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radiator··on Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
What if this something did not need installation? Just download and run.
radiator··on New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
What consequences do the lockdowns have on birth rates? In some western countries it has been shown that births have decreased by more than 10%. What are you going to tell those thousands of people who will remain childless because of these policies?
radiator··on Amazon to stop accepting UK Visa credit cards
Interesting. Is having a brazilian bank account a prerequisite to use PIX?
radiator··on Willingness to look stupid
He writes "the smallest box". But the set (width, height, depth) of the dimensions of the boxes is not totally ordered. So this question makes no sense.

Maybe he means another metric, e.g. by volume? But:

- first problem, he seems to expect that people with whom he talks should not make assumptions

- second problem, does he really expect the store clerk to calculate the volumes of all the boxes?

I don't know, are we sure he is not actually stupid?

radiator··on Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
I for one don't see the problem in this particular case. To say that giving everyone money is like a golden shower, is an apt simile in my opinion.
radiator··on I like e-readers now
The screen size is important, as you say. I use a 9" reader and it is large enough, but it is a 7-year-old device. I got the impression that those larger screen sizes later disappeared from the market.

As for the back and forth scrolling, again correct that it is much slower than with a physical book.

You can pack a lot of technical books in your device but, in my opinion, the best ones it is a good idea to have them printed as well.

radiator··on Job vacancies surge past one million in new record
But that would be only half the solution. If the value of fiat decreases daily, then you should also negotiate a salary raise every month? Most people do not get raises more than once per year.
radiator··on U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate
This sounds as if we don't really trust encryption, which makes one wonder, why then go into all this trouble and encrypt the data in the first place?
radiator··on The rise of never-ending job interviews
If the applicant has graduated from a university, technical school, whatever, then look at the records from their exams there. Also taking into account the average level of the university, technical school in question.
radiator··on The case for banning non-competes
It looks like it is "at least 50%" according to the law.
radiator··on Why do we use R rather than Excel?
With millions of users using Excel, I am not convinced that there are no solutions to the problems of Repeatability, Batch Processing, Extensibility as mentioned in the article.
radiator··on Against SQL
The first example, you can read it and speak it in English.
radiator··on All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
So some professionals will have the chance to migrate systems back to on-premises, after having migrated them from on-premises to the cloud? Interesting.
radiator··on Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack
But if the store in question would accept cash, then it could at least server some of its customers. I expect it would not only be 15% of the customers. I would add those customers who are, you know, a little capable of adapting to circumstances and would actually go to their ATM to pick up some cash if they don't have any in their wallet. If not, I guess they don't need those groceries so urgently.
radiator··on The Untold Story of SQLite
Very good podcast, thank you. What I personally missed is a question about the future plans for SQLite. Also about version 4.
radiator··on “Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbing patches”
Maybe a panel of maintainers could publish a quarterly review with attribution/thanks to the most important contributors. No metrics to game, only pure human expert opinions.
radiator··on Obvious and possible software innovations
I got downvoted at least twice, but noone bothered to link to the explanation why this article is no longer visible.
radiator··on Obvious and possible software innovations
Why was this article censored? Was it done without an explanation? I do not find one.
radiator··on EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
Germany or the government of Germany?
radiator··on Why I prefer making useless stuff
Someone who wouldn't want to undersell those projects could use the term art instead of useless.
radiator··on How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
> Greta Thunberg moves mountains.

I can only regard this as a joke, and not a very successful one, I am afraid.

radiator··on Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
My point was, the two situations are very different. It is wrong to make similar conclusions.

In your first example, the superhuman cannot fix everything because he has to work with other average humans, who drag him down.

In the second case, since he is not forced to work in a team, his superior skills are shown in the result.

radiator··on Show HN: I wrote my own RTS game engine in C
But how is the hiring of those engineers or managers relevant to the current thread, which is about a project explicitly described: "I am a one-man development team doing everything"?
radiator··on Payments down 20% in my SaaS after EU introduced PSD2
And what are people who don't own a smartphone doing? Do they just throw their cards to the trash, since they have become useless?
radiator··on Wealthy use debt to buy future cash flow everyone else uses debt to buy stuff (2020)
Yeah and another % to his accountant for bookkeeping, another % for repairing things when they break, another % for taxes, until there is nothing left.
radiator··on The digital currencies that matter
None of the above
radiator··on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
This is hilarious!
radiator··on Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government
But from the point of view of the Indian government, those two "opposite" things are the same.
radiator··on Has UML died without anyone noticing?
Interesting point of view. The article is not really only about UML, but about formal specifications in general, and how Agile's rise affected them.
radiator··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
Unfortunately, we cannot be sure it is low for today's academia. So many people working there, with nothing useful to do other than flooding the conferences and journals with papers. They are desperate for anything that could be published. Plus, they know that the standards are low, because they see the other publications.
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