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Snoddas commented on Destination: Jupiter   clarkesworldmagazine.com/... · Posted by u/AndrewLiptak
stevenbedrick · 3 months ago
In case anybody’s interested, Malka Older has a really enjoyable series (two books so far) of short novels set on habitats in Jupiter’s atmosphere (so not breathable atmosphere, but also not vacuum). They’re solid mystery stories with fun characters and an intriguing setting. The first is called “The Mimicking of Known Successes” and the second is “The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles”.
Snoddas · 3 months ago
You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder
Snoddas commented on European Cloud, Global Reach   upcloud.com/blog/european... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen
piokoch · 5 months ago
This is missing the point. Everything they offer is storage, VPS, Load balancer, one managed key-value store and two managed databases. For the price a little higher than, say, Digital Ocean. But where is managed cache, message broker, e-mail service. It is not enough to be European, they need to offer something competitive.

I guess they can win some clients, given current hostility of Europe against Trump, but what if in two years Trump will be off the news, people would not care anymore about being anti_USA or what if in 4 year Dems will figure out why they lost in 2024 and find someone less lame, who will win election, whom Europe will like again?

Snoddas · 5 months ago
The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.

Snoddas commented on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate   corporate.watch... · Posted by u/steadycourse
Snoddas · 6 months ago
This calendar is what we work after

A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)

Snoddas commented on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)   engineering.mit.edu/engag... · Posted by u/sorentwo
mnky9800n · 6 months ago
I find the most onerous part of the flying experience to be the invasive searches at the airport followed by the corralling and grouping of people onto the plane penny pinching everything from a bottle of water to whether my bag goes in my lap or the overhead bin. The size of the seat area and length of the flight haven’t come to mind as travel complaints for a long time.
Snoddas · 6 months ago
You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight)

Or alternativly you can afford better seats than me.

Snoddas commented on Is the world becoming uninsurable?   charleshughsmith.substack... · Posted by u/spking
itake · 7 months ago
> They bank it as any insurance company should do. Invest it cautiously.

I hope they aren't investing that capital. AFAIK, insurance capital needs to be liquid, for it to be ready for a payout.

You still didn't address my point is that $25m/yr is a drop in the ocean. "investing $25m properly" will have zero impact on the business.

Snoddas · 7 months ago
It will have atleast be > than zero, and doing it every year instead of giving it away to some overpriced CEO will it will accumulate.
Snoddas commented on Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)   christopherferan.com/2021... · Posted by u/sebg
throwaway2037 · 9 months ago

    > Most abandoned coffee farming and converted their farms into prime real estate.
So they made more money by selling their farm land, instead of being a farmer? That sounds like a good trade to me. This is pretty normal process in all highly developed countries.

Related: What do you think Silicon Valley and Los Angeles Valley looked like 100 years ago? Lots of fruit farms. Today? Housing and office buildings -- all considered prime real estate. Once farming became less valuable than the land, most farmers sold.

    > Nairobi’s “heat.”
Can you explain why you put "heat" in quotes? Is this intended to be sarcastic?

Snoddas · 9 months ago
Probably sarcastic as the temperature of Nairobi is quite moderate. A quick web serach states that the average summer temperature is

Average High: ~28°C (82°F) Average Low: ~14°C (57°F)

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Snoddas commented on Show HN: Retronews – TUI for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers   github.com/luke8086/retro... · Posted by u/luke8086
Snoddas · a year ago
I see it's read only

Is it possible to launch a browser for writing replys/comments?

Snoddas commented on Parsing Awk Is Tricky   raygard.net/awkdoc/pages/... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb
Chris2048 · a year ago
> every programmer and especially every sysadmin should learn

There are lots of things "every <tech position> should learn", usually by people who already did so. I still have a bunch of AI/ML items on that list too.

What's the advantage of learning AWK over Perl?

Snoddas · a year ago
Both will get you where you want to go, but I don't think the usecase for perl and awk are the same.

I reach for awk when my bash-scripts get a bit messy, perl is/was for when I want to build a small application (or nowdays python).

But both perl and python require cpan/pip to get the most out of and with awk, I just nead awk.

u/Snoddas

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