QasimK

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by QasimK 2y ago
In the five years I have used Arch, I have not had a single issue.
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by QasimK 2y ago
I don’t know if kids notice, but I can smell the air pollution every time I drive into outer London from outside London. It’s how I know I’m entering London.
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by QasimK 2y ago
My 2002 MINI was ULEZ-compliant. I agree with you. The idea that ULEZ means people must give up driving is ridiculous and overblown. It does not affect the vast majority of people at all.
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by QasimK 2y ago
Ah, so _that’s_ why the ente photos app feels so “off” - it’s using flutter. I’ve tried the app a few times over the last couple of years and had a dislike of the UI because it did not _feel_ right, like it was slow or something. I can’t sa
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by QasimK 2y ago
This is what self-hosted software should be. An app, self-contained, (essentially) a single file with minimal dependencies. Not something so complex that it requires docker. Not something that requires you to install a separate database. No
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by QasimK 2y ago
I've been thinking about doing this myself, so it's fantastic to see a project. I find a files-centric (and more broadly filesystem-centric) approach easier to grapple with than one that focuses on apps (and hiding away the data).
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by QasimK 3y ago
Super confusing! Through different reasoning I get different answers: 1. More likely to be red because the urn has a greater chance of having more red balls 2. Equally likely by considering all remaining urn possibilities to be equally like
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by QasimK 3y ago
I’ve used Cloud Run and it does allow for background threads.
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by QasimK 3y ago
That’s not right because it implies that only new cars since 2015 can drive inside the ULEZ. The ULEZ standard requires diesel cars to conform to Euro 6, available since 2015 - the diesel emissions scandal notwithstanding. (The in-practice
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by QasimK 4y ago
Do you really think someone is going to read that, start ignoring their doctors, throw all their medicine in the bin, and become some kind of natto evangelist? It’s a common Japanese food and he just said give it a go.
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by QasimK 5y ago
The idea of societal benefit is very nebulous. It sounds like your idea of it is very different to mine by the fact that you believe in an absolute answer to it. How do you measure something like societal benefit? I'm sure we could agr
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by QasimK 5y ago
You're right in a sense. I would certainly notice the change if it happened very quickly. However, I would quickly adapt and think it was just normal. (Mind you, my room is about 17 C at the moment.) Certainly, if someone told me my ro
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by QasimK 5y ago
This is useful to understand what this report actually is. It lays out the physical science basis for climate change. The full impacts, and possible mitigations will come in later months as two separate reports. Finally, there will be a sum
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by QasimK 5y ago
I disagree that it was unavoidable. I said to my family in February that the UK should stop all - absolutely all - flights into the country. The cost of this would have been miniscule compared to what ended up happening. (Not just flights -
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by QasimK 5y ago
They'll have a choice between two similar products. One is $10 because of a $5 carbon charge, the other is $6 with a $0 carbon charge. What will they choose? They'll choose the $6 one, and keep their carbon tax dividend in their p
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by QasimK 5y ago
If my room was 2 degrees hotter right now, I would barely notice. So "2 degrees" by itself actually really does mean very little even to me - and I already know about the catastrophic effects that are going to come out of 2 degree
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by QasimK 5y ago
The rich will support the burden of climate adaptation because the income from the tax can be used directly to help mitigate climate change. The vast majority of flights are taken by a small minority of people; they're taken by the ric
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by QasimK 5y ago
The emissions from aviation are increasing every year, the majority of flights are for holidays rather than business, and only a very small minority of people globally actually take flights. However, I belive the parent commenter was more p
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by QasimK 5y ago
I was recently thinking about why bitcoin shouldn't just be banned to help mitigate the ongoing climate catastrophe which led to my recent article [0] which equated banning bitcoin to banning ice cream, which I hope helps to illustrate
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by QasimK 5y ago
COVID has not been cheap either - it has cost hundreds of billions [0]. You could fund twenty crossrails for this amount of money. [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/22/a-year-of-c...
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by QasimK 5y ago
You cannot tell from your old meter because it does not submit meter readings every minute (or whatever the configuration is) because it does not have an internet connection.
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by QasimK 5y ago
Arch-TK I absolutely agree with everything you are saying, and I don’t intend to get a smart meter myself for as long as possible. However, you are incorrect that meters are incompatible between utility companies. You are right that SMETS1
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by QasimK 5y ago
Incredible. I somehow heard about the NHS opt-out, but not about the GP one. I’m appalled by how much disregard the government has for sensitive personal medical information. I personally believe it’s a question of when, not if, the country
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by QasimK 5y ago
It feels like a flaw of the voting system for articles to end up on the front-page, yet we still need to check comments to see if it is worth reading. Who are all these people upvoting an article that isn’t really worth reading? Why are the
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by QasimK 5y ago
I don’t think the article is talking about sleeping for one hour less. It has examples saying “go to sleep one hour earlier; wake up one hour earlier” - so the same amount of sleep.
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by QasimK 5y ago
I’m not sure I fully understood from the article, but it seems like they were using genetics as a proxy for “natural” wake-up time and something something causation for depression. I didn’t really get it despite reading the explanation thre
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by QasimK 5y ago
It would be great if we, the customers, were actually given a genuine, competitive choice. As you say, right now you literally don’t have a genuine choice. There is precedent for this too. Amazon Kindles came (come?) with two options - one
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Bitcoin Is as Legitimate as Ice Cream(qasimk.io)
15 points by QasimK 5y ago|59 comments
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by QasimK 6y ago
My first job straight out of university was at Reincubate. I thought I'd share my experience because Reincubate is a small company - you could count us with your fingers when I joined. It was a fun place to work with nerf guns and rubb
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by QasimK 6y ago
Except your computer doesn’t know what the purpose of a cookie is, in order to decide what to do with any particular cookie. Neither does the user, not by themselves anyway. Only the website knows really.

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