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pw6hv··on Show HN: LibreASR – An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
Is the transcription of Macron's speech completely off or am I not understanding what the two shown texts represent?
pw6hv··on Linux Command One-Liners
The comment above referred to the URL before they changed it to command-fu. The previous URL was: https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/basic/oneliners.html
pw6hv··on Linux Command One-Liners
Nitpick but the icon for GIT is actually that of Github.

These should be used instead: https://git-scm.com/downloads/logos

pw6hv··on Deprecating scp
IANAL and therefore I would be interested to understand why GPLv3 would be a deterrent for using rsync. Could anyone ELI5?
pw6hv··on Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service
That is slightly incorrect. There are a bunch of languages in the Russian Federation/Scandinavian Peninsula that are very close to Finnish. Much closer than Hungarian itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Permic_languages#/media/...

pw6hv··on Switching from Vim to Intellij
Totally agree with your point. Tools that allow great personalization are obviously more prone to generate weird problems unless you know what you're doing™. Or to quote a famous philosopher "With great power comes great responsibility".
pw6hv··on Switching from Vim to Intellij
The amount of different completion plugins in Vim is something that I also suffered a bit. I tried many of them (YouCompleteMe, Deoplete, Coc.nvim) but none of them really worked properly.

For the moment I mostly code in Python and I settled with a very minimal setup:

1. Linting: python-mode. IMHO it provides very good linting out of the box

2. Completion: jedi-vim. Jedi for python is great. Even though with this minimal setup the completion is not asynchronous I still think it's great.

It took me some time and a recent pruning to actually arrive at this minimal setup. I totally feel it with the author that finding the right set of plugins in Vim can be a bit overwhelming.

pw6hv··on Data science interview questions with answers
Could you elaborate on which one in particular? I've also read the first questions but haven't noticed anything like this.
pw6hv··on Making money building Shopify micro-SaaS apps
Do I understand it correctly? Basically, a developer would create new functionalities for the Shopify platform and Shopify will take 10/20% commission depending on the store plan from the developer?

I personally would suggest to start a business creating WooCommerce websites. At least you'll be owning the whole profit and would not depend from the whishes and decisions of a wannabe BigCorp. As an additional plus you help spreading open source software.

pw6hv··on The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
Thanks for the observation.

Still I do not understand how would they have extrapolated price per GB when considering an unlimited plan. Can that be that they just took the price of the unlimited plan and assumed that's the price of 1GB? That would not be wrong, but a bit deceiving to say the least. Otherwise I would not know how the max price is ~50USD. Swisscom gives me ~15CHF per 1GB, and that is usually seen as the most expensive company.

pw6hv··on The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
I am wondering how did they get their data especially for Switzerland. Here most of the plans have unlimited GB, so getting the price of a single one is quite tricky.

Also, looking at the price for the most expensive one (~50USD) makes me think: did they maybe just took the price of an unlimited plan and used that as price for a GB?

Lastly, average in this analysis does not really make sense to me. Especially as some very expensive plans can skew it to very large values.

pw6hv··on Mutt email client 25 years old
Safe as in: "{random_provider} locked me out from my email account and I lost all my emails and attachments."
pw6hv··on Mutt email client 25 years old
Not parent but I have a similar setup. Yes, absolutely. I think storing our owns emails/attachments locally is part of best practices. That is our data and having a safe backup of it is a must.
pw6hv··on Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years
In the article the man mentioned he always refused to pay, so the payment is probably done at delivery. In Europe this is quite common.
pw6hv··on German man living at Delhi airport since March 18
Not related to the topic: I have Firefox set to block autoplay, nevertheless the video in the middle of this article just play when I scroll down. Is it happening to someone else? How can websites bypass Firefox configuration?
pw6hv··on OrbitDB: Peer-to-peer databases for the decentralized web
How do you block these requests? Just asking as I have pihole blocking google ads but I have no issue accessing the website.
pw6hv··on Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)
Zopfli also comes from a Swiss bakery product. Developers must like carbohydrates :)
pw6hv··on Night train connecting Amsterdam to Scandinavian capitals under consideration
I am also very interested to know their solution to link Helsinki to Stockholm by train. It would be nice also to hear about this project from other sources too.

Anyway, having even just a Stockholm-Amsterdam night train would be great. But unfortunately I am not very optimistic on that...

pw6hv··on I went back working on 24-inch 1080p screen from a 32-inch 4k screen
I have a 24inches Dell with 16:10 screen ratio. With Sway on Linux it fits very well, especially for the vertical space.

It's so bad that they do not produce anymore affordable 16:10 screens...

pw6hv··on How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
I would never suggest OpenVPN when there is something like Wireguard. I switched to WG few years ago and the performance boost on a old Raspberry Pi v1 was astonishing since it has much lower requirements wrt to the CPU.
pw6hv··on Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite
Actually, to my knowledge, the COO is the only one that got fired. The narrative says that he hired the detectives by its own initiative, without informing the CEO or any other members of the board.
pw6hv··on Tmux Tutorial
Looks like some of the shortcuts are really RSI prone, i.e. ctrl + b + & (where & is shift + 7). Are there any possibilities to have more wrist-friendly shortcuts?
pw6hv··on Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
ln -s actual link

Read it somewhere long time ago, never had to look for it again :)

pw6hv··on The “mail is hard” myth
> some of my messages end up in Gmail spam folders (very recently received a reply to a message I sent 3 years ago because of that, for instance)

How did this happen if Gmail deletes spam after some weeks?

pw6hv··on AutoOut: Automated Outlier Detection and Treatment Tool
Agree with the comments below. I understand that the tool might be created with statistics-illiterate people in mind as users, but as now it is on the first page of Hacker News page we would expect a bit more details.
pw6hv··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
I am not sure this is true. I believe that generic computers will be in the market until there will be people willing to buy them.
pw6hv··on Librem 5 April Update
I love to see that Purism is progressing a lot with their open smartphone. I look forward to have a 100% Linux phone. Hopefully people who care about privacy, customization and owning their phone will get what they deserve.
pw6hv··on Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
Excuse me but the error you are getting makes it clear that you have to compile YCM before using it.
pw6hv··on Why is no one signing their emails?
I was so surprised when I received a signed email by Postfinance, my bank here in Switzerland.

I really think it would be very beneficial if all major providers would start to use that. At first not many people would check the signature, but if then this takes momentum probably all major email provider will start to show an icon telling that the email is signed and verified. Just like Gmail shows when an email was received through a secure channel (TLS).

pw6hv··on English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (2013)
That's right, I would say that it is a bit misleading. Anyway 15 cases are already surprising, and if we count the plural form then we have 30 forms for a noun. I tried to learn Finnish when I was living there, I think it is a really enjoyable and logical language. Certainly one of the most special languages that we have in Europe.
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