groestl

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by groestl 2y ago
> actually, the sender of this email has never been to Nigeria Conversely, what if all those emails actually originate from Nigeria? Would it make them more legit?
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by groestl 2y ago
If the outcome of the process of consolidating different opinions (politics) conflicts with the existence of the human species, and the human species has only itself to blame for emergently designing a political process with this faulty out
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by groestl 2y ago
> it’s lack of strong enough political consensus But this _is_ the psychological deficiency of our species.
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by groestl 2y ago
That's because a lot of people have the misconception about UTC, that it works like TAI. If you think your tool already does what you like, even though it doesn't, you're not looking for anything else.
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by groestl 2y ago
> Wind Turbines on mountaintops are awesome, beautiful, and a herald of a good future. I agree :)
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by groestl 2y ago
> trials in browser games are usage-based? In principle yes. That's because you want your players to be hooked before you first present them with the prospect to pay for an advantage. So you ensure a specific action is ingrained in
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by groestl 2y ago
All of that is very true, including the bit about private works.
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by groestl 2y ago
> it feels like 90% of road works I pass actually has nobody there working at all. Some go on for years it seems. That's because the company that wins the tender knows they're competing on the lowest price, and nobody really ca
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by groestl 2y ago
We have the same discussion here where I live with wind turbines, but if that's what it takes to bridge the gap to fusion, I think we can live with it for a generation.
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by groestl 2y ago
Browser games, they've nailed it. So if you're talking about gamification: this is what you ought to be talking about.
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by groestl 2y ago
> and concepts like subnets are basically emulated for the sake of legacy systems. Until you scale up a Kubernetes Cluster so far that the abstractions begin to leak.
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by groestl 2y ago
Obligatory book recommendation in that regard "I Am a Strange Loop", by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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by groestl 2y ago
Sure. And for a concept that's so foreign there is no English equivalent, I hope there's plenty of documentation. I mean, to each their own, but for me, a software team using native language for variables is a red flag.
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by groestl 2y ago
True, as a non-native speaker: naming variables in a native language (that's not English) is objectively bad.
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by groestl 2y ago
Agreed, as you say it _exceptionally_ well adapted. Where the loop has basically reached a fixed point. As software is a relatively new phenomenon, maybe we'll reach a fixed point for most software in a few hundred years.
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by groestl 2y ago
I will assume it, I will enforce it where I can, and I will fight tooth and nail should push come to shove. I got 99 problems, but charsets aint one of them.
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by groestl 2y ago
> adding features can only make it worse, not better. There are exceptions, but software is usually part of a system, a social system. Successful software changes its environment, and in turn, the environment demands change from the soft
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by groestl 2y ago
> A central bank would create new money, adding it to their liabilities, and then give it away, receiving... nothing? Central bank would get government bonds, as you mentioned. Of course, the lions share needs to be offset through a cut
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by groestl 2y ago
> pay people after retirement by printing money on demand? Yepp, it is. It's called "Umlageverfahren" here in Austria, which makes it sound it's based on direct transfers from working to retired, but it's basical
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by groestl 2y ago
/api/v1 stands for Voyager 1 and is forever.
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by groestl 2y ago
When you are operating out of Kazakhstan, I'm sure Germans get the context. It's different when you're actively choosing the name.
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by groestl 2y ago
Programming without moving the the needle on _something_ is, ultimately, ugly. Granted, not all needles are worth money. But for the subset of needles that do, you can bang out all the beautiful code you want, and you will get respect for i
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by groestl 2y ago
As a German speaker, first association when reading the title of this post. "Uuuuh, that does not fly in Germany."
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by groestl 2y ago
"my work uses exchange on-prem" is pretty large though, especially in headcount (enterprises).
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by groestl 2y ago
Using it with Hetzner DNS API that way.
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by groestl 2y ago
> If you're still distributing snaps as the preferred method of install, you're alienating your users. Dropped lxd because of it. Now I hear they're a proper debian package, but that decision was so weird (especially the a
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by groestl 2y ago
I tend to do the former only when writing executors, task queues, retry strategies, batch handlers, and the likes, otherwise rely on 2) (the UI is just another "high level")
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by groestl 2y ago
I know it's off topic, and ycombinator's rules discorage meta discussions, but I just want to say at least once, that in contrast to other discussion boards, here I can trust that somebody will come up with a well versed response
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by groestl 2y ago
Gallery opened in Mar 2001, and that episode aired only in November that year ^^ - maybe the southpark episode was even inspired by this site ;) Also love "I did a quick Alta Vista"
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by groestl 2y ago
Haven't they changed their Name to NERDS recently? ;) https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-change-name-70th-anniv...

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