holowoodman

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by holowoodman 10mo ago
> You see it in action here, where the politics of the CCC, despite not having changed since their founding are suddenly decried as "very far left". No, things have changed in CCC as well. Back in the day, free speech (in the U
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
Congress has become a radical leftist politics playground. That is the real problem. > Some people just like to complain that they have to take a shower and can't harass women like they used to like they could when congress was at t
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
A subset of an ISA will be incompatible with the full ISA and therefore be a new ISA. No existing software will run on it. So this won't really help anyone. And x86 isn't that nice to begin with, if you do something incompatible,
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
That's what development tools are for. Or Greasemonkey/Violentmonkey.
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
I didn't say that, but it is true that in Germany it is extremely expensive, mostly due to installers being greedy. German article, but some translation tool might help: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbrau
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
We did buy Uranium from Russia because it was cheap, but they are far from the only suppliers. Half the world can mine uranium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r... Even Germany had Uranium m
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by holowoodman 10mo ago
No. Everything in Germany has been three-phase since forever. But especially with old houses, with any "not insignificant change" to your electrical setup, you have to bring everything up to modern standards. Also, and connected w
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by holowoodman 11mo ago
> In what world is the correct response "Dear regulators, you're incompetent. Pound sand." instead of "Can you share the IP address you used so my client can address this in their geoblock?" That would imply that
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by holowoodman 11mo ago
Most of Europe does have similar thought-crime and censorship laws as the UK now have. Also, the crime of "hindering an official investigation" could be interpreted into this, and this exists practically anywhere. The only further
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Yes, but those workarounds will be author-side ones. Like how HTML isn't very friendly to write by hand for many, so CMSes use e.g. Markdown or WYSIWYG to make it friendlier. In the same way, there will always be preprocessors in autho
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Disappointing that we still need those kinds of workarounds instead of just having native MathML support in all browsers.
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by holowoodman 1y ago
> Nope, there is another important thing that matters: some of the cancers tested are really hard to detect early by other means, and very lethal when discovered late. You are arguing for testing everyone there. If you cannot detect them
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Even so. Current first-line treatment for pancreatic cancer is surgery, because chemo doesn't really help a lot. Chemo alone is useless in this case. So any kind of treatment that does have a hope of treating anything involves removing
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Maybe. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say you do have a positive test for pancreatic cancer. Overall 5 year survival rate 12%, but other than with other cancers, people continue to die after that. Basically, it is almost a d
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Radiation damage being cumulative over long periods is an assumption for radiation safety. In reality, it is probably less harmful than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model Edit: For comparison
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Depends. Some have a paranoid mode without caching, because then a physical attacker cannot snip a cable and then use a stolen keycard as easily or something. We had an audit force us to disable caching, which promptly went south at a power
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by holowoodman 1y ago
With Signal, you can't really validate the code running on the client. Signal insists on distributing only via Google Play Store or Apple App Store, so usually updates are automatic and uncontrolled by you. And Signal has a history of
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by holowoodman 1y ago
> 1000 pages of environmental impact assessment takes time. But it doesn't take years. Oh, but it does. For example, if there is a suspected hamster population, you need at least one year of data gathering to assess local population
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by holowoodman 1y ago
The lack of can-do-attitude can be explained by regulations, imho. After you've seen the first few trivial things take ages because somebody has yet to stamp form 23b in triplicate and hand in 1k pages of environmental impact assessmen
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I'm tired of hearing this age-old propaganda tune over and over again. Germany had plans (before the Schroeder government laid the foundation for the whole nuclear shutdown) to build new and more nuclear reactors.
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by holowoodman 1y ago
I don't think production cost is the big issue. German cars always were premium-priced compared to what you could get from a Japanese, French or US car maker. The big problem imho is that due to greed and technical incompetence (especi
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by holowoodman 1y ago
German cars have always been slightly more expensive, but buyers (internal and export) thought this was a good deal because of higher (perceived) value and quality. Nowadays quality has become an issue, where you could, back in the day, dri
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Being the French, their tactics will rather be what it always has been: Not reduce their contribution, but vastly increase their received subsidies from the EU. That way, they can let the EU subsidize what they can no longer afford to pay f
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by holowoodman 1y ago
> liberal agenda It is quite the opposite of a liberal agenda. German policy is very illiberal in that it is heavy on bureaucracy, strict on regulations, and nowadays firmly stuck in a green-at-any-cost course. All that leads to high ene
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Yes, for larger volumes of rain, that sawtooth pattern is visible and can be corrected for, or even ignored and averaged out. But for low volumes of rain, there will only be one tick. Usually you don't know which side of the bucket tha
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by holowoodman 1y ago
> Also, the most popular rain gauge manufacturer has shifted to tipping buckets to a tipping spoon design. [...] they no longer sell the tipping bucket design, so I'm guessing there is good reason they did that and there is some adv
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Weather stations do usually come with a calibration problem: If you are on the sunny side of your garden, temperatures will be higher. If you are above concrete, temperatures will be higher, above grass, lower. Height matters. Wind and shie
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by holowoodman 1y ago
The owner also has the right to refuse saying anything, in which case it is on the police to prove who the driver was. For cars, that's usually easy, because they just compare the ticket photo to your drivers license photo or passport
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by holowoodman 1y ago
Problem with motorcycles in Germany is, they are usually too fast for the police to catch with their car, and the helmet prevents usable photos of the driver. But unfortunately the laws require that the driver committing the speed/nois
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by holowoodman 1y ago
> The occupying powers very much did not assign collective responsibility to Germans after WW2. Material reparations were massively reduced in scope compared to WW1 (and the norms of the previous century), and the Allies actually poured

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