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by Slartie 6y ago
> Btw if you consider that, there are wars over which JavaScript framework. None. Simple as that. At least for something like the Crew Dragon control panels, any kind of JS framework would add unnecessary bloat for very little use, becau
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by Slartie 6y ago
What I'm wondering about now is: does that 'adc' opcode have any other useful application except for adding numbers bigger than the width of a single register? Because it does look a little bit as if it was engineered for tha
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by Slartie 6y ago
It's a pendulum. It swings. A single super-platform has the benefit of integrating several functions in a nice package. But while accumulating more functionality at some point it becomes too bloated, innovation slows down, it's a
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by Slartie 6y ago
When talking about deliberate self-infection, I assumed that there was no "possible" infection. If someone self-infects in an organized fashion, he knows exactly with nearly 100% certainty the point in time at which he became infe
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Facebook also uses its own apps' to track employee locations Is this irony?
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by Slartie 6y ago
What would that change? If you're legally required to make people wear masks when they enter your store you can't just say "oh, but there are these peeps who said that they already had the virus, they said they could be ident
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by Slartie 6y ago
> spread it to their family Family, friends, grandparents, colleagues at work. And those will undoubtedly spread it further, until it eventually reaches people that it actually kills. There simply is no way to safely perform a deliberate
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by Slartie 6y ago
True. So substitute "living" with "currently located in". Makes the problem of correctly considering the context of that question just even more complicated ;-)
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by Slartie 6y ago
> If the person asking the question lives in Ohio, they may actually be talking about London OH (or Dublin OH). I would seriously doubt this assumption. Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in
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by Slartie 6y ago
As I understood the article, the problem did not arise when uploading the picture directly from the phone, but in cases in which the picture was first transferred to a computer (via Airdrop was explicitly mentioned, but could probably also
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by Slartie 6y ago
They probably wrote some kind of generic loader or wrapper for starting these games for pretty much exactly this reason (them being originally DOS games, thus expecting a DOS environment). The games then are compiled as DLLs and act like so
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by Slartie 6y ago
Notice that I didn't say anything about that being impossible. I just said it's harder to meet most of these requirements with a web app, because you have to solve problems that you simply wouldn't have otherwise while gainin
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by Slartie 6y ago
We're building POS applications for major retailers, and for this kind of software, native is king and will stay for the foreseeable future (with a few exceptions confirming the rule, of course). These applications need tight integrati
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by Slartie 6y ago
And then fintech startups like Trade Republic or Just Trade came along and...offered basically free trades (the 1€ at TR can be considered almost non-existent when comparing to the 5-10€ even at discount brokers like Flatex). They found a t
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by Slartie 6y ago
He lost a huge pile on Kraft Heinz, and that was pre-Corona. Didn't yet realize those losses AFAIK. He lost a pile on the airlines and even decided to realize those losses. He lost a pile on that petroleum company that I forgot the nam
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by Slartie 6y ago
Money does not magically create the personnel qualified in scaling up drug production, nor does it magically make the necessary, specialized machinery appear. Furthermore, as described in the article, the manufacturing appears to rely a lot
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by Slartie 6y ago
Actually they wouldn't have needed Bezos for that. Online shops have been a thing before Amazon existed, and even today Amazon is not the only online shop, it's just the first that comes to the minds of most people. Do you also th
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by Slartie 6y ago
> Their efficiency is their profit margin. Last time I checked, AWS had a profit margin in the 40%-50% ballpark. Sorry, but the semiconductor industry doesn't operate with any kind of markup that would allow such profit margins from
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by Slartie 6y ago
There is not a single app using this API in "approved" state, let alone active use. The API is kept very simple, its implementation has just entered a beta stage, and the Bluetooth tech it uses is almost a decade old already. And
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by Slartie 6y ago
Might have something to do with the paycheck you're receiving regularly while on the inside...
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by Slartie 6y ago
That uncertainty is why I already considered my calculation to be a rough estimate with a relatively large error window. But it is not large enough to allow the true percentage to even come close to 90%. For that, huge numbers of patients w
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by Slartie 6y ago
Infection status is not self-reported without some kind of authorization from the authority that provides the actual app used for tracing - which is probably some local government entity. That app is built on top of Apple/Google API wh
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by Slartie 7y ago
Sorry, just saw your request. I'm taking that number from the Robert Koch Intitute daily status reports, which is basically the central official report regarding COVID-19 in Germany. Here's the one from today (in English): https:
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by Slartie 7y ago
> As an example, 90% of patients that go on ventilators still die. That’s in New York, and probably because they only put the really worst cases on ventilators because there weren’t enough ventilators. In Germany, that number of deaths o
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by Slartie 7y ago
I don't know the exact legal situation in the US, but let me assure you, the described legal copyright situation is very much possible, because German copyright works exactly like that. I am a software developer, so I write software. I
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by Slartie 7y ago
If they do that after deliberately reducing their maximum charge (a setting which would probably come with a warning that reduced runtime of the phone is the result of doing it), they'll probably also complain that their internet speed
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by Slartie 7y ago
Easy: make the charge percentage display relative to the maximum configured charge. Just like it already is with battery deterioration over time: if my battery only holds 80% of its design capacity, the phone will still tell me to be 100% c
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by Slartie 7y ago
If you make it just large enough so the logo has a few pixels left and right to bounce, it starts vibrating and changing colors really fast. Looks like it's really angry from being confined :D
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by Slartie 7y ago
All the better ones had that button, usually named "degauss". My 22" flat CRT (it was flat on the front, like LCDs today, which was a great feature at the time, but made the thing extremely expensive and extremely heavy) had
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by Slartie 7y ago
His argument No. 1 is self-defeating. If you have rapid exponential growth and would have to publish hundreds of megabytes of keys per day (and phones only need to download the delta to the previous day), this approach of contact tracing is

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