halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Linux has bad battery duration compared to Windows. What can I do?
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halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Mourning loss as a remote team
That's not how reproduction works though. The unprivileged often have more kids and people on the corporate bandwagon tend to have fewer.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I switched to the Kinesis Advantage 2 about 9 months ago (https://geekmonkey.org/learning-to-type-dvorak/) and couldn't be happier. It takes quite a while to rewire the brain (at least it did for me) but I feel a lot more confident and a tad bit faster than I was before I switched.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Google Analytics 4
I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion. Data privacy laws are among the strongest in the world here. It is a selling point because of that, but also because there are laws against sending user data to non-EU countries.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Silencing the Kinesis Advantage 2
I personally love the clicky sound of the Advantage 2. I switched to it some time last year after having RSI related symptoms. Since the keyboard required me to retrain muscle memory I also ended up switching to Dvorak (wrote about it at https://geekmonkey.org/learning-to-type-dvorak/).
It took a significant amount of time to get back up to speed, but some time last month it finally "clicked" and I couldn't be happier.
Definitely wish the keyboard was a bit more portable for travel, but for short stints I can stomach typing on a regular laptop keyboard.
As for the Kinesis 360: I recently saw it in use on a twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1422298932) and it looked fantastic. Looks like the general public will have to wait until later this year to actually buy it though.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world
Not sure if this is missing a /s, but brits regularly cross the channel to europe and vice versa and drive on the opposite side, there's even clever roadworks that swap lanes around the border.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27
To be fair that should count for both sides. Everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
I, for one, have a hard time believing the 4k Russian casualties claimed by Ukraine.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment February 27
Starlink is available: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/elon-musk-starlink-...
Not sure how easily accessible this is to the average citizen but it surely makes it hard to shut down the internet entirely.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?
Get it fresh from the market, consume immediately?
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: How I learned French in 12 months (2020)
Here you go for German: https://m.dw.com/en/slowly-spoken-news-reports-learning-germ...
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
That's not correct. You can use --force to to create a duplicate worktree pointing to the same commit-ish: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree#Documentation/git-work...
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Duplicate storage as already mentioned, but you will also lose the ability to merge / doff cross branches if you have separate checkouts.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Try using git worktrees: https://geekmonkey.org/rethink-your-git-workflow-with-git-wo...
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Where Is Chrome's Read Later Button?
In my chrome it's located at the very right side of the bookmarks bar under "Reading List" where I can click "Add this tab to read later"
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
Same boat, here's mine: https://geekmonkey.org/
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Did I just lose half a million dollars?
There's a page explaining it with that exact title: https://weth.io/
Can't say I understand it now after reading it though.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
The pricing page lists the paid version as a one time payment of $10 and not a subscription. Price seems fine to me if you end up getting any value out of it.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Germany doesn't rule out closing Telegram – interior minister
Whataboutism isn't helping. Obviously the answer to your question is no, but you could do the same with snailmail.
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working
halfdan | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: My full-time offer is now an independent contract agreement?
I've worked for US based companies in the past from Germany and that was the setup at the time because it was a legal and bureaucratic hassle to set up proper employment. That said, both times I received equity - that's, at least to my understanding, straightforward to set up.
Given that job security is almost non-existent in the US it never bothered me to not be an employee - I just always assumed that today could be my last day (well, in theory at least). You do miss out on the usual health benefits, 401k, etc. and will have to cover that yourself in your country.
I love Linux, but I also just want to be productive in my job. Gone are the days where I can spend hours happily compiling my own kernel to optimize the hell out of bootup time and slim it down. There's no single ready to use distro that has a somewhat modern feel to it (IMHO).
So I bit the bullet long ago, bought a Mac, made it feel as close as home as I could and I haven't spent a second trying to debug a random bug affecting my bluetooth, audio, graphics or wifi card since. The only thing I truly miss is i3wm.