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by elric 5d ago
Propane isn't exactly good for you either, and it'd obviously flammable. Freon caused ozone layer depletion. There is no perfect refrigerant, but CO2 seems pretty safe.
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by elric 6d ago
The complexity of training depends heavily on your goals. If your goal is to improve startup time, it's actually pretty simple. If your goal is peak performance across the board and you can't wait for runtime optimizations to kick
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by elric 7d ago
Why not? The UK has been a police state for decades. They have a long history of mass surveillance and of cracking down on protests.
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by elric 7d ago
Hah. Europe's Chat Control proposal would exclude politicians from being monitored. Because of course it would.
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by elric 8d ago
Constantly. It's made me stop using Google entirely because I can't run a single search without hitting reCAPTCHA. It's becoming problematic because some services I pay for, such as Bandcamp, also end up pestering me with boa
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by elric 16d ago
I strongly suspect those would be very illegal and could result in serious side effects, such as for people who use continuous glucose monitors.
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by elric 16d ago
People (by which I mean average computer users) didn't "start ignoring security", they never bothered to unignore it in the first place. Early Windows editions didn't even ship with a firewall at all, people were rawdogg
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by elric 17d ago
Calling NAT the original sin is a serious exaggeration. Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) is a truly evil concept that restricts the freedoms of the CGNATed users. But regular NAT is fine as long as you can control it. "No one wanting to bothe
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by elric 17d ago
How do such referenda work in Iceland? Is this a simple Brexit-style yes/no question? Were people provided with context and arguments as to why (presumably?) the goverment was considering joining the EU?
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by elric 20d ago
Without knowing anything about these gas wells, couldn't they be used for compressed air energy storage?
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by elric 22d ago
I recently deleted all of my Reddit accounts. The website had been unusable on mobile for a good while, with the constant and ever-more-aggressive nagging about switching to the app. Old Reddit was the one thing that made the site still usa
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by elric 22d ago
A simple spreadsheet of income & expense is all that's required for most small businesses. Larger companies require full fledged double entry bookkeeping with requirements about charts of accounts -- which usually necessitates payi
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by elric 22d ago
Really? I paid ~1500eur for a Mitsubishi mini split including installation. Not quite sure why your setup would be so insanely expensive.
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by elric 23d ago
Oh come on. Tax evasion by barbers is a classical example of why taxes are so high for the rest of us. The cost of bookkeeping for a very small business is essentially zero. Everywhere that I know of exempts small business from double entry
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by elric 23d ago
So what? Lots of places do this. It's not unique to Spain and it's simply a tax ob real estate.
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by elric 27d ago
It doesn't. Or at least it didn't last I checked, maybe that's changed, but I doubt it. I've tried the Wayland alternatives, and they left such a bad taste in my mouth that I'd really rather never touch Wayland agai
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by elric 27d ago
> you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands AwesomeWM for me. I've essentially fused with it. Warts and all.
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by elric 29d ago
More anecdata: I've been using my inhaler more since moving to a city with worse air quality than my previous location.
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by elric 29d ago
Yes, the same google that has repeatedly, entirely "by accident", captured boatloads of wifi data with their wardriving vehicles (or google streetview or whatever it's called). They sure seem like a trustworthy bunch.
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by elric 29d ago
What a load of crap. Your liberty to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. What's "triggering" is when it hits my nose.
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by elric 29d ago
A discussion about Finger without a mention of WebFinger[1]? Similar in spirit, but HTTP based. [1] https://webfinger.net
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by elric 29d ago
I fully share your concerns. And I don't understand how apparently tons of Teams and email conversations can be archived and sold without any kind of scrutiny. How can such data be sold without the consent of all involved parties? What
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by elric 1mo ago
> We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" Did you have the conversation "do we need to move from $whatever CI/CD to GitHub Actions?" beforehand?
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by elric 1mo ago
Nice seeing you on HN. I thoroughly enjoyed the No Bullshit LA and Maths & Physics books. I wish more books would include concept maps, I find them a very useful tool for understanding how things fit in the broader picture.
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by elric 1mo ago
Welcome to 2026 unfounded hot takes. Or less snarky: what's your gripe with zipped XML? It compresses reasonably well, has a useful structure, and has decades of mature tooling around it.
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by elric 1mo ago
I hope the synopsis is the only thing that got mangled by the thesaurus bot...
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by elric 1mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't heard of choreographic programming. Does it compile straight Java bytecode, or does it generate Java code which is then compiled by javac?
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by elric 1mo ago
That's not the same thing as visual snow. Or rather, it doesn't have to be. Lots of people do see phosphenes with their eyes closed, like "prisoner's cinema". Human vision is wild.
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by elric 1mo ago
You're right, but not everyone can tell the difference and not everyone can describe their experiences very well. There's also the blue field entoptic phenomenon (white blood cells!), and a bunch of similar things within the eye w
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by elric 1mo ago
PSA that if you have pulsatile tinnitus, where you hear a sort of whooshing sound in time to your heart beat, it might be treatable by surgical intervention (such as stenting). It could even be caused by dangerous issues in the blood vessel

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