G3rn0ti

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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
In Germany we have „c‘t“ („Magazin für Computertechnik“) that started out as a kind of German language Byte (featuring projects such as building your own CPM driven PC) and became more a consumer oriented magazine. However, unlike Byte, the
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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
Although I am not a good Forth Hacker I greatly enjoyed this book. It’s actually a book about software architecture and applying good coding patterns predating the Gang of Four about a decade.
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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
Biggest problem with current "Zero Trust" implementations is they imply a full surveillance of employees' Internet traffic including man-in-the-middling their encrypted SSL requests. My company just deployed "ZScaler&quo
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Everybody hates it because zscaler means complete internet surveillance of company employees. It’s a business model based on the man in the middle attack. On the web you basically find zero independent information of how zscaler works and w
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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
How about docker support on Windows? Does it still require Hyper-V? That’s one of the biggest hurdles preventing Windows to become a dev environment at my work.
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Connecting the chrome debugger to a nodejs backend is pure luxury. I think it could compete with the M$ experience easily.
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> The fact of the matter is, dd is not a disk writing tool. Neither “d” is for “disk”, “drive” or “device”. Where does dd's name come from then? Its man page does not tell.
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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
I thought the end game was aneutronic fusion using lithium and deuterium anyway creating only charged particles instead of high energy neutrons that are dangerous and damaging to the reactor. If nuclear fusion ever wants to be commercially
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> Sperm counts have been dropping for a long time Every couple of years this concern bubbles up. It seems to be established that sperm counts in males are going down. But I’ve yet to see substantial evidence about the possible causes. Th
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> We don't need Bitcoin. It hasn't enabled anything that couldn't be done already using the banking system, or with existing non-power abusive technology. The advantage of Bitcoin may seem questionable if you believe depen
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> What's your point here? Climate change has been around for ages so it's OK to blow a load of electricity on something that's not particularly useful? So shall we stop inventing technology that draws power because it’s ba
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> We are dealing with the significant fallout from their hobbies. We are in the middle of 1) a very serious climate crisis 2) a cost of living crisis where people can't afford energy to cook and heat (in the UK at least) and 3) a wa
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> J. P. Morgan basically bailed out the entire US economy in the Panic of 1907. That says more about the size of the US economy at that time than about the size of the economic crisis… Are you honestly comparing the Asian crisis with wha
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Come on. The 1800s „recessions“ were minuscule at worst compared to today‘s global meltdowns happening every decade. Think about the Asian crisis of the 1990s, the New Economy bubble burst at the beginning of the 2000s, the sub prime crisis
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Not in Germany. If you hold your gold bars for longer than a year and you sell'em -- no taxes. German capital gains tax applies to stock and derivates (i.e. papers) but not to commodities (physical things like gold, cars or other hardw
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> a government involved might lead to a fairer outcome Fairer for the supporters of a government that is. Even in a modern democracy a government is really just supported by a small majority ruling over a large minority. That does not me
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by G3rn0ti 4y ago
While ultimately everything is a matter of taste, the kind of people that hate sigils also tend to hate parentheses in Lisp. Both syntax elements are there for a reason. I believe sigils make string interpolations easy to support in a langu
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Raku actually adopted that latter syntax. Although, it’s optional as everything really becomes a reference anyway. So you don’t need the „@“ and „%“ sigils any more.
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Citation needed.
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Dear doomsayer: Citation needed.
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Wow, thanks so much for your work! I had it on my desk for a long time because it was so useful. You are right every language should have a book like this! It’s a good way to learn from because in practice you have these messy problems you’
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> Would you mind listing a few of these? Sure: I already mentioned Mark Jason Dominus: "Higher-Order Perl" as it is a great introduction of functional programming and goes into all the gory details of how to implement lazy eval
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The author wrote „Higher Order Perl“ which — to my knowledge — is one of the best books on programming ever written. While it’s got Perl in its title it is really an exhaustive introduction to the functional programming paradigm while bein
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> But DNA must have evolved out of random structures and random mutations Before DNA there was only RNA. DNA came later but established itself because it is much better at conserving information. There are still retro vira carrying their
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> So okay, I understand the pyramid analogy there. There’s a problem though: the boomers will die. Well, after the boomers have died, Generation X and the Millenials will demand their retirement package. The population age distribution w
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Well, all redistributive social security systems have a strong pyramid like scheme inherent to them. Take the German retirement funds which - AFAIK — works similarly to „social security“ in the US: Every employee in Germany is required to p
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by G3rn0ti 5y ago
If you connect using WiFi make sure you assign the printer a fixed IP address in your router. Missing out on that I think explained 60% of the printing problems friends and family had. I also noticed the standard Windows supplied drivers fo
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> Germany is notorious for horrible customer service Well, it's much better than its reputation. It's more a cultural thing. Germans are very direct and hate BS. Also many Germans hate to pay for convenience and aesthetics (tha
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> The inescapable consumerism is sickening. Well, where do you buy USB hubs in a world w/o capitalism and consumerism?
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„Fate of Atlantis“ was awesome indeed, especially as it had more earnest overtones closer the end. IIRC contemporary game critics agreed on Indiana Jones being the slightly better game. So I’d love more Indiana Jones adventure games. Howeve

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