ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Isn't this a PII? According to GDPR, wouldn't they need a justification for storing it? (informed consent, business reason, etc.) They had a huge stink on this some years ago when 'some random engineer decided to add it to Go
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
One person at a time. By leading by example, without being judgemental. Big changes in society never come at once. Womens right, black rights, gay rights. Progress is made bit by bit. And even if things don't budge, and it stays with j
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
It is my understanding that solar pannels have an ROI that is ever shorter. Hell, in many countries there are companies that arrange installation and financing, and that have good prices due to centralised purchasing. But that is another di
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Conceptual stuff like that is tricky if you don't already know it. I've found that visual explanation works best for building an intuition. My approach for day / night type of questions: - a soccer ball - a toilet rol
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
For those wanting to get an idea of what that means, there is an episode of that institute of of science documentaries, BBC Horizon, that covers the flooding of Zeugma. https://youtu.be/fnY8ATNVYgw
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
OTA updates of the software are a hard requirement if your equipment is at 30 light minutes. Actually, I remember reading somewhere that more and more they use FPGA chips, allowing to even "change out the CPU" if needed. http:&#x
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
The stakes are lower. As a CTO (hypothetically) I get to hire 4 junior devs, 2 senior, and 1 architect. Hire the wrong junior? No biggy, he'll be less effecient but we may yet turn him around. Anyway, I get three more tries. Anyway, he
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Not sure that we can blame the eggheads for this one. The "Limits to Growth" report was published in 1972. I remember people talking about it in my teens (80s). At some point, everyone has to take their individual responsibility a
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
If Signal put this on their home page, in a sort of "download this to fuck with da police" advertising, maybe. Judges aren't machines, that slavishly follow any tenuous reasoning. They're judging; it's in the name.
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
This could have been a potential line of reasoning, if they would have implemented it, and if Signal were taken to court for it. The problem is, they wrote this article. Where they say they will put 'aesthetically pleasing' code o
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
You're right. It's been a while and I forgot the exact issue. I looked it up on StackOverflow, to refresh my memory [1]. It is indeed possible to thow exceptions within a lambda. My issue is that for something as everyday as &quot
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Haven't upgraded Java since version 9, so take this with a cube of salt (my suspicion is that many hardcore Java haters were created by Java 5, 6 etc).. but my general issue is the readability. The idioms used to perform 'standard
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Without making any statement of adherence from my part (on your perspective, or any of the below), I'll give you some possible alternative perspectives I can think of: - "this way I can help our guys protect innocent civilian
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Yes, I did think of that. But I think that has it's origins mostly in the Gordian Knot, a legend where Alexander the Great supposedly cut a knot when he did not how to untie it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordia
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
During my (as said before ! =) short search on "beslissen etymologie" I found [1]. Which seems to list lemmas from several dictionaries, that span a time period of almost a century, and that do not always arrive at the same conclu
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Interesting. Explains why for example the French for "we have to decide" is translated as "il faut trancher" (trancher = to slice) I was wondering about Dutch, where the verb is "beslissen". But from what I gat
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Reminds me of an interview with Hans Rosling. He mentioned that he had spent a dinner with a group of Japanese ministers. They asked him "pray mister Rosling, how do we increase the number of babies per woman?" To which Rosling re
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion you are better-read than I in the matter. But I have questions =) You say there is no money multiplier. But we do have capital requirements, don't we? Like Bâle III. Doesn't that equate to an implicit &
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Am I the only one that had the version of the Yes Men [2010] in mind? https://youtu.be/_3a3XBnMe5Q
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Ouch. That is so bad on so many counts. Hopefully infosec will improve in society, like we have learned to manage workplace safety or environmental safety. But there's a looong way to go :-)
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
This being Hacker News I guess not, but did you use a user / password that you had used before on another site? Because in that case Chrome was just telling you that "one of the many sites you use (where you used this pwd) has bee
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
All of those things are for sure taken into account, but the key input for pricing is: - type / year / color of car (gives price and your attitude) - how many km driven / year (no risk if it stays always on your drive!)
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
We're creating a CRM / ERP SaaS specifically for consultancies. After spending some lawyer fees two years ago we've concluded that 'free consent' does not exist when your school or company proscribes a SaaS solution
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
This was a theory of Hernando De Soto in the 90's. He produced quite a bit of research / statistics on the subject, doing surveys over 100 countries. If you want to read about him, there is this article [1] I remember watching a d
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I imagine the conclusion of the book was that the microwave was used to send energy to a listening device inside the ambassy? (same technology as the contactless smart cards used in public transport) A famous instance of this is 'the t
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Same reason why in athletics the starter pistol sound is transmitted via a speaker behind each individual lane. Otherwise the speed of sound would disadvantage the lane furthest from the starter pistol by more than a hundredth of a second.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
That sequence was indeed not realistic. It's interesting to keep in mind that according to Expanse-lore, the Epstein drive on human-rated vessels operates typically around 11G. It is likely that a missle that is much lighter, so the ro
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Silicon-based light emitter generates direct light(physicsworld.com)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Not a correction, but I'd like to add a small precision to that because I've seen the same argument used in other contexts. For Twitter and Facebook I tend to agree, as there is an active intent (as you say) of publication. Howeve
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Another way of looking at it is that you don't own the book neither. You have a licence, bound to a physical copy (that you own though, and that is transferable). The thing that changed in the last 20 years, is that we are now buying l

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