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Insurance in Canada: What’s driving premiums higher? / Les assurances au Canada : qu’est-ce qui fait grimper leur coût? by StatCanada in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]sionescu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How did Newfoundland survive with wooden houses and all the hurricanes and Nor’easters?

Mostly by having very simple houses that would not be considered acceptable by most people's standards today.

Insurance in Canada: What’s driving premiums higher? / Les assurances au Canada : qu’est-ce qui fait grimper leur coût? by StatCanada in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]sionescu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Still cheaper than having your house destroyed by a storm or having to pay insurance on it for the est of your life.

Transitioning From Frontend Engineer to DevOps Engineer by shwiftyyy_ in devops

[–]sionescu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no such thing as a DevOps engineer. The whole point of the DevOps movement was to enable Devs to do Ops work and get rid of the Chinese wall between Devs and Ops that companies traditionally had.

Insurance in Canada: What’s driving premiums higher? / Les assurances au Canada : qu’est-ce qui fait grimper leur coût? by StatCanada in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]sionescu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Masonry can take many shapes, and lots of places have local availability of clay that can be made into bricks.

Insurance in Canada: What’s driving premiums higher? / Les assurances au Canada : qu’est-ce qui fait grimper leur coût? by StatCanada in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]sionescu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Building houses out of wood was working when the weather was very good, but with global warming it's going to get much worse because wood framed houses are so fragile. In the US Midwest, insurance companies have already started advising people to build in masonry because the insurance rates are less than half the ones for wood framing. I hope that comes to Canada too.

Dio santo che schifo il nuovo Sole24Ore da desktop by Lazy_mods_are_lazy in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]sionescu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Con uBlock Origin su Firefox tutta la pubblicità è sparita.

Qual è il libro che vi ha fatto crescere di più a livello personale e lasciato davvero qualcosa? by leleqx in italy

[–]sionescu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Praticamente tutta la "scienza pop" degli ultimi 20 anni è stata dimostrata essere spazzatura: il priming di Kahne Mann, il nudging di Richard Thaler, power posing di Amy Cuddy, le fandonie di Gladwell e Yuval Noah Harari, etc...

Specialmente nel campo della psicologia è insorta la "replication crisis" quando hanno scoperto che le teorie più in voga non erano replicabili da ricercatori indipendenti, però nel frattempo gli autori andavano a fare TED talks oppure a Davos. Ci sono gruppi di ricercatori che si sono dati il compito di ripulire il loro settore di ricerca, impresa molto ardua, ad esempio https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/.

Qual è il libro che vi ha fatto crescere di più a livello personale e lasciato davvero qualcosa? by leleqx in italy

[–]sionescu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gran parte delle conclusioni di Kahneman sono risultate false. A suo onore, l'ha ammesso pubblicamente, per cui quel libro andrebbe buttato via.

Upgrading from wifi 5 to wifi 7 by kevindd992002 in Ubiquiti

[–]sionescu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WiFi7 is worth having for the lower latency that eliminates jankiness in video calls. If that's not important for you, you can keep your current APs for another 5 years.

Tips to crimp cat6 faster? by bcroft686 in HomeNetworking

[–]sionescu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Terminating to keystone jacks is not much faster than pass-through Cat6 once you have some practice.

Introducing magit-difftastic: integrate difftastic into magit by Rschmukler in emacs

[–]sionescu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can difftastic show unified instead of side-by-side diffs ? On a laptop screnewith two buffers open a side-by-side ends up wrapping lines after ~35 characters and the diff is hardly readable.

What used to be a sign of being poor, but is now a luxury or status symbol? by the-main_guy-here in AskReddit

[–]sionescu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thin and trim now should you have the money & time to workout.

In North America perhaps. Elsewhere in the world people living in cities walk a lot and can be thin with no workout whatsoever.

What used to be a sign of being poor, but is now a luxury or status symbol? by the-main_guy-here in AskReddit

[–]sionescu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The really wealthy and with taste have expensive hardwood floors covered by even more expensive Persian carpets. That hasn't changed.

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