BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 4y ago
To offer a slightly more accurate measure than "half a jiffy", this article (published on May 9, 2022) lists the costs involved for different types of passwords and password lengths: https://support.1password.com/p
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
That may be true, but that's orthogonal to the entirely home-made problems Germany is facing right now. While not a complete solution, using the remaining nuclear plants is an obvious stopgap measure to at least alleviate those problem
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Problem is, without nuclear power, they will have to resort to generating power from natural gas instead of using that gas for heating, which will in turn have problems compound.
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I have written an ebook ("Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS": https://stratospheric.dev/ ). So, technically, I'm not qualified anymore to answer that question. However, looking a
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I fail to see how this argument helps the countries - or rather the people - in question, that is unless you subscribe to the Marxist idea (which probably applies to the lecturer, given he's apparently well-known for his Marxist writin
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Both with this particular case and from a more general perspective, I keep encountering examples where businesses and people seem all too eager to revert to their olden, pre-pandemic ways without putting any thought into if such a reversal
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I found that characterization to be quite odd as well. Apparently, the phrase originates from a contemporary tabloid article: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130362134?searchT... While that article does
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
Why 7 years? Where does that number come from? Apple usually provides software updates for their devices for about 5 years, for instance, which seems reasonable, since that's a common depreciation period as well. You'd probably al
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Well, I was wondering why none of the examples showed the Liberty City and Vice City I remember from Grand Theft Auto.
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Given the "theme song" linked to in your profile, it's quite obvious where this is coming from, but let's talk unsustainable cultures then: Again, from your theme song and your apparent fondness for the Teutonic Order I&
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
> Be aware that low blood pressure can be bad just like high blood pressure can be. Not in the way high blood pressure is. Chronic hypertension is associated with a variety of complications and conditions. Other than in case of a sudden
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FIFA only nominally is a private, officially non-profit (yet actually very much for-profit), entity. They're embroiled in politics at the highest level because football / soccer arguably is the world's most popular (spectator
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by BjoernKW 4y ago
I find that kind of argument for EU regulation quite depressing. So, just because other vendors aren't capable of producing decent hardware to run Linux on, the EU should force competitors to open up their hardware to those vendors? Un
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> You are essentially pre-selecting for people that share your cultural background. It's not like you have to type this kind of document ad hoc while being watched. Such a document usually is carefully crafted beforehand. There are
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Other than in a tongue-in-cheek manner or by the occasional inveterate prescriptivist, neither variation is considered poor spelling.
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Well, that's not what the author of the parent comment wrote or seemed to imply. As much as one example to the contrary might not automatically change a general sentiment or perception, one particular listener only having encountered w
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> I’ve listened to tens of hours if not hundreds and haven’t ever heard him talk about a single act of kindness or help he or his guests have ever done to strangers. In that case, you might want to listen to the episode with Will MacAski
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
There are exemptions for strictly necessary cookies, in which case explicit user consent isn't required. However, you still have to inform users about these cookies. The question is, though, what constitutes strictly necessary cookies
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Cookies serve a purpose. They can't just be used for serving ads that follow you. Case in point: the very website we're using right now. While it's true that Hacker News would be possible without cookies, for commenting and v
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
Java (and Spring Boot, specifically). JAR files were containers before there were containers. Deploying a Java application and its entire dependencies is as easy as uploading a JAR file. Everything else (ideally) will be taken care of by th
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by BjoernKW 5y ago
One example from my recent experience: embedded systems and industrial facilities, which don't necessarily have a reliable or fast internet / network connection. When updating images on multiple devices on a 10 Mbit connection the
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> The Beatles sang with American accents. Programming languages worldwide are in English. Soft power, culture and language, in particular, is an often overlooked aspect when it comes to dominance. Soon, Mandarin might become the world&#x
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Hosting data on servers located in the EU isn't required by GDPR in and of itself, as long as you have a valid data processing agreement with the provider stating how and according to which provisions customer data is protected on thei
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Well, "biggest" is something else than "urgent and important". Fair enough, though. It perhaps is true that climate change is assigned undue importance in public discourse when compared with other problems that might be
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> Call me a pessimist, but I would be extremely surprised if humans are still around then. Why is that? Despite what pessimists - and even the occasional realist - have been saying for decades now, so far humanity has avoided extinction
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This is just in. Seems like my previous statement above has become obsolete: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme... That’s what I meant by putting their money where their mouth i
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I’m not saying you should. Having been a happy customer and user of JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm products for years now, I’m myself still rather ambivalent on this issue. I appreciate them having spoken out against the war, but so
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This is not about “countries we don’t like” or petty political or ideological squabbles but rather a very real, current situation. Whether or not to continue to support a company that arguably pays significant taxes into the - only very sli
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Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Yes, technically, they're a Czech company. However, their founders as well as most of their R&D staff are currently located in Russia and hence probably paying taxes in Russia rather than t
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The national healthcare system in Germany to a large extent is based on a command economy. The number of licenses for psychotherapists - in fact, for any kind of physician - allowed to bill through the national healthcare system is artifici

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