2ion

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by 2ion 4y ago
>> Pension funds inherently depend on population growth to avoid shortfalls. > >Pension funds inherently depend on increases in production. Population growth is one factor, but technological development can also increase product
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by 2ion 4y ago
Well, the view that history may be in fact (perhaps not objectively, but to any observer cultured enough to entertain himself with observing it) not a time line into the future but cyclical, with civilizations rising and falling, is not new
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by 2ion 4y ago
That's really interesting. Is it normal in UK (thinking £) to get such an extremely short (introductory) loan and then refinance every few years? In Germany, most people take a 10y fixed rate at least to reduce such risk.
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by 2ion 4y ago
Snap makes sense, because it deals with desktop application confinement. Any Firefox process launched as $user is able to use all the RAM, read and write all the files, access all the networks and basically do everything as that user. You d
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by 2ion 4y ago
What's impressive to me here is not the capacity but the price for the capacity. At allegedly 777 CHF per year this is a steal so far removed from my reality it's obscene.
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by 2ion 4y ago
This sounds like a nice system. Does it also tell you of its own volition if the tax office owes you money instead on a return without you having to declare anything? For example, if the tax office knows where you work as an employee and wh
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by 2ion 4y ago
Rather than this being a special quality of Apple, I think the marketing strategy of a lot of other B2C brands has now involved """leaks""" to enthusiast circles for a long time, probably since ""&quo
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by 2ion 4y ago
Hereabouts, unfortunately, for certain things, they are the only option. Because they excel at logistics and customer service. It's the same reason I buy my nongreat nonoffice furniture from IKEA --- because they have the product and t
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by 2ion 4y ago
> However, the power structures in academia are heavily skewed and toxic. Individually graduate students have little recourse when they are wronged. Life in academia is hard. You have to work long days, the chance of success is very low.
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by 2ion 4y ago
This is pretty accurate as an observation I believe. "My" middle manager does a lot more and acts more like a PO/PM combination fixing things in a horizontally integrated manner, whereas most typical PO/PM roles do their
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by 2ion 4y ago
> Eric Schmidt even recently weighed in about the return-to-work debate, [...] "I don’t know how you build great management [with remote work]. I honestly don’t," he said. And about half of managers, 51%, genuinely believe that
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by 2ion 4y ago
As a hobby mail everything is fun (from MUAs to sieve). If it needs to be reliable it's not. Don't miss self-hosting my email service either ("has the response to my application arrived or did I fail to receive it").
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by 2ion 5y ago
Haven't seen any useful changelogs from major vendors short of the event of fixing a known very bad bug. In any case, I treat this as a high risk operation; no HDD/SSD firmware flashing without making sure the backup is working...
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by 2ion 5y ago
After the 80s expired, in Germany, long-form audio dramas [1] transitioned from being produced to vinyl to cassette (the transition to CDs happened amazingly late in the 2000s, and for quite some time both cassette and CD were typically rel
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by 2ion 5y ago
It really is a shame that replacement products that are up to par do not really exist. You'd probably have to persuade a local enthusiast or skilled audio electronics repair man to restore an old deck for you unless you can do everythi
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by 2ion 5y ago
Finding the best cassette decks these days is a science unto itself though. Lots of mediocre stuff getting put out to ride the hype.
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by 2ion 5y ago
For me, it was the trouble of inadquate losless download offerings by so many labels / distributors. Even if you just want a digital library, getting the physical medium and making your private digital copy is a so much more stress-fre
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by 2ion 5y ago
What happens when such a niche manufacturer's hardware breaks down as a warranty case? I strongly prefer vendors or OEMs who have strong support. I am not terribly impressed by the overall quality of my current laptop by German reselle
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by 2ion 5y ago
I learned C from that document with devc++ & mingw on windows :)
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by 2ion 5y ago
Europe has lost the hands and the knowledge to do that due to neglect over 30+ years. In order to be able to do such a thing, you need to educate a steady pipeline of people to become professionals that can handle the job. As for contractor
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by 2ion 5y ago
a tar.something is just a tar archive passed through a compression filter like zstd or gzip. Anyway, tar needs metadata extensions in order to allow random access; most tarballs you'll find don't. So you need to read 5TB of data t
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by 2ion 5y ago
This is a very important point. Whereas there is "convergence" between for example the penal codes of states commonly referred to as "democratic", what is nothing in one country might be a crime to just say in the other.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Their loss. What kind of videos are age-restricted anyway?
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by 2ion 5y ago
Each Lua x.y is a "major" version. You can expect things to be stable and patched in versions x.y.z with variable z. Might be irritating but it has been this way for decades.
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by 2ion 5y ago
As power autarky and energy stability is a major backbone of economic and defense capabilities a mere billion here or there should be absolutely worth it. You need an energy source mix in the end, and this is part of that.
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by 2ion 5y ago
I can't stress enough how this is gross neglegience on the side of the prosecution and justice system, I'd even say treason towards the affected citizens. Having a criminal record denies you opportunities in life and some countrie
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps My point is: all achievements in web dev modularity and features have been present in Visual Basic, Delphi, TurboC++, Java and Qt since the early 2000s. Fully hardware accelerated UIs to boot
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by 2ion 5y ago
This might be true in some cases. For example, I'd argue that doing a Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification is going to teach people not entirely familiar with the matter a ton of useful stuff about network technology in general even if t
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by 2ion 5y ago
Ha. WASM with QtCreator and Qt w/ C++ would have put a decade of web developers out of a job had it launched in 2010. Most amusing about front end is that stuff like flexbox, nice animations and GPU-accelerated graphics based on web te
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by 2ion 5y ago
I enjoy travel and transport because when on a trip between points A and B nothing can bother me or influence my trajectory. "I know I'll spend the next 5 hours on this train". This provides an oddly relaxing feeling of comfo

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