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A War Foretold(theguardian.com)
18 points by fabatka 7mo ago|10 comments
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by fabatka 7mo ago
I l2e h1w a8e it m2s t2t w5g l2e t2s!
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by fabatka 8mo ago
Or alternatively, Trump is playing 5d chess, and this is how he gets European nations to increase their defense spending :) /s
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by fabatka 8mo ago
That's exactly what Trump doesn't want, it would seem.
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The shameful defenestration of Tim [Peters](chrismcdonough.substack.com)
1 points by fabatka 8mo ago|0 comments
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by fabatka 10mo ago
Many of the stickers display political affiliation.
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by fabatka 1y ago
I thought 1.9.0 already had at least some of the v3 features, like the variant type and column lineages? https://iceberg.apache.org/releases/#190-release Of course I haven't seen any implementations supporting the
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Boring Iceberg Catalog – 1 JSON file. 0 Setup(juhache.substack.com)
6 points by fabatka 1y ago|0 comments
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by fabatka 1y ago
What about backups? My greatest fear is self-hosting valuable stuff (like family photos) only for my NAS to fail one day and lose potentially everything.
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Elephant Walk (Aeronautics)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by fabatka 2y ago|0 comments
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by fabatka 2y ago
I guess if it's only specific individuals/groups that can't print books, it's restricting free speech, if nobody can, it's not.
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by fabatka 2y ago
I remember one (might have been a hn-er's comment, dunno) about the computer restarting when the toilet was flushed. Turns out it was due to voltage drop when a compressor turned on to refill the reservoir of the toilet.
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by fabatka 3y ago
Because the results also depend on the economy. Different times might provide more wealth to people in different strata.
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by fabatka 3y ago
My thoughts exactly. Goodhart's law and "cargo cult fitness" come to my mind.
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by fabatka 3y ago
FWIW, it's digital electronics
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by fabatka 3y ago
Easy for Bill Gates to advocate for this, as he already got rich partly by people automating away lots of jobs using his operating systems and softwares.
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by fabatka 4y ago
This story is in the beginning of the Taylor-Wheeler book the article mentions
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by fabatka 4y ago
Or ++ to include programmers /s
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by fabatka 4y ago
Wow, this story is straight out of Black Mirror.
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by fabatka 4y ago
Likewise in Hungary. When an opposition party leader (after a big election flop) suggested that instead of importing cultural issues from the US, opposition parties should concentrate on the problems of the people living here, it was almost
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by fabatka 4y ago
Can you explain why do you find the above explanation amusing? I honestly don't see the absurdity of it, although, my livelihood may depend on me not seeing it :)
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by fabatka 4y ago
> I think the best fix I've heard is that their trades need to be digitally announced immediately (within a few minutes of execution). Apart from the announcement, I'd add a delay of one day to the execution of said trades.
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Dozens of LNG-laden ships queue off Europe's coasts unable to unload(reuters.com)
5 points by fabatka 4y ago|0 comments
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by fabatka 4y ago
In uni I remember one of my professors telling us that the time gap between the awarding of the Nobel prize and the discovery for which it is awarded keeps getting longer (he was talking specifically about physics). I remember he also lamen
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by fabatka 4y ago
My train of thought is similar, but a bit more naïve: As the generation who grew up on these classics gets into influential positions, they want to produce things similar to what they liked. But a demand-side explanation like yours is more
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by fabatka 4y ago
When you want to know how your friend spent the previous Saturday and Sunday, do you ask: "How was your weekend?" Or do you ask: "How were your weekends?"
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by fabatka 4y ago
Exactly what I was thinking! It'd be interesting to see this as a git log (maybe with different branches for different cultures)
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by fabatka 4y ago
Seems like it's still worth it for the tech companies, so I'd say it's a smart move.
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by fabatka 4y ago
And still, a considerable amount of people in Hungary (in my opinion 40%+, mostly from the poorer demographics) are strongly opposed to sanctions against Russia if that means the utility costs increase. I bet the memory of the countries on
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by fabatka 4y ago
The same exists in Spain (albeit with limits per month), it's called Bizum: https://bizum.es/en/about-us/

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