Xylakant

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by Xylakant 3y ago
You don't need to give money to a cop to make that happen. People that have no money are an easy target for any kind of abuse, including from cops. They have no lobby. No media outrage if a poor person is falsely imprisoned. No lawyers
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I don't believe we're in disagrement. Yes, there's bad management which will resist all attempts to improve things. Quit, move on. You won't fix the place. I'm specifically pushing against the stance of > That&#x
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I’m a tech person by trade and spent more than a decade in operations - the ones that need to deal with the results of it all. And I can tell you that I’ve met a fair share of developers and ops people that would just ignore all constraints
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by Xylakant 3y ago
“managing” their workspace and surroundings is the jobs of every senior person in a workplace. Having a line manager that cares and is good at their job helps, but if technical folks believe they can just care about the technical part of a
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by Xylakant 3y ago
And not all banks support this, as I found out to my dismay. Now I have accounts at two different banks, because having the option to make an instant transfer is always great.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Within the UK is a different beast than within 20 different nations, which the EU (or here the Eurozone) still is, despite all progress that’s been made.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
It might also imply that 1 billion+ people also have a bad experience, but can’t do anything about it.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
If by "no standard" you mean that there is no language specification for rust, then there is no standard. However, a language specification is not sufficient to verify program correctness, nor is it required. A standard may (and t
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Canada has roughly 40 million inhabitants, Scandinavia (if you include Finland) less than 30 million. Even combined, that is pretty much exactly the population of France alone, or about 15 million less than Germany alone - and neither of th
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The system was obviously very much not working. Some of the individuals that caused this acted on negligence, some careless ass-covering, some probably maliciously for their own gain. But there are a few key points that made it essentially
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I consider “the full blame should be on the Post Office, and those involved.” a dangerous position. A systems must hold even if individuals fail or behave in malicious ways, and focusing strongly on individual culpability tends to overshado
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by Xylakant 3y ago
It also wasn’t over Berlin, but like 60 kilometers away.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
The article I linked touches on that much more elaborately than I possibly could, so forgive me the large quote: > But a saddening thing is that if it were not those particular identifiable individuals who were culpable (and they certain
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by Xylakant 3y ago
A large chunk of the blame goes to the legal system as well, especially the assumption that computer records are correct, unless proven otherwise - which is a nearly impossible uphill battle for the defendants in such cases. I can recommend
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Turning seawater into salt by evaporating it works in areas where evaporation is substantially higher than precipitation, so mostly in dry, warm areas. It won’t work very well in Northern Europe for example. Salt needs to be kept moderately
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by Xylakant 3y ago
I use the small iPad Pro, even the MacBook Air doesn’t come close in terms of weight and form factor. I did use the tiny MacBook Air, and I’d love a 12” MacBook, but they no longer exist. On top of that, the combination of iPad, pen and pap
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by Xylakant 3y ago
> (Yes, I know that you can hook up an iPad to an external screen, but it is not really a full desktop experience.) I have defaulted to iPad as mobile computer for a while now, instead of carrying a laptop around. It works well enough fo
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by Xylakant 3y ago
One path forward could be integration into RunGap which integrates with tons of services.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
“Expensive” is always a relative term. The Swiss have a good overground rail network and for example branch lines sometimes run combined cargo/passenger trains. No need for dedicated tunnels here. Payoff in a city, especially with litt
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Apart from the training and the fact that pilots work in pairs, there’s a host of differences that make a planes autopilot task and behavior fundamentally different from what Tesla misleadingly labels autopilot: Planes operate in a space wi
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by Xylakant 3y ago
> As the recall mentioned above highlights, it was too easy for drivers to leave Tesla's Autopilot on its own and completely relinquish control. (From the top post). If other manufacturers show the same flaw, make the liable, too.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
It depends on what you want to achieve. If all you want is revenge, then by all means, punish them as hard as you wish. Make them listen to tesla autopilot advertising until their ears bleed. The harm is done by that time. If you want to a
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by Xylakant 3y ago
This will not help. Humans are fundamentally incapable of babysitting repeptitive boring tasks that require interaction only in failure cases. Expecting humans to do so is expecting superhuman capabilities and no amount of threatening the d
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by Xylakant 3y ago
But we do not plan on rewriting SQLite, that much I can say :) (My reading is that the GP points to the exemplary achievement that SQLite has reached a close to (security) bugfree, at what I consider a nearly superhuman effort)
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by Xylakant 3y ago
You could always register two keys, at least where that is supported, one for your Mac, another a hardware token that resides in a safe. Requires diligence, though, and is hard to verify that it’s been done correctly everywhere.
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Note that this comes with a set of pretty important caveats, notably no way to backup keys. Which means you absolutely need to have some way to regain access to whatever you secured with this - either via a backup key, by having another per
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Enter climate change and warming temperatures in winter.
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I am not an expert in this, but as far as I can tell from what I read, Linux doesn’t even try to implement a safe protocol here. Apple is the only company that enforces a safe pairing that is - to the best of my knowledge - unbroken as of t
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by Xylakant 3y ago
So Berlin has a problem with gangs of Palestine/Lebanese background, especially around the area Nordneukölln/Sonnenalle. But if you look at the history, the issue is nearly entirely of german making - and the voices from the liber
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by Xylakant 3y ago
Some teams I worked with would ritually celebrate Mettwoch every Wednesday (Mittwoch).

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