dual_dingo

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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I kind of understand it for restaurant menus. Both "real" restaurant and takeway places need to print actual menus and/or flyers, and it's just easier to create a PDF document and upload it to your website than it is to
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I've done that in the past. It was fun and nostalgic. Then I had to upgrade the OS to a newer version and things were not fun anymore. At all. And I remembered why VMs and containers are so extremely useful.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I see this for actual service providers that have full control over their business, but if you have resellers of similar size as your own org, don't you end up with the problem that they are about as important for the big provider as y
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
If you really think this, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Homelessness is a problem caused by society, not really a problem to society, but homeless people are a GREAT scapegoat for asshole politicians and people lik
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
No, this message is as american as it gets. What they are really saying is "We are not allowed to profile and sell the data of european visitors like we do with americans because of the GDPR, so they are not relevant to us". This
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
IANAL, not a US citizen and I have no intention to dig into how the US defines money laundering. That said, when I hear "money laundering", I exclusively interpret this as the act of whitewashing money aquired by illegal means (e.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I don't think SemVer is an appropriate versioning scheme for the Linux kernel due to the extremely large number of subsystems that make up the whole.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
According to german Wikipedia, this still happens but has moved from Bonn to Grafschaft. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haribo#Verschiedenes
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
The fact that all this is running on a ESP32 that costs ~10€ is mind boggling.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I guess at some point optical will be the only way forward. Having more data lines in a serial bus is interesting, as the whole reasoning to go from parallel lines (e.g. Centronics, ATA/SCSI or ISA/PCI buses) to serial (SATA/
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I guess that the mechanical part would be achievable by hobbyists, but that the signal aquitistion and processing for modern high capacity LTO drives is nearly as complex as with modern hard drives, which borders on magic :)
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
IIRC both Windows and TV where modeled after the IBM Common User Access ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access ) interface style, which was a somewhat big theme in the late 80s and early 90s.
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
Genius GM6000? I had that one and still use the cutting side of the combined mousepad/cutting mat that came with it.
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
Not everyone plays online.
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
I absolute agree with you, it's an absolute disgrace and while I am all in on holding Apple, MS or Google responsible for their shit, any law in that regard would most likely only affect the livelihood of your friendly neighborhood OS
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable when updating/upgrading then going to a new major MacOS release, which is an absolute disagrace given the fact that Apple can actually test the
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
Of course this is not useful or really human readable. It was meant as a "Be careful what you ask for" to the parent post and refers to the fact that at least in my part of the world, most restaurants are not part of a big chain a
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
> And if you really insist on a silly QR menu, then at least include a human readable version of the URL. Seriously. It's not that hard. OK, here is the URL: > http://customer0931.incompetentagency.com/?location=
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
Ah yes, we have no money so let's invest a ton of work into something that will do nothing to bring in new or lost users, but, given our track record, has the potential to alienate even more of our ever fewer remaining users.
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by dual_dingo 5y ago
I first learned about this from Mythbusters, where they proved you indeed can polish a turd.
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by dual_dingo 6y ago
Many employers pay for reference materials like this. Universities and hospitals pay insane amounts of money to Elsevier, Springer Nature & Co for scientific journals, others to orgs like ANSI, ISO or DIN. All this stuff is so expensive
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by dual_dingo 7y ago
In countries that use diacritical characters, umlauts etc., unicode domains are somewhat common (but are often just an alias for a non-unicode primary domain).
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by dual_dingo 7y ago
I believe nothing beats the Vasa ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) ) in that regard ... Sank 1300 m(!) into its maiden voyage.
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by dual_dingo 7y ago
See above
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by dual_dingo 7y ago
I read an interview with the rector of the university on a reputable german news site ( https://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/frauenquote-an-tu-... ). Also, the original source you cited clears says: > For th
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by dual_dingo 7y ago
Just yesterday, I read about a dutch university (Eindhoven) that wants to only hire women for the next 18 months (and give them a bonus 100k€ grant on top that male hires wouldn't get). I am 100% pro equal rights for everybody, but