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by archi42 8y ago
I recently saw a delivery service for that kind of stuff (kind of "Bier Taxi") using small electric vehicles in our 180k city. Scaling this to a "local grocery mail order service" could be a nice business model for a ca
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by archi42 8y ago
To add to this: I wouldn't call it "most car friendly city in Germany", either - but driving there isn't "hell on earth" either: I felt it's neither better nor worse than e.g. Kaiserslautern or the 10k inh
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by archi42 8y ago
That kind of misbehavior is why I usually try to stay away from Amazon. It might not be a huge dent in their bottom line, but maybe one day it becomes big enough for a change of policy.
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by archi42 8y ago
You might try to disassemble the code for a bunch of ISAs and see if your disassembly produces meaningful function prologue & epilogue for that ISAs ABI. Automatically. Not sure if someone is doing that. Our (commercial) disassembler fo
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by archi42 8y ago
IIRC some article claimed OpenSUSE would now use clang with lto. That must have been about a month or two ago.
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by archi42 8y ago
Funny things is, MTG cards are produced in Belgium; and now there is MTG: Arena, where you can either earn boosters; or pay for them with real money. Feels a lot like loot boxes/gambling to me, in either instance. Okay, at least IRL yo
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by archi42 8y ago
I don't think so. If you don't know how it moves, you can not read meaningful data (if it moves forward/backward). That's the whole point of that counter measure. If they [the ATMs] do this and can read the card, then th
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by archi42 8y ago
I'm not in the market for a new car, but from what I read: There is something called "city safety" by Volvo, and I know that Mercedes has the similar tech (a friend learned that by not being run over by a distracted driver).
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by archi42 8y ago
As an anti tamper measure, the ATM will not just pull in the card and read it; instead, it's movement is somewhat randomised, as to increase the difficulty of obtaining an illicit read. (At least the ATMs in my country are said to usua
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by archi42 8y ago
I'm not exactly risk-averse - but thomas112 correctly deduced that I don't want to live in a society that basically says "f..k the poor". Also plenty of people with whom I studied are taking financial and career risks in
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by archi42 8y ago
As a German engineer, I always shiver at those "I went to hospital, the doctor turned out to be out-network and now I'm in debt for the rest of my life" discussions at HN. Maybe the pay offsets that somewhat, but if I have to
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by archi42 8y ago
If a German buys bottled water, in the most cases it will be sparkling water. At least that's my experience, and the stock at the shop I frequent is >80% sparkling. I suppose most of those who don't drink sparkling water get it
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by archi42 8y ago
Keep in mind: A great lens on a mediocre sensor will still produce much better results than a mediocre lens on a great sensor. If they replace the whole iPhone lens assembly with a properly spaced Nikanon socket, they can attach some pretty
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by archi42 8y ago
It was about time... The old series is, well, pretty old by now, but (to me) never really seemed worth the upgrade from my r9 290 (used for Vive/VR gaming). Maybe mid-2019 will see me dropping some money on a new GPU, once prices settl
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by archi42 8y ago
On a low end box: * SSH * OpenVpn At home, started as needed: * Samba for backups (dedicated NAS) * Gitlab (VM on desktop) I don't need much more. I'd like to merge all of this into my NAS, but the 14 hdd box draws 70W idle. I&#x2
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by archi42 8y ago
I always would love to have a curated playlist by someone like Ayreon to "just listen to great music", and not those boring playlists on spotify. Back when I in my teens and the golden age of MP3 was upon us I had more time to do
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by archi42 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16084575 Part 2: https://hackernoon.com/part-2-how-to-stop-me-harvesting-cred... But that one didn't make such a fuss.
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by archi42 8y ago
Just two datapoints: But for me Asus build quality was sub-par as far back as 2006. And I don't mean the GPU-unsoldering issue, no: The hinges on my 1300 Euro Asus A8Jp would fail after one year of normal (non-abusive!) use, resulting
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by archi42 8y ago
I believe having more proprietary software available on all platforms (including Mac) improves the situation - especially something "basic" like a mail client. Yes, FOSS and Linux are "a more natural" match than propriet
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by archi42 8y ago
The problem with these offerings is: They are special developments targeting a niche. For that, they're great. But I am not willing to spend 650 Euro on a BlackPhone2 when a 250 Euro phone is technically/hardware-wise enough for m
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by archi42 8y ago
Good point. But I think if Google/Alphabet does not comply, the commission could fine them again. But that's difficult to judge now... All we consumers can do is wait for Google's next move and where it leads from there. But
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by archi42 8y ago
That's hefty. But this does affect all major iPhone markets, not the EU alone. So they probably (maybe. I guess.) only put a fraction of that on the bill.
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by archi42 8y ago
Site is under maintanance, Google Cache link (hahaha): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:europa.... //edit: oh, took only a minute or two :) nice work I really like this point: > [Google] has
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by archi42 8y ago
Since I don't have a laser cutter (yet?): Would 3D printing the jig be feasible?
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by archi42 8y ago
Last time I checked that offer wasn't available anymore. Did it come back?
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by archi42 8y ago
Initial targets will be LeEco Le2 and Xiaomi Mi5S. They aim to also support this extensive list: https://eelo.io/img/supporteddevices.txt Reminds me I should check out MicroG again (replaces Google services).
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by archi42 8y ago
That'd exactly my thought as well. Maybe Google Search is not big enough in terms of market share to trigger an investigation? Or the authorities didn't think of it?
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by archi42 8y ago
If you want to consider more allocators: We use tbbmalloc from the Intel threaded building blocks for our Linux and Windows builds. I'm not sure if the dev in charge did benchmark other allocators, but results are good (we spent less t
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by archi42 8y ago
I feel like this "article" should go there, not on HN. I mean, we all know what a server rack looks like?
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by archi42 8y ago
Just that it wasn't tagged as being "old" when I commented. As I said, it's a good read. Why would I say that if I deemed it out of date?

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