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by dirkt 4y ago
> the only way you can write merge sort is if you memorize it Nah. You only have to remember the central idea (if you have two sorted "runs", you can merge them into a single sorted run). You draw a quick diagram to explain the
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by dirkt 4y ago
Here [1] are statistics on usage of natural gas in Germany. Roughly 1/3 is used for heating, 1/3 is used by the industry. None of those can be replaced by electricity in the short run, nuclear or otherwise. Probably only part of t
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by dirkt 4y ago
But I have never seen it to mark negation of a condition, that's usually done with a slash (as in ≠ ≮ ≯ ≰ ≱ ≴ ≵ ⊄ ⊅ ⊈ ⊉ ⊊ ⊋ ∉ ∌ ∄ ∦, you get the idea). So for "not a right angle" I'd have expected a "right angle&quo
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by dirkt 5y ago
Tageschau (extremely reliable source) says > Da die Gazprom Germania GmbH jedoch kritische Infrastruktur betreibe, müsse jeder Erwerb durch einen Nicht-EU-Investor vom Ministerium genehmigt werden. Unklar sei, wer wirtschaftlich und rech
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by dirkt 5y ago
Except that you can't use nuclear for heating - not unless you exchange all gas heaters with electric heaters. Which we are trying to get rid off, as they are the most inefficient form of heating.
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by dirkt 5y ago
> I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally. It's called "midlife crisis". Everyone goes through it. > I feel like I've seen most things before, and
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by dirkt 5y ago
Paying them more would also help...
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by dirkt 5y ago
Where I live (which may be different from the previous poster), the health system has not been overwhelmed yet. So guess that counts as success? We didn't have to rig tents to use as hospitals, burn dead bodies on the street, or to pay
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by dirkt 5y ago
"Overloaded semicolon with in-built assignment of the value of the first statement".
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by dirkt 5y ago
That happens when you google idioms in other languages ... you have no clue about the actual usage. And they are usually not one-to-one. German "das ist mir Wurst" is also a lot weaker than "zero fucks given", at least u
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by dirkt 5y ago
What are the options to use Postgres pub/sub with Java? Because the usual Java libraries don't seem to support the pub/sub functionality well, you have to actively poll when you want to subscribe.
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by dirkt 5y ago
> running a brew update and it completely borking the database I also ran into this, but to me it more looks like in issue with how Homebrew does Postgres. Also, keeping different versions of Postgres around with Homebrew is a bit of a P
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by dirkt 5y ago
> Your boss was sold on agile on the premise that it lets him keep continuous, precise tabs on you and the entire team, to ensure that y'all are hitting the OKRs for this quarter and so that when something goes wrong, the guilty par
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by dirkt 5y ago
You may like Project Oberon [1] designed by Niklaus Wirth [2] then. His guiding principle was to make a powerful but simple system that could be understood from top to bottom by a single person, from the RISC hardware to the OS to the compi
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by dirkt 5y ago
CargoLifter tried (though for cargo, not people): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter The German wikipedia article has a lot of more details (use Google Translate etc.) https://de.wikipedia.org/wi
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by dirkt 5y ago
> It’s not called a Zeppelin unless it comes from the Zeppelin region of Germany, otherwise it’s just a sparkling airship. Now I really want to know where the "Zeppelin region" is located in Germany...
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by dirkt 5y ago
While I agree, and while I do that myself, the social pressure to use Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram is immense. And it's worse for kids. I have to constantly explain to people why I don't use those, and they still keep try
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by dirkt 5y ago
> Even when the only possible "consumer goods" was a rock Lots of other "consumer goods" made of more perishable materials just do not have survived...
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by dirkt 5y ago
Germany already has much more complicated options [1] [2] for communal elections (but if you are confused by them, you don't need to use them). The reasoning is that voters would know the communal candidates a lot better, so having mor
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by dirkt 5y ago
> hate that I see in the internet towards agile The reason is that enterprise implementations of "agile" are often the opposite of agile: waterfall with no frequent releases nor customer feedback, but lip service to agile pract
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by dirkt 5y ago
> My ideal is a language that tells you that expression is bad and to actually clarify what you mean. And there are existing language that do that.
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by dirkt 5y ago
This. And in particular if there are multiple ways to do it, and you had to choose a particular way for a reason. Comments should explain the decision process (if one was necessary) that lead to this variant. Because if there's no comm
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by dirkt 5y ago
Your work sounds awesome. (And you probably mean O(n) and not O(1), otherwise O(log(n)) isn't really an improvement).
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by dirkt 5y ago
But I'd say the expectation that professionals who have to pronounce Chinese names pretty frequently, like those who do announcements at an airport, or newscasters, could spend the time to familiarize themselves with it IS reasonable.
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by dirkt 5y ago
> I'm still not great at starting words with "ng" despite years of trying The trick that worked for me is that I know how to end on "ng", and that I can hold that sound. So I froze my mouth in that position, and
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by dirkt 5y ago
> The fundamental problem with Agile This is not what the article is about. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, it says e.g. - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Responding to change over following a plan What you ge
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by dirkt 5y ago
You may enjoy the PoC || GTFO ("Proof of Concept or Get The Fuck Out", google) "newsletter", which is a pdf and zip in a single file, sometimes with a some other file types merged in, too (e.g. truecrypt), and which also
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by dirkt 5y ago
> Why is the fourier transform of position equal to momentum? That comes out of the way you get the probability distribution of the position and the probability distribution of the momentum out of the wave function. If you do the math, t
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by dirkt 5y ago
A better alternative would be to keep PID1 as simple as possible, and do anything more complex in a subprocess. Systemd of course goes in the opposite direction: It assimilates as much functionality as possible from the OS into systemd (tho
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by dirkt 5y ago
I hope this is meant sarcastically...

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