foepys

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by foepys 5y ago
In that case the US should first handle Delaware before throwing the first stone.
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by foepys 5y ago
The sad reality is that that the EU may have issued the fines but there are so many ways to delay paying them that it takes years for the EU to collect. I'm not even sure that Microsoft already paid their fine for the antitrust case fr
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by foepys 5y ago
Please remember that not everybody here works for FAANG or similar companies.
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by foepys 5y ago
Russia made the first move by not permitting Lufthansa flights for the month of June. Germany only answered. Russia just permitted Lufthansa flights again, though, so it's old news.
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by foepys 5y ago
There is no definite native UI on Windows. If you can point me to one, I might believe you but even the settings menus on Windows use different UIs.
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by foepys 5y ago
Themes have control over how it looks. You can search, test, and install one directly within Firefox.
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by foepys 5y ago
To be honest, Microsoft has given up trying on Windows as well. Every Microsoft application feels different and MS Teams even ignores the Windows notification infrastructure.
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by foepys 5y ago
A character in UTF-8 can even be more than 4 bytes long. One example are flags or skin-colored emojis.
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by foepys 5y ago
Research seems to indicate 2-3 days, if you even have symptoms. If you don't have symptoms until you fight it off.
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by foepys 5y ago
This is false. Please read the white paper. It clearly states in section 4: > The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it. If a majority of CPU
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by foepys 5y ago
Blockchains like Bitcoin are actually not tamper-proof. They can be attacked by 51% attacks where you can even rewrite history if you have enough hashpower. The protocol is explicitly designed to always follow the longest chain thus the o
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by foepys 5y ago
The people who are making the designs are not the same people who are fixing bugs and improve performance. If you replaced all UX designers with SWE you will gain development speed in the short term and end up with an outdated looking app a
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by foepys 5y ago
SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium.
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by foepys 5y ago
Why would Tesla have better access to batteries than other carmakers? Panasonic is not the only one making cells and it's not a given that Lithium-based batteries will even be the way to go forward. German carmakers for example are hea
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by foepys 5y ago
I don't think that Ryanair pilots are involved in diplomacy and want to risk their lifes for a foreign country.
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by foepys 5y ago
Two strokes are still in use. Small scooters use them and some competition enduro motorcycles up to 250cc as well. Nothing that needs to meet emission standards, though.
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by foepys 5y ago
That's mostly because they are exempt from the 45kph limit of 50cc engines that you can drive at 15 y/o with an AM license. Simsons are allowed to drive 60kph.
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by foepys 5y ago
As soon as Visual Studio can run on Linux I will gladly switch but currently my backend tooling is Windows only and WSL2 is godsent to connect .NET with cloud tooling. WSL1 was not well designed. If you only worked with WSL1, you would be s
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by foepys 5y ago
WSL2 is nearly Linux. File IO is a bit slow compared to native Linux and if you want to call a Windows application running on localhost from within WSL2 it's a bit tricky but otherwise it works very well.
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by foepys 5y ago
I'd argue that the people posting anonymously on the internet are not the same people who mustered up the courage to seek help in person and talk face to face, sometimes (often?) with children in tow.
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by foepys 5y ago
It's easier to just get rid of the death sentence all together.
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by foepys 5y ago
I have a very beefy laptop at work but with Teams I'm feeling like I'm using my old 133 MHz PC again. Everything takes so long to open that I'm growing increasingly mad when using it. Plus the statuses of my contacts are cons
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by foepys 5y ago
Some people are just very intelligent and can grasp concepts quickly and apply this new knowledge efficiently. To them a person of average intelligence is often like a toddler that is struggling to put the cube into the round hole.
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by foepys 5y ago
The first DAO iteration got promptly hacked and drained of funds. That's all you need to know about such ideas where "code is law". https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists
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by foepys 5y ago
Because blocksize is fixed and blocks are consistently full, it's possible to estimate the next block's energy usage per transaction. All blocks are currently full as miners have an incentive to collect all transactions available,
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by foepys 5y ago
They are only automated because there is no easy process to counter wrongful DMCA takedown requests. If there were fines like $2,000 for each fraudulent takedown request, all of this automation would go away instantly.
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by foepys 5y ago
Because the vote needs to unanimous and some countries don't want to give up their revenue stream.
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by foepys 5y ago
One the one side I really miss the BB-style format where the thread with the newest comment was on top but on the other side discoverability of legitimately good content was a mess. "Solving" this issue with automation will most l
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by foepys 5y ago
France relies on German gas and coal to stabilize their grid. You cannot power down or up a nuclear plant quickly and in the summer some rivers get too hot for cooling unless you want to kill all wildlife in it. Germany is also importing a
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by foepys 5y ago
Then how do you explain this? https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... It doesn't matter if exports are restricted because of "America first" or because of an outright ban. Th

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