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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
The Sun moves around, while I am in a room. It might be high up when I enter a room, but after a while there may be clouds or it may have set. When watching a movie one may dimthe light. Once finished one may need more lights. When going to
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
It is indeed useful. The question is how one stands on the monopolistic collection by a commercial entity. I personally don't mind to share GPS traces and other data with i.e. open streetmap, as I directly benefit from the data as well
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
There is also that international problem. If an South American is frauded on an US American platform, by an east European using an African fake chatter: Which legislation, which court is applicable? Which oversight authority should handle t
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
Creating a black market for loot boxes is a lot harder than for liquor or setting up a poker game in the backroom.
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
Yes, the "important" ones need some special attention. If "democracy" where anybody can create arbitrary amount of accounts is however questionable. The vast majority of sub forums however are more targeted and smaller t
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
As long as sub forums can be created easily, users may pick their sub forum and thus indirectly moderator. In this setup having users elect the moderator leads to cases where small groups create their special interest group and then some tr
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by johannes1234321 7mo ago
> There doesn't seem to be political will to simply ban cigarettes, so here we are. A simple ban will work as well as prohibition of alcohol did. There will be a black market. Sure, producing tobacco is a bit more involved then prod
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
The question still is: will enough useful stuff be included, to make it worth to dig through the slop? And how to tune the prompt to get better results.
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
That is not C, but a non-standard extension and thus not portable.
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
Is it commercial if a non-profit sports club uses it to collect member fees? Is it fornprofit if I use it and somewhere in a small note on my website it has a way to give me a tip? It's trivial to come up with more such cases. And you
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
The way it is done her ein my European city is that the bus stop is move behind the traffic lights. The bus and the system are in radio contact, thus the position is known. The time the bus needs from current location to the traffic lights
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
That's the argument Mamdani makes to argue to make busses free. Taking the payment away would produce a lot more of reliability. Over here in my European town this isn't an issue as we have a "trust based system" where t
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
The wonders of statistics! One can calculate how much area and thus passengers the stop covers and calculate walking times. It's not completely trivial (with longer distance people chose alternatives), but can be done similar to the wa
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
Aside from the project itself: They are eusing a "Polyform License" I haven't encountered that before. So it's not "open source" as many people might expect from GitHub and Polyform licenses seem to inherit the
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
For CVS the stock price isn't the driver. It's owned to 77% by the Ellison family, who certainly want to make a buck, but also want political influence and control.
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
What tis missing there is a support team and maybe a difference between a customer (user) facing support system and a big tracker. Support guides the user through the discovery process, which can be messy and go circles, and the result of t
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
> The wording here is fascinating, mainly because they're effectively acting as arbiters of "vibes". They point to certain features they'd like them to change, but there is no specific ruling around what you can/
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by johannes1234321 8mo ago
I would say that for most jobs you just need a work permit. Only when doing "core" tasks where one acts on state's authority the barriers are higher.
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
The interesting aspect is: that allows people who couldn't do it before to build tools for their department needs. Where in the past they would have needed a budget for going to the IT department and then do complex processes to transf
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
I know that my city's administration has a quite active development department. I don't know the current salary ranges,but they offer other values like vacation days, Work-Life-Balance (proper time tracking to avoid extra hours et
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
How could the Trump family then directly benefit from it?
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
They say > It focuses on easy interop of various "North" shims and "South" platforms. For replacing wine on Linux the "North" would be kernel32 API or similar, the "South" would be Linux sys all A
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
Even infrared is weird to me. Insects and other creatures living in the garden have issues with it, while they are important for a healthy environment ...
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
Now please put in relation to up votes to identify frequent top commentors instead of plain spammers.
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
Ads for protein powders, scam gold coins, Bitcoin scams, scam "doomsday" equipment ... there is a whole industry around such products for people falling for disinformation. And by foreign state actors.
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
There is a set of hobby casts in small niches. Also in some countries you got public radio stations producing podcasts (even podcast first formats not played on radio) - while that might Fall under subscription, while not being a subscripti
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
> The separation between interface and implementation into separate files was a good idea. The idea seemed to be going out of vogue but it’s still a good idea. However as soon as you do C++ that goes away. With C++ you need implementatio
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
But in an emergency situation you still want it to work and not being rusted away as it is "never" used.
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
I have used neither juice nor termux. For my few emergencies ConnectBot worked quite well as an ssh client for me, including port forwarding (so i could use VNC sessions to unlock a boot issue in a VM using some VNC app)
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by johannes1234321 9mo ago
It is complicated and has multiple dimensions. For example it also leads to workers not switching Job away from an employer as quickly. It's also interesting how it plays together with social benefits: As it is hard to fire people, hir

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