c00lio

17 ms·

121.
by c00lio 3y ago
No, that isn't a relevant risk. German car companies are mostly export-oriented. Of course the home market is mostly theirs, but if Germany were to lag behind on EV viability, foreign sales can still be sufficient to create a viable EV
122.
by c00lio 3y ago
Only as long as China isn't yet in a position to dictate zero import duties. I guess they soon will be.
123.
by c00lio 3y ago
German industry is also very lazy with any kind of R&D and even minimal risk-taking, to the point of requiring research subsidies to look into anything new. German car makers started looking into EVs and hydrogen powered cars 30 years a
124.
by c00lio 3y ago
That too. German car makers got lazy with research and development. In addition, they were hesitant to give up their investment in ICE production, risk staff reductions, and corresponding political and strike problems. This lead to most of
125.
by c00lio 3y ago
Producing industry in Germany is a dead man walking. Chemical industry is seeking a quick exit due to extreme gas and energy prices, as is all smelting and metal processing. They are keeping appearances for now, in the hopes of a big "
126.
by c00lio 3y ago
Maybe not outright exiting the EU. But maybe exiting the Eurozone and removing some other problematic economic straightjackets like overly large tax-financed subsidies.
127.
by c00lio 3y ago
I guess the reasons are more than just the interest rates. Interest rates kill off longer-term investments like building homes. But there was also a rather steep hike in (mostly greed-caused) inflation of everyday goods and energy prices, o
128.
by c00lio 3y ago
In Germany it is common to have a fixed rate for 10 years or so. Sometimes you get only 5 years fixed, sometimes 15. After that, you either accept the new rate on the existing contract, or refinance somewhere else (if cheaper with the new r
129.
by c00lio 3y ago
Not to mention the frequent cloud outages, even when your workplace has perfect internet connectivity.
130.
by c00lio 3y ago
Already exists in some way: https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi Store your home directory remotely, have a remote MariaDB/PostgreSQL holding the index and it does exactly what you describe. However, that is n
131.
by c00lio 3y ago
They reinvented thin clients. Expensive ones, with an extra Windows license needed I suppose. How revolutionary...
132.
by c00lio 3y ago
Well then, can I use it to make cheese? How is the fat content, can I skim it for cream, maybe make some butter? Can I make Sourmilk? Yoghurt? Can I at least foam it up for Cappucino? For most of those things that aren't milk, the answ
133.
by c00lio 3y ago
Misleading packaging has forbidden for ages. Didn't really work out since companies will always try to game the system, binding up resources in endless court battles around the definition of "misleading" and "what font s
134.
by c00lio 3y ago
Yes, and one of the standards is (unsurprisingly) not using misleading terminology such as "milk" for non-milk products. Just label it as "white oat drink" and you are fine...
135.
by c00lio 3y ago
For "makes your coffee white" there is already the established product name "coffee whitener". What's wrong with using that one instead of mislabeling it as a dairy product?
136.
by c00lio 3y ago
Well, I'd be fooled by "nut cheese". I'd expect cheese with nuts in it...
137.
by c00lio 3y ago
> Describing something as vegan cheese or plant based cheese, you know exactly what it is No, you don't. One example is "pizza cheese". Before the big EU dairy-product-naming crackdown, there were brands of "pizza che
138.
by c00lio 3y ago
Trademarks protect the market position of one particular company. Similarly, protected origin designations and protected product names reserve words for any producer of "the original, proper" thing. Thereby protecting not only the
139.
by c00lio 3y ago
GUI software for professional use takes the same amount of care to develop. I've been involved in data entry applications used for call center agents, cashiers and industrial control. A lot of care is taken about tab-order, keyboard sh
140.
by c00lio 3y ago
Very impressive (even if not the whole editor is CSS as I'd thought).
141.
by c00lio 3y ago
There was taxbird for filing (there is another application with the same name that does something different, you want(ed) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxbird ). But that has been killed by the tax authorities: They s
142.
by c00lio 3y ago
How is that pure CSS? Doesn't show anything with Javascript disabled.
143.
by c00lio 3y ago
Sometimes. Guard pages are not always used, depending on your OS or C compiler for example, and on how large your address space might be. Especially 32bit applications are quite limited in that regard. Embedded always lags behind a few deca
144.
by c00lio 3y ago
Stack-Heap-Collisions are a thing. Many language runtimes do not check for stack collisions and break in interesting ways if one lets a recursion run too deep. Heap size and running out of heap is far easier to handle gracefully. And all of
145.
by c00lio 3y ago
While outright shootings might be rare, bullying by fellow students and teachers is common. Shootings might just be the straw that breaks the camels back.
146.
by c00lio 3y ago
Took up journaling a few years ago, because I was miserable. Struggled to do it regularly, frequency dropped off. Less frequent entries meant longer entries, because I tried to keep up with what was happening. Later on I just journaled at i