumer devices over time.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Sorry to intrude with something unrelated. But YC closed the earlier discussion. Saw your comment about Kannel WAP of few months back and wanted to ask if do you know of any WAP Push full service provider still in operation.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Also in the EU SEPA CT is an option. Lowering fees from 3%-5% to about 1% or less depending on the bank. Thanks to ECB infrastructure.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Agreed. Here I invoke the wisdom of groff old timers and of younger CSS developers: where the latter stops being useful when a professional looking pdf must be generated? I can prepare a decent looking document, or spreadsheet, with LibreOf
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by wuming2 2y ago
The reality is nowadays few documents need desktop publishing features. Because seldom if ever become paper documents. Also the average back office author knows a tiny fraction of Microsoft Word or Excel features. Give them means to type in
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by wuming2 2y ago
Still happy with my iPhone 7. Replaced display and battery, at an Apple Store, last year. Gaming, AI and photography are curiosities I look at from afar. For the rest it drives me around on vacation via CarPlay and Apple Maps. Handles my ho
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by wuming2 2y ago
Given that The Guardian reported they attempted landing and then took off again before the fatal landing happened, meaning they had control and power, and that the airport sits on a peninsula I wonder why not to attempt landing on water. Pe
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by wuming2 2y ago
https://thehkhub.com/historic-kowloon-walled-city-recreated-... Was very neat.
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by wuming2 2y ago
With products just leaving behind the old Apple days and Foundry, in fact, not a 1st tier supplier anymore what is there to salvage do you think? For the latter money was not enough even in, much, better days.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Wasteful choice enabled by not being entirely responsible for pollution, energy consumption and trash. If they had to pay for environmental full restoration, energy at full cost and careful disposal of unsuitable hardware decision would hav
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by wuming2 2y ago
And I was wrong. By EU’s own statistics trade in goods with the US is in the black (1). In particular figure 7 (2) shows imports of energy goods jump from roughly 30 Bn Euro to around 100 Bn of from 2021 to 2022. Falling to around 80 Bn in
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by wuming2 2y ago
Disclosure: I haven’t read the article. Just checked title match. I remember someone quoting Germany’s former Chancellor telling “the US just want to sell their dirty gas” obtained via fracking. After she left, R invasion triggered the US r
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by wuming2 2y ago
Apple Learning would have been not only aligned with reality but also averaged expectations and marketing materials. Learning may have led to some Intelligence. In due time.
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by wuming2 2y ago
The government of Bavaria, one of the wealthiest countries of the German federation and thus of the world, tried to replace Microsoft with Linux and generally FOSS solutions. Twice. CERN tried to replace Office with NextCloud. It is now str
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by wuming2 2y ago
It’s a great ambition to replace Excel and many went down this path before. Congratulations to even attempting to achieve it and going this far to do it. Excel compatibility, when fully realized, will remove the major obstacle to adoption.
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by wuming2 2y ago
>>Enabling secure transfer or sharing of financial data will incentivize financial companies to compete for customers by providing better interest rates and customer service. I found curious that payment processors strive to avoid or
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by wuming2 2y ago
My wife switched to remote during covid times and never went back. I recently calculated she freed around 800 hours a year. Some of it went back into working longer though. And removed the need for dry laundry, and for buying new clothing a
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by wuming2 2y ago
So The Shed at Dulwich could not exist on TripAdvisor US and Botto Bistro could not be punished by Yelp?
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by wuming2 2y ago
“newly created CERN Venture Connect programme (CVC), launched in 2023 […] In establishing CVC, CERN’s Entrepreneurship team entered discussions with Microsoft, with the aim to better leverage the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub“ [1]. Un
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by wuming2 2y ago
Joachim Mnich, Director for Research and Computing and her boss [4], holds the position also since January 2021 [1]. Mike Lamont, Director for Accelerators and Technology, also got the job at the same time [2]. Finally Fabiola Gianotti, Dir
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by wuming2 2y ago
Don’t see any previous experience at Microsoft [2]. Just a self taught fan then? Edit: “Partnership is the art of understanding shared value. In WFP we have a number of partnerships, not many, but the ones that we have are deep, are sustain
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by wuming2 2y ago
> Unfortunately, most of that went to shit quite recently when they replaced the previous head of IT by a Microsoft fanboy(girl?) coming from outside of the scientific environment. Painful to read so I did a short check. From a news post
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by wuming2 2y ago
I remembered European Southern Observatory employing optical interferometry on the ground. And indeed it does: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1905/
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by wuming2 2y ago
The wheel is there already. Call librec from Lua and speed up your plain text accounting with LuaJIT.
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by wuming2 2y ago
Claris FileMaker was that tool. Easy to understand and provided clear separation between data and the rest. Bundled with Mac OS so everyone used it. It is now an expensive enclave.
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by wuming2 2y ago
GNU recutils should become the standard backend. Plain text db which has a powerful albeit simple records format, proper ids, enforces constraints, removes need of silly type conventions better defined in fields with %type, built in encrypt
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by wuming2 2y ago
~1k lines of bash with recutils for data persistency and dc for simple math. Was not quick to solve for me, custom invoices .fodt to .pdf to email, but I got it done. Shell is the only other scripting language I am familiar with other than

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