jonp888

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by jonp888 5d ago
For some reason the HN commentariat is very pro-nuclear, and it drives them INSANE that the shutdown had minimal consequences(as only a small proportion of power production was nuclear and it was entirely replaced by new renewable capacity)
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by jonp888 3mo ago
So now have to be worried that I'm going to killed by an AI designed nerve agent that someone has cooked up in their shed? FFS. I hate this world so much. I wish I could just flip a switch and never have to hear about or have anything
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by jonp888 6mo ago
Ironically probably one of my biggest reasons against buying one is it's obvious desirability. I've already once in my life been in a situation where I can say with certainty the only reason my laptop wasn't stolen is that it
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by jonp888 6mo ago
"the solid base of electricity generation disappeared and thus the trust in electricity for transport disappeared" I'm sorry, but WTF? This is the most unhinged drivel about German nuclear I have ever read on HN, and that&#x2
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by jonp888 7mo ago
If you plough through the first pages so far as I can tell it seems like actually it won't be removed. Certainly not FPC, because the hard dependency on GTK2 was a misunderstanding. For Lazarus it seems like dependency on GTK2 is consi
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by jonp888 8mo ago
For many years the Spanish state-owned company RENFE had a monopoly on Spain's huge high speed rail network. However their high prices, inconvenient schedules and poor customer service were often criticized, and so when, to the annoyan
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by jonp888 8mo ago
The British rail system releases as open data(JSON over AMQP) all train movements down to indidvidual signal blocks You can view some of the the live maps here: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps , but this is unique as far
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by jonp888 9mo ago
The determinant is the amount of money invested in infrastructure. No matter whether the train operators and the network operator are private or a state monopoly, all decisions about major upgrades and new lines are made and funded by the g
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by jonp888 9mo ago
Sometimes it's because you need to support ancient esoteric hardware that's not supported by any other tools, or because you've built so much of your own tooling around a particular tool that it resembles application platform
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by jonp888 9mo ago
There's the police and the criminal justice system for that. I suggest you post your e-mail login details and here and a dump of the contents of your phone, then all of HN can all check through and see what crimes you're guilty of
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by jonp888 10mo ago
This system works by launching an official Windows image in Docker and then making an RDP connection to it. There are a couple of others too now like WinBoat What all of them avoid mentioning is that the images were intended by Microsoft fo
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by jonp888 10mo ago
There's plenty of semi-technical tinkerers out there, doing things like building flight sim cockpits, scraping by on copying ready made code, doing minimal changes and asking forums or LLMs if they get stuck. They just want something t
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by jonp888 11mo ago
It was trains from Hamburg to Copenhagen used to run on the Fehmarn Ferry until the line was shut for reconstruction, they now run via Padborg. The Snalltaget sleeper train from Berlin to Malmo used to run on the ferry from Sassnitz to Trel
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by jonp888 1y ago
The EU Commission is a group of permanent employees who sit in an office and write reports, administer projects and draft legislation. They have no voting rights. They are organised into departments, each headed by a politically appointed C
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by jonp888 1y ago
Every country in the world has a "Commission". It's no different to the UK Civil Service or the various US Federal Governments. If it didn't exist then the EU would be unable to implement any of it's policies. Can y
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by jonp888 1y ago
Would it really? France has the lowest retirement age of any EU country, the second highest expenditure on social benefits, and a large debt burden. Raising the retirement age by a couple of years is obviously unpopular, yet arguably sensi
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by jonp888 1y ago
I do wonder what the French population actually want as a solution to the unsustainable debt and huge proportion of tax revenue(second highest in the EU) spent on social benefits. Clearly they recognise a need for reform because they vote f
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by jonp888 1y ago
Probably their situation is similar to mine. It's mandatory, on the orders of a senior manager who has no background in software development, for all developers in my department to have a Copilot subscription. I've never used it f
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by jonp888 1y ago
It has. At one point HardKernel "found" some Broadcom chips and made a one-off unauthorized batch of the Pi-compatible Odroid-W. Rpi weren't amused :)
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by jonp888 1y ago
Nodejs itself is, but when you install a node project manually, you type npm install and wait while it downloads the 500 different packages it depends on. Debian follows the same philosophy as for other more traditional languages and expect
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by jonp888 1y ago
I use WetterOnline, it's German but I think it covers all of Europe.
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by jonp888 1y ago
Alternatives to Couchsurfing.com such as BeWelcome and WarmShowers have been around for many years, decades even and have users counts into 6 figures. They've remained non-corporate but never managed to reach mainstream popularity like
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by jonp888 1y ago
Analysed logically the aim of your post was a positive message that pushes back against "doomers", yet somehow it left me more depressed about the utter futility and meaningless of existence than any other comment I've read s
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by jonp888 1y ago
That's quite strange. Unlike in say France or Spain, all domestic trains in Germany should be reservation free for all Interrail ticket holders, including the fastest ICE trains.
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by jonp888 1y ago
The whole point of Markdown is that the formatting codes intutitively make sense and are readable even without a viewer and without needing to read a specification first. People have been using asterisks as bullet points and to emphasise th
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by jonp888 1y ago
That's usually illegal, unless you're a genuine independent contractor that completes work packages for multiple clients. If it was legal to work in the office of your only "client" 40 hours a week on a permanent basis,
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by jonp888 2y ago
1) Hydrogen combustion engines exist, but are extremely inefficent. For this reason all Hydrogen buses currently in use use fuel cells, which are expensive and complicated. That you were unaware of this makes me doubt the rest of your comme
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by jonp888 2y ago
Rolls Royce is also responsible for building and maintaining the nuclear reactors used in Britain's missile launch submarines. If things really got so bad that American investors began intentionally sabotaging the operations of foreign
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by jonp888 2y ago
Yes, indeed, I haven't the slightest clue what neo-conservatism is. Thankyou for your informative comment.
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by jonp888 2y ago
Eliminating foreign aid seems to be a common cause of neo-conservative movements. Boris Johnson shut down the British equivalent(Department for International Development) and scrapped the commitment to spend 0.7% of GDP on aid. It's si

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