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by atoav 7mo ago
Has nothing to do with the language, clickbait title. This is about a limitation of the regex library they chose to use.
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by atoav 7mo ago
Murder is one thing, some superior telling you you cannot accept random PDFs sent to you via email for whatever reason and you following that policy is another. Imagine you run a cash only cafe and one of your baristas starts accepting paym
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by atoav 7mo ago
I know for a fact that in my institution (a university) certain things can't be done by sending a pdf because the guidence our adminstration is accountable to (city, state, national) mandates them to have it in paper. All clerks I have
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by atoav 7mo ago
If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you mi
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by atoav 7mo ago
If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you mi
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by atoav 7mo ago
It means that the electricity you would have to pay if you did the computations yourself would be more expensive than paying them to do it. Part of thst has to do with the fact that China has cheap electricity, also due to their massive pus
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by atoav 7mo ago
I wasn't surprised the least. But I am also a hardware guy. Going into production with such new technologies means first making aure it is even feasible for mass production and long term use. There are ways to speed up these tests, but
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by atoav 7mo ago
I program for 20 years now and I think that what many people do wrong about these estimates is that they give them too early. The truth is that for many project the only truthful answer you could give someone on the question hoe long it tak
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by atoav 7mo ago
That would probably be the best. But I can't see how one would even begin to introduce that in the current top-heavy presidency-driven system.
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by atoav 7mo ago
You can do collabora online if you add your own collabora server. I did not try encryption, but there is an addon for that, did you try it?
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by atoav 7mo ago
1. Tell them what you'll tell them 2. Tell them 3. Tell them what you told them The key is that 1 and 3 shall have a suitable proportion of length to 2. Bad presentations just rattle down the index point by point. That sucks. The intro
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by atoav 7mo ago
GDPR fines are up to 10 Million Euros or 2% of total global revenue, whichever is higher. Maybe an EU citizen should sue them, since that behavior is listed as a dark pattern in the guidance.
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by atoav 7mo ago
The lack of an uproar about this from the "free speech" crowd that came down with a fury whenever it was "woke" that forbid speech, tells us it was never about free speech at all. It was misogyny and bigotry and some of
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by atoav 7mo ago
I agree with every fact you said yet my conclusion is that humans are valuable. Why? Because your frame of reference is the world, mine is the known universe. Humans are so fucking unlikely. Matter that somehow can experience its own (and o
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by atoav 7mo ago
One tip in the EU is to consider just renting a Hetzner Storage Share. This is a 1TB (or more) Nextcloud that Hetzner manages for you for 5.11 Euros per month. A Nextcloud can give you many things at once, file syncing, file shares, contact
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by atoav 7mo ago
Because I want the people around me to be actually prepared. The whole prepper thing is a market targeting a specific kind of man with the fantasy that they are in control when shit hits the fan to the loint some of these men want shit
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by atoav 7mo ago
Well yes and no. You will always have some have actually prepared ; people, and you will have people who cosplay people who are prepared. The latter see buying things that help survival more as a hobby than a thing that needs to get done i
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by atoav 7mo ago
Yeah but I am not talking about high voltage AC under the ground, the bigger problem IMO is literally the last few kilometers to peoples houses. Everything before that costs money as well, but is usually better upgradable by design (at leas
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by atoav 7mo ago
*Can the world have an American President that for once doesn't start pointless wars to distract from internal scandals?
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by atoav 7mo ago
As an certified electrical engineer, this is certainly a problem. The main issue is of course how much copper is burried underground and how big transformer capacity is. The first solution is of course to try avoiding farst charging if poss
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by atoav 7mo ago
I was asked to work for my employer as an responsible electrical engineer — a specific legal role that needs to be filled if your bosses don't want the liability buck to stop with them. They fell in the same trap as you did now. You ca
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by atoav 7mo ago
Unfortunate, wince I trust Astral, and can't say the same about openAI
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by atoav 7mo ago
Well, build more housing and ensure the more housing is being bought by people who live in it or (if you don't find enough of those) by people who will rent it to them. Many problems occur when capital buys living space as an investmen
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by atoav 7mo ago
Yes of course they can be modeled mathematically. Why couldn't they be? The analog circuits I build I simulate ahead of time using LTSpice. You can even output wav files from LTSpice and listen to them. Simulation takes ages since LT
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by atoav 7mo ago
I also happen to play electrical guitar distorted half my life. Distortion isn't as complicated to emulate as you make it out to be. In fact the hardest part about doing digital distortion is having the analog frontend and the ADC be g
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by atoav 7mo ago
Good point. In my case the program was so simple and the risk low enough that this wasn't needed. The worst thing thar could have bappened was some minor water damage to an exhibition space. Also my track record of writing stable, bug
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by atoav 7mo ago
An art student of mine once needed a way to electrically control precise small amounts of water. We solved that using: 1. Water tank and gravity 2. Medical IV flow regulator¹ 3. Servo hooked up to that IV flow regulator vi
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by atoav 7mo ago
Ad 1: If my software vendor doesn't even know their own code, I'd like to know. This may be an issue of liability.
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by atoav 7mo ago
Do you know all the code you're shipping? If no, as a customer that is a thing I'd certainly like to be informed of. I think we really need hard liability for software engineering.
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by atoav 7mo ago
One thing that really did it for me was programming something where you would normally use floats (audio/DSP) on a platform where floats were abysmally slow. This forced me to explore Fixed-Point options which in turn forced me to expl

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