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Wow. That seems like a lot of work. I just use GnuCash, a scanner, some good old Samba file-hosting on a local Debian server running 24/7, and WOL and VNC (or just SSH and SCP) if …

Thank you for taking the time to write all that down. I fully agree with most of it. I tried quitting Facebook, WhatsApp, and whatnot, to no avail. It just doesn't work out like th…

The problem with being a Facebook-user is quitting it while trying to keep in touch with your friends. Presently, this only works if Facebook itself would fail. I believe if it wer…

I find it ok for Facebook to do something like their "Top stories" based on what their algorithm determines for me. But I'm somewhat annoyed that "Most recent" doesn't actually sor…

> "I mentioned this in a previous thread, but we absolutely do not want Mark Zuckerberg or his employees to make decisions on what is or isn’t newsworthy. They have far too much po…

> "the average font size has been steadily creeping, maybe 1.5 pts per 5 years." To be fair, so has the monitor resolution and its density. I'm looking at HN, and imagine, ten year…

Acting like the don't exist either, isn't either. I coincidentally found this yesterday, and while it is on the topic of racism, you can just as much transpose races for classes, a…

Anything can go wrong, anywhere. Still, I think the IT guys and gals in space-tech have (necessarily) one of the best track records in reliability.

No, it completely makes sense on the compilation aspect, I don't deny it. But where do you test the compiled software? If I use an analogy from the Internet, it's like web develope…

...it's funny, because if anyone can write code that wouldn't require 32 cores to run, Linus would certainly be one of them. Don't forget to keep in touch with reality, a bunch of …

I'm just going to hook up on your example of the document and the deadline, and state the following: You're assuming a (very) pessimistic scenario (that you likely justify with you…

And so the next step would be to actually throw out the written word and replace it with actual code. I'm serious. Why let "government code" be subject to all the shortcomings and …

I actually develop my own solutions, there is no third-party analytics involved in my blog, the only "analytics" I do, is to keep track of which IP visits what resource, the only c…

AFAIK, GDPR only really becomes an issue for you, if your blog crosses a certain threshhold of views/comments. Not sure where I read it, but it was in the range of something around…

> "outlier results at odds with every other study thus far published" ...which would be? AFAIK, there aren't any comparable studies to date, which is why there was such a buzz abou…

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/corona...

Despite it opposing their previous stance on it? They're now mostly backpedalling, and discrediting the study. Or, at least, how it was presented - but can anyone blame them for th…

The final bits of text indicate that the full study is to be published as soon as it's available. All statements made in the paper are marked with "vorläufig", which translates to …

I don't know, I find pseudo-anonymized, but (mostly) civilized and on-point debate that touches varying spheres of sciences as well as degrees of accuracy on them, quite valuable, …

> "This is incorrect. You're reducing the number of deaths. Think of it like this: imagine 2% of people need ICU care. 100% of those that don't get ICU care die." Quoting my earlie…

Well, yes. More, but shorter. That's why people are calling it a "gamble". According to the article, ICU capacity is currently at a quarter. They could probably "afford" a higher r…

This is a headline we're gonna repeat as long as Sweden stays on their course, no? Because it's then perpetually always true. It's laughably juvenile, like countries exerting peer …

...there's the thing about Chicken Pox, isn't it not far more severe, and deadly, in adults? I can remember having caught it as a kid, but if I didn't... I'd believe, I'd rather be…

> "multiple cultural taboos" Honestly asking, are Chicken Pox parties also considered taboo? I don't have kids, but it sounds sensible to me, and I've heard people talk about it li…