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DocG··on Cameras Could Replace Car Mirrors?
I had the pleasure of trying new all electric Q3 or something. It had cameras instead of windows and I did not like them at all

I felt that first the screen location was wrong. Outside the car is more where I am supposed to look anyway, instead of akward down from windows. I will have to concentrate more when looking at the screen, for my brain to register what is happening, instead of glance at the mirrow. Maybe it's to do with focal points, maybe it's still a screen. My eyes work better registering movement in the corner of my eyes on mirrows than on screens.

DocG··on Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results for AMP Stories
Personal subjective experience does not show that AMP pages load faster. It has been the opposite, where Google servers have failed to deliver the page.

But mostly I hate that URL crap. Give me my URL bar functionality back with original host URL. And that there is no way to disable AMP from results.

We do not recommend our clients to use AMP.

DocG··on Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions
Intresting fallout from our bigger client. They have been slowly migrating to aws over the last year but because russia started bloking whole blocks of aws IPs, they now stopped migration and are going to keep their own infrastructure up. I havent heard yet but I am sure they are considering moving away from cloud providers, we'll see what they decide, because Russia is huge market.
DocG··on In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
Although not witout issues, the overall trust seems to be pretty high for e-voting(and voting numbers confirm it). And when voting, papervote always triumps digital one as last resort.

I also think this is one thing that also gets more young people to vote. They are familiar with technology and so used to doing everything online. For example I would have not voted for the last couple of elections if digital voting would not have been available.

DocG··on Finnish breaks natural language processors
There was a joke that Estonian is more closer to Japanese than any other European language. As to not say its related to Japanese, but how much it differs from European ones. No future tense, no genders, but 14 cases.

This illustrates nicely where finno-ugric languages(Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian) reside compared to other European languages.

https://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/196.jpg

Benefit is that people are somewhat safe for scammers, as no translator does a good job. Downside is, none of the translators work and its way easier to just translate to english for example.

DocG··on On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
They were too expencive to buy recreationally, at least for me. Evikon, small company that does science instruments. Sorry, cant find the model anymore, I think it was discontinued.

I do belive now though that even having recreational level sensor will give you at least understanding overall co2 levels and this something we should look into more.

I founs a paper using the same sensors that measured co2 in schools. In all cases, at certain times the measurement was higher than norm. occassionally over 2000. I can now understand much better kids getting sleepy and unable to concentrate in classroom.

Paper sadly in Estonian only: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

DocG··on On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
Around over 2000 I think. Less than 1000 would be ideal, I think outside is around 400.
DocG··on On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
I was lucky to get my hands on 5 proper co2 sensors from university, while I was teaching and working. So plenty of test places.

What I found:

-Just a couple of hours in a office, without ventilation spikes the co2 enough to make everyone dizzy and tired by the end of the day. Keeping eye on the meter and ventilating properly, increased everyones productivity and people werent so tired by the end of the day.

- Classrooms, with 20-30 people are as bad. co2 rises really fast and makes people dizzy. Most often ventilation is too low, as a cost saving measure.

-Closing bedroom door, sleeping alone made bedroom as bad by the morning than classroom or office.

-Main culprit seems to be our perfection with insulating and making rooms airtight. I do live in a cold climate, so having open vents or windows is not common half the year. It seems it has not been such a big issue before plastic windows or in older houses. I think it is getting worse with every new building.

DocG··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
amp is slower than full pages for me. No custom configuration.
DocG··on Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
I tried evernote twice years ago. But it lost my note data when syncing after editing offline both times.
DocG··on It's Perfectly Fine to Only Code at Work – Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise
I am at "I only code" at work person. I dont even have a desk at home. Luckily our work enviorment encourages new techonolgies and skills. I use my off time not to code, but to teach, draw etc. These are skills I see also compliment coding, improving all the supporting skills that are nessecary to be a good dev.
DocG··on Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
this correlates a bit. In my circle common is to use fb only as messaging service. most friends dont have fb app even installed anymore as the news feed is trash. I assume this move is to try to get these users back.
DocG··on Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
As I understand, not really. Only prepare.

Although people are unhappy and annoyed, I think it is right decision to close the ID cards. This can be recovered from. If they were compromised, the trust would be gone.

DocG··on Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
>ID Card is compulsory

>760,000 ID cards will be blocked

>in country of 1.3 million

>I have no idea how I can declare monthly VAT numbers

It is bad but could be worse. People are signing up for MobileID and there is still possible to update ID cards via going to the office.

But poor people abroad. Basically they will be cut off from all the services.

DocG··on Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
That is true. Personally the thing I miss the most is simple text insert. Writing with mouse is horrendous, but the ease of use beats functionality for me.
DocG··on Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
I did the same until I discovered that windows has built in snippet tool. Try it out.
DocG··on Car Cost per Year - New vs Used
Depends. Newer cars are heavier, engines tend to be smaller and have to be more environment friendlier.

An older exampl of ~40mpg for Golf III Diesel combined is not bad even in todays standards.

DocG··on Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
You are correct. Dos was correct term
DocG··on Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
We gave the info to the client. We were in no position to report it.
DocG··on Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
We were contacted as outsiders to come in and have a look. We managed to stop site from crashing with configuring but basically the site was bombarded with too many dynamic requests and having no cache it took its toll. Server did not wait for responses, it just sent us bunch of requests all at once.
DocG··on Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
We had a client who contacted with an issue: site goes down every 15 minutes. After couple of hours of debugging we found the culprit. Some swedish equal rights server was "scraping" site every 15 minutes with massive ddos. We put capacha for the server ip only (let them scratch their heads now) and let it be. If you decide to scrape a site dont bring it down or assume its a big server. Keep it civil and without impact on performance and nobody minds.
DocG··on Network Performance Issues in multiple locations
More general question, as similar situation has happened multiple times where we are not sure:

1) did we break our client server

2) did our internet provider die

3) did the service die

What are recommended ways of finding out fast and reliably in these cases where the fault is.

DocG··on Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Linux) Review
Last year XP15 (8gb) model has two 4gb sticks inside. Still, two easily accessible slots.
DocG··on New XPS 15 Laptop
Swapped wifi on XPS 15 to intel one. Mine was one that came with dell original wifi, working perfectly.
DocG··on New XPS 15 Laptop
XPS 15 and 13 have (one of the) best trackpads on windows. I finally understand how people live without mouse. Apparently not the same as mac, but the closest experience available.
DocG··on Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
You are correct. They are also huge ecommerce site and book store.

I understood previous question as "What CMS amazon is offering for clients in website hosting", to where I think my answer still stands.

DocG··on Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
Amazon offers basically hardware. You rent a piece of server resourses. What operating system, what CMS you use is up to you, but prepeared to install and configure everything.

But, they also offer plenty of free (and good) "ready made and pre configured" packages for people to use (for exampe wordpress, bitbucket etc.). You can search them here https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/

DocG··on Kodak Ektra
Seems cool. But they cant do very good mobile page. Laggy scrolling and jumpy loading on G4.
DocG··on I don’t know what to do with my life
It does not work that way.
DocG··on Hundreds of Verizon customers are battling data over-limit fees
Havin data limit and if exceeded limiting speed is default way of doing things in this part of europe. No overcharges ever.
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