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by flohofwoe 27d ago
WeWork 2.x any time now ;)
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by flohofwoe 27d ago
One pretty bad regression is that the Spotify client now from time to time has pretty bad audio glitches on my M1 Pro Mac (of course this may end up as a typical fingerpointing issue, e.g. whether the bug is in macOS or in Chromium - but it
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by flohofwoe 27d ago
It wasn't much of a problem until Russia decided to go all-in on its "imperial ambitions" again which made it an unreliable trade partner for Germany. Remember: it was Russia which tried to blackmail Germany by shutting down
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by flohofwoe 27d ago
JFC, get off the Kool-Aid dude ;) ...of course you're likely just trolling, hard to say with the drivel coming out of Silicon Valley the last few years. In that case: my apologies and keep up the good work :D
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
IME when starting a project from scratch, detailed upfront architecture specs are pretty much required to keep LLMs from flailing around too much (unless of course you build another cookie cutter CRUD webpage, those can simply copy paste fr
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
Pretty sure it would have been "Made in GDR" ;) Must have been leftovers from before 1991, or maybe Pneumant (the former GDR tyre company) indeed never cared to update the original molds until Goodyear bought them in 1999.
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
I guess its mostly known through the "Made in GDR" label (some GDR products were actually pretty good bang for the buck, and good enough for "non-socialist" markets too).
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
Nobody wants that shithole back. Unless of course the Czechs want a harbour, in that case they can have it ;)
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
It's the "historical" pre-WW2 name of the region. But as "Ossi" I must say the name never sat well with me and the name MDR is one of the bigger fuckups of the reunification, it's essentially revisionist bullsh
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
Muggefug! :D
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by flohofwoe 28d ago
Might have to do with the fact that East Germany's Uranium deposits dried up sometime between the late 60s and early 70s (but of course there was also the global oil crisis around that time). In the early days the GDR provided most of
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by flohofwoe 29d ago
I kinda of agree, but still believe that writing most of the critical(!) code yourself has long term benefits. IME the initial mental model hardly survives contact with reality and all those little micro decisions that come up during imple
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by flohofwoe 29d ago
IMHO getting rid of proper QA done by teams of QA specialists is the main reason for the current software quality crisis (and that already started 15 years ago or so). We should go back to QA teams and proper QA procedures! Automated test
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
It means it's about as good as C++ ;)
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Optimistic to assume that modern day programmers even know what a debugger is, or if they do, consider it as anything else than some weird ancient shibboleth only used by the greybeards ;)
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
True, but he mainly seemed to have made a splash in the US with the colonialism angle. I don't think there was much of an outrage in either direction in Germany about that topic in the 1970s. I guess most people just shrugged and moved
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> and more to do with the fact that the British were the first people on Earth to invent a way of measuring longitude at sea accurately ...OTH if Britain wouldn't have been a globe-spanning empire, they wouldn't have needed a m
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
...which seems to have been an entirely US-centric debate (especially when it was brought up again in the late 2010s), which explains why Europeans seem kinda baffled by the discussion. But projections that preserve size much better than Me
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
I would expect that most people have seen a globe at least once in their life though? ;)
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Yeah but does the Indian education system actually use Mercator projection on their wall maps and geography learning material? E.g. how much is the average Indian citizen actually confronted with highly distorted map projections in their da
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
AFAIK in the past there were all sorts of 'up' conventions, for instance medieval European maps sometimes put East up, because Jerusalem is in the East. Ancient mediterranean maps often were South up, as well as maps of Islamic ca
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> So I guess we’ll find out when their next game comes out. I doubt that any of us will still be alive at the time when GTA 7 releases - at least when looking at the trajectory of GTA release dates ;)
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Let's not get too excited until the game is actually released. Cyberpunk was also irrationally hyped and then was released as a turd which then took 5 more years to become a merely 'good' but not great game.
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> ...and everyone is getting paid fat bonuses... I wonder how many examples there actually are of the people in the trenches doing the actual work getting a 'fat bonus'. E.g. the idea that unionization might not be a bad idea u
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
I would really like to know which parts of the world use Mercator projection on their standard school wall maps. At least in Germany (and both former East and West) it certainly isn't in use since at least the 1950s (and probably muc
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> Diablo 3 was highly regarded. Lol, Diablo 2 was the last good Diablo (it has a great remaster now btw).
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Aguably those things would have happened with or without a union. E.g. it's extremely rare that any studio could repeat a masterpiece like Witcher 3, and CDPR's earlier Witcher titles also are far away from that quality. This game
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
> Europe and Asia are on the same continent on the same tectonic plate. By that definition India would be its own continent because the country largely sits on its own tectonic plate. Also Europe and Asia are continents, they're n
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Funny, the same US "free speech absolutists" get upset about "censorship" outside the US (mostly in EU countries) all the time, so it would be completely on point.
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by flohofwoe 1mo ago
Hmm, I would have expected more outrage from the US "free speech absolutists" over this US government decision ;)

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