kalnins

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by kalnins 2y ago
People don't own the house just to sell it for more later on. Some live in them.
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by kalnins 3y ago
Winter/Summer cycle is more about the angle of Earths rotational axis and not the distance from the sun.
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by kalnins 3y ago
I suspect Chilean office problem was more related to timezones, if they are moving to Europe.
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by kalnins 3y ago
There is an interesting side effect here. Salaries throughout EU vary a lot. This will give people chance to better understand the salary differences between countries.
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by kalnins 4y ago
Can somebody explain to me where the companies get all these people? A lot of huge companies doubled/tripled in size during pandemic. Did people just take on 3 jobs or where we hitting super low levels of unemployment?
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by kalnins 4y ago
git branch -D *
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by kalnins 4y ago
Google dropped it from Android, but several phone manufacturers are putting it back in ever since.
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by kalnins 4y ago
Depends on how you drive and how large your car is. My moms old Renault capture diesel uses around 5l/100km on average (combined city/highway) while she is driving and around 5.5-6l/100km while I'm driving. Just rented a
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by kalnins 4y ago
For me (I also use gas for heating), this would mean an increase of monthly expenses around 5-8% during winter months. (assuming 6x increase in the last winters bills). Though I don't live in an 6 bedroom glass house, so other people m
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by kalnins 4y ago
Well, this [1] guy did buy a 8 year old one. [1] https://people.com/human-interest/tesla-owner-blows-up-his-c...
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by kalnins 4y ago
I'm using 5-7 kWh/d. Pretty constant. Includes washing machine and induction stove, but excludes heating the apartment and hot water.
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by kalnins 4y ago
As Rust is llvm based, you don't need to compile it to C. Just write a backend that translates LLVM IR to C instead of x86_64. The IR is very C looking, it's probably overly complex. Compiling down to asm, lot of information is lo
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by kalnins 4y ago
It's so easy, it even occurred naturally in past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
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by kalnins 5y ago
In practice, employers try to advertise themselves as high paying, to actually get some decent people. Even basic good stores like to have decent employees. In most cases, the lowest number will be just below the pay of the worst candidate
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by kalnins 5y ago
Even if this gets approved, it still requires all the member states to change their laws. Luckily for me, I already live in one of EU members that have such law in place. Allows me to discard job postings under my salary range. Some job pos
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by kalnins 5y ago
They are now accepting preorders for UK Germany and France [1]. [1] https://frame.work/blog/now-available-for-pre-order-in-uk-ge...
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by kalnins 5y ago
There isn't a demand for stolen car parts. There is a demand for cheeper/used car parts. This is in part due to lower salaries combined with people wanting to buy "cool" cars that are way over their budget hence they are
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by kalnins 5y ago
I don't think they actually send them to baltics, as those are stolen from cars here also and they probably catch a better price in Stockholm anyway. Or sent a lot further than that. The running "joke" is that insurers pay to
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by kalnins 5y ago
I would guess that it could be due to having more ions in air due to higher radiation levels.
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by kalnins 5y ago
Not necessarily. You can encrypt the search value clientside and search by value in its encrypted form.
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by kalnins 5y ago
How did Singapore tackle it?
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by kalnins 5y ago
According to METI[1] on summer 2019, there where 1.1*10^9 L of contaminated water with radiation of "≦a few hundred Bq/L". Assuming 200, we get 0.22 TBq of radiation in total. In comparison, based on reports of US Nuclear reg
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by kalnins 6y ago
It's also expected to be accepted in EU on 21st december. And, if approved, vacination would be started across the whole EU on 27th december.
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by kalnins 6y ago
Probably the iMac is throttling due to battery getting old.