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by Slartie 2y ago
> Even if the real estate/investment lobby is busy buying up all the "prime" land, its not like the US is a small country to work around them somewhere. Even the US being a big country doesn't help much. The value of
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by Slartie 2y ago
What I find fascinating is that they have a form to request single UPC barcode numbers. But that form is effectively putting an item in a shopping cart of an online store. So they perfected the "numbers as a service" business mode
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by Slartie 2y ago
Nuclear power is probably the least valid choice of all the power source choices when the goal is to "have power available quickly". There is no kind of power plant that takes longer to build than a nuclear plant.
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by Slartie 2y ago
Europe has banking, too. Even better: nobody in Europe sends paper checks around anymore, we use instant wire transfers here! European banking is way ahead of US banking in a lot of ways. So, banking is not exactly something that the US can
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by Slartie 2y ago
The only viable option for reliably keeping data is to care. Keep several copies in different locations or on different services. Use these storages regularly so you always know they are accessible and working, or at least check them once i
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by Slartie 2y ago
I was in Rotterdam recently. Their metro system uses multiple approaches, some kind of RFID for hard tickets, NFC payment (without a ticket at all) and QR codes for time-limited tickets that you can buy in a phone app. Getting those QR code
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by Slartie 2y ago
Put the air inlet/outlet at the top of the cavern, and the water inlet/outlet at the bottom. Then just stop pumping air while the water level in the cavern is still above the water outlet. A little water has to remain in the caver
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by Slartie 2y ago
I've been to Shanghai and Beijing in 2010 or so, and I vividly remember that my iPhone 3G (that I jailbroke and unlocked to be able to use local Chinese SIMs, oh, those were the times...) didn't work at all for the purpose of gett
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by Slartie 3y ago
Actually there's been at least one known case of someone "stealing" an entire building worth about 6 million € in Berlin. Even bureaucracy and notaries didn't prevent it, so there's your potential 100% fraud prevent
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by Slartie 3y ago
In that case you have the entity operating and maintaining the "digitalized system" which is the third party that everyone has to trust. And that entity won't do its work for free either. And it also will somehow "involv
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by Slartie 3y ago
> There are ways to ensure the correct transfer of ownership without involving a third party. You can see these principles at work on some trading platforms already, be it for Magic cards or something else where parties cannot trust each
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by Slartie 3y ago
Did you read the originally linked article? It literally talked about ways in which rewards programs are often designed to only hand out top rewards for a very limited part of all transactions, like only for books at certain bookstores. And
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by Slartie 3y ago
Haha, I have a 2015 Opel Astra (I think they are sold as Vauxhall as well in some countries) and I noticed a similar thing one day: it suddenly had all windows lowered by itself, without me doing anything to cause it. The first time it happ
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by Slartie 3y ago
But when you move a switch like the ones demonstrated here in the real world, you have the haptic feedback of moving the pin physically, of it "snapping" into place. And that's how you know that your switch toggling was succe
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by Slartie 3y ago
Washes them by hand in the wash basins of the DB lounges, to which he gets free access with his ticket.
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by Slartie 3y ago
Touchscreens are not exactly the only way to construct a control in a way that's problematic to use when driving. You can just as well place a physical control in a hideous spot in the car, which you can't reach easily, hence maki
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by Slartie 3y ago
That is true, but in that mind your kid in the back seat is safety-critical, so maybe we mandate no kids in the back? Or your wife next to you in the passenger seat, she could also make you remove your eyes from the road (happens quite a lo
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by Slartie 3y ago
But you are not legally required to use the volume control regularly in order to drive safely. You are not even legally required to have any kind of volume control in your car. You are legally required to have and use the turn signals. You
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by Slartie 3y ago
A friend from the US I got to know on a US-based metal cruise (I'm German myself) told me that US metal concerts and European concerts are quite different: there's a lot of clapping, hopping and similar engagement routines in Euro
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by Slartie 3y ago
> There are also a few metal cruises I've been on that are absolutely not what you'd expect and are mostly people hugging everyone and have things like cupcake decorating classes. What cruises are you talking about? I've b
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by Slartie 3y ago
> A 3 year depreciation cycle may be reasonable for some spaces but not others. Exactly. I am running a server at Hetzner which has a CPU that was discontinued about 7 years ago. I don't know the exact age of the machine because it
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by Slartie 3y ago
Modern Java projects either use records, org.immutables or Lombok. Manual getter/setter creation is the exception nowadays.
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by Slartie 3y ago
They already do, and surely they continue to do so in the future, regardless of where the app came from. So finding out these numbers should be simple from a technical standpoint.
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by Slartie 3y ago
You mean like OpenAI, whose LLM tech is heavily based on original research done quite a while ago by Jürgen Schmidhuber in Germany? Does that now make OpenAI and the LLM hype a paragon of European innovation, and its success "accidenti
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by Slartie 3y ago
It doesn't matter whether you got the ability to copy that album. It only matters whether you adhere to the licensed rights that you got when buying the album, which allows copying for your personal use. If you decide to copy the album
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by Slartie 3y ago
If you don't happen to be "the government", it's not exactly in your power to decide that.
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by Slartie 3y ago
Exactly my path as well. Was on ant, ant got cumbersome to maintain especially in big projects. Maven came up, "oh let's try that"! "But it's so painfully restrictive!", tried Gradle, eventually noticed that it
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by Slartie 3y ago
It is actually kind of common in Germany that landlords attach copies of news articles about the need for correct ventilation or similar "notes" to rental contracts when handing them over to a new resident. Not exactly part of the
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by Slartie 3y ago
Yes, they bought any supply they could get their hands on. Also, it's not true that Nvidia cards were generally better for (Eth) mining. The Radeon VII for example outclassed Nvidia cards sold at the same time. It's just that Nvid
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by Slartie 3y ago
He doesn't strictly refer to a cash register and the person behind it, but to the entire counter where someone has to put your order together. The cash register ringing part can be automated away easily, but the "putting all your

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