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by foepys 5y ago
It took VW so long because they developed a platform rather than individual cars for their dozen brands.
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by foepys 5y ago
A family friend just got an increase from their electricity provider to 0.44€/kWh due to increased costs of gas and coal. Assuming 18kW/100km (including charging losses) that's 8€/100km. Not very far from gas prices at t
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by foepys 5y ago
WhatsApp founder Brian Acton left 850 million USD on the table when he left Facebook prematurely in protest of Facebook's lies about the vision they had for WhatsApp after its acquisition. After that he donated 50 million USD to the Si
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by foepys 5y ago
WA Management was misled by Facebook about what FB wanted to do with WA. I agree that you'd have to pretty naive to believe FB but it's not like WA founders sold solely because of money.
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by foepys 5y ago
And they promptly shot themselves in the foot with it as you now need 64bit components for their form designers, even if you exclusively build 32bit apps. If you maintain an application with legacy form components that are only available in
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by foepys 5y ago
A company I worked for used network shares for years for C# projects. It was a tad bit slower loading the solution but if you didn't know, you'd never notice.
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by foepys 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. I use VSCode for JavaScript and that is only because I'm required to by my workplace. Otherwise I'd be using Webstorm. VS is on a whole other level than VSCode when it comes to C#. I suspect that many pe
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by foepys 5y ago
Don't forget that you need to use OAuth for everything so even if they have a simple API, they can shut your whole app's access down at any time, not just individual users.
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by foepys 5y ago
Does anybody more involved in this topic know how high the chance of this getting implemented is? It mentions that this has been rejected twice before, mainly for runtime optimization reasons, and that there is another proposal [1] that men
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by foepys 5y ago
Did Electron fix the 60Hz (or rather current screen refresh rate) cursor blinking? Otherwise I don't see many web devs getting a lot of runtime in.
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by foepys 5y ago
> Edit2: They also have en_it lol I loved my old Android smartphone that had knew a en_DE locale. The English language with German date and number formatting was nice. It's a bit strange that those custom localization settings that
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by foepys 5y ago
How does everybody become wealthier? The money to put more Bitcoin (or any other popular crypto currency) into the system is not distributed among investors, it is literally burned. Mining Bitcoin requires energy and hardware and new Bitcoi
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by foepys 5y ago
The Wright brothers only endangered themselves. Autonomous vehicles endanger everybody around them. If electric, those vehicles weigh well over 2 tonnes and have the potential to kill people even inside other vehicles. "Some of you may
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by foepys 5y ago
> That you cannot call interface methods on an object implementing the interface without explicitly casting to the interface [1] is pretty weird. That's probably because in C#/.NET you can specify methods that are only valid wh
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by foepys 5y ago
One unsolved problem with those small reactors is security. How do you prevent some terrorists from building dirty bombs with material stolen from a company's basement reactor? How do you trace the vast amount of radioactive material a
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by foepys 5y ago
> The cost of nuclear is artificially high because special interests have lobbied hard against nuclear, draining western countries of the experience to build nuclear facilities rapidly and also taking away any opportunities for efficienc
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by foepys 5y ago
Aren't quite a few Android security fixes every month related to the media framework? Are those not severe in a browser context because it's sandboxed?
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by foepys 5y ago
France imports a lot of gas generated power from Germany over the course of the year. Without Germany's readily available gas turbines, France wouldn't be able to stabilize their net. Same the other way around where Germany reli
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by foepys 5y ago
Sometimes there is just not enough resources (time, developers, expertise) to update the project. Those projects are often internal and never see the outside of a companies network.
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by foepys 5y ago
Millenials were born between about 1980 and 1995. Quite a few are already around 40. What you mean is probably Gen Z of which some are around 25.
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by foepys 5y ago
This doesn't always work by the way. When you venture outside of ASCII, it's quite often uppercase(lowercase(x)) ≠ uppercase(x) and/or the other way around. The German letter ß gets uppercased to SS instead of ẞ by most libra
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by foepys 5y ago
My Firefox Developer Edition updates just fine by itself. Maybe a (corporate) firewall is blocking the update server on your machine/network and your corporate software repo is only installing the enduser Firefox?
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by foepys 5y ago
Is this for real? Do merchants really rely on some opaque third-party service to determine which accounts are able to pay? Is this third-party able to essentially blacklist aka unbank accounts at their will, without a legal appeal process?
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by foepys 5y ago
Aren't a lot of ccTLDs and most new gTLDs nowadays hosted by a few big DNS providers? When .io was found to be vulnerable to a takeover attack a few years ago they switched to one of those providers. I don't know which, though.
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by foepys 5y ago
I don't think Google drops then, just prohibits updates. Apps usually keep working but no guarantee for complex apps that depend on changing APIs (like the DnD change with Android 5 or so).
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by foepys 5y ago
The lightning network only allows you to transact if you fund a channel first, which requires an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to create and eventually one to close, thus incurring transaction costs twice. You should fund a LN channel for mo
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by foepys 5y ago
The problem with this is that poor people will not be able to keep their fridge powered if energy became too expensive.
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by foepys 5y ago
If you own any money, you also have "some of the same powers" that the oligarchs have. Maybe you can bribe a bouncer to let you into he club, maybe buy nice shoes and impress at a job interview. It's just so little compared t
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by foepys 5y ago
Maintenance windows are okay. You and your customer can save a lot of money by doing so, which is important especially when the customer does not post billions in profit every year or swims in VC money. Maintenance windows are out of workin
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by foepys 5y ago
This is something everybody should read who only knows the pain killer obsessed US healthcare system: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-ge...

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