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Plan confirmed. Not malware — it's my own design doc. Let me quickly check proto and dependencies I'll need.

It probably did. I was in the us this summer and was similarly confused that the pump wanted a us zip code for a foreign card. I input the zip for the address i was staying at and it worked...

It really was. Thanks for posting it

I'm quite sure yes. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/... returns exFAT and it says exfat for that partition in the disk management tool.

I just experienced an interesting exFAT issue yesterday. Apparently it has a 2 second resolution on mtime. Got a bug report and just formatted a new partition with exFAT in windows 11 and it was unable to set modified timestamp to an odd number. Or rather i got no error when setting it, but it did get rounded up if it was odd. The wiki entry for exfat says it has 10ms resolution up from 2s in FAT, but that didn't seem to be the case for me. I thought about it being FAT and windows just lying to me but i couldn't confirm that was the case.

Plants. I didn't have many before covid/wfh, but they really make the place more liveable/ejoyable by just being there and this became increasingly important as i spent so much more time at home

Its not all about cash vs non-cash. It can also be about privacy. You might not want some embarrasing item on your bank statement for a number of reasons.

I would love a reloadable prepaid anonymous card i could use instead of my own in my everyday life. I would probably use only that if i could find one. There is no such option afaik where i live though. And we are transitioning very fast to cashless. ( Norway )

Well its not an impossible argument to understand from a game theory perspective of civilization.

I don't agree with it. Much as i don't agree with the Dark Forest premise set forward in the Three Body Problem series, I thought it was very interesting nontheless and worth spending quite a bit of time musing over. As with Nick Bostroms thoughts.

Just because we disagree with a concept on ethical or practical or whatever reason doesn't mean we should be discussing it or that we can gain something from discussing it.

At least he can argue his side, unlike the politicians constantly pushing for a more and more draconian state.

They haven't actually found oil there yet. They just assume it exists. And it probably does.

There has to my knowledge not been explorative drilling in Lofoten/Vesterålen/Senja yet.

If that was what your comment was addressing...

Do they really though? I don't know any numbers, but i would imagine that the airports at least make up some if not all of the cost of equivalent railroads? I get that the airport can service a lot more destinations than a trainstation( overseas etc ), but i'm not totally convinced that rail infrastructure is that much more expensive than for air.

The cost of airport security etc should probably also be thought of as infrastructure costs.

Also don't buy 20 pairs of jeans etc per year.

The cheap "fast-fashion" these days has a hidden cost you don't pay directly. And its HUGE.

I have never heard of this. I cannot really believe any norwegian bank would grant you anything even close that that.

~20 years ago my parents bought us(me) a new computer. A Pentium 2. For almost the exact same price(not adjusted) as the fairly well specced gaming computer i bought last year.

Prices drop for a lot of stuff. Thinking youtube for $15/month is expensive doesn't seem wierd to me. But i think its worth it just to avoid ads.

mad max furry road...

What a movie that would have been :)

any decent international(EU) alternative?

Its not that they have to be hard choices. Its rather that we are only commiting to try the easy ones.

And i do agree that what matters is the outcome. I just don't think we are changing the outcome as much as we should be doing given our beneficial position in the world. There are only so many easy "things", for lack of a better word, we can do. The rest are hard. And it seems to me that we are stopping short of committing to doing anything "hard".

I could be wrong about what produces the best outcome with regards the environment considering wether to stopping or continue drilling(edit: in norway). But our carbon emmisions are still climbing while most of the europe that we should be comparing ourselves to has either stopped or reduced their emmisions. We are still not contributing to a carbon negative world other than not being as bad as we could have been.

Changing their name is not really changing what they do. I realize they are diversifying into other areas(which is only sensible), but they are still also doing what they have always been doing. Push for more drilling. And i'm not sure i buy their argument that since someone else will just pick up the slack we should keep doing it. I realize that oil is what has brought us our wealth, but this is what i meant by hard choices.

Taking the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world's money out of FF stocks is a good way to start, and doesn't jeopardize much, if anything.

This is also what i mean by hard choices. In this case it wasn't really that hard.

Sheeeet..

Norway is in the middle of trying to figure this out. Or we are where we have always been: Pretending to do everything we can to protect the climate while actually doing almost nothing that would impact our standard of living. Its hard to tell if we are actually moving the discussion forward or not.

We are happy to spend billions funding rainforrests around the world, but we won't make any hard choices that affect us at home.

Stopping the national subsidies for oil exploration is something that would probably stop it dead in its tracks. But we are not doing that. We are instead in the process of opening new areas for explorative drilling. There might be some truth to the "clean oil technology" talk, but it doesn't change the fact that oil == carbon.

The only reason we havn't started drilling in "Lofoton"( our famous fishing grounds and home of a lot of magnificent scenery constantly posted on reddit ) is that a few small swing parties are putting their foot down. All the larger parties want to drill. As they always have. Its depressing.

We do have the fairly new(in terms of actually being voted for) "Green" party which is basically a single-issue party. I'm hoping they can steer the conversation to a point where will be able to make hard choices.

Not to derail too much, but this also applies to everything else we do or dont do. Like not cutting arm sales to the saudies etc. Its money talks all the way.

Edit: and don't get me starte on wolves. Even while the majority of norwegians seemingly wants wolves in our forests, we seem to be dead set on limiting their numbers to a population which is not going to sustain itself genetically. Rip wolves.

Can't remember either, but your recollection is close to what mine is.

But given that Moff knows who/what Darth Vader is it is not supprising that he takes a subservient stance when talking to him. Kind of the same way i'm very careful around american cops. I would never address a norwegian cop by sir, but i don't even think twice before using sir/mam when talking to a us cop.

But in these cases its fear. It has nothing to do with pleasentries. It's the gun in the holster or the knowledge that he can forcechoke you if he wants to. ( at least thats my interpretation of that encounter in rotj ).

So no. I don't think they would say that in any normal encounter. I know i wouldn't other than in jest.

It would seem so. from the article:

Massive wood walls and structural beams and columns comprised of engineered panels have demonstrated fire performance equal to concrete and, in some cases, superior to steel

Subsidizing personal vehicles sounds completely insane and irresponsible to me.

The problem is that everyone ends up with their own vehicle and this gridlocks any road in/out of a city. Which ~big city in the world does not have trafic problems? And what is the average passenger count in those cars. One bus can replace MANY cars. But for some reason i cannot comprehend taking the bus or train seems oppressive to some people. I get this is not an option everywhere but where i live it most definatly is and people still complain about the tolls drivers have to pay to commute into the city and refuse to take the bus/train.

Many people who program in PHP learned it as a first language, hacked together programs in it, and probably used hack together libraries and tooling.

This describes me very well, and i don't think i'm alone. When i look back at my(very early, first language) PHP code it looks horrible. A lot of it is just copy pasted code from random websites telling me that that it does what i wanted it to. Which is a pretty good description of me at a young age trying/learning to program by internet. I don't use PHP today, and i really don't want to, but i suspect that is in some part due to me struggling with stuff i never understood when i was doing it and developing a distaste for it looking back at my bad code from that time without realizing it could be done differently/in a way fairly close to what i do in my current work-language. I just wanted to make my WoW dkp page work and searched the internet when wondering how to and ended up writing really bad code. It still worked pretty good and i had fun doing it but i never considered writing PHP again once i moved on.

This debt, at least in Norways case, is probably mostly due to a very large portion of people buying their own home. Its a lot more common here than in other countries and when growing up, at some point buying your own home is almost expected of you. It is also heavily incentivized by the government through tax policy. This is probably creating a housing bubble of sorts, so i guess we'll see how well that turns out at some later date, but i assume that is the reason Norway is where it is on that chart.

I really really really do not share that nostalgia. I live in a city center and the only amount significant source of noise is from cars/buses. Sure you will have sirens or people shouting every now and again, but there is a constant buzzing sound from motors that goes on throughout the day and most of the night. I moved from a relatively quiet neighbourhood to where i am a few years ago, and the sound of motors ( and the smell. Lets not forget that cars smell ) is the only thing i about living here. This would be a great place to live if it wasn't for the constant sound and smell of motors.

I've been using c++/Qt for quite some time now, but i really prefer to work in go. Feels like i'm a lot more productive while writing, and i don't have to spend doubledigit minutes waiting for stuff to compile.

I recently stumbled over this project and have been using it quite a lot since. It works really well and coming from Qt-land it was really easy to use the provided bindings and generate the 'classes' for signals/slots. AND the docker images are great for cross compilation. They just work :). Thank you so much for working on this.

The amount of waste and corruption in charities should not be underestimated. Of course a lot of them are doing good work, or at least think they are, but there seems to be an increasing amount of charities existing to enrich its owners/founders/etc by spending a very small percentage of their donations on what they actually say they are doing while the rest goes to the administration of the charity or somesuch.

I think the single most important 'thing' go offers is his third point. The removal of the thread. The ability to very easily run multiple concurrent pieces of code cannot be understated. I have my grievances with go as i do with every other language, but what makes me more or less automatically start most new projects in go is that i know that at some point i will probably be sending the same http request to N servers or some variation of a similar task, and even if it can be made to work in any other language, the ease of which it is done in go keeps me coming back.

As an aside i think the composition over inheritance argument deserves a mention. The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces () and their close friends io.ReadCloser, io.ReadWriter etc) have completely transformed how i approach tasks that involve shifting data through a number of whatevers.