Viewing profile — flicken

The night bus service only runs the nights "before" Saturday and Sunday[1]. It's a small university city with 300k population (600k greater metropolitan area). [1] https://www.verb…

The Free State Project[1] had 20k libertarians pledge to move to New Hampshire, talking 15 years to reach the total number. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project

For that, you can use "spike filing". Place everything incoming you might need on top of a spike (or on top of a pile or in the front of a folder). The automatically sorts by trave…

The "AAA" is a typo, they probably mean "AA777" for American Airlines 777[1]. A far as why the number 777 is amusing, it's gambling. The combination 777 is a jackpot on a slot mach…

The key phrase here is "target range"---it's not an exact number, but a range. The previous statement[1] was .50% lower on both ends of the range: > the Committee decided to raise …

From their linked job description, there are a few countries that are excluded: > We are currently unable to hire from the following regions: China, France, Iran, Egypt, Russia

It's an unintended consequence of the reduced (5-15% flat) taxes available via "regime forfettario"[1] which only applies to businesses with Somewhat similarly, in the USA there is…

What prices are you seeing? For me in Europe, the single speed is only €240 cheaper than the cheapest Aluminum bike. €3990-€5200 Carbon €1590-€1990 Designer €1490-€1990 Aluminum €1…

37signals hires outside the US, see their HN ad from June, 2022[1]: > The salary for candidates matched as Programmer is $165,410. The salary for candidates matched as Senior Progr…

> Ok now I am more curious. I looked at another company "Expensify" [1]. They actually want you to ideally relocate to one of their office locations :). So again, not fully remote …

SQLite does support multiple writers, they take turns: > SQLite only supports one writer at a time per database file. But in most cases, a write transaction only takes milliseconds…

Similarly, I got a "Zugang Steig B" (Entranceway B). Maybe adding a button to skip the question: "not really a street".

America has low car ownership rates compared to western Europe, possibly due to income inequality. See this 2012 article. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/…

https://standup.flicken.net/ After trying[1] multiple[2] alternatives[3][4], I built this to keep track of who speaks when and for how long at a daily standup. The question of "who…

Try this: lynx -dump -hiddenlinks=listonly https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/ | grep youtube.com | perl -pe 's/.*http/http/' | youtube-dl --batch-fil…

Although https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ is meant for reformatting PDFs to view on e-readers, it does do a reasonable job of extracting text via OCR and storing as a PDF layer. Th…

The article seems to summarize, but doesn't name, Alexander Zevin's book, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52105758-l…

Working on a better way to edit calendar events: finding conflicts, grouping series of events together, etc.

Yes, the intersection is alive and well without traffic signals. That's my favorite intersection in Graz, the five-way intersection of Zinzendorfgasse, Halbärthgasse, Schubertstras…

Some coverage of Austria as well.

Austrian version: http://fruitmap.at/

https://slowgerman.com/

Plus one for CBYX. The first two months are an intensive German course, so you don't technically need to have prior Germany experience (although it helps in order to be accepted). …

+1 If there were a list of tasks that needed to be done, it would be much easier to pick up something in my spare time. The closest I can find to a task list is here: https://githu…

Some of the control boards can be repaired, see https://youfixit.eu/en/ I did this after an electrical surge blew out a component.