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by ahofmann 5y ago
They do this annually and are raising around 200k € every year for help against cancer. One could see this as a good outcome, but they made donations before the krebs story. They just started to talk about it after the story and that was so
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Brian Krebs regularly publishes articles in which he reveals people's private data. I don't think that's okay either, but Brian is often celebrated for it and will continue to do so. I used to enjoy reading krebsonsecurity.c
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Just one more thought on hospitals: I personally know 4 German, one Dutch and one Belgian staff in intensive care. At times in the last two years, we have had a situation that has never been seen since World War II: the staff went home in t
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by ahofmann 5y ago
It is the Virus that creates a horrible situation, and the situation is much worse than it could be. The problem has been compounded by the ailing health care system in Germany. As others have described, the number of ICU beds has declined
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Your post shows very well what the parent meant: you are blaming the other side for a horrible outcome. It is the Virus that creates a horrible situation and the very irrational reaction to it from all sides. We are in this mess together an
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by ahofmann 5y ago
I think you greatly overestimate how well software is documented. Just one example: When the Y2K problem was discussed in the late 90s, one of the big problems was that almost nobody understood the decades old code base. They hired experts,
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by ahofmann 5y ago
We did the same and the bot developers wrote bots that acted like humans. It took them not very long to find out.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
That's what WD is hoping for, of course, and that's why you should claim the money.
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On Using PSR Abstractions(matthiasnoback.nl)
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by ahofmann 5y ago
On rotaryphones 0 takes the longest to dial, then comes the 9. 1 was the fastest to dial, I think this is the reason why emergency numbers tend to have the lower numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial
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by ahofmann 5y ago
I use zstd once a year, and it is very easy: 1. the default (3 on my machine) is fast and compresses well. 2. if you need to get the best compression level for your use case, use the benchmark "zstd -b1 -e15 yourfile" and after a
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by ahofmann 5y ago
From the article: "Meanwhile, the station's automated attitude control system had also noted […]" A spelling mistake that immediately brings to mind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Heart of Gold :-) Edit: it
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Tried it, hated it. Everyone is using WhatsApp, Telegram, whatever. Try typing a sms with those tiny buttons, it sucks. There is a reason why some people have a smartphone but not a computer.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
I experience the same. Can't really use YouTube, can't download files from gdrive. Google was the best thing that could happen to search engines. Chrome was a godsend. Now they are what Microsoft was two decades ago (Microsoft is
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by ahofmann 5y ago
I know, this isn't scientific, but I met in my life at least 50 people who did all kind of drugs and two of them have problems with schizophrenia and both did smoke much more marijuana, than I could ever do or want. Most of the others
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by ahofmann 5y ago
It is kind of impressive, that Copilot understood the misspelled "einz" and translated it as "one" ("eins" would have been correct).
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by ahofmann 5y ago
How does this compare to tabnine?
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by ahofmann 5y ago
When I buy a phone, I'd like to think that I am the owner. I haven't rented it from the vendor or something.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Ok, but my point was that on Android and iOS it is possible to install apps without touching your phone. This qualifies as remote code execution. You need your credentials for doing this, but google and Apple apparently don't need them
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Everyone running android play services on their phone has to trust Google, right?
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by ahofmann 5y ago
You can install apps from your browser on the PC since years. I think this also works on apple?
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by ahofmann 5y ago
This is just the wrong angle to look at this. The big screen was one of the features that was talked about the most. It was genius marketing, and also part of why the car felt like the future.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Others have said good things (ECC is good by itself, has not much to do with ZFS) and it is actually quite easy to check if you need much RAM for ZFS. Start a (Linux) VM with a few hundred megabytes of RAM and run ZFS an on it. Of course, i
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Just because something is not perfect, it should not be condemned. I don't understand why alternatives are often held to much higher standards than the established service.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Yes, and it is awful. I know no Mac user who isn't using Chrome and the hidden URL is one reason for this.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
The magnetized material on the platter can slowly lose its direction (and thus the data) while laying around. So you should read all your data every 3 years or so to "refresh" the data.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
6 months is a very short time. I have disks that are without power for a few years and none of them broke after I connected them to a power source.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Ah, the youngsters... I started playing Counter-Strike at beta 6. You could be pwned years before that.
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by ahofmann 5y ago
Well, here are some numbers. > On an annual basis, Google says YouTube generated $15 billion last year and contributed roughly 10 percent to all Google revenue. > Overall, Alphabet made $46 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended
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by ahofmann 5y ago
That would be pretty stupid (or at least risky) on YouTube's part. Content creators earn much more money from product placements and ads within their videos than they do from the ad share that YouTube pays out. With a medium-sized Germ

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