dirkt

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by dirkt 5y ago
Reading this article, there are quite a few examples of "buildings with trees" in Germany, e.g. * the "Baumhaus" (tree-house) in Darmstadt [1], built 1970 (!). The linked article talks about some of the difficulties you
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by dirkt 5y ago
Youtube already tried [1] this for seven years with music videos in their licensing disagreement with the GEMA. And the world didn't break down in Germany, even though plenty of Germans were infuriated, which is why I guess they came t
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by dirkt 5y ago
And the all suffer from rounding error problems? I mean, fixed point and a specific type for currency (which also should include the denomination, while we are at it) are not rocket science. Spreadsheets get that right, at least.
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by dirkt 5y ago
> This is what killed Usenet, Nah. If you've actually have used the (non-binary) Usenet, you have certainly come across plonks [1] and killfiles. And how do I wish for a killfile for web discussion forums... > This, not spam, is
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by dirkt 5y ago
Nevertheless, most mainstream imperative languages (e.g. Java) have adopted lambdas, "fluent" style, async/await (which is a Monad), and other functional features in the last years, and continue to adopt them.
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by dirkt 5y ago
Group velocity [1]: Since the 1980s, various experiments have verified that it is possible for the group velocity (as defined above) of laser light pulses sent through lossy materials, or gainful materials, to significantly exceed the speed
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by dirkt 5y ago
Not sure what you mean, but all 6502 disassemblers I've seen use a table to get the mnemonic (and the addressing mode) from the opcode. Mnemonics are arbitrary, there is no other way.
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by dirkt 5y ago
> makes me think that a substantial number of video cards have included YUV decoding capability in hardware since the previous millennium. You are correct, and you can find details on that by reading the card documentation (as far as it
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by dirkt 5y ago
Which country is that? US? I am glad in my country we do not have eye-level facial recognition cameras (I'd assume that would be illegal), and I can and happily do pay with cash.
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by dirkt 5y ago
Just use a magic pipe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin : The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who
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by dirkt 5y ago
It's extremely unlikely that Siemens used a name like "Business Server" in the 70s. My guess would be that it originally did mean "Betriebssystem", and the "Business Server" was coined a lot later for the
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by dirkt 5y ago
If Japanese companies stole the source code, then why was BS2000 developed by Siemens (a German company) from 1970 on [1], with Siemens-Fujitsu taking only over in 2000, 11 years after the date in your link? And yes, the BS2000 uses the &#x
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by dirkt 5y ago
I have had maths lectures where that just doesn't work, so I'd question the "anyone". You need the extra time to fill in the steps the prof left out, because they are obvious to him. (And yes, I usually also go through p
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by dirkt 5y ago
You mean something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Visual...
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by dirkt 5y ago
The whole point of a JWT is that it is stateless, and the information is (cryptographically signed) in the client. The advantages and disadvantages of JWT both derive from that. If you want a session, just use an opaque session cookie. Then
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by dirkt 5y ago
> is there something intrinsic to complex systems and the need for a reset? As the number of possible states of the system explodes, and as you layer levels of abstraction onto each other, the probability that you somehow reach a state t
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by dirkt 5y ago
> Whose time was wasted? The time spent on the interaction between asker and those who answered to actually get the asker to provide context and outline his X. If the asker had done this right from the start, instead of making the answer
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by dirkt 5y ago
> Well, that's strange, because what they do is still divining. Then don't make them devine, outline your X in a short sentence. Ignore those who still divine. Listen to those who tell you that Y is really hard, but to solve X,
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by dirkt 5y ago
> but in order to be helpful, I try to answer Y directly and honestly, and then point out my concerns, describing my presumptions. This works fine as long as Y actually does have a simple solution. Often it does not, and already the ques
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by dirkt 5y ago
For your frontend: MapLibre GL [1] is the fork of Mapbox GL that's still open source, so you don't have to pay for each usage. For tile hosting: Openmaptiles [2], based on Openstreetmap data. Either pay them for out-of-the-box exp
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by dirkt 5y ago
C-a is "go to beginning of line" in emacs-bindings for bash, which I use quite often... There's no way to please everyone :-)
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by dirkt 5y ago
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM explains it: they can change the attack angle of rotor blades for different positions, which produces a torque, though you have to compensate for the gyroscopic effect,
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by dirkt 5y ago
Same for me, and in the beginning it happened often enough I am too quick and pressed the wrong one ... At least make the "answer" button green.
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by dirkt 5y ago
https://www.aoeu.com/ > It resulted from a typo. I was writing a domain registration system for an ISP and, during some debugging, forgot to use the --no-act command line flag and ended up registering aoeu.com for real.
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by dirkt 5y ago
Intersestingly enough, set builder notation has made its way as "list comprehension" or even "set comprehension" into many programming languages now.
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by dirkt 5y ago
Don't try to combine ALSA (which is what Pulseaudio uses by default on most distributions) with Jack. You'll have a huge amount of "fun". Don't try to "make Pulseaudio play MIDI". Just install Timidity.
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by dirkt 5y ago
Yes, it makes your objects go to sleep. The use case is "you have a collection of objects that reference each other in memory. You want to say: Bam, put that structure like it is into a database ("put it to sleep"), and retri
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by dirkt 5y ago
> through I do know the German one is. The German rail system has also been detoriating in the last decades due to lack of investment of the Deutsche Bahn after being privatized. You don't see it on the main lines, but you see it on
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by dirkt 6y ago
> and it's upto hardware manufacturers to try and match the reference device to make their laptops/desktops compatible. Good luck with that. On most hardware I buy, I can read "compatible with Mac and Windows" on the
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by dirkt 6y ago
> My personal favorite: how long is a month? One solution is to distinguish between a "datetime" and a "duration". You cannot convert a duration to days (or really anything). You can add or subtract a duration from a

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