DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I love the idea. More power to text-based tools, more power to the CLI. But ... why invent a new file format? Why not just make in JSON, so it is easier to integrate in other toolchains (e.g. having a python script add customers based on e
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Also, as someone who had lived through the cringeworthy programmer -> 'coder' transition (with coder originally having had a 'code monkey'-vibe), I am happy to see we're returning to adult words.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
This describes payment and promotion functions in one unionized job sector in Bavaria. Many German companies are not, in fact, unionized, and tend to pay 'übertariflich / außertariflich' - instead of union protection, they ju
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Which may be related to unions having been actively persecuted (to the extend of actual state-sanctioned torture, disappearences, and bona-fide massacres against people involved with unions - and people living next door. With active support
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
That's a bit like an 1950s era pilot raging against autopilots because 'I am a pilot, not a rubber-stamp that does autopilot surveillance.' Today, no commercial pilot would get the idea that they are there to fly straight for
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
* The 2010 Toyota Prius had 51 mpg. * Volkswagen Golf TDI Bluemotion (Diesel, around 62 mpg) * Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion (also Diesel, closer to 71 mpg) * Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 (Diesel, around 68 mpg, some tests speak about 74 mpg when driv
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Seconded. That being said: I have - for some years now - started to read air accident board reports (depending on your locale, they may be named slightly different). They make for a fascinating read, and they have made me approach debugging
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Unfortunately, that's not a "German conservatives" thing, but very much a "German politicians" thing.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
That's the main crux with the current EU proposition: that they want to surveil all chat, regardless of whether the citizen involved is suspected of a crime. Wiretapping a chat if the citizen is suspected of a crime AND after a jud
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
... as is the company. This has Unicorn Project written all over it.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
It may be more rubbish than it was 10 years ago ... but it still beats out 9 out of 10 other online stores, at least in the country I live in. When the bear is hunting after your your group of friends, you don't have to be the fastest
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Oh, usenet was as strongly or weakly moderated as you wanted it to be - the moderation was done by yourself. This is much preferable to some underpaid kid with questionable understanding on how the world works deciding what reaches your e
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Voat turned into a gathering place for racists because reddit at first only kicked those out - and became more fundamentalist only after voat was the well-known 'bad place for bad people' where 'respectable, but misunderstood
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> Passengers rarely know what type they'll be flying on when they book, and prioritize it over price even less. Virtually every booking page gives you that information during booking, and I (and several of my friends) actively avoid
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
... with wider seats and skinny aisles bringing more weight (-> more fuel consumption), and slower boarding/deboarding times (-> more time on the ground), both of which are cost drivers.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
The P1S was my first 3D FDM printer, mostly because what I saw in the scene, in Makerspaces, and on YouTube before was mostly people tinkering with their other machines ('use this hotend', 'this is my grandma's secret re
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
No, you see, you can trust Father State. He would never ever do anything bad with your data. Trust him. 1933-1945? 1948-1990? Those were ... different times. He's been on a twelve steps program. He's better now. Data to priv
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Between 'the government is no prosecuting for speech' and 'the government makes up unrelated charges when they do not like your speech', as seem to happen a lot these days is only a very, very thin line. Rümeysa Öztürk c
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
You see, we the people are staunchly opposed. But the interests of our political leaders (we all know what 'leader' translates to) do not align with out interests. So ... The problem is that this is not a party issue. This is a
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Respectfully, and without the numerous number cherrypicking ad hominem and appeals to authority in your reply (which I have come to expect from the B90/Greens): I think you are missing the point. Solar energy production is great - but
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
See, this is where you are wrong. The law applies if you target people living in the EU (such as using one of the languages spoken within the EU. English applies thanks to Malta and Ireland. So does not explicitly removing tracking from E
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It's bad enough we got extra work for those who use adblockers. Wasting peoples' time and attention for not using one (out of personal choice or necessity) feels like overreach. It's also deeply paternalistic: Even if it i
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Ironically, the Chinese seem to disagree, as they bring online new Coal-powered power plants every other week, with 94.5 GW of new capacity having started construction in the first half of 2024 and another 66.7 GW approved. And that's
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Semi-OT: I currently have a QNAP TS-451D2. I use it mainly with a MacBook Pro. Something in QNAPs Samba implementation makes it glacially slow in that configuration. While it still does AFP (and then becomes somewhat decent to use), it&#x27
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Please make sure to use the correct HTTP code for the block: 451 - Blocked for legal reasons.
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In the 'just make it stop' sense, not in the 'oh, I'm so suspectible now' sense.
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There's an HTTP status for these kind of situations: 451 - unavailable for legal reasons. If a government decides to dismantle the net - let them see what that means.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
So are lawn flamingos - with the notable difference that Balkonkraftwerke actually do something useful.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Having solar myself, I completely agree with you that solar is - comparatively - cheap. But because it is cheap, the argument goes that you don't really need to subsidy it.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Realistically, that’s not far from how a human brain works - we rely on a deep corpus of pre-learned patterns (largely set in early childhood) and continually refresh it with new inputs held in short-term memory, reinforced through repetiti

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