Yep, and not a small price at that. While the home license is not as expensive, it’s still mid two digits. IIRC pro version typically costs around 100 € even as the bundled OEM license, especially if you’re buying a laptop from a smaller manufacturer. That’s the amount I remember the price going down if you drop windows licensing from a corporate laptop lease.
In any way it’s not an insignificant price.
Ehdoton +1 muutaman autopaikan ottamisesta lautaparkiksi. Turku on täynnä hallitilaa keskustassa, ja kadunvarsipysäköinnin hinta muutenkin keinotekoisen alhainen. Kyllä siellä pysäköintitilaa riittää vaikka muutaman ruudun ottaisikin pois. Muutenkin kestämätöntä rakentaa kaupunkia niille, jotka ei halua asua siellä, vaikka kantakaupungin asukkaat kantaa merkittävästi suuremman määrän verorahoja kirstuun vrt. kustannukset kaupungille.
Taas on ollut saatavilla suhteellisen edullisia kiinteitä sopimuksia (7-8 snt/kWh) ja yhteissopimiksia, joissa on talvikaudelle kiinteä 9 snt/kWh ja kesäkaudelle pörssisähkö. Noita yhteissopimuksia on nytkin saatavilla tuohon hintaan. Mikään pakko ei ole olla kiinni pörssisähkössä jos sen riskejä ei halua joutua kantamaan, etenkin nyt kun noista hintapiikeistä on jo useamman talven kokemus.
Vuoden keskiarvolla pääsee edelleen parhaisiin hintoihin piikeistä huolimatta, mutta pitää kesän mittaan varata sukanvarteen talven hintapiikkejä varten.
Kieltämättä hyvää tekstiä. Harmillisesti tällaiset järkevät ajatukset kaikuvat yleensä kuuroille korville tuolla byrokraatin lukijakunnassa, ottaen huomioon että tuota tekstiähän joutuu jo skrollaamaan lukemisen aikana kun sitä on niin paljon 😅
Hyvä nosto tuo demokratian virheellinen mieltäminen enemmistön tyranniaksi, tai jopa tuon tilanteen tarkoituksellinen hakeminen. Erityisen typerää tuo “kansan mandaatti” on jenkkien politiikassa, missä äänestäjien vähemmistö voittaa yllättävän usein (esim GW Bush ja Trumpin ykköskausi) ja vaalit on muutenkin lähinnä muodollista teatteria (kun ei vaalitavan vuoksi ole mitään oikeita vaihtoehtoja mistä valita, toisin kuin useimmissa Euroopan demokratioissa). Toki Trumpin kakkoskaudella tuli hiuksenhieno enemmistön suosio myös, jollain ihmeellä.
Tuota pitäisi painottaa enemmän meilläkin, enemmistö ei tarkoita sitä, että kaikkien muiden mielipiteitä voi lakata heti kuuntelemasta. Usein unohtuu myös se, että se enemmistö voi äkkiä kääntää kelkkansa ja vetää kannatuksensa takaisin. Harmillisen monessa maassa unohtuu nykyään se, että laillisesti valitun hallinnon kaataminen tilanteessa, jossa kansa vetää antamansa vallan takaisin, kuuluu myös demokratiaan. Toimivassa demokratiassa hallinto lukee tilannetta sen verran, että pistää uudet vaalit pystyyn mikäli paine on riittävän kova. Ei demokratia voi toimia niin, että neljäksi vuodeksi ollaan lukittuja huonoon tilanteeseen vailla mitään ulospääsyä – jos kansan enemmistö on sitä mieltä että hallitus menee vaihtoon, sen pitäisi mennä vaihtoon.
Parempi ettei saada mitään päätettyä kymmeneen vuoteen, kuin että tehdään huonoja päätöksiä. Niitä huonoja päätöksiä kun on jälkikäteen vaikeampi kumota kuin olla alkujaankaan tekemättä. Näin on huomattu esimerkiksi kieltolakien suhteen, sekä viranomaisten korotettujen valtuuksien kohdalla. Meillä on virkamiehet sitä varten, että yhteiskunta ei pysähtyisi vaikka vallanpitäjät ei saisikaan mitään tehtyä koko hallituskaudella.
Nykyään ainakin osa firmoista tarjoaa kanssa duosoppareita, missä on tammi-helmikuulle kiinteä hinta ja muulle vuodelle pörssisähkö. Ainakin tän kevään perusteellla vaikuttaa kuluttajalle ihan hyvältä diililtä.
Sähköfirmallehan tuosta ei kerry tappiota, kunhan tietää etukäteen mitä kuluttaja on ostamassa. Normaali kiinteähintainenhan määräytyy kanssa lähes reaaliaikaisesti sähköfutuurien hinnan mukaan – kun teet sen kaksvuotisen kiinteän, niin sähköfirma hommaa futuurit varastoon ja kuittaa ne kuukausimaksuilla sitä mukaa kun niitä tulee. Periaatteessa mikään ei estäis sähköyhtiötä tekemästä sopimusta, missä saat itse määritellä päivät mille ostat futtureina ja loput jää pörssille. Sitä varmaan vaan pidetään kuluttajalle liian monimutkaisena tällä hetkellä, koska tollasessa tilanteessa kuluttajan pitäis itse tietää kuinka paljon sähköä niinä päivinä menee. Toki vois myös kiinnittää tietyn määrän futuureiksi ja loput sit pörssistä jos kuluu sen yli.
Luckily not, law around here requires all university theses to be in an open and archival compatible format, like PDF/A. No docx allowed for publication.
It’s a university of applied sciences, they have a very low confidence in their students’ IT skills. Either that, or they lack the knowhow to create a LaTeX template. Honestly, probably both.
Theses have a certain set of requirements in the EU, like being archival-compatible and accessible. It’s easiest to fulfill those guidelines if you just require people to use a Word template and tick certain boxes when exporting the PDF/A.
I ended up using LaTeX anyway in order to join the code examples as appendices. I had to separately prove that the document still passed all the requirements though. I didn’t want to start pasting screenshots of code, as I find it unreadable. You get much better code formatting on LaTeX.
In case you’re using the web app version of word, that has blank pages left over, it’s likely that they’re actually not possible to delete in the online version.
Hidden page breaks are only possible to remove in the desktop version of Word. I originally encountered this in the university when writing my thesis on the school template (unfortunately we weren’t allowed to use LaTeX), and as I was using Linux I had to install a Windows VM to get rid of the page breaks in the template.
Yep – despite the death of Blockbuster et al., I still choose to 'rent my content. Pay no mind to the appearance of the apostrophe. Truth be told, I’d still be willing to pay for video rental if they didn’t choose to overcharge for HD versions. 3-4 € for a single watch of the film in blu-ray quality 4k would be perfectly reasonable, however the platform locks (no Linux etc.) due to DRM make that option not viable even if it did exist, as I don’t have any devices that could consume the content.
Apple used to have a function in macs with FireWire, where if you had T pressed down on the keyboard while booting, the computer booted into a mode where you could use it as a FireWire external hard drive. An insanely useful feature, for migrating files off old machines, installing OS onto a machine without a functional optical drive, quickly stealing your friend’s hard drive contents etc.
It’s a shame it didn’t really take off as a more common feature. It would be a useful feature in so many situations, nowadays the closest I can get to it is a custom USB stick with a linux distro that tries to discover all volumes and expose them as network drives, but it’s a lot more complicated to use than just having something you plug in and it simply works. I’d love it if they did a similar thing with thunderbolt, but as far as I know it’s no longer an option.
That would be the dream indeed. It’s so fluid after you learn it. Other networking equipment often has good configuration CLIs as well (like juniper and vyos), but Cisco is probably the best in my experience. It’s also nice how consistent they are across generations.
You can get about as close as it’s possible in a normal operating system with zsh and plugins like zsh-autocomplete. Bash tries to pick up the possible alternatives from context as well (with tab suggestions) that act somewhat like ? on Cisco CLI, but implementing it is left up to the command itself to provide for the shell. Many commands luckily provide very robust autocompletion to bash out-of-the-box, especially if installed via the system package manager.
Unfortunately we’ll probably never reach the point of actual configuration CLIs since they only have a set amount of commands that are developed by the same company. It would be close to impossible to achieve the same level of standardisation for a general operating system, as we don’t know the entire configuration of the system and there are multiple incompatible flag schemes. (As styles go, things like dd and ffmpeg throw a wrench in the works with their non-standard flags)
I’d say it’s a lukewarm take at best. A million dollar company is something like a small (<10 people) consulting agency or a couple hot dog stands in a relatively busy area. So like you said, nothing exceptional.
Leaving out self-employed individuals and 2-3 person hair salons and the like, a million dollar revenue is not really something difficult to reach. Especially if you include things like retail, where moving any inventory increases revenue a lot. Even for companies outside retail, when keeping in mind how much one is able to bill for things like trades in the US, revenue increases quite quickly.
Windows is an interesting operating system in the sense that Microsoft has somehow been able to make the UI less intuitive and more bloated in every iteration of it since NT4. At least until XP they knew not to change the normal mode of operation, and realized that they had to backtrack after Win 8. That’s one thing Apple has done right with Mac OS, you could take someone who has never used anything but System 7 (which is over 30 years old at this point) and they’d be able to pick up the most relevant changes in minutes. Most complicated thing for them would be to learn the fact that you can run multiple programs at the same time without the system crashing (my dad took almost a decade to finally believe that you can do heavy editing while the system is copying stuff, after migrating to OSX).
I understand that older versions of windows look aged in comparison, but you can update the look without doing things like wasting screen space or changing normal user paths. And without implementing AI into an operating system that can do just fine by itself. Also, bring back the option to force the UI into classic mode – it’s what made Win server 2012 bearable compared to Windows 8.
For some reason this reminds me of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL](the COBOL programming language), though not even COBOL was batshit enough to use numerals written in plain English. Everything else was in plain English, though, which was supposed to make it easier to read and write, but is in reality a horrible idea.
Though all caps just reminds me of early programming languages in general, since we didn’t separate uppercase and lowercase in all machines back then, instead using encoding schemes like DEC SIXBIT. Saving memory by using only six bits per character instead of seven or eight, and such. Six bit characters had matching word lengths, before the concept of a byte there used to be loads of 12-bit and 36-bit architectures, that more-or-less went away when the industry almost collectively decided to take byte-addressed memory into use.
To hammer the point through here’s the same comment with the “complexity” removed, a bit more akin to tokenized text:
because of redundancy modern written language has a lot of features that make it easier to read that were added as society became more literal things like capitalization punctuation (a surprisingly recent addition) even separately marking vowels wasnt a given for all writing systems (see old hebrew as an example) capital letter in the start of a sentence saves you from picking that up from context especially when coupled together with the stop (.) signifying the end of it redundancy is actually a very natural phenomenon and spoken language has loads more compared to written examples
its complexity that aids the understanding trading some of the simplicity and speed of writing to better reading comprehension as per why capital and lowercase in latin script capitals are derived from the letters that were chiseled lowercase used to be just a handwritten thing written language naturally evolved to make use of these two systems to aid in reading so things like capitalization are actually completely opposite from added complexity actually making the language easier to comprehend after a bit of an initial learning curve
Because of redundancy. Modern written language has a lot of features that make it easier to read, that were added as society became more literal. Things like capitalization, punctuation (a surprisingly recent addition), even separately marking vowels wasn’t a given for all writing systems (see old Hebrew as an example). Capital letter in the start of a sentence saves you from picking that up from context, especially when coupled together with the stop (.) signifying the end of it. Redundancy is actually a very natural phenomenon, and spoken language has loads more compared to written examples.
It’s complexity that aids the understanding, trading some of the simplicity and speed of writing to better reading comprehension. As per why capital and lowercase, in latin script capitals are derived from the letters that were chiseled, lowercase used to be just a handwritten thing. Written language naturally evolved to make use of these two systems to aid in reading. So things like capitalization are actually completely opposite from added complexity, actually making the language easier to comprehend after a bit of an initial learning curve.
Brings to mind this bit from Tom Scott
Precisely the location. Not getting covered by snow is another benefit, it’s nice to see the technology being used more.
That’s partly the reason, that’s why they’re used e.g. for marking bike paths. This has the added benefit of being very noticeable when you’re looking at the ground.
Makes sense, there wouldn’t be many 200-300 € laptops if Windows cost 80-100 € for them.