gardarh · HackerTrans

3 lata temudiscuss

Closer to 9 miles (15km). That's plenty (even though it doesn't sound like much), considering what kind of eruption this would be and how the fault lines lie.

gardarh

6 lat temudiscuss

Already exists: https://vaxafarm.is/pages/english . They are growing for the local market only.

gardarh

7 lat temudiscuss

To be entirely fair I had the exact same problem with a "knob" interface. The variable resistor in the AC knob broke down putting the AC in the "just blow air as hard as you can, always" mode.

With a fully digital solution it should even be easier to provide workarounds for situations like that (e.g. remote screen on your phone). I'm not a big fan of touchscreens in cars though, but this particular argument doesn't feel strong to me.

gardarh

8 lat temudiscuss

Reminds me of the time I decided to always start using braces for if statements. I was figuring out why this line didn't work:

  if(condition)
     doSomething()

And naturally the obvious thing do to was to add a debugging statement:

  if(condition)
    logSomething()
    doSomething()

And if I remember correctly all of a sudden the bug didn't exist anymore for the condition I was reviewing. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. Lesson learned: Just always use braces.

gardarh

9 lat temudiscuss

I spent two summers planting for the Icelandic forrest service and I imagine that is more or less how I and my coworkers looked like (well, somewhat less feminine I suppose). You shouldn't extrapolate too much from the newspaper picture.

gardarh

9 lat temudiscuss

It's actually fish, aluminum being a close second:

http://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Efnahagur/Efnahagur__uta...

To answer child, the type of electricity production is split 70 hydro/30 geothermal.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

A few years back I had a short interaction with Kenneth Reitz. I sent an email about some issue in requests and got a reply within a minute telling me that the issue had been fixed in a release published a few hours prior.

Considering how hugely popular requests is I imagine my message was just one of so many he answered on day to day basis and he did all this without really needing to do any of it.

I guess I understand how he and other people in similar situations get tired of it all after a while. For whatever its worth requests is an amazing project and has made my life easier in my personal and professional hacking.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

Well if the official stance is that there is no problem then why should they do that?

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

I think you're forgetting the cookie warning.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

Actually, I think the strictness of python3 with regards to bytes/strings is particularly useful for people who speak English as their first language. python3 will force them into writing software that can work with international strings whereas python2 code written by an English speaking person would in many cases just be broken for the international users.

And believe me, as an "international" person, this is profoundly annoying and has trained me in avoiding using the non-ASCII letters of my language which of course "castrates" the written language somewhat (i.e. When people use non-ASCII letters for folder names I think they are just asking for trouble - how normal is that?)

I love how upfront python3 is with the difference between raw bytes and strings. I work a lot with python and in particular I do a lot of work with serializing and deserializing stuff from/to binary blobs. Due to platform issues that I hope will change in the next year or so I can't use python3 currently but I keep all my code compatible with both and all tests should run with python2 and python3. Yes, I am firmly in the python3 camp :)

pycharm inspection definitely helps with keeping code compatible with 2 and 3.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

Generally speaking, if you have physical access to device, all bets are off. Which when you think about it is the point of the whole article.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

Huh, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the name was this thing: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html . Apparently forest animals are popular in the SSL implementation writing crowd.

gardarh

10 lat temudiscuss

I'm an Icelander and I quite like this article, it is one of the better written pieces I have seen on a cultural phenomenon I relate with - and it is no exaggeration, swimming pools are quite central to our culture. I have two young kids and I take them to an outdoors swimming pool nearly every week, also in the wintertime. Since I live in the capital area we have a few swimming pools to choose from and we rotate between them.

The title hints that this is the reason for the country's high score in happiness surveys such is this one: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-happi... . While I don't think it's that simple I can forgive the author, the title "A survey on Icelandic swimming pool culture" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Usually when I see these surveys the first question that pops up is "How do they measure that?" and it seems journalists generally are not to keen on pursuing that question.

My point is that isolating one thing from a culture and pinning that down as a "cause for happiness" seems a bit silly to me. But apart from that the article is pretty accurate.

gardarh

11 lat temudiscuss

Or better yet, build your own: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-raspberrypi

gardarh

11 lat temudiscuss

You'd want to separate that complexity from your kernel modules by using some intermediate, e.g. mqueues, named pipes or shared memory.

gardarh

11 lat temudiscuss

I always viewed the cause for slow IPv6 adoption as a lack of incentive - while IPv4 addresses are effectively free then where is the ROI in building an IPv6 infrastructure?

I guess that when IPv4 addresses are traded in a free market it is easier to realise the cost of not adopting IPv6, eventually leading to a faster adoption (which is a good thing for everyone, NAT is essentially making the internet a lot less cooler place than it could be).

Also, what would the alternative be? Just not handing out IPv4 blocks to new players and telling them "tough luck"? Or a lottery? I really don't know a better alternative to a free market.

gardarh

12 lat temudiscuss

... and street cleaning is on the 2nd and 4th monday of each month (got towed on that premise once)

gardarh

12 lat temudiscuss

That's a really clever site, seems like an elaborate way to say "It depends" when the question is "What is the best country in the world".

gardarh

12 lat temudiscuss

Cost reduction being a key factor!

The greatest breakthroughs provide something for the masses at a lower cost than previously possible. An important part of engineering is leveraging existing infrastructure to improve service quality. As an example of this it has been technically possible to put fibre into every home for years but apparently not feasible, price-wise. Speed is speed whether it's copper or fibre.

gardarh

12 lat temudiscuss

I think the main issue with fragmentation is dealing with 2.3 (as the article mentions). Now that that's going away it's getting much better very soon so I can't agree that "it is not going to get any better". The latest Android project I'm working on will only work for ICS and newer and I've had very few cross-platform issues (two minor issues that I can think of).

comments