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tnli··on Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
Little Andy we call him.
tnli··on OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
I'm 100% certain that SpaceX is happy for more outside work that actually pays them instead of changing numbers internally.
tnli··on China issues new encryption import control
So, send some random noise to somebody you don't like and claim that it's encrypted with some foreign algorithm?
tnli··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
For most Finns (bar the self-employed, business owners, and the very rich) filing taxes is like 15 minutes per year when you want to add some deductions the tax man wouldn't already know about.

It's literally 0 minutes, if you don't have deductions.

tnli··on Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (2003)
Not sure how to read this, but have you heard of the Mariana Trench?
tnli··on Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?
Yeapp, that kettle got Hackernewsed SO badly!
tnli··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
Eh, I'll buy it from a discount sale in two to four years if they've fixed all the bugs.

Don't do this, though, I need you to buy it fresh so that new games continue to be made.

tnli··on Can developer productivity be measured?
Yeah, that's messed up. Instead one should take the amount that the manager manages to improve over the baseline.

Which might be impossible to measure.

tnli··on Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test
Bloody Hell, that was the best thing since the Falcon Heavy!

Amazing, flying wheat silo!

tnli··on Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test
Fast iteration. Not aware of anyone else doing that with 50m tall 9m wide rockets.
tnli··on A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers
EU, so it's easier.
tnli··on No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
I find that those companies that add issues and support requests _ought_ to have the decency to also donate to him.

But, I guess, companies don't have any decency to donate unrequested, so maybe he should put up some sort of notice to request payment for any work they request from him. Oh, wait...

tnli··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
When the glass is at 50% capacity, one is making an observation of the state of affairs.

When one says that it is "half full" or "half empty" one is already making it into a statement of belief or opinion that reflects one's inner workings and beliefs.

tnli··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Whether the glass is half full or half empty is not a fact, it's an opinion. The glass being, say, 45.67% from full capacity is a fact. The glass being emptied right now at 55 millilitres per second or being filled at 45 millilitres per second is a fact.

It might be a fact that two people can have greatly different kinds of opinions from the same facts, but they both still deserve to know the facts.

Whether you consider the glass to be half full or half empty is not a fact. It's an opinion.

tnli··on Water exists on the moon, scientists confirm
That's the case for Earth. This would be on Luna, with about 1/6th of the gravity on Earth.
tnli··on Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom
This article is rather misleading, for most people it evokes the idea of net positive nuclear fusion, which of course is not the case here.

Also, a damn neat home project!

tnli··on Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom
Assuming you can keep your customer queue sufficient at all times, and that your clients can come when you are open.

Most likely this means a location that already has a high throughput of potential customers and that also most likely means a place that has high rents.

Sure, if you already have a place, like an extra room in your house, and you manage to establish yourself on the area. But even then you might find out that your first client wants to come in at 7 or 8 am, to get ready for whatever work thing they have that day, and the last client wants to come in at 8 pm, because they can’t earlier.

tnli··on Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
Elonville, Musktown?
tnli··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
Not very Kerbal, good job and goodspeed!
tnli··on Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home
You don’t get a tax refund, but your taxable income is reduced by the expense amount, so you you’re still paying for the 100% - (your marginal tax rate)% of the items, and hence paying yourself for items that your employer would have provided for your work use for free if you would work in an office instead.

I do feel too that the employer should provide the equipment and working environment.

tnli··on Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
You've newer brewed your own beer, cider, wine or sugar wine, have you?
tnli··on NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere
I was going to say that it would be a star, but apparently (making an assumption about the mass of the saturn-sized bathtub full of water here) it would still be orders of magnitude from ignition.

An Olympic swimming pool scaled for a Saturn-sized swimmer on the other hand... Ignition!

tnli··on Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?
And yet, doing that as a company is only good business. (Like developing really similar apps to two different clients.)
tnli··on Vancouver Tax on Empty Homes to Target Near-Zero Rental Supply
Sounds like a self-made problem with nimbys and inefficient planning for new housing.
tnli··on Musk says he plans manned SpaceX mission to Mars in 10 years
With Elon Musk it's blasted hard to say when he's exaggerating and when just discussing his honest plans...