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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
So what is the hidden agenda then, and by which actions did the government raise prices to 14 cents during the Ukraine war and 10 cents now? Why did they run a crash program to build LNG terminals, which lowered prices? By all indications,
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
No, the goal of German policy isn't to kill its energy-intensive industry. Like in all countries, the conservative party, biggest member of the governing coalition, has strong ties to the local industry, and the social democrats have n
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
The surprising (and possibly untrue) thing is the high price of canned vulnerabilities. WordPress is known as the remote root shell with a blogging feature.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Germany isn't doing great, but these current recessions are low grade. Nothing like mid 90s and mid 2000s, unemployment data: https://www.wsi.de/de/erwerbsarbeit-14617-arbeitslosenquoten...
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
In Germany: 0.06 € / kWh was policy, 0.14 € / kWh was mainly Ukraine war. It's currently at about 0.10 € (policy + Ukraine war + Iran war). Taxes are fairly low: 0.0055 € / kWh and the usual 19% VAT.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
In any case, hardware progress has slowed to a crawl. Maybe a new console every 10 years makes sense now.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Since Euro and Dollar values are reasonably close, you can call both of them credits, maybe
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Wait, what? I didn't read everything because the writing kind of sucks: It buries the point in details and I didn't feel like going through with a fine comb to find the point. AFAIU: Three artists hired three construction workers
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Same with Cryptonomicon. Guy doesn't know when to stop rambling. Oh, and it had a weak ending, too.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
You could pay that much I guess, which would get you a Pentium in 1993.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad. It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it n
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Well yeah. Challengers of a (quasi-) monopoly need to be better, but they behave like they are the monopoly who can piss on its users and Steam doesn't. The situation is completely ridiculous.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
You're not the first person with... an opinion on economic "science". Paul Krugman: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf "This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subj
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
OK, I see that an Indy went for about the same price as a SPARCstation 5 in 1993. I knew about the low-cost Indy, but not that it was that low cost (for a UNIX workstation, about $5000).
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Is there any indication that migration to some other ERP system causes trouble less often? There is a bunch of conventional wisdom about such migrations that some companies disregard and pay the price. I think #1 is don't customize wi
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
They were offered one mass-market opportunity on a silver platter, which they took: When Nintendo asked them to design the N64 GPU. It didn't seem to be very profitable for them.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
SGI machines mostly cost a lot of money for the 3D graphics hardware. They didn't make much sense for other purposes.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Err, no. SGIs were first very expensive (3D) graphics workstations and later mostly also-rans in some other markets like storage and general-purpose big servers. Servers were Sun, x86, HP-PA, IBM R6000 RISC (and probably some more UNIX &#x
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I don't think that it makes much economic sense. That hardware was extremely expensive at the time, developer salaries weren't as high, and hardware progress was extremely fast, so the computers had to be replaced every two or thr
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Surely. The name is pronounced like Creighton.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
It's more like arranging pigs in beautiful patterns. If you don't look very closely, you don't see the pigs.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I think that's over now, Microsoft is focusing on cloud and AI and doesn't particularly care which OS you run as long as they somehow make money. Plenty of reasons left to dislike and distrust them, though (cf. "cloud and AI&
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I have seen a few Erlkönigs (German term for camouflaged pre-production models) IRL. On the Autobahn, they are not that rare. You get to see one for every few thousand kilometers driven.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
AFAIU, a dazzler is intended to blind the whole sensor, so home on dazzler would need specialized hardware, not only a software adjustment. (Replying to other messages in this thread)
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
It's apparently some kind of fluke, maybe the 27" model is out of production. The 32" model costs a little over 700, which is the current price range. I just paid 640€ for an LG 32" 4K OLED (+165 Hz FreeSync) monitor.
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by ahartmetz 4mo ago
Thank you. Strange decisions, but not completely baffling then.
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by ahartmetz 4mo ago
That quote leaves open whether SQLite "pretended" to support foreign keys by allowing to create tables with them, but didn't implement them. Otherwise, I don't see the compatibility problem.
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by ahartmetz 4mo ago
There are more similar issues, like disabling foreign key constraints by default "for compatibility reasons". Makes me wonder if there was a time when SQLite supported foreign key syntax, but didn't actually implement the fun
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by ahartmetz 4mo ago
Oh, so dazzle camouflage is back. I wonder if the more sophisticated "classic" patterns would work better. They certainly do for human observers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

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