AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 1y ago
I live in Europe and I love this kind of regulation, but I hate other stupid over-regulations we have here. Yes, you can have good regulation and over regulation at the same time.
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
>> Does declaring this illegal actually do anything to protect the rights of people Yes, next time they do it the data cannot be used in court as it was already declared anti-constitutional by that Circuit and good faith argument cann
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
That does not make it legal and it does not eliminate the responsibility of asking for the warrant and using it. Not saying there was a conspiracy here, but bad judges exist and arranging for a warrant is possible even for honest judges. If
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
In most cases police is seen as serving the government and having all sorts of protections from sovereign immunity (confirmed in a case when a SWAT team partly destroyed the wrong house), qualified immunity (invented by SCOTUS, there is no
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
Products get bigger and more complex over time, so "harder and harder to install, configure and manage" is somewhat normal. The money spent on free or "community" edition is very difficult to justify, so it slowly degrad
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by AdrianB1 1y ago
In most corporate projects that I worked with, the day it went to production started the clock to disband the core team and optimizations were not on the table. When the product works, they move on. The only area where performance optimizat
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
I ran a BBS for a few years in 1992-1994, at some point running under OS/2, but honestly I never bothered to find out the programming language used for it, there was no source code attached and all the software at that time was pirated
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
While I started with Basic and and Turbo Pascal, I started to appreciate a lot the curly braces and semicolons because it makes a lot of sense for me (*). Therefore I see the convergence as a good thing, keeping the best parts of everything
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
At the time it appeared, it was more powerful than BASIC or COBOL. We learned Pascal in college and even the technically less inclined colleagues were able to do the assignments pretty well. We used Turbo Pascal, which had a decent IDE, my
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
I guess these systems are certified, so changing the hardware with a platform that is basically an emulation (based on the first video) requires re-certification. At that point, changing the entire system to something more modern seems like
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
I don't see MS-DOS or Windows 3.11 as much as a problem as having 30 year old hardware. Bad capacitors on the motherboard and oxidated (rusty) contacts for memory and ISA cards can break the system, while the software itself can be ran
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
The payment is done, money is at Cloudflare in a US bank, Cloudflare takes it and move it somewhere else. How do they seize it? The money is gone and it's not coming back.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
So basically the problem is reduced to "how can Italy fight against a crime happening somewhere in Russia or Ukraine"? Imagine there is a TV broadcast from Russia, how can Italy forbid it? They can definitely disrupt it (by electr
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Is that a problem for Cloudflare or with Italy? In the end, can Italy break Internet or can Internet cut off Italy? It is a theoretical question, I wonder how much control countries can have over a non-country level concept as Internet. The
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
The question clearly stated the assumption that there is no staff in Italy. Also the payments cannot be confiscated unless they are made to Italian banks, which makes no sense if they don't have a branch there, so if the payments are m
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
I think I am not misinterpreting. I expect an university to do teaching and focus on teaching (including some research). I expect any auxiliary activity to be minimized as much as possible, from cafeteria workers and campus electricians to
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
It depends on the context. My boss is so busy that he rarely answers to my emails, he is available to talk very rarely (once every few months) so I write him what I plan to do then I do it. He never answered "no". Even for vacatio
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
All of Europe is leftist in that regard. There is no free speech in Europe and even the "extreme right" parties in France, Italy, Germany or Romania, for example, are just called extremist because anyone can throw words at anythin
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Because they can be arrested and extradited to UK. Not a high chance, but not zero. And a realistic one is to be arrested while traveling in Europe and extradited to UK.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
The numbers in the post that you respond to are picturing a different situation: there are almost 3 admins per professor. That means the universities are not teaching places, but administrative places with some teaching as a secondary activ
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
"Now that we know how you did it, we will raid you and get it. And we will use the $5 wrench to get the passwords from you" :)
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
It is still a lot better than the nothing that exists in EU as free speech. Also the current government does not care about laws and the previous did not want free speech, but in the end there is plenty of it.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
HL2 is one of the top 5 most influential games. I think Duke Nukem 3D was one (first good multiplayer), Witcher 3 is another (one of the most immersive, story driven), the Elder Scrolls series and I am finding it very difficult to name the
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
I guestimate that 90% of the cops are good or just fine, but the minority that do bad things are creating a bad image for all. My guestimate is that the mayors in the cities with these cops are as guilty as the bad cops for keeping and prot
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
From my European perspective: here it is illegal to hire someone that is in such a registry, so agreements cannot change what the law say. If you have a registry that is optional, why even bother?
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
It is not catch-22. This case established that what the people did was wrong, so while they cannot punish them due to QI it establishes the precedent of declaring this is wrong. If anyone in the future will do the same act, there is this pr
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
The context is electric kettles. Boiling water takes a few minutes at a time.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
In Europe the 16A Schuko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko ) is the most common socket and 230V the most common voltage, 240v is mostly used by UK. It allows for a max of ~ 3,7kW, but devices over 3.5kW are rare.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Cost and weight. High voltage electrical lines use aluminium because of the weight, they are mostly aerial lines. Silver is too expensive to use for almost anything.
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by AdrianB1 2y ago
Legends. Not true. I was there, I heard the language, I spoke in Romanian to my Albanian colleagues and they spoke Albanian to me, I did not understand anything even if the sounding is quite similar. I was in a restaurant in Tirana with col

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