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by dbrgn 3y ago
I wondered how getting a permit in Switzerland would work. According to some sources I found: - You need to request a permit from your city and your canton's water and sewage department - To get a permit, you need a "proof of util
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by dbrgn 3y ago
The Swiss National Park was mostly untouched since 1914: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_National_Park However, that probably does not qualify as old growth. The list you linked to does not list any forest in Switz
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by dbrgn 3y ago
Looks nice! I use LaTeX for my invoices, combined with the "rechnung.sty" module which allows creating the typical invoice layout. The advantage is that I can use the scrlttr document class, which - if I call it correctly - can ge
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by dbrgn 3y ago
TIL abuot plaintext-only. Thank you, that's very useful.
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by dbrgn 3y ago
Ah, the joys of contenteditable HTML elements... Such an under-specified and utterly horrible part of the web specs. I'm sure you had a lot of fun fighting Safari in general, and also the diverging handling between Chromium and Firefox
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by dbrgn 3y ago
Here's a blogpost from the Rust language blog, that might clear up some things: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/04/12/trademark-... There's a feedback form (this is just a draft aft
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Could it be plausible that ChatGTP processed some text describing this exact game, where it is claimed that the idea is novel (because it was, at that time)? Since ChatGPT does not understand the concept of novelty, it would simply "le
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by dbrgn 4y ago
They certainly aren't.
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by dbrgn 4y ago
> To start with: this isn't a paper "by a master student at ETH"; it's a research paper by Kien Tuong Truong and Matteo Scarlata, both grad students at ETH Applied Cryptography, and Kenny Paterson, who is one of the b
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense! So what's 0x89 at the start? It's outside the ASCII range.
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Due to the PNG signature ("magic bytes"), every PNG file starts with the sequence "89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A". In ASCII: "[\x89]PNG\r\n[SUB]\n" Is there any information on the origin of these bytes? Why were they
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by dbrgn 4y ago
My dentist does the same. When I first went there (after not having gone do the dentist for 3-4 years, because I never had any issues with cavities) he told me that there are 4 cavities I need to get fixed. I was very sceptical at first, bu
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by dbrgn 4y ago
You mean the congress? It's not taking place this year: https://events.ccc.de/category/37c3/#no-congress-2022-en Instead they defer to decentralized events across Europe: https://events.ccc.de&#x2F
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CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database(ccc.de)
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by dbrgn 4y ago
I did that a while ago (with more professional tools though): https://www.coredump.ch/2017/04/13/lorawan-868mhz-antenna-te... https://www.coredump.ch/2017/04/30/lorawan-868mhz-a
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Are you saying that hot water based central heating systems with radiators should be replaced by throwing an electric heater in every room? You can't be serious. There are quite a few things wrong with that, first of all the efficiency
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Why do you think Switzerland doesn't need solar plants? We're still in the middle of an energy crisis: While we have more than enough energy in spring and summer (lots of hydroelectric power plants), we don't have enough stor
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Some nice espresso machines and grinders listed there. I assume those won't sell for 25$.
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by dbrgn 4y ago
"btleplug is a pleasure to use". I see what you did there :)
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Yep, I'm aware of that and usually have my camera set at DR200. But of course it's still not close to the dynamic range that HDR+ creates on a smartphone. Here's an early-morning photo taken with the Fuji: https://
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Would you mind sharing such a photo? I'm interested in how good it looks on a large computer screen.
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by dbrgn 4y ago
I have the Fuji X-S10 and the fantastic XF 56mm f/1.2. I love the sharpness and bokeh that this combo delivers. Definitely no match for a smartphone. On the other hand, my old Pixel 3a delivers much better dynamic range in low-light si
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by dbrgn 4y ago
If you need OSM on Android, I can recommend: - "Organic Maps" (a fork of the old MapsMe codebase) if you want a clean, simple user experience - "OSMAnd" if you want a very powerful, highly customizable map application, w
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by dbrgn 4y ago
"My honey would cost over €10 a jar if I'd pay my time." Locally made honey (i.e. not from South America) in Switzerland usually costs significantly more than 10€ :)
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by dbrgn 4y ago
I assumed that not every Facebook employee is a senior software engineer in California, but that they must have a lot of lower wage employees in non-tech jobs on other continents as well (e.g. for content moderation).
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by dbrgn 4y ago
If 11k employees are 13% of the workforce, then Meta employed roughly 85k people. Holy moly, what do all these people actually do all day long? Also, assuming an average annual wage of 80k USD, that would mean 6.8 billion USD of wage costs
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Show HN: Galerio, a simple generator for static HTML flexbox galleries(github.com)
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Looking at you, WebRTC.
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by dbrgn 4y ago
A vote is not just "encrypted information going to a server". The law says that every voter must be able to vote once (and only once), and that the vote must be secret, towards other voters and towards the government. A vote must
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by dbrgn 4y ago
Even if experts are convinced that the e-voting system is secure, it cannot be understood by laypeople. To a random person on the street, e-voting is absolutely intransparent, it's a magic black box that spits out a result. And as soon

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