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I have a repository with common config files. Whenever possible I prefer to not just symlink files but instead include them (source in shell, load-file in emacs, etc). That way I can still have local variations, work-related stuff, etc.

low tech can provide control and persistence.

I want a real hardware volume dial on my phones and laptops. Mostly so that I can turn them down and be sure that that I will not embarrass myself by making noises at events where silence is expected.

And I miss DIP switches. It is just brilliant that you could configure it once and for all. E.g. I have smoke detectors that could all be linked together by pressing some buttons in a weird ritual, but when you change a battery they forget and run down the battery in no time trying in vain to sync.

Yes. I use qcad/librecad very infrequently.

But I used it for the first time for a renovation of my apartment in 2004 and it isjust great that when I was discussing a renovation with a neighbor I could still use it with the old files.

The disk you can usually replace.

Otherwise just restore the backup to a 5 year old laptop.

If you laptop server can run for 5 or 10 years, there is a good chance that during that time, you spilled coffee in the keyboard of another laptop, making it a good candidate for the new server.

I have a 12 year old laptop, that has been a server for 8 years.

True. But on the other hand an experienced developer usually can give a reasonable estimate. An if he says: "about two days maybe a week" then that is you best estimate. Using story points is just another complication.

And points do not stop anyone from holding you to account, if that is what they want to do.

Yes, and we all could understand say a 200 percent markup plus international shipping. And even more for a cheap part.

But they make it really hard to get the parts.

In 2010 my Fisher-Paykel dishwasher broke. I called the repair service. They charged a little over $100 to tell me that it would cost DKK 6500 ($950) to replace the two broken water softener modules. I spent a long time time searching for a place to buy those modules. Eventually I found a place called Leeds Applicances (closed now) that would sell it to me for £68 + VAT + £20 shipping. I took me maybe 30 minutes to replace the modules, just a lot of connectors and tubes that had to be connected the same way.

Before that I had a dryer that started to make a horrible rattling sound. I refused to just replace the dryer and took it apart. I was some nylon wheel on the belt drive that was worn out. But no one was selling a replacement. I spent about a month complaining to the importer and in the end I went on my bicycle to the Zanussi importer in an industrial area outside Copenhagen and after waiting in their office for a long time I was allowed to buy this piece of nylon for $50. It probably cost less than $1 to produce and they had newer sold one to a consumer before.

At least if you use Tor Browser, you will learn a few words in just about every language.

exercise is one way to lose weight. Those tribes might move more than most of us, but that does not mean they burn a lot of calories.

I you have a few hours and do an efficient excercise like cycling or rowing, you can burn about 700 kCal once you get in shape. If you can do that 5 times a week you will loose weight (assuming that you have body fat to loose).

Then just use one of your old cell phones and keep it charged. Even if it does not have a subscription, it can still dial 911/112

There is a Rødby-Puttgarten ferry route. The ferry takes 45 minutes. In the daytime there are two departures/hour in each direction. On busy days you need a reservation.

The ferry cost about three times as much as the fee for the Great Belt bridge to Fyn, so people use the ferry because they still save a couple of hours, depending on traffic.

So the bridge will make a huge difference.

Yes, those marathon runners mentioned might reduce their TEE from 6200 to 4900 kcal/day. But that is still way more than most office workers eat.

And if you check the article:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0341# == The reduction in TEE among RAUSA subjects can be partly attributed to marginally reduced body mass and daily mileage (table S3). Still, even after accounting for these changes, Week 20 TEE was 596 kcal/day lower (range, 400 to 923 kcal/day) than expected ==

So they did loose weight during the marathons and the metabolic compensation is less than half of what you would think reading the original article.

== ... The magnitude of metabolic response in RAUSA athletes (~600 kcal/day, ~20% TEE) is similar to the degree of adaptation reconstructed for the most physically active subjects in a recent cross-sectional study (17) and may reflect humans’ maximal capacity for metabolic compensation. ==

So if 20% percent is the maximum, it means that if you try to outrun your diet, you might have to eventually exercise 25% more. Except by then you will probably have more muscle mass that will burn more calories even when not exercising. And you will be able to exercise more in less time.

Suddenly it does not look so hopeless.

I got an old Bang & Olufsen Beovision 1 CRT TV for free. I use it at a cottage just because I assume no one will break a window to steal a CRT TV, especially one that weights 38 kg (84 pounds) not counting the motorised steel floor stand. I found a set-top box with digital reception and USB input that also had a SCART connector.

I knew the sound would be good.

But I was surprised how great the image is. It just look good from all angles and in all condition, when it gets a good input. And I do not notice the lower resolution much.

I am sure a modern B&O is better. But they cost from $6,675 (the B&O Harmony from $18,250) A used Beovision 1 can be bought for $30.

Yes, and no need for a browser, I have small script that outputs Danish teletext to the terminal

#!/bin/sh wget --quiet -O - http://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe?request=$1 |html2text -utf8

Well, not mathematicians. But I once was a physics student. We had a professor which was usually brilliant. But we had a few classes involving arithmetic: Dimensional analysis or practical examples. He would scorn students that took out their calculator and say that any decent physicist could work it out within a few percents margin. Then he would work it out on the blackboard, and every single time he would be wrong by orders of magnitude and we all tried our best not to laugh.

It is a trade off. How much did they really gain by using ?.

A year ago I helped a small company with some issues. One was that some people working with them had some problems using their app with older phones. After some investigation it turned out that I just had to replace "let " with "var " on a few lines of javascript code.

I used an an Iphone 4S for the testing and the browser could not be updated.

I you make something that could work on older devices and it is not too much trouble, you should make it work on those devices.

I have a drawer full of old devices that I use for all kinds of things (besides testing) where it is not a big deal that the software cannot be updated.

I do have an old chromebook. It runs Debian sid and has updated browsers.

Not officially and not like the US.

However for about 10 years there have been issued warrants without the name of the court and judges on them in terror-related cases: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danmark-har-hemmelige-domm...

Of course the court sessions in this case are not open to the public on request of the prosecutor. The defense has declared that it wants to let the public in, but that the judges will most likely not agree to that.

You should question how it works. And test whether it works. Or find a simpler theory that works as well. Or a theory that can explain more. Postulating that there must be a better theory is pointless. Bell's theorem was never a pointless philosophical issue. It is physics and that is why it can be tested experiementally.

First: no one presumed Einstein to be senile. He was sceptical about qm, and being sceptical is good. He also agreed with Bohr that what mattered was results of experiements. That is why they came up with all those brilliant thought-experiements that could only become real experiements much later. Theories that cannot predict anything in the real world might be interesting, but it is not physics. ( I did study at the Niels Bohr institute in Copenhagen a long time ago)

I agree. And apart from the legal questions, it is annoying to search for someting, get a website with a copyright 2021 notice and no info that it was actually written in 2016.

Ereaders have offline dictionaries. My Ereader has one based on Webster 1913. It works fine but it is of course missing words in modern books. But now you can get Wiktionary on many Ereaders which is just great.

I have done it with Linux. I just ssh in. sidedoor is good if they are behind NAT.

That way you can fix things, install programs, handle updates, etc. There are tools to share the screen. But usually it is enough to use X Window to run a program on their computer on your own screen.

It is also handy that you can just scp photos, videos etc to their computer.

Yes. In 1987 two Danish "tourist" were caught photographing military installations in Poland: https://apnews.com/article/d61c5f558248baf68d0de6377e09c4f1

That was also a stupid plan

Yes, it is often a matter of sympathy, atmosphere and ambitions more than actual learning.

Many years ago as a grad student I was a teaching assistant.

One year I was instructing two classes.

One was an ordinary class. It was all very pleasant, cozy and relaxed. Students would often bake cake for the class. But I had trouble teaching because most of them did not do any homework and did not read the textbooks much. They all liked me. One even said in class that he would try to get me again next semester, meaning that he knew he would fail the exam. Which most of them did.

The other class was a special class for students that had failed the previous exams and because the curriculum had changed this was their last chance. They were a lot more motivated. And they were quite critical about me as an instructor. At one point they even made a complaint about me be because I had tried to prove a theorem on the blackboard and failed because I made a silly mistake. They were absolutely right that I messed up that proof. But we did handle it in that same class and had a good discussion about that theorem and how to prove things. And their critical attitude kept me on my toes. I worked hard preparing the classes. And the classes were focused and tense. In the end, except for one that fell sick, everyone passed the exam with good marks.

I once knew a man that was campaigning against a proposed metro line because he feared it would be too noisy, harm the environment, scar his neighborhood, etc. One day he organized a walk along the entire proposed path of the new metro line. At the end of the walk, they discussed it and to his own surprise he came to the conclusion that actually it was not that bad after all. His anti-metro group did of course dissolve. I had a lot of respect for him.

>I guess this approach works fine for an individual, but if everyone has to run their own guard node to be safe, why would anyone connect to your guard node

By the time a few percent or tor users are running a guard node, KAX17 would be too diluted to be a real threat.

Doing laundry, dishes etc involves real work and takes time.

Getting up from my chair and pressing a switch when I feel it is getting too dark is not really a chore. And it is probably good for my back.

I do have a couple of X10 switches but I mostly use them where I once was too cheap to put an extra cable. One died this year after only 20 years of service. Luckily I had a spare.

I also have a couple of electronic thermostats. I really hate having to replace batteries every few years. Now I set the day and night temperatures to a about the same. But I like that if I feel cold, I can manually turn up the heat and not having to remember to turn it back down. This should also be possible to implement mechanically.

I also have a drawer with some Zigbee smart home stuff and a CC2540 debugger to program a USB dongle to allow me turn off all the lamps in my living room. Which I will do whenever I feel like it. Because I have 5 lamps and if I turn them off 3 times a week for 20 years and I save 3 seconds per lamp minus 3 seconds to use some Zigbee switch, I will save 10 hours in total. If I have to find a phone or remote first, it will be a lot less. And I will probably spend a lot more than 10 hours before it all works. And I am not sure that it will work for 20 years, or that I can easily replace broken devices in 20 years.

No, it will not. But it depends on the shape of the meat. So if you are not monitoring the surface temperature, go with cold water or the fridge.

I assume that mr Bradwell will be the next on the deny/excludelist for using the word "blacklist"

Then you can use a compass and use your magnetic look-up table in the other direction.

And only airplanes would then have to use look-up tables. Things on the ground would keep using true north.

Depends on how you calculate it.

If had become say a plumber instead of going to university, had lived as cheap as a student with a plumber salary and invested the surplus 100 percent in the stock marked that would be a lot of money now many years later. I prefer not to calculate it.