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by corty 5y ago
The Greens had and squandered the oppportunity to present themselves as being fresh, unencumbered, honest, evidence-based, non-corrupt. Baerbock's resume problems and the plagiarized book sections destroyed that hope, as well as her el
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by corty 5y ago
Well, a US right-wing party would be called fascist around here and might get forbidden at some point.
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by corty 5y ago
Nope. The blip coincides with and was caused by a corruption scandal involving quite a few CDU/CSU politicians. As well as an increase in Greens' press coverage when they announced their candidates. Both influences have subsided b
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by corty 5y ago
Pacemaker (and other medical devices, insulin pumps, neural stimulators, defibrilators) disabling or safe mode via magnet will not go away, even with more bluetooth-enabled devices. First, a magnet is easily available in any EMT's back
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by corty 5y ago
A magnet does not always switch the pacemaker off. For pacemakers that are vital, the magnet usually switches to a safe mode, e.g. some fixed non-adaptive frequency and voltage. Frequency and voltage are chosen in a way that the patient wil
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by corty 5y ago
Why the hell isn't the metadata server authenticated, e.g. via TLS certificates?
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by corty 5y ago
Historically, this is not entirely correct. Segmented MMUs (as opposed to the more common, currently used concept of paged MMUs) were intended to provide the hardware support for the protection levels and the data/code mixture in OOP.
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by corty 5y ago
Then OOP is no true scotsman, because no language implements all the principles. Or in other terms, without an implementation, OOP isn't even usable, it isn't even real. Just maybe a desirable ideal somewhere.
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by corty 5y ago
Well then, C++ doesn't have encapsulation, therefore C++ isn't OO. Hell, even Java isn't OO if you allow JNI.
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by corty 5y ago
I would like to introduce my set of constraints called "cortyNet": - no JavaScript - you get 100kB for HTML and CSS - all decorative and non-essential images are included in those 100kB Happy hacking!
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by corty 5y ago
> But not destructuring objects into SoA memory layouts is a "principle" No, not really. There are languages that allow inside-out-objects where the "object" is a tuple of (class, index). The class holds a bunch of ar
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by corty 5y ago
There are no real OO principles. Ask ten people and you will get ten different answers. OO is defined by the languages and tools claiming to implement it, and the set of principles derived from those is inconsistent and contradictory.
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by corty 5y ago
Accessibility as a legal or moral requirement doesn't mean that anything that someone imagines could be better on some utterly broken screenreader needs to be implemented. I'm sick of this neverending "but broken screenreader
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by corty 5y ago
No, it isn't for the users to decide, if they are already on a login page they will fill the login field first in nearly all cases. That screenreaders are crap doesn't excuse breaking flow for 99.9% of users. Autofocus is essentia
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by corty 5y ago
Only in C++. Most other OOP languages do not allow controlling allocation that way. Also, OOP only allows array-of-structs continuous data. Struct-of-arrays and hybrid forms are usually awkward or impossible. And with everything except mayb
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by corty 5y ago
> This is a problem nobody in the open source community seems to care about The open source community does care about it. However, the solutions are strictly on Apple. If they don't change their behaviour and terms, there is nothing
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by corty 5y ago
In addition to the autofocus: Use tabindex! Username should be 1, password 2, login-button 3.
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by corty 5y ago
Oracle isn't really monolithic though. If you dig into it, it is all a really ancient aggregation of various tools and components from different eras. All of it has some Oracle branding on it, but usage-wise and functionality-wise it i
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by corty 5y ago
Distributing FLOSS on the Apple apppstore is impossible.
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by corty 5y ago
It is a binary issue. Legalisation of prostitutes and customers (and supporting businesses like brothels) is a necessary prerequisite to actually protect prostitutes. Otherwise there will always be at least one party in a situation where it
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by corty 5y ago
Legalization may not be a panacea. But the alternative is criminalization, and that is far far worse. Criminalizing prostitution guarantees a bad outcome for the affected prostitutes.
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by corty 5y ago
There is never the possibility of guaranteeing consent. Not even for sex (sans 'work'), not even in the presence of a notarized written agreement.
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by corty 5y ago
Extremely bold. And prices given without VAT included where full price is only apparent at checkout. This is completely illegal to offer in Germany: "You'll be charged US$94.01, including US$15.01 for VAT in Germany." Also, n
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by corty 5y ago
Yep. Write a grep and find (IO-loop, filesystem), a shell (child processes, signals), a simple nmap-replacement (network, DNS), a forking and a multithreaded webserver (more network, more children, synchronisation), a clock with seconds dis
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by corty 5y ago
That railway example is just a plain market failure, and an uncorrectable one at that. Markets only work under certain conditions, very important among those: absence of monopoly, monopsony and limitations that work to the same effects. A p
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by corty 5y ago
I would do some nitpicking here: The market _rewards_ low prices. But the market _punishes_ low quality and untimeliness. Why do I phrase it this way? Because the only market mechanism is a sale, you either buy or you don't. Low price
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by corty 5y ago
Your stomach will contain some nitrogen/oxygen swallowed while eating and some carbon dioxide from carbonated drinks (both of which is what will make you burp if the pressure gets too high). Same (to a lesser degree) for your intestine
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by corty 5y ago
Scottish cuisine is quite good and not at all daring. Things are basically the same as rural french or german cuisine, e.g. haggis and black pudding are very similar to weisser/roter Pressack, Leberwurst or boudin noir. That they usual
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by corty 5y ago
Saddam Hussein was contained regarding neighboring states. As to atrocities towards the Iraqi people, sanctions and loosing the wars just put those into full gear, because Hussein had to quell the brewing rebellion. So you are right, sancti
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by corty 5y ago
In Germany the accident or health insurance company can (and sometimes will) sue the owner of the playground for the cost of treatment, and the parents of the child can sue the owner of the playground for the copay and pain and suffering. S

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