cetu86

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by cetu86 2y ago
Still to this day, when I occasionally use Excel/Libre Office Calc I never know wether to write `sum(` or `summe(`. Function names depend on the localization settings of the system I'm working on.
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by cetu86 2y ago
I'm currently starting to learn swedish myself. I was looking for the translation of "facing the west" but I think that was omitted in the translation. (Btw. Why is it facing THE west and not facing west anyways?) if the tran
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by cetu86 2y ago
Given what we've seen so far it wouldn't surprise me if Musk had built a kill switch into these vehicles to stop the police from taking action against him.
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by cetu86 2y ago
So what do you do instead?
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by cetu86 2y ago
I'm currently using AI code completion. Since then I sometimes have subtle errors in my code that didn't happen before. Here is how that happens: AI suggests something to me that looks right at a glance. I accept it and move on.
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by cetu86 2y ago
I fear that we'll see a lot of humans err at scale next Tuesday. Global warming is another example of human error at scale.
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by cetu86 2y ago
If you need an example of a germanic language that has a very regular phonetic spelling I think Dutch is a better example than German. German has a lot of idiosyncrasies, because the spelling tries to preserve the etymology of the words. In
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by cetu86 2y ago
Wow, looks nice! Can you do that for SE and add quantities?
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by cetu86 2y ago
I get it that gnome is nowadays an experimental desktop environment, that tries a lot of new approaches. I just don't understand why many distributions use it as their default DE.
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by cetu86 3y ago
I use dark mode, when it's dark outside and in the daytime I switch to light mode. That just feels natural to me.
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by cetu86 3y ago
While the author dislikes extension functions in kotlin they enable one feature that Java doesn't have: With them you can create domain specific languages within kotlin that are quite ergonomic. - Jetbrains has built a nice reactive js
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by cetu86 3y ago
My reason for switching from gnome to KDE was that it was not possible for gnome to manage more than one Bluetooth adapter. A scenario that quickly occurs when you use a docking station. KDE had no problem with that. Another thing is the cr
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by cetu86 3y ago
Great idea. I'd suggest turning the clock 180°. Since we are used to having the clock wrap around on the top not the bottom. There is a saying (at least here in Germany) it's "5 to 12" meaning it's time to act now,
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by cetu86 5y ago
I have to admit never really dug into Julia. When it was new I read about it as I was looking for a replacement of python/numpy. But then I was really repulsed by the fact that array indices don't start at 0. c.f. https:/&#x
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by cetu86 12y ago
Yeah, and bomb building instructions and child pornography.
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by cetu86 13y ago
Of course. So everyone can decide wether to use it or not. Or even switch this on at some point in the boot sequence Currently the linux kernel doesn't have an interface for this. But I think it is important to do this within the kern
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by cetu86 13y ago
Very interesting discussion. Here are my 2 cents: I agree, that how shell handles filesnames and confuses them with commands is inherently broken. I would like to focus on whtat filenames are supposed to be. In my understanding filenames ar