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fegu··on The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings
We always schedule meetings to end at 5 minutes to the hour, so people can get time to fetch another coffee etc.
fegu··on Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag
Some routers (and other electronics) are very sensitive to short spikes or drips in mains power. Having some heavy duty stuff such as heating cables or water heater or tumble dryer on the same circuit is enough. Get equipment to monitor it.
fegu··on The Perils of an .xyz Domain
I wonder about how the .wtf TLD compares.
fegu··on The Portrait Gallery
A great story. And that final kiss, given the tone of the article, felt like the kiss of death.
fegu··on Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs
The most fascinating thing to me about this blog post is that here we have a guy in his fifties who got insanely rich by working very hard (no doubt) and then selling a major stock broker platform (it is briefly mentioned as "in banking") - and what does he choose to do now with spare time and more money than anyone could use? He is maintaining Emacs. For fun. This is why open source will grow. It feels meaningful to contribute. He could sail, travel, invest, buy expensive stuff, etc. But Emacs hacking it is. Makes me happy to see.
fegu··on University moves 70-ton rock off campus after student backlash
It is difficult to make one's mind up on the matter without knowing what racial slur it was named after. The topic is so heated the article didn't dare mention it.
fegu··on England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult
Old money knew long ago the most effective way to market themselves: you need a good story.
fegu··on Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
I always read their domain name as expert sex change.
fegu··on Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to support “full self-driving”
The article suggests Tesla "forgot" about the promise due to high turnover. I find that hard to believe. I think they decided towards a "let's see what happens". Enough turmoil and they will pay up. Not that hard, just add a minimum subscription term to cover installation cost.
fegu··on Why Russians do not smile (2002)
- A US lady came to hr complaining about an Ukrainian dev approaching them inappropriately during a party.

What was the inappropriate part? Seems useful to know.

fegu··on The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think
The intricacies of emojis show that they are indeed a whole new language. If you liked the ZWJ mentioned, look into the family or group of people emojis. They are especially complex.
fegu··on The real reason to end the death penalty
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Fellowship of the ring (Tolkien)
fegu··on The Black-Scholes formula, explained (2019)
Don't feel bad, at least I chuckled :)
fegu··on Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
Apparently the research on that is sketchy. It is only an advantage if specifically sought out and used. It requires work. Otherwise it can just lead to bad communication and less team spirit. (I am paraphrasing a recent article from somewhere)
fegu··on I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
Thanks, did not know this. In fact, learned both Win + plus (and discovered Win + minus along the way) as well as Win + dot :)
fegu··on Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
If you want to get a feel of the productivity using Haskell in production start with a simple CRUD app and use IHP (https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/) to build it. You will have something usable within a day - GUI and all. Then move further down the rabbit hole from there.
fegu··on Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
Using "boring" Haskell (less higher level magic) alleviates this to some extent - without being boring. The organzation should decide which features and code styles to use. I agree that the summer intern's multi-layer home-built monad transformer stack and custom operators can be a pain.
fegu··on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
Usually you will have to choose the jurisdiction of the party you want to take to court. This is part of the reason some regulated industries require you to have presence locally.
fegu··on New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD
The Integrated Haskell Platform (IHP) open sourced at GitHub.com/digitallyinduced/ihp is one example of how to do crud in Haskell very efficiently.
fegu··on DoorDash S-1
You can, if you charge the full amount and then refund via a voucher or similar.
fegu··on Show HN: A 1000 auto-generated hexagonal SVG logos
Clever joke :) not wrong.
fegu··on AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
Some soccer teams have bald players. Should they also wear hats?
fegu··on GM sells out first year of electric Hummer production
This is supposedly the reason Windows ships with solitaire.
fegu··on An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy
The word fair has no meaning in a political context. To one it might seem fair that we all can afford the same things, to someone else it seems fair that we all keep what we make. And so on. A fairer tax policy is entirely in the eye of the beholder.
fegu··on Haskell Web Framework IHP Aims to Make Web Development Type-Safe and Easy
Link to the project on github: https://github.com/digitallyinduced/ihp

I have been using this for a small real-world project the last couple of weeks and am impressed.

fegu··on Database of Databases
My god that is a rabbit hole. Thanks for this! (But there goes my evening..)
fegu··on Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15
4 character names were readily available when Norway eased regulations. I bought a couple just last year when (.no) opened for 2-letter domains. Some are still available, I believe.
fegu··on Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003)
I remember Dune 2 fit on two floppies (2x 1.44MB). That is impressive. It was compressed and decompressed itself on install, but still.
fegu··on Don’t Fly During Ramadan (2013)
As most I have only anecdotal evidence for border police differences. But I do still sometimes think about how it once took 4 hours of queueing with no toilet no water and a sign that said no mobile phone use to get in to the US at Newark (after thorough passport examinations), while in Iran that same year there was no queue and a smile and a wave. I am a white Scandinavian.
fegu··on The radix 2^51 trick (2017)
This is the reason some of the esoteric x86 instructions actually perform slower on newer hardware. They are just there for backwards compatibility.
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