archi42

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by archi42 7y ago
> Have you been outside urban areas? Yes. I lived there for well over a decade and am still regularly visiting. I elaborated on the meaning of the word "feasible" in the sentence "If public transportation is a feasible alt
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by archi42 7y ago
Well, the answers won't get you (re-)elected: * Subsidize public transportation (maybe even 100%), and make it a feasible mode of transportation for as many people as possible (at least for daily commutes; bonus: many people are concen
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by archi42 7y ago
Actually, if you put kids in there you will probably need barb-wire, armed guards and metal detectors at some point. I mean, who seriously expects that NONE of these kids go mental? "Best" case this ends up with a trauma, worst ca
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by archi42 7y ago
Well, I enjoy about 80% of the work I do and would be quite content just doing that (even the 20% I don't like, since that's still necessary). And I believe in a multitude of freedoms. However, the people who built my house, produ
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by archi42 7y ago
Maybe he means some leading magic bytes which match for both protocols. The Roku could then fail parsing the package with an inappropriate failure mode since the actual signature is bad or missing. I think it's funny.
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by archi42 7y ago
yes
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by archi42 7y ago
Nope. If you need high-throughput transportation in high-density areas, then cars are not the technically best solution since they need a lot of space to move only a few people each, and that's both when in use (space on the road) and
728.
by archi42 7y ago
Maybe it's just that people have strong opinions and/or feel lightly triggered for some topics? (Also TLC here; and no, did not downvote you:P)
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by archi42 7y ago
I think you misunderstood me there (or maybe I shouldn't have posted this in a hurry before leaving for work? Is "ironic" maybe not the word that expresses what I think?). Anyway, I did not claim that his point was invalid -
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by archi42 7y ago
It's important to note that the author seems to be an anticapitalist; hence trespassing becomes a non-violent form of protest against the system he despises. Which is ironic, because he seems to be on the richer end of it (eg a white w
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by archi42 7y ago
Imho this would be a nice answer for stack exchange as well.
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by archi42 7y ago
I second this - I have long hair (male), and when I shower every day my hair will become ugly much faster, requiring me to shower every day. Since a years I now take a full shower only every 2 to 3 days (depending on what I physically do),
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by archi42 7y ago
According to the article some hippies are doing this. Maybe they have more regards for nature than the guys in the "main story", but it isn't really clarified. Could well be those poison the environment with organic poison or
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by archi42 7y ago
No offense, but an honest question: What's to come after the loan? Even with a car that's cheap with repairs, the seven (or more?) years discussed in the article mean one has to pump a lot of money into maintenance, especially as
735.
by archi42 7y ago
Maybe we got lucky ;)
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by archi42 7y ago
Depends on where and when. On our road trip last year the Autobahn between Bremen and Köln was plain insane and probably the worst day of driving I ever had (my old car hadn't adaptive cruise control, maybe with the new one that'd
737.
by archi42 7y ago
That doesn't mean one has to drive with full throttle, though :P it's just an option. I prefer simply starting the journey early enough and mostly go 130/140 (depending on the traffic) and make good use of recuperation when s
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by archi42 7y ago
We usually do a short retreat once per year. It starts around 9 am on a Friday, when we drive with a bus to our destination (usually 2 or 3h drive), and we come back on Saturday about 3 pm. All of that is "fun time"/team buil
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by archi42 7y ago
Precisely. In Germany I could afford the speeding tickets - losing my license (for some time) would be the real punishment for me. (Disclaimer: I don't speed)
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by archi42 7y ago
What a glorious world that would be... I'd absolutely upload you a car, if you upload me a good drink. Or maybe we can put a FOSS car on GitHub?
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by archi42 7y ago
"If it's only 46%, then that's OK then?" Not that you're saying exactly that, but it's pretty close... The article gives 10%/2720 of the 272000 account for >50% of the emissions, that's still prett
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by archi42 7y ago
I have to agree with you there: It's the name of a locality, nothing more. I'm German, but wouldn't expect anyone to refer to Germany as Deutschland; and Köln is called Cologne in English, no idea why that would be bad. Don&#
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by archi42 7y ago
External hosting is not an option for us ;) The gccs are the biggest pain point, but customer projects plus binaries are the other - and those are just too sensitive to be pushed into someone's cloud.
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by archi42 7y ago
To be fair, isn't deb/apt already open source? If you don't know it, check out the "competing standards" xkcd. If I was a FOSS dev, I'd say "screw it; just let people pull the git and package it however th
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by archi42 7y ago
I found git-lfs to be a huge pain, since the "public" server implementations are basically github and gitlab. We have plain git repos (via NFS/ssh plus bugzilla hooks), so we either have to use some random-github-user's
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by archi42 7y ago
Aaah, thanks! This is what I had in mind. Though I misjudged the time frame: 10000 Mark in 1921 is in the ball park of 2000 US$ today; that is, if he got lucky, since the German hyperinflation in the 20s quickly made that money essentially
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by archi42 7y ago
For those interested in the German original, this is "Über Schriftstellerei und Stil". It can be found at http://aboq.org/schopenhauer/parerga2/stil.htm (not as beautifully rendered, though).
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by archi42 7y ago
Hm, "self-driving car roads"-exclusive roads or lanes don't seem like a bad idea, [edit] they could really help in adoption of self-driving cars, and cars supporting automatic chaining into a "train"-like construct[
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by archi42 7y ago
Thanks for the link! My initial reaction was quite similar to GP's. However, I still think that, if they use compressed air from a gasoline-based compressor to drive an appliance, that's as good as using a gasoline generator to dr
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by archi42 7y ago
Depending on your use-case, a worst case execution time (WCET) analysis can yield these numbers. These are usually deployed for analysis of safety critical systems (e.g. for ECU in cars or industrial controllers), but it could be (ab-)used

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