Xylakant

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by Xylakant 2y ago
The ranking is quite close at the mid-high ranks. There's 4 points of difference between rank 27 and 100 - high fluctuation without manipulation is entirely expected.
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by Xylakant 2y ago
I'll steal that quote :) The advantage of framing it in monetary terms is that clients are very used to thinking in monetary terms. It's not a "no, we won't do that", but a "yes with a cost" that they&#x27
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by Xylakant 2y ago
That's true, but that's always true - people with less bargaining power will always have a harder time. Nurses (and other care workers) also suffer from the effect that the people that suffer most from a hard stance on work time a
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by Xylakant 2y ago
> the average developer spends 42% of their work week on maintenance Apart from the big question of where that number is from - How is that even a "bad" thing? I've been on projects where about 100% of the work was ma
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by Xylakant 2y ago
A sufficiently large overtime/weekend bonus will prevent that easily. I've had quite a few conversations both internally and with customers that started with "we need that by monday" and went via "we can do that, bu
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by Xylakant 2y ago
You have 20-30 kids with varying backgrounds, skill levels and learning habits. Some require challenges to figure out things on their own, others explicitly explanations. Some work well in a group, others need individual attention. Some go
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by Xylakant 2y ago
They absolutely could close of the kernel - it's just that Defender as an antivirus product would have to use the same APIs. Apple doesn't offer a defender-like product, so the move was easier for them.
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Part of the indended effect is making a policical/societal point about the copyright system, something the 0BSD license does not do. I personally believe that legal documents are a bad place to make these points, but obviously people d
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by Xylakant 2y ago
That looks like a pretty comprehensive overview. I'll bookmark this for further reference :)
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by Xylakant 2y ago
The unlicense is considered problematic in various jurisdictions, among them Germany - under German law, you cannot relinquish certain rights that are associated with the author at all. Dedicating something to the public domain is not a val
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by Xylakant 2y ago
On hard packed snow and ice, the difference is pretty stark. On softer snow or powder, the difference is substantially less noticeable.
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by Xylakant 2y ago
We also seem to have picked up a few features along the way. Rendering screen resolutions beyond 640x480, network speeds above 9600 baud, video, displaying images that each would fill one of the hard drives of that age, video and music edit
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by Xylakant 2y ago
It's a relatively novel concept, though the problems of replacing open surfaces with stone slabs and asphalt could have been obvious decades ago :(
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Berlin, one of the leading cities in Germany on those concepts is located on two rivers, plenty of canals and between a few lakes. Hamburg is another very active place and it's close to the seaside, with a huge river and plenty of wate
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by Xylakant 2y ago
No, he means "schwammstadt" (sponge city), the concept idea that you need to create the capacity to soak up excess rainfall and store it like a sponge instead of relying on drainage entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Depends on the stock you’re trading in, and judging from the news, spirit stock might just be even less solid than Boeing. As far as I understand, a lot of Boeings issues are connected to Spirit as a subcontractor. At the very least, you ca
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by Xylakant 2y ago
How is that anyhow helpful? Jail is much worse for the homeless and it's actually much more expensive to society than providing a home. If the goal is harm reduction, provide them with housing and support. The cruelty of the law is the
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by Xylakant 2y ago
What if just all municipalities forbid homeless encampments? The result of this will be a race to the bottom, as more and more municipalities ban homeless camps, the negative effects will concentrate on fewer and fewer municipalities, makin
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Those companies ignore the law - knowing that a candidate could sue, but then they would remove the canditate from the pool for any unrelated reason. A union could sue on behalf of a candidate, but until the case is resolved, the questionna
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by Xylakant 2y ago
In Germany, there are certain kinds of questions that are not permissible on an employment questionnaire, for example asking whether a candidate is pregnant or plans on having children, union affiliation, etc. However, these questions are o
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by Xylakant 2y ago
It depends on what you consider “accurate”. For home/diy usage, +/-10% may be absolutely sufficient as long as the error is stable (i.E: it always is a similar offset). For lab/industrial usage, 0.1% may be too far off. There
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by Xylakant 2y ago
The police state is interested in maintaining the power structure in the police state. As long as petty or even organized crime does not upset the balance of power, the authorities couldn’t care less - crime against Americans is no danger t
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by Xylakant 2y ago
A conviction would also require signatory states to arrest the convicted persons - or give up the support for the ICC. Almost all of the EU is member of the ICC. A conviction, or even just an arrest warrant would lead to massive political c
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by Xylakant 2y ago
So the result of the “fast and loose with regulation around nuclear stuff” is perfectly visible in Germany right now. Low to medium active nuclear waste was deposited in an old salt mine in Lower Saxony. There were strong indications that t
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by Xylakant 2y ago
The attacker had essentially full control over a very fundamental library in the Linux ecosystem. They could have leveraged that in a hundred ways. The attacker chose to target a very specific component of a very specific system. It was the
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Systemd was written specifically for Linux, hard depends on a list of features provided by the Linux kernel and leverages them to do its work. Porting it to another kernel is a rewrite. Lack of portability is in this case a design tradeoff.
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Given how common LZMA as a compression algorithm is, are you certain that your init system of choice doesn’t use it in any way? It’s a very common algorithm in network protocols, it’s a direct dependency of libxml, … - and if any part of yo
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by Xylakant 2y ago
LZMA is a widely used compression protocol. The kernel uses it. xz - the compression tool that was affected gets used by the kernel build makefiles - they reference it in the build docs https://docs.kernel.org/staging/x
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by Xylakant 2y ago
You're not making a very good point here. A lot of packages have a transitive dependency on liblzma - for example everything that depends on libxml since that depends on liblzma https://packages.debian.org/sid/libx
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by Xylakant 3y ago
At least you get less SEO spam emails than I do!

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