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alphager
3y ago
Because of convenience. I could do the whole dance fiddling with settings of yuzu and ryuxin or just press play on my switch.
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> having to conform to the center of the venn diagram or else you get shut off There's no shutting off. The instances that are blocked still work. It's like email. If cheapviagrapillz.com is identified as sending a substantial
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3y ago
Why pay for a perpetual license if most games see no significant sales after a few years? Everybody that wanted to buy GTA Vice city did it ages ago.
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3y ago
Damn those unelected governments! Oh, wait... Prison reform is not wanted by the voting majority (unless it's towards harsher punishments and worse conditions). This is on the voters all the way.
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3y ago
This would be a valid reason when compared to a third world country, but not to the country with the seventh highest GDP per capita (Norway is fifth).
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3y ago
> But this is how it works in many places in Europe, like Germany or Netherlands. Nope. I can see my Primary care physician today if I wanted to. It's currently 10:55 AM. If I had called before 9, I would have gotten a scheduled slo
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3y ago
The existence of "AAA Clock" and several clones of the concept points to a very very low barrier to entry.
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4y ago
It breaks updates, so it's an absolutely no-go.
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4y ago
And there's even the combination of apprenticeship and university with the "Duale Hochschule". You spend alternating 3 months working for a company and 3 months studying at university. After 3 years, you earned a bachelor
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4y ago
I work in infosec and we are treating GPT&friends as a catalyst for more sophisticated automated social engineering attacks. We are expecting to see automated spear phishing campaigns and especially attacks against our chat and email ba
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4y ago
You missed this part: > , especially corporate innovation. And it's true. Europe is great at inventing the stuff that the US then uses to make billions.
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4y ago
> Another alternative is these messages are broadcast through a public and decentralized ledger. There is no such thing as free computing and data storage. Involving the group of strangers that run public decentralized ledgers requires p
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4y ago
> At the same time, I've also seen users do incredibly crazy things because either they didn't know any better or just didn't bother to "read the code". Good example of this is people just keep creating Statuses
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4y ago
What's missing from your statement is how you plan to prevent this kind of thing (a programming oversight so simple it shouldn't have landed in production) in the future. Something like mandatory security reviews.
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5y ago
> Update, Dec. 5, 2021: The Justice Department has indicted a former Ubiquiti developer for allegedly causing the 2020 “breach” and trying to extort the company. Seems pretty updated to me.
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5y ago
Unifi Dream Machine, a prosumer router/wifi AP combo.
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5y ago
> So Turks in Germany can have schools in Turkish for their children? Do you have a source for this? Sure: https://www.schulentwicklung.nrw.de/materialdatenbank/materi... That's the official lesson plan for non
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5y ago
Isn't that just normal study design? Formulate a hypothesis (in this case "Aspartame bad"), design a test, find out if hypothesis was correct.
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5y ago
> You’re complaining a lot about the UI which is perfectly usable. Usable is in the eye of the beholder. Usable as in "I can get a video call going and can send chat messages and files": true. Usable as in "Easy to use, fr
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5y ago
In Germany, the "nurse" (it's a separate profession from nursing) performs a variety of medical tasks (like vaccinations, blood tests, allergy tests) and does prioritization of incoming patients based on initial assessments.
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6y ago
> I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, and creating a program to do this change for these toolkits externally without changing them at all is a "hack" Mo
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6y ago
> had two large disturbances in 2000 years Your definition of "large disturbance" is pretty narrow. You missed things like the renaissance, the reformation (and subsequent proliferation of non-catholic faiths), the hundred year
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6y ago
Going from the frankly insane pricing for managed ES on AWS (we tried it, were happy with the service and massively disappointed in the pprice, now manage our own on AWS), Amazon makes enough money from the SaaS to fund it.
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6y ago
No, and that's by design, as many browsers limit you to two http-connections per domain. When you're loading tens of images (like map tiles), you want to use as many different subdomains as possible to load them in parallel.
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6y ago
Germany: Infineon Don't know about the others.
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6y ago
If you try out CentOs and it doesn't work, there's a chance you try Suse, Ubuntu, Arch etc. If you try CentOS and it does work, there's a chance you grow large enough to be able to pay for Redhat. CentOS was inevitable, might
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6y ago
If you don't know what ZFS and zfs-snapshots are, you are not the target audience of the service. No sense in trying to explain it. If you have even the slightest knowledge about zfs-snapshots, the product is self-explanatory.
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6y ago
It's where values-based analysis can happen. "Person X did Y on Z date" is a perfectly fine information properly residing in the news section. Writing about what the consequences of Y are very easily leaves the purely factual
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6y ago
Have you audited the IPv4-codepaths? Your comment contained no information above "I don't trust it".
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6y ago
> GDPR makes it illegal, but that's wrong. Where does the GDPR make that illegal?
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