eyko

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by eyko 1y ago
John Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty"[1] offered one of the most comprehensive defences of free speech (that is as relevant today as it was then). You do raise a good point re: tradeoffs in a healthy society. Mill anticipated
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by eyko 1y ago
Agreed, and the same goes for most strategic sectors: energy, agriculture, animal husbandry, semiconductors, communications, space, the infrastructure to support all these, education, etc.
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by eyko 1y ago
It's also worth considering that certain industries (fisheries and agriculture for instance) are subsidised. It's in our national interest to maintain production capacity, so profits are the least of our concerns. Both the UK and
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by eyko 1y ago
As a UK non-citizen resident, my observation is that our economy is pretty much involved with USA (and the global economy more generally). I just looked up the latest trade and investments factsheet[1] and there are some interesting deets.
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by eyko 2y ago
I do not speak latin, although I studied it for two years in high school and I'm a native speaker of a romance language, so my understanding of latin is pretty much basic to guesswork. This is a really cool tool -- I often read latin t
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by eyko 2y ago
Speaking of postgrest, it looks like the article links to `www.postgrest.org` which has been "hijacked"? The correct url should be https://postgrest.org
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by eyko 3y ago
Fear of death is not the only kind of terror.
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by eyko 3y ago
And don't get me started on North Americans and "yams" for sweet potates/kumaras.
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by eyko 3y ago
If you're going to treat logs as a db entry and afford them a schema, then by all means knock yourself out. The main point he's trying to make is not just about the logs you wrote but about logs coming from other systems or servic
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by eyko 3y ago
To be fair a slightly better comparison would be MMS, but even then it doesn't compare. It's simply because data is cheap, the app is free, and the rich media features that came before iMessage/RCS existed (voice, photos&#x2F
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by eyko 3y ago
And all it takes is a few typographic rules in a style tag.
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by eyko 3y ago
Perhaps it's because English is not my first language, but I find it confusing to read "this is evidence that .... might ....". Isn't the purpose of evidence to prove a claim? If there is no conclusive evidence, I would
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by eyko 3y ago
Can't speak for the parent commenter but their situation felt familiar. I'm in a new role where I'm contributing to a very large Python codebase (first commit from over a decade ago) and whilst there's a lot of more rece
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by eyko 3y ago
To be fair, average salary varies per city* and if you earn the average salary in any city*, chances are you'll be able to rent but not buy. I've tried a few London post codes and their average salaries: deep red can't buy ca
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by eyko 3y ago
From layman to former submariner, a very silly question I've always wondered about and that I now have the rare chance to ask someone with some expertise: Do submarines mostly roam about or do they tend to stay relatively quiet/id
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by eyko 3y ago
I'm not sure tbh (English being my second language), but I guess I would? I mean, we were all very young and very nerdy and thought it was pretty cool to be having dinner with RMS himself. Still, by our nerdy standards, he stood out as
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by eyko 3y ago
I've met and hung out quite a bit with Stallman (as part of a conference organizers group) in the early 2000s and he wasn't the most self aware person when it came to social situations. He is very socially awkward. Everything I&#x
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by eyko 3y ago
My favourite on Indian cuisine is the Dishoom cookbook: it comes with recipes for most of their most famous dishes from their restaurant. I've tried most and, whilst the recipes might need a little tweaking to match your kitchen equipm
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by eyko 3y ago
It is!
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by eyko 3y ago
The four freedoms[1] of free software specifically state that: > The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Acce
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by eyko 3y ago
I used to cycle daily and as far as maintenance went, it was mostly: bike tyres once a year, valves, chain lubricant, bike repair toolbox (purchase once), drum brake maintenance. All in all it would be about £100 per year on average and I&#
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by eyko 4y ago
After trying out Hyper (electron), Warp (Rust) and iTerm (Objective-C, Swift), I'm not as much interested in the language itself, but at least the fact that it's not an Electron terminal. So I guess I do subconsciously project the
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by eyko 4y ago
This has also been my experience but I can understand that not all lone developers follow similar conventions. It can take a while to get used to someone else's conventions, but once you do, the one advantage of a lone developer is tha
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by eyko 4y ago
At least provide a user friendly way to manage it. For instance, offer the option to either delete, backup, or leave in place when uninstalling. For things left in place, have a GUI to view and manage them.
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by eyko 4y ago
Funnily enough I still plan that extra hour around my work day as the "commute" time, so I could highlight all the things I can do whilst I'm just standing in public transit going from A to B. It's changed over the past
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by eyko 4y ago
It would be interesting to see what career trajectories people that work exclusively from home have, when compared to people that work in offices. What you say about professional connections rings very true. Most work related friendships I
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by eyko 4y ago
Half an hour commute? You're lucky! I would be giving up about 9 hours a week (55 min commute if I time things right) -- 9 uncomfortable rush hour hours.
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by eyko 4y ago
I can imagine dragging smaller asteroids and letting them "drop" into earth (e.g. attach massive parachutes and then guide them to land on some mining site. Totally sci-fi but I still find it less so than the moon. The reason I do
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by eyko 4y ago
I just can't imagine mining the moon being in any way shape or form easier than mining the earth. The list of workplace hazards would be impressive. I imagine we're talking surface mines to keep the logistics manageable, but then:
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by eyko 4y ago
I think it boils down to the (intellectual) effort needed to synthesise your thoughts, which is a skill that leads to deeper understanding. I'd say ChatGPT is a bit better as a tool than copying from a colleague, just because you still

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