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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
leaving aside the show of incompetence of that specific "crown prosecutor", what I find even far more shocking is that in 2023 there still is such a thing as a "crown prosecutor". I'd say it's high time to gain
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
yikes that sounds disgusting. That being said - and while I would, on a philosophical level (being a vegetarian), probably even prefer to eat Hershey's rather than Hematogen, I have no doubt that from a purely gustative point of view (
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
(not so) fun fact: in Switzerland, it is legal to eat dog meat and to raise and slaughter dogs for that specific purpose [1]… though not commercially… unlike, say, in China, where there are even dog meat festivals [2]: [1] https:/&#x2
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
… among the latter of course: the green colorant that gives "Soylent Green" its characteristic color. Oh and while the abattoir floor meat is from cattle, the offal tubes are made from the meat of another mammal that we better not
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
it is… though that bar is really so rock bottom low that it doesn't mean much. In fact, to come think of it, Hershey's chocolate is so abysmally disgustingly bad that I can't think of any chocolate that wouldn't be bette
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Thanks for the info, very useful (would upvote, but I still don't have enough points for that). I'm kinda simultaneously sad that it's not yet ready in 4.0 and hopeful about them working on it for some later 4.x version. But
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
I second that. Great program. Not only does Qalculate! also handle binary operations and numbers of any base of your choice (including hex, octal, binary), both for output and input (even when working in another base, e.g. when the output m
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
… were such a story ever publicly _proven_ to be true. The bar for that is much higher than for the question whether or not it _is_ true. Now just to prevent any misunderstanding: I'm not saying it _is_ actually true. It was just a hum
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
You can (if you're the bigger coalition partner with a big power imbalance), and in fact it's not that rare at all and it's exactly what the CDU did quite blatantly last time they were in coalition with the FDP at the federal
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Though it's not the whole government who's against but really the two smaller parties in the coalition: the FDP (liberal party, 11.5%) foremost, and to some extent currently also the green party (14.8%)… … whereas the largest part
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
just noticed that i was so tired last night that I forgot to adapt a few words when I changed the formulation of the comparison. What I meant, for the second paragraph, was: … so that buying it from the pine64eu.com shop would be even more
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> we've had to take the decision to put Fosstodon behind #Cloudflare to mitigate the attacks For a moment, that had a "cui bono"(*) style conspiracy theory running through my head, along the lines of: "2025 breaking n
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> pine64eu.com yeah sorry, that's the one I meant. The other one is just what the search engine spew out first right now when I searched for the address with the keywords pine64 eu thinking to find the shop I meant. > 2 years vs.
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
reminds me of the "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin: nominal value: 1 M$; actual material gold value today: 5.9 M$ thickness: 2.8 cm (1.1 in), diameter: 50 cm (20 in), weight: 100kg. One of them was stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
much as I have sympathy for the Pine64 project and like many of their product, their sales logistics are what often ruins it for me: specifically, they don't have any viable option for Europe. The pine64eu.com shop adds way too much of
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
I don't know which of the two is worse in terms of what they do with the data once they have it, but one big difference is that Tiktok is much easier to avoid than google. I just don't use Tiktok anyways. For google, it's not
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
how do you see Nix being affected or not by newer package management systems with built-in sandboxing and layering, such as OCI container images on the server side or flatpak on the desktop side?
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Only if it doesn't waste space AND holds a lesson that may still be of use to the project. I tend to like code to be structured in a way that allows maximal contextual readability (as in: a glance at a page of code should allow to see
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Anyone have experience with IK and skeletal animation of rigged 3D models on Godot 4? Last time I checked (back in the 3.x days), it seemed like Godot 3.x was lacking in that area (as opposed to 2D animation) but that they planned to improv
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
that would be really great… if AMD had a working software stack that supported consumer (as opposed to: datacenter) APUs. I'm writing this on a machine with a Ryzen APU… and it's pretty much unusable for compute. And that's n
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
… but then the prices would - outside of occasional hype peaks - plummet back down to some realistic value instead of remaining at their surreal artificial high.
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
can't test it currently as the machine I have here doesn't run wayland but xorg, but iirc: the general idea of using a dead_greek modifier should also work on wayland, but assigning a key for it unfortunately cannot be done with t
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
depending on your OS / windowing system, you actually have easy ways to quickly get greek letters out of your (non-greek) keyboard without having to copy-paste them: my favorite way is to assign a key or key combination of your choic
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Much as I love Germany (the country, the people, the culture etc), I can't help pointing out that it wouldn't even be among my top 10 choices if I were an "Indian IT Specialist" considering to move for work. The sad trut
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
While I agree that self-hosted PWA will have _some_ success (especially for easier use cases) and that cloud services are worse for the user than a local app in use cases suitable for the latter… it seems like a big load of wishful thinking
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
> You’re putting the US (…) I don't see where you would get that from my comment, which didn't name any country. The point was that the wiki article I pointed to does list quite a number of countries, of which several do fall i
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by EntrePrescott 4y ago
Depending on where you live, wearing a mask (as in: face covering, not the COVID masks) at a public protest or demonstration can be a punishable offense forbidden by law… and I'm not talking about autocratic states but many civilized a