atomwaffel

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by atomwaffel 5y ago
My e-bike’s battery on the other hand is in Wh.
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
Having filed taxes in Germany, Switzerland and Norway, I can give you two developed countries where it’s not similar to Norway. Not as bad as what I hear from the US, but not simple either.
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
Good point! Still, I could swear I saw someone (@FakeUnicode?) do exactly this once, but of course I can’t find that tweet any more, partly because it turns out that search engines don’t handle ﷽ well at all, and I don’t feel like testing i
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
Yup, you can put 280 of it into a single tweet.
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
In Europe there’s CoopCycle[1], a “federation of bike delivery co-ops”: https://coopcycle.org/en/
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
Oh yeah, I doubt you’ll find business class tickets that are anywhere near as cheap as twice the price of the average Ryanair flight, but as someone who is in the lucky situation to be able to avoid airlines that I find actively unpleasant,
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
That’s true if you’re flying on budget airlines like Ryanair or Easyjet, but nearly all the legacy carriers offer a business class “cabin” where the seats are usually the same as in economy but middle seats are kept free. That’s a 33% reduc
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
Perhaps you could even pay a company to print the entire paper for you and have it delivered to your door every morning.
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by atomwaffel 6y ago
You’ll enjoy the rest of his videos then. He’s one of the few Youtubers whose videos I watch regularly. In addition to being interesting, I always find them well-researched, well-produced and exactly as long as they need to be without any f
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
I’ve recently moved away from Spotify and back to my own music library. I’m using beets[1] to manage my messy metadata and it does a pretty good job. You can probably tell it to leave your metadata alone and just sort things into folders fo
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Since this tracks the combined size of the top 100 npm packages, my guess is that those spikes are caused by packages entering and leaving the list.
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
They’ll also be live-translated from German to English (and vice versa) by volunteers – and often into a third language too!
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
They did however take $200 million in VC funding in November: https://blog.1password.com/accel-partnership/
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
> If I'm in a hotel room, and something has dead alkalines, I'll toss the batteries, and try to make it very obvious the batteries were removed so they can be replaced for the next guest. That's not theft. I agree it’s not
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
> A lot of the time, it's actually difficult to find certain goods in stores here (or to know which store to go to). Exactly this. I want to support small local businesses and I’m happy to pay a slight premium for that (as well as
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Fastmail also lets you use wildcards and catchall addresses, giving you infinite email addresses whenever you need them, with no way to tell what “base address” they resolve to internally. For example, my Twitter address might be twitter@my
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Yes, but think of all the meetings you can’t have if people aren’t at the office!
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Eh, I work in Norway and while I can work remotely on request, my inquiry about doing so regularly one day a week was met with “what if shit hits the fan and we need you here urgently” from my manager (my house is a ten minute walk from the
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Yes, but around three out of four people will have left by 16:30, which is definitely not common in all European countries. I’d say an average working day is 7 hours plus a 30-minute lunch break, usually taken before noon.
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Nope, working in Norway, I can confirm that the office gets very empty very quickly after 16:00, and more than once have I been reminded not to stay all day when I was still at my desk around 17:00.
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
> the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one Small nitpick, but you need to be a Norwegian resident with an ID number (fødselsnummer) and a postal address in Norway, not necessarily a citizen.
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Exactly, that’s why I’m wondering about the door-to-door times for a typical trip, and I don’t know enough about American cities to give a qualified answer myself. My expectation would be that they’re more central and less time-consuming th
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
I’m not sufficiently familiar with the geography of SF or LA – how does the door-to-door time and cost compare when you account for the fact that most trips don’t actually start and end at an airport? I’d much rather catch a sleeper bus&#x2
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
> So allemannsretten is threatening to be extinguished because it's a concept that doesn't scale. While I agree with your main point, I think it’s important to note that this is about a handful of hotspots like Trolltunga and P
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
> That's one of the great things about electric cars in Norway - you're actually going to get electricity from renewable sources. This is true in a way, but only part of the picture. While virtually all the electricity that is
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Oh, I agree that just about all apps use JavaScript to some degree, but the question is whether that’s for progressive enhancement or as a fundamental requirement. Wikipedia for example works fine without JS (including editing). Pinboard is
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
But as you say, that would require JavaScript to be available, making it impossible to build web apps that store user state without relying on JS (well, I guess there’s HTTP Basic Auth) and breaking a large part of the internet in the proce
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Yup, it baffles me how many people who earn their money writing code seem to either be content with crappy laptop keyboards or shy away from investing a few hours’ salary in a decent keyboard that they’ll be using for tens of thousands of h
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
They do offer three vegetarian burgers (apparently variations on the same patty), vegan nuggets, and a vegan salad.[1] It’s not as good as the vegan burger they have in Sweden, but it’s a start. [1] https://www.mcdonalds.com&#x2F
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by atomwaffel 7y ago
Yes, as a European, I’m always amazed at how far south the northern US and even southern Canada really is. With that said, those are latitudes, not longitudes.

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