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by fch42 2y ago
From the point of view of the WSJ, if your company "puts you through" a hosted proxy browser (like, for example, but not limited to https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/zero-trust/products/browser... -
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by fch42 2y ago
Technically, it is. Business-wise ... even inane and asinine "security enhancements" (or "security" "enhancements" to make the window dressing more apparent) done proprietary can be turned into software patents
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by fch42 2y ago
After the market "prices in" the real costs of fossil fuel usage, it will decide. And the real costs of tobacco smoking are totally dwarfed by that. All governments need to do is to finally get that part right. Fossil fuel usage
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by fch42 2y ago
What is interesting is that the article says other countries should use "France as blueprint". - to have a state-owned electricity generation monopolist ? - to use demand-based price increases to push down demand ? - to provide
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by fch42 2y ago
If they really work in this factory like shown in that video, handling radioactive material in the production process with little personal protection (especially against airborne dust), then at least I for one would not like to work for the
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by fch42 2y ago
The part in it that I don't understand is ... Again, "traditionally", one could (ab)use C++ as "C with extras". And it wasn't uncommon, especially in resource constraint usecases, to do just that. C++ without
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by fch42 2y ago
One may rightfully ask whether Alexander just "went with the flow" as you phrase it, or to use a different term, "was lucky to be at/in the right place at the right time". Or even "lucky to have died before his
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by fch42 2y ago
A clear counter example would be someone like Franz Kafka. He hid much of his works in his lifetime, and willed for them to be destroyed posthumously whether published or unpublished. That anything came down from him was the executors of
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by fch42 2y ago
Agree. In addition, there are also plenty of artists who either shipped yet died poor (van Gogh, for example) or who were prolific proposers/thinkers/sketchers with "low actual ship rate" (Leonardo never built his heli
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by fch42 2y ago
If you ever have the chance to see the Milky way from Namibia, the Andes, the Western Australian desert, you may revise your view there. The dust clouds and star streams extend far out and make it appear like "standing on the bridge of
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by fch42 2y ago
I've seen both impressive (colorful, bright, straight overhead and fast movement) as well as barely noticeable (colorless bands/sheets that "look like faint clouds but somehow odd". With the "odd" mostly meanin
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by fch42 2y ago
From Bournemouth in the UK, I got the same impression as you - looking like cloud sheets, but more straight lines than, say, what windblown contrails look like. No clear color visible to me but the location wasn't anywhere near "d
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by fch42 2y ago
That's precisely the thought which has taken hold of me now as well. The ultrasonic cleaner is always stashed away somewhere safe for its once-a-year use ... I think can't resist to experiment.
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by fch42 2y ago
In Germany, Jura coffee machines do come up on the used market frequently enough if you really want one. If you're "lucky" enough to work in an office / for a company that is shutting down, you may get a "sweetened
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by fch42 2y ago
according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/268999/sales-in-defense-... roughly 1/3rd of Boeing's current revenue already is from their defense business. Also, their commercial airliner side used to
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by fch42 2y ago
I think it's fine for Elon to voice his opinion, even if direct or hurtful. He should though have a mirror held in front of him in public occasionally. It works for you alright, but have you considered the consequences of everyone else
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by fch42 2y ago
I disagree with you on the UK running according to a "constitution". It definitely has none. It runs ancient law / legal precedence; As example, the current government has used "Henry VIIIth powers" (basically ... s
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by fch42 2y ago
I have no alt account. And I object to the accusation that I push any sort of "German Superiority". That way lies utter evil.
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by fch42 2y ago
Strong words ... I for one inplied (and stated) only two things in my posting: 1. The "Polish Partitions" were not unique nor exceptional "for their time". Predatory behaviour by states in Europe has other examples conte
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by fch42 2y ago
Thing is, European Countries before the Napoleonic Age were quite a bit "intertwined"; Several times between ~1400 ... 1700, Polish (or shall I say, Polish-Lithuanian?) Royalty also ruled Bohemia, Hungary, Wallonia (modern Romania
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by fch42 2y ago
Maybe just nitpicking but he _specified_ the target version for the zig compile. (Haven't tested what it would link against where that not given)
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by fch42 2y ago
Thanks for extensive examples of "the mess"... I'd only like to add one thing here ... on static linking. It's not a panacea. For non-local applications (network services), it may isolate you from compatibility issues, b
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by fch42 2y ago
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/glibc/hjl/compat/ It's providing backwards compatibility (by symbol versioning). And that way allows for behaviour to evolve while retaining it for
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by fch42 2y ago
To quote Wolfgang Pauli, this is not just not right, it's not even wrong ... The "C ABI" and libc are a rather stable part of Linux. Changing the behaviour of system calls ? Linus himself will be after you. And libc interface
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by fch42 2y ago
Hmm; so the only thing that can "easily" decay into the stable forms of carbon - C12 and C13 that is - is N13 (β+ to C13 with "minutes" half-life). Nothing decays into C12, since N12 or O12 would have half-lifes so short
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by fch42 2y ago
I did an internship with the Amanda (Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array) project - IceCubes "Pathfinder" - in the mid-1990s, and found it one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. There are over 30 years of work fr
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by fch42 2y ago
Does anyone have experience with Framework as a "small business supplier" ? I mean, how do they do if you try to get employee laptops through them, with 100 units/year or less ? How are their repair/lease-to-fix options
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by fch42 2y ago
Given the "ribbon" happened around the same time as screens getting wide, it probably was one of the worst sins against usability ever committed. Before, on a 4:3 screen with 1280x1024 resolution, you could see or work on a full p
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by fch42 2y ago
> Also, IMHO there is no such thing as a "C calling convention", there are many different calling conventions [ ... ] I did not say that. I said "C calling conventions" (plural). Rather aware of the fact that the dev
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by fch42 2y ago
"sucks" is a strong word but with respect to return values, you're right. The C calling conventions, everywhere really, support what C supports - returning one argument. Well, not even that (struct returns ... nope). Kind of

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