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by wvh 7y ago
I used to think so too about women usually being more open emotionally, but I also think that society frowns more upon men expressing "male" emotions. Whereas a woman may cry, talk and hug, I think a lot of men would react with ag
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by wvh 7y ago
I can relate to this fight/flight response in crowded spaces myself, and how my SO and I might have very similar feelings expressed in completely opposite ways. We tend to send one kind of reaction to the psychologist, and the other to
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by wvh 7y ago
I've seen a couple of these in Helsinki with the cut-out shape of a car, so they take the space of a parked car but fit a number of bikes inside. I think it sort of hammers the point home in the city centre...
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by wvh 7y ago
Perhaps, but at the end of the day, people need to eat; and programming languages and their ecosystems apparently need a serious effort and even corporate support to make sure they don't hobble behind the times at risk to become irrele
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by wvh 7y ago
I assume Linus is a pragmatist who doesn't want to torpedo his own product by putting a slash and abbreviation in its name and forcing the whole world to only call it that. I think accusing him of not caring about freedom because he ba
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by wvh 7y ago
This is a silly generalisation, but women want to live in a female world and men want to live in a male world. Male thoughts and drives are not acceptable in a modern mixed environment – at least openly – so the rules of mixed environments
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by wvh 7y ago
We agree to disagree then, though my point isn't the GDP. As a not entirely neurotypical human being, I not unsurprisingly believe that mono-focus causes progress in technology and science; progress which has the potential to improve c
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by wvh 7y ago
But the primary goal of a graduate program isn't avoiding harassment and discrimination at all costs. It's to provide the best candidates for the relevant field. To "forcefully" throw in some extra "support pets&quo
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by wvh 7y ago
(Not parent poster) Because many women don't want power over others, preferring co-op over hierarchical structure, while a lot of men don't want equality but to fight and climb the ladder (or die)? I'm not asserting as univoc
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by wvh 7y ago
I see it happen, though there's obviously less of a threat to female advances due to physiological reasons. Then again, most sexual activity isn't driven by physical power and violence, and situations can turn pretty awkward also
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by wvh 7y ago
I've noticed the same with song lyrics when I try to find a particular song I've heard somewhere. Hundreds of results of the same handful of "top" pop music industry artists but anything alternative is hard to find, even
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by wvh 7y ago
Do you have children?
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by wvh 7y ago
Well, that's probably what most people tell their children, male or female. I know I've heard that line a few times. It's sad how the love of parents trying to prevent disappointment seems to be a major factor in stopping kid
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by wvh 7y ago
Same for Northern Europe. Most of the smart kids in high school were girls. Some went on to study science, but I don't think any of them were interested in computers or went for CS degrees. In fact I know way more women with math and o
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by wvh 7y ago
I agree with you until you bring up gender. Girls also talk about how boys are idiots. Women's remarks can also bring down men or uplift them. Boys also think they're not good enough. Where I'm from (North-West Europe), I can
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by wvh 7y ago
It's more clear if you put the quotes differently: the end of "mobile". Since it's mainstream, there's no reason to list it as a separate fringe category.
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by wvh 7y ago
The problem with some of these European initiatives is that they sound more like a political project than a technical one. Lots of "values" being discussed – granted, decent values to support – but very little technology. Perhaps
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by wvh 7y ago
I just did that a few hours ago. It somehow feels like playing Frogger and Tetris at the same time, and I'm having trouble managing the multitasking. At least when the cashier does the scanning, you still have a bit of time to plan how
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by wvh 7y ago
I wonder how Lidl's doing in Finland, which traditionally has had just 2 major chains really and not a whole lot of price pressure. No Aldi though.
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by wvh 7y ago
Yes; it just a psychological trick to stop people abandoning their carts in random locations or perhaps even in the middle of the parking lot.
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by wvh 7y ago
I think I just started to understand why the US has such a low unemployment rate but so many are paid minimal wage...
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by wvh 7y ago
As a coder, service architect and security person for many years, I don’t mind when things get very complex. I’m also a guitar player. When I play music, I want an amplifier with a few simple hardware knobs and not a digital gadget with a z
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by wvh 7y ago
Use an encoded time prefix and a random part to create your UUID. I've been using such UUIDs as primary keys in Postgresql for years and I can't tell the difference in performance with say 64-bit numbers. If you don't need mi
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by wvh 8y ago
Until one of the big players decides they don't like your domain or IP range. I've been running my own email/web server for years, but even if you'd fully automate installation, there's a can of worms full of fun th
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by wvh 8y ago
Go gets the latest tag (if there are tags in the repo). You can force `go get` to check out a commit by branch or concrete hash with respectively @branchname or @commithash123. That's sometimes necessary when maintainers are lazy tagge
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by wvh 8y ago
Same in Finland.
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by wvh 8y ago
I've had success with all the ones that connect you through to an actual human being. It's fine with me for companies to try and find efficient ways to help (actual or potential) customers; it's a very different thing to be s
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by wvh 8y ago
At least to me, these sort of articles always seem to conflate two different things: a handful of horny jerks, and the inability for a certain group (white, middle-aged, male) to understand how attractive business ideas could be to other gr
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by wvh 8y ago
I don't think it will necessarily create a lot more competition inside the EU. All of those companies already have European data centers; surely it would complicate some technical deployments, but definitely not more so than the effort
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by wvh 8y ago
I am paying for personal email, internet connectivity, virtual servers and other services, and I don't think I would ever use such a service for personal purposes that isn't flat-rate. I don't actually use a lot of resources;

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