mrmekon

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by mrmekon 10mo ago
I spent a truly obnoxious amount of time importing my music library into beets. It took a couple of weeks to get to 95% imported, and got so bogged down in the last 5% that I never completed the import and never switched over. This isn&#x2
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by mrmekon 4y ago
I'm sure it has increased over time as people imitate their heroes, but first-person journalism is certainly not at all unique to "this generation"; it was already a big element of New Journalism in the 1960s: https:/&#
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by mrmekon 4y ago
I wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really wanted. Link, in case you care: https://github
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by mrmekon 4y ago
I've been tracking my costs for ~13 years. The cost here includes all equipment and ingredients over that time, including all of the unnecessary stuff that I bought for fun, like pH meters and titration gear. |-----------------+
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Show HN: Itsy-Gitsy – a static site generator for Git repositories(github.com)
1 points by mrmekon 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrmekon 4y ago
Huh, that's interesting. The Android team was absolutely hounding me for an interview back in ~2009, to the degree of finding my parents' home phone number and asking them to convince me to take an interview. I reluctantly oblige
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by mrmekon 7y ago
Just to back that up, it had a clear meaning because -less is a valid suffix to append to English words. When grandma runs out of cookies she is cookieless (when a website doesn't use cookies it is also cookieless). It doesn't h
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by mrmekon 7y ago
I know an animation/media rendering company that buys every model of Mac Pro in bulk. They'll buy dozens of these things. I assume that many similar companies do the same. HN really shows a lot of ignorance whenever Mac Pros are
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by mrmekon 7y ago
Might as well plug my similar project here: https://github.com/mrmekon/connectr A minimal Spotify controller for the menubar/systray. I mostly play on speakers, though sometimes librespot on my desktop to avoid r
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Analysis of Rust Crate Sizes on Crates.io(pastebin.com)
3 points by mrmekon 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrmekon 8y ago
Huh, I thought the original was a sarcastic question. In that case, let me explain: I keep a browser window open at all times. It is never full screen, because if it were full screen I wouldn't be able to see multiple windows at the
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by mrmekon 8y ago
Since maternity and paternity leave are frequently more than 6 months long, employees temporarily leaving for a big chunk of the year is just a fact of doing business here. Granting unpaid leave to go try your own thing for a while is, from
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by mrmekon 8y ago
It's all still up in the air, and the wording is vague. GDPR's wording is also vague, as EU laws are. When we read between the lines, GDPR's vagueness sounds promising (hard to over-reach, easy to understand intentions), an
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by mrmekon 8y ago
In my network of friends, which is within the EU and comprised entirely of EU citizens and spans multiple EU tech companies from dinky startups to Giant Unicorn, GDPR has been almost universally approved. We had to implement it, and genera
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by mrmekon 8y ago
> completely block all gTLDs. Screw 'em, they are 99.9999% spam That's for _my_ e-mail. Your experience may differ. Perhaps you communicate often with people on .loan domains. E-mailing Microsoft accounts is just not an optio
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by mrmekon 8y ago
In my experience, spam blacklists have significantly decreased in efficiency over the last 10 years. I think the biggest e-mail providers stopped contributing to them, so the user-reported lists are almost unused. The honeypot lists lag b
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by mrmekon 8y ago
Well, TechCrunch says "made in each EU country where a service is provided"... but every single other report about this, including the Variety article that TechCrunch linked to and is simply repeating, says differently. https:&#x
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by mrmekon 8y ago
Apparently, according to this thread, WebDAV is alive and thriving. CalDAV and CardDAV are certainly alive, but I think they're in a pretty horrible place. I run a Radicale server, which seems very nice, but configuring clients is a ni
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by mrmekon 8y ago
My comment doesn't make a statement about how things should be. It's a statement about the complexities of a technical implementation: _If_ it is true that the GDPR covers an EU person's data held by any company worldwide, r
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by mrmekon 8y ago
I'm in the EU, and a couple of the corporate VPNs I have used here have had their exit IP in the U.S. or Canada. Which means that when I'm at work, I appear to be in Seattle, and these sites are not blocked. Based just on that, I
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by mrmekon 8y ago
*according to a poll of 500-1000 people per country
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by mrmekon 8y ago
Well, true, that's somewhat better. But it's the principle of a privately-owned monopoly or oligopoly skimming profits off of a nation's economy that bothers me, not the absolute amount. As the other response to my comment s
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by mrmekon 8y ago
The second sentence corrects the sensational headline: "the small but growing number of Swedes anxious about their country’s rush to embrace a cash-free society." It must be very small. The only person I've ever heard compla
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by mrmekon 9y ago
Yes, it's an employer-paid pension that is very similar to the U.S. 401(K). Depending on how you slice it, Swedish pensions are divided into 3 or 4 layers: 1) Income pension - equivalent to U.S. social security. Taken out of everyone
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by mrmekon 9y ago
Hah, I just noticed that you consult to a tjänstepension company! My experience with MV on the phone is that they won't answer any specific questions about the rules. According to some migration attorneys I spoke with, many of the rul
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by mrmekon 9y ago
It's easier to get it wrong than you might think. Sweden doesn't publish a specific "rules for work visas" document. That website is it, and it is not all inclusive. The only way to know all the rules of the visa are
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by mrmekon 9y ago
It's almost certainly against the Terms of Service agreement. Presumably, you click-through agreed to a ToS for each one, and you have no right to transfer that agreement to someone else. The agreement is obviously tied to the human
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by mrmekon 9y ago
Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often. I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers.
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by mrmekon 9y ago
If bubbles were predictable, they wouldn't be bubbles. Everyone claims they're in a housing bubble when prices rise for years on end. They often aren't. Even when they are, literally nobody knows when they will break, or b
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by mrmekon 9y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "ordinary people", but if you're going abroad for long-term work in any "middle class" industry, you're eventually going to have extremely complicated taxes. Retirement

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