tribaal

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by tribaal 10d ago
As a Swiss I'm a little surprised about your points: 1. We have a wide, per-canton range of solutions for everything even up to school system or tax software. Almost nothing is the same everywhere in the country (not even mentality..
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by tribaal 2mo ago
It's mostly the same in any general purpose programming language though, parts of the language features are meant (or became seens as) tools to be used in very narrow cases, which people less familiar with the language tend to "ov
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by tribaal 3mo ago
Almost the latter - I can almost live without pulling anything from the grid. The huge caveat being that my system is way oversized for a normal house, since my building is multi-use (including commercial tenants who obviously only need pow
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by tribaal 3mo ago
Wind is not that developed in Switzerland because it's not actually that great of a situation... We have a lot of steep mountains which make building wind farms a real challenge, and the flat plains in between have "meh" leve
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by tribaal 3mo ago
Mostly all of our potential for pumped hydro is already developed, and there is not a lot left to do for non-pumped hydro. We can't grow hydro at the required scale, and the usual problem with solar and wind (that we should develop non
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by tribaal 3mo ago
The SVP is not considered "moderate". They are a far-right party. The fact that they are wide spread and gather a lot of votes does not make them "moderate". Source: am Swiss
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by tribaal 5mo ago
It's mostly similar to France. My house is in a valley (so reasonable snow) and some good solar irradiation year round. The roof being at a steep angle also means snow doesn't tend to accumulate much.
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by tribaal 5mo ago
Exactly - I own a Tesla and an id.buzz and it’s just insulting how bad the user experience is on the buzz. I don’t need buttons for the rear view mirrors or lights, I need them to do the right thing for me instead. VW not saving the positio
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by tribaal 5mo ago
Another data point: my entire system in Switzerland cost me 1.3CHF/Watt including a 20kWh battery and 5000 CHF of scaffolding costs (needed because of our local OSHA equivalent laws when installing panels on a tilted roof). It has be
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by tribaal 5mo ago
Maybe you should visit Geneva then, or most of the "Arc Lemanique". It's way more diverse than Zurich. Well, if you mean "diverse" as "more brown people" as your comment seems to imply.
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by tribaal 6mo ago
SteamOS is really a desktop linux. You can switch to "desktop mode" to see the "normal desktop" and you get a KDE where you can run whatever you want. It's "just" immutable Arch that defaults to Steam&#x27
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by tribaal 6mo ago
Exactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.
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by tribaal 6mo ago
As a Swiss citizen I strongly disagree. Most people capable of reading and basic maths (addition!) can understand the counting of our paper ballots. My kids understand how this works since they are like 5. Any citizen can go and check how v
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by tribaal 7mo ago
Custom widgets aren’t particularly hard to do in iced, but I wish some of those common cases would be committed back / made available. Except the above virtualised lists, another case I hit was layered images (sprites for example). Not
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by tribaal 7mo ago
Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean? I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a maj
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by tribaal 8mo ago
Except using the cold output from the heat pump to serve as ac (which of arguably neat) it’s a normal heat pump
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by tribaal 8mo ago
Ah it does ac on top, neat. Thanks!
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by tribaal 8mo ago
I have an all in one heat pump right now in my house (in Europe). Not made by Samsung. Why is this news? Is it because it can heat water to 85 degrees Celsius? Is it because it’s Samsung?
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by tribaal 8mo ago
This is extremely valuable insight for me, a non-Indian manager. Thanks a lot!
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by tribaal 10mo ago
Probably an unpopular opinion, but it’s been a couple of jobs that I write “just python” to generate k8s manifests, and it works really, really well. There’s packages. You can write functions. You can write tests trivially (the output is ba
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by tribaal 11mo ago
This is bullshit, Emmentaler has holes here as well. Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental
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by tribaal 11mo ago
Oh really? Wow! I'll switch over tonight and give it a shot. Thanks!
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by tribaal 11mo ago
I was very skeptical of the claim that gaming on linux is good now, but fully switched over last weekend. All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with no fiddling at all (nVidia graphics card, X11, pop_OS - but
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by tribaal 2y ago
Huawei is very present at EuroRust and seem to look for a lot of people to hire. I guess it makes sense, I was curious why they would want people to work on e.g. Servo since Firefox is already available on Android... now I know :) Their tea
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by tribaal 3y ago
The EPA seems to disagree with your numbers: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
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by tribaal 3y ago
Battery manufacturing emissions are dwarfed by lifetime emissions of a gasoline powered car, according to the EPA. They do about double the emissions for manufacturing, but that's not all that much. https://www.epa.gov/
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by tribaal 3y ago
Well, they do give you a lump sum every 3 years to buy whatever laptop you want with. Personally, I was fine with this: I had a laptop I was already doing open source work with, no reason for me to change (I did open source work with my sam
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by tribaal 3y ago
The argument I saw brought up when I was working at Canonical (before the weird hiring process thing, n.b.) made some sense: They explicitly wanted you to buy a laptop in your country using what's available to you so as to artificial
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by tribaal 4y ago
Well, my corporate network seems to be blocking websockets to your domain... So it's definitely not a neptyne problem (it works great on my personal laptop). Cool product! Thanks for the good work there.
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by tribaal 4y ago
I'd like to try - it's quite a cool idea. But the interface seems broken. Is that the HN hug of death, or my corporate netowrk playing up?

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