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by chokma 5y ago
The best quote for this is from Bruce Schneier: "... brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space." https:/&#x2F
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by chokma 5y ago
I build a Hadoop cluster with 5 Raspberry Pi-2B in 2015. It works, but the ratio of power consumption to compute performance was worse compared to using a standard PC. edit: with the huge increase in performance, Pi-4 models may now be comp
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by chokma 5y ago
In school, we had a teacher who as famous for making jokes at the expense of others. One time during chemistry in front of the class he said to his most-liked pupil: "We have enough poison here to kill everyone in class. Well, except m
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by chokma 5y ago
True, and if the specialists retire, there may be some parts that no one understands properly anymore. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko / Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow
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by chokma 5y ago
I tried Manjaro recently - just in time to run into the Nvidia update disaster (black screen on boot, broken X-server due to system update). And no amount of fiddling with the config files and nouveau / proprietary drivers brought the
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by chokma 5y ago
A former colleague of mine has three children and no spare office room in his house, so his work-from-home met with school-from-home. He thought about buying a trailer like those used on construction sites, but those are also not prime offi
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by chokma 5y ago
Some more: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48733767 Casualfarmer 2.8K https://www.patreon.com/Zogarth 10K / month https://www.patreon.com/C_Mantis c.mantis / 4.2 K https:/
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by chokma 6y ago
It reminds me of a darker poem ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
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by chokma 6y ago
Performance got worse on Linux, too. A year ago, JavaDoc would be displayed instantly. Now I have to wait 5-8 seconds for the IDE to display information about a class / method. It may be a kernel related bug from what I have found on
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by chokma 6y ago
It's also a good idea to cancel services via mail and to demand a written response confirming the cancellation. Otherwise, Vodafone (from your example) may conveniently forget the exact date of your cancellation... and good luck provin
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by chokma 6y ago
Not to forget the 50% that telecom providers would demand for premium SMS / MMS (with one "chat" message costing 5€, half of it would get to the network provider). Which also explains why they had little incentive to prevent
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by chokma 6y ago
Your are right, normally VAT is a fixed integer value. But that is not guaranteed, historically we had decimal values, too. (My father encountered this once at IBM in the time of punch cards - turns out, having to change this on machines wi
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by chokma 6y ago
Found one of those in the stacks of papers from my father's time at IBM. Funny how paper-based information technology was back then - the first thing that comes to mind are the punch cards, but also later program listings were printed
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by chokma 6y ago
You could try ordering directly from a supplier. Amazon.de gave me 4 weeks delivery time, but a company which sells theatre level fabric (Molton green) was able to send several meters within ~4 days.
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by chokma 7y ago
In my previous job, I worked from home for about 5 years. It was nice. - If you are allowed to use your own hardware, do so - having a really large monitor and a computer that goes several times faster than an old company notebook reduces f
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by chokma 7y ago
True, you could very well cannibalize your own advertising efforts. I think that may be a problem for brands who already advertise themselves. For example, I agree it makes no sense for Ebay to place an ad for the search term "ebay&quo
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by chokma 7y ago
Coming from the other end (after someone clicked an ad), I got to say: ads work well. The metric used @work is: cost of sale. The merchant pays for each click on the ad that is redirected to his product page. What seems like a recipe for wa
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by chokma 7y ago
Last year Germany exported about 9% of its electricity. So the country could reduce their use of lignite (~ 24% of total energy produced) by at least this amount. And I think the math is off there - if Germany cuts 24% of its energy product
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by chokma 8y ago
> When they had a machine exception, they'd paint little bombs on the left side of the screen Earlier on, they used a mushroom cloud icon, but that was not well received apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by chokma 8y ago
Note: the links currently redirect to https://imgur.com/32R3qLv (image of a testicle and derogatory comment on HN)
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by chokma 8y ago
In addition to the dangerous environment, it's also likely to be contaminated with a lot of toxic stuff. In the closed German coal mines the pumps have to run 24/7 to prevent both the rising water from flooding the region* and the
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by chokma 8y ago
Sounds like the "1000 true fans" concept - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ - i.e., you "just" need a 1000 people who are willing to pay a net 100$ / year for what you create.
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by chokma 8y ago
70-80K € seems attainable just judging by the recruiters' numbers, but most offers of that kind come with strings attached - like moving to one of the most expensive cities (thus being equal to a 50K job in a smaller city) or being a t
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by chokma 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome
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by chokma 8y ago
http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/ I have a little open source project for rudimentary indexing and search of the dataset as well as adding sentiment data: https://github.com/dewarim/reddit-data-too
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by chokma 8y ago
I can recommend Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Loneliness, in which he examines loneliness and its positive companion, solitude, in detail. Not a self-help book, but a view on loneliness from both an empirical and philosophical perspective.
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by chokma 8y ago
Sleeping with the legs up ... more blood flow to the head may also increase effects of glaucoma.
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by chokma 8y ago
One of the reasons may be better job prospects. In Germany, for aspiring protestant pastors, you may share a position in a parish as a couple (both getting paid 50-75% of a full position, with the unspoken expectation of being available for
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by chokma 9y ago
The Schufa ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa ) provides data for their partners/customers on your credit rating and credit score. Banks will usually not give you an account and shops won't give you credit
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by chokma 9y ago
You have a contractual obligation to do the stuff you're getting paid for, else that may be cause for a immediate termination (after being reprimanded). But of course no one expects you to go out of your way and put in overtime. During

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