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by claudius 8y ago
ublock Origin blocks third-party content, including silly fonts hosted by Google, just fine for me.
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by claudius 8y ago
How many of those £50Bn need to go to the NHS to treat illnesses caused by drivers?
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by claudius 8y ago
Then as you say don’t simply ban "private property occupying public space" but require some degree of efficiency when doing so – people can occupy public space, but like with all resources, they must be considerate and efficient w
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by claudius 8y ago
Residential streets are mostly limited to 30 km/h here and even the largest inner-city streets have a limit of 50 km/h which is rarely reached due to traffic jams, traffic lights etc.
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by claudius 8y ago
How much does it increase friction and would this be feasible on other vehicles as well? Once electric cars are eventually here, their wheels will be the primary noise emitters.
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by claudius 8y ago
Shameless plug: nightfall.org is up and running fairly stable (again) and has a quite nice web client at https://nightfall.org/webclient.htm
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by claudius 8y ago
A similar but much more minimal tool in shell: https://claudius-hubig.eu/note.sh It uses a dedicated "bugs" branch checked out to a .bugs directory in the current working directory. To use, copy it to a git reposi
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by claudius 8y ago
To add to that, on Xfce at least it’s not enough to adapt the graphical mouse settings but one also needs to manually set (e.g.) /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/serio2/sensitivity to a larger value (I use 22
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by claudius 8y ago
With wisdoms such as: > There were two decent solutions that would have ended this crisis within a year or two. One would have been that Greece default on its debts, paying back for example 30% of outstanding loans. Another would have be
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by claudius 8y ago
Great, all your data is stored for 24 hours and then collected in "anonymised" form for further processing and "internal research"! Also no mention of penalties, either for Cloudflare as a company or the responsible empl
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by claudius 8y ago
and the internet becomes sufficiently centralised that you only access a few IP addresses behind which most services are hosted. In other words, we can either a) trust our ISP with DNS queries and IP addresses which fairly uniquely identi
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by claudius 8y ago
Well now I’m really happy that some library doesn’t know how to remove the sub-addresses on my custom e-mail setup :-)
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by claudius 8y ago
Focus follows mouse breaks if you need to move the mouse away from the window over other windows to the top bar. Focus follows mouse is an extremely useful feature which allows you to move focus without changing the relative arrangement of
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by claudius 8y ago
> There aren't really robust ways to stop US firms selling to the EU over the internet especially for services, which are excluded from tariffs via GATT. It’s rather easy to seize transfers made to foreign companies in violation of
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by claudius 8y ago
So far and iff Greece does pay back the remaining debt. It’s not entirely uncommon for a lender to make some money from interest before the other party defaults and the lender loses its investment. Could you explain why this is controversia
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by claudius 8y ago
> Is the EU going to fine ARM next for having a monopoly on mobile CPUs? Having a monopoly or being in a dominant position is not the problem. If ARM starts a pizza business and requires everyone who wants to buy mobile CPUs to also orde
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by claudius 8y ago
But leaving the EU will solve none of Italy's problems. Immigration pressure will continue (without any Frontex help) and likely rise with actually closed borders in the north, funding for poorer regions via EU programmes be removed, w
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by claudius 8y ago
Alternatively, don’t force the company to accept/deny specific forms of communication; simply make it clear that any communication is sufficient to cancel a contract. There’s no point for a company to build a convoluted website if any
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by claudius 8y ago
> #1 Mandatory filtering of uploaded user content. This is to prevent possible copyright infringement. There are two things that will happen: the large companies will generate upload filter mechanism that won’t work perfectly so they wil
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by claudius 8y ago
$ apropos space CORE (3perl) - Namespace for Perl's core routines arpd (8) - userspace arp daemon. CMSG_SPACE (3) - access ancillary data CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS_SPACE (3) - (unknown
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by claudius 8y ago
Trying to access any IP directly also typically works, e.g. 8.8.8.8. The redirect to that IP following the login is then of course broken/timing out, but that’s not really a problem.
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by claudius 8y ago
> Another atrocity is an alert with a “don’t ask again” check box, especially in something that is unnecessarily-modal (read: developer was lazy). Pro tip: if you think the user won’t want to see your message ever again then you need to
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by claudius 8y ago
But the problem with that is not so much that it creates a market for old airplanes but rather that airplane certifications don’t expire – if the 50’s planes you allude to had to obey the same standards as new planes (after some grace inter
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by claudius 8y ago
I got a LineageOS/OnePlus 3T a couple months while having a Jolla before and I still miss the possibility to go from a full-screen app to a closed app. It appears the only option is to go the the drawer/recent app things and then
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by claudius 8y ago
Berlin also has the advantage of only becoming a large single city in the 1920s. Beforehand, there was "Berlin proper" and a number of cities nearby nearly equally large and locally equally relevant (e.g. Charlottenburg, Wilmersdo
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by claudius 8y ago
> If there is evidence for it, this isn't it. Tesla cars having higher claim frequencies compared to say the puny Fiat 500 Electric (noted in the article) could just as well be explained by people driving it dangerously because it
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by claudius 8y ago
Just as a data point: Current state-of-the-art methods for Lanczos-type methods on state vectors are around 40 spins/qubits incorporating many symmetries and additional shortcuts one does not have in a generic "quantum computer si
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by claudius 9y ago
Wouldn’t it be possible to have nightline buses operating the same routes as the subway during that window? It works well e.g. in Berlin and Munich and only takes minimally longer than the train (since the roads are not congested at night a
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by claudius 9y ago
auto i = {5}; is a std::initializer_list<int>, whereas auto i{5}; is an int (as of C++17): https://godbolt.org/g/eXXN3o See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2561226
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by claudius 9y ago
I’m now hosting one of the older ldmud-style MUDs (Nightfall) and the additional load and memory consumption on my server is absolutely negligible. There’s some continuous CPU usage now, but in the low % (on an ancient AMD Opteron). Unfortu

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