corty

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by corty 5y ago
It is just an extension of the current trends in fine cuisine: Hide sophistication behind apparent simplicity. It isn't good or bad, it's just the current fashion that dictates how things are done. 20 years in the future, this wil
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, but Sparc was on life-support as soon as Oracle bought Sun, and dead soon after. Sparc was already hideously expensive and slow compared to x86 during the Sun days. There innovation in Sparc came to a halt soon after T1, which also dro
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by corty 5y ago
Because you have seen the bill before it gets paid. The bill is a precondition for the push-type transaction of sending money. Whereas with a credit card, the vendor can just pull money from the account without ever having sent a proper bil
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by corty 5y ago
There are various bottlenecks (harvesting capacity, environmental regulations forbidding harvesting in over half the year, sawmill capacity, transport capacity) that make the market very weird: If you have the capacity to harvest, you can g
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by corty 5y ago
> I've been in wood framed buildings in Europe that are more than 300 years old. That is a selection effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
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by corty 5y ago
There are prefab wooden frame houses. But most of the prefab parts that are used are prefab concrete parts, e.g. ceilings and staircases.
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by corty 5y ago
Well, in Germany it is common wisdom that stick-frame houses only live for roughly 40 years, have poor insulation, poor fire safety, are prone to infestations and transmit sounds so you can hear all the footsteps everywhere. So nobody build
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by corty 5y ago
Well, in Germany there are complaints that lots (I think 50%) of our lumber goes over the atlantic. Making prices skyrocket out of proportion over here.
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by corty 5y ago
This is why you generally do not pay via credit card at the whim of a vendor. You pay via bank transfer after receiving a bill. A proper, written, paper, tax-legal bill. One that gets a few stamps and signatures by your accounting departmen
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by corty 5y ago
The libraries in VisualBasic (before .net) do suck. But syntactically, Python and Basic are very close. I hate both very much, because all the nice features that make programming fun are lacking. Both feel very much like using a childs&#x27
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by corty 5y ago
There is already VisualBasic for Applications which is just similar to Python, only with begin/end-blocks instead of indentation. And with a little fiddling you can also use JScript/WSH to remote-control some parts of Excel, as we
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by corty 5y ago
FORTRAN is still the performance normal any numerics and linear algebra language is measured against. Up to now, most fail or require very ugly code to get up to FORTRAN levels of performance. Others cheat and just link FORTRAN libraries to
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by corty 5y ago
> You know they'll help you even you got nothing to give and without expecting anything in return from them. I cannot decide if that is more abusive or more romanticized. If you expect your friends to be there for you without you re
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by corty 5y ago
No, I'm not. While I would appreciate help in such a situation, I can fully understand anyone walking away. Being a bother to people and needy is one of the worst parts of being ill.
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by corty 5y ago
It can be generalized. Sex drive is a biological imperative. To suppress it takes a lot of effort and adaptation. Workarounds take a lot of effort. When you buy certain species of pets, you will only be able to buy them in pairs. Holding th
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by corty 5y ago
Because supporting depressed people is depressing and often futile. Mental illnesses can be transmissible that way. Also, supporting a depressed person needs lots of time and effort, and while they are depressed they give nothing back excep
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by corty 5y ago
It is not lost, just a little more dilute than usual, and the gunk is not the end product, just a step in between. It is like prematurely harvesting grass. You get shorter stalks, and some extra work, that is all.
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by corty 5y ago
> Just growing plants and letting them die is purely carbon neutral. Actually, no. Depending on the plants and circumstances, it can be carbon-(equivalent)-positive because rotting plant material exudes methane, which has a far higher gl
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by corty 5y ago
Doesn't matter since you want to dump the gunk somewhere anyways. Just dump it and start over.
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by corty 5y ago
Planting trees uses too much land that is increasingly needed to support the growing population. Not an option.
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by corty 5y ago
The tax rate is a single easy number to point to. But there also is lax to nonexistent enforcement and a very lenient tax code to start with. There have even been cases where member states refused to collect taxes that were due, where Europ
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by corty 5y ago
It isn't. But the tax havens, mostly Malta, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Ireland block everything that limits their shenanigans. Unfortunately the EU is ruled (depending on the topic) by a double-majority of 60% of population and sta
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by corty 5y ago
Caesar could technically be unseated, but it's unlikely due to his use of the pretorians and dagger-proof cloak? Stalin could technically be unseated, but it's unlikely due to his use of the KGB and gulags? A dictatorship exists e
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by corty 5y ago
But then it will never be over because there won't be herd immunity.
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by corty 5y ago
> easily fixed by ucode update and kernel fix Those microcode updates and kernel fixes are anything but easy. They are anything but lightweight. Context switching overhead is a huge contributor to lag and general inefficiency in interact
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by corty 5y ago
People regularly run untrusted Javascript in their browsers. Spectre is exploitable via Javascript as well. There are some mitigations, but those are generally just of the kind "make the timer API suck more" and the likes. Those m
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by corty 5y ago
Just root your device. root is needed anyways e.g. for proper backups.
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by corty 5y ago
Google Playstore is a walled garden, like Apple's. The walls are only growing higher and higher. Once Apple adds a layer of bricks, Google follows and vice versa.
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by corty 5y ago
It doesn't only react faster, it will react differently. Up to a reaction called "sepsis" that can kill you even without the virus doing anything anymore. Research points to most covid complications being such (there are lots
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by corty 5y ago
With a sufficiently generous interpretation it might have been a preview build. But then he wouldn't be entitled to complain, because of course a preview might break. More probably you are right.

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