HotHotLava

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by HotHotLava 2y ago
It was one swift attack that managed to push the Gondorians out of the eastern half of the town, that also marked the beginning of the war, and one surprise attack with boats 9 months later to take the western half that a few weeks before t
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by HotHotLava 2y ago
I must have missed the part where Gondorians and Orcs where sitting for months in trenches opposite to each other fighting for the same few kilometers of ground? The entire war of the ring lasts less than a year, and most battles are won af
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by HotHotLava 3y ago
Unlike 40 years ago these commits will be reviewed by an experienced colleague and automatically unit and integration tested, so there's no benefit anymore to training people separately before being allowed to touch the real codebase.
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by HotHotLava 4y ago
You can apply the same logic to conclude that Mesopotamians shouldn't have invented the wheel while they still fought wars with their neighbours and had people living in reed houses.
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by HotHotLava 4y ago
Even if your neighbor hosts a website for your local football club or whatever, it will almost certainly use some hosting service and not a local machine. The number of websites self-hosted from a residential home must be a tiny, tiny fract
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by HotHotLava 4y ago
There are several power companies in Germany that are offering 100% green power after X years, in the sense that they're committing to constructing or buying new green power plants with a generating capacity at least as high as the amo
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
There isn't really a slope here, this completely in line with earlier applications of the same law. For example the IS flag and various Nazi symbols are also banned. This is part of the tradition of "wehrhafte Demokratie" (de
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
No, the definition of a monopoly is "the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service." A company that is not easy to undercut could just be an efficient business that operates roughly at cos
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
According to whose definition? If Tolstoy, Marx and Beethoven count as geniuses, I don't see an argument for excluding Asimov, Musk or Eminem.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
Feel free to cast the first stone after you've voluntarily submitted yourself to years of torture to defend your idealistic positions.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
The relevant part of the statement, per the official source linked above: > Minister Habeck said: "The idea of including fossil gas in the taxonomy system is also questionable. The European Commission does at least make it clear tha
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
> But it’s Audible. What choice is there? I mean, at $11 a year it doesn't sound like Audible is a critical part of your income, so why not create a gumroad account and sell directly from the authors and/or narrators website? I
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
I think this is overly narrow: Anaxagoras considered the problem of turning a circle into a square of the same area, and these mathematicians shed new light on that problem. He was probably thinking of compass and straightedge because it wa
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
The ownership question is orthogonal though, a Sonos speaker is also able to play your self-hosted music collection from a local samba share.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
Yes, that's true for literally every possible innovation in every field - it is possible not to use it.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
I don't have a smart dishwasher, but I think an API to display the current salt level and a web UI that has some space to display and comfortable configure the various settings instead of 6 incomprehensible buttons would certainly be t
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
But superdeterminism in the sense that Scott uses it doesn't just mean life is completely predetermined (I think that would be a fairly unobjectionable theory), it means that specifically the whole universe is predetermined in a way
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
My boss graduated from Berkely, and so I occasionally had to administer a FreeBSD box he kept around for the "superior OS philosophy". My biggest annoyance, apart from the obvious lack of systemd, was a social one: Any time I had
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
It's one thing to look at the source, it's another thing to know that you have to look inside `pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix` to find the documentation. One of the main advantages of reference documentation is
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
I'm also not a patent lawyer, but for example the multi-room volume control patent specifically covers a mesh network of independent playback devices that can be dynamically rearranged into possibly overlapping zones, with the volume c
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
This particular patent specifically covers a mesh network of independent playback devices that can be dynamically rearranged into possibly overlapping zones, with the volume controls being on a separate device in the local network. That&#x2
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
There was nothing comparable to a modern multiroom smart speaker around in 2001, so they certainly were invented in the last 20 years. Whether that was by Sonos or by someone else, and whether these specific patents should have been granted
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
The first two have two buttons of the same size, color and prominence at the bottom of the site allowing you to accept or refuse cookies. These are not cookie popups, and they don't promote one option over the other unlike what Faceboo
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
Yes, every time I want to set it up on a new device I have to import and trust all public keys that it should encode to; and if that device gets its own gpg key then that key also has to be distributed to and trusted at all prior sites. Whi
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
As a user, I also often feel like `gpg` brings a lot of annoying accidental complexity to `pass`, (like the need to "ultimately trust" keys before they become usable) but on the other hand it enables integration with hardware toke
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
> The latest year in the table is 2017 because I wrote the first draft for this post in 2017 and didn't get around to cleaning it up until 2020.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
I don't envy the judges, the shortlist is full of absurdly high-quality videos that didn't make it into the top 5. My personal favorite was this one about the topology of rotation groups and spin 1/2 particles: https:/&
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
The largest option in his shop is actually 5m x 75cm, divided into 5 panels. But that also comes at a price of 7.5k EUR, or 12.5k EUR for a glicee print.
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
In Germany the ID card costs 37 EUR and is valid for 10 years, reduced to 22.80 EUR and 6 years of validity if you're under 24. A passport is even more expensive. No other forms of identification are accepted, but it's also not re
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by HotHotLava 5y ago
A while ago a Berlin court decided that online posts saying "Drecksfotze"/"Schlampe"/"Knatter sie doch mal einer so richtig durch, bis sie wieder normal wird." (filthy cunt/bitch/someone fuc

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