karl_schlagenfu

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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
I disagree, English is fast becoming (already is?) the global language. It makes sense to standardise on English instead of learning hundreds of different languages (which is no easy task).
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Papers that don't include dates on them are very irritating.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Who said anything about superiority? I merely stated the main differences I have seen since living here. Japan isn't much different from the rest of the world, yet people here on HN seem to treat it as some kind of exotic alien world.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Except Toto toilets and the Shinkansen (which other countries like China now have) it’s not so different. And the banking system is ass backwards compared to the rest of the world.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Is there a performance difference between Elixir and Erlang? I assume not since they both run on BEAM but I've never dabbled with Elixir.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Didn't Trump and the republicans just recently pull the US out of the Paris agreement?
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Which is ironic because some of the reasons Brits want to leave is because of the French, e.g. why does the EU parliament have to spend 100million+ EUR to have the parliament in Strasbourg for 3 days of the month?
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
With Microsoft I was able to use my email for 2 weeks before they blocked it, they don't require the mobile number on sign up. It was a legitimate email, not spamming etc. so it was pretty bad of them. LinkedIn is even worse, every wee
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
I created an Outlook email address a month ago and Microsoft blocked it until I entered my mobile number. Sneaky bastards.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
> A priority is to understand the language one is writing in. That's all well and good but you can't expect a developer to know all the optimisations different compilers will do, especially when it relates to undefined behaviuo
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
The difference is, most products aren't safety critical like aeroplanes.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Sweden is in the European Union.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Because in this case it's a European company being hacked (Ericsson).
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Terrorism, they stopped making FS after 9/11.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Why is choosing a specific programming language, Rust, "beautiful engineering"?
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
Looks like 2019 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
How does this work when tourists are taking photographs? For example at the Eiffel Tower where it's almost impossible to take a photo without people being in the shot.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
The big question is, what is the US actually going to do about it? If anything...
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
If they lose their licences then they'll have to remove all of it.
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
I have the same problem and didn't use it because of their scummy marketing practices. I uninstalled the app thinking I could just log in to the website to cancel it but no luck, you have to phone. Is there a simple way to submit GDPR
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by karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
How does this compare with other formal methods like Z? Has anyone here used them successfully in the field?