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by majewsky 3y ago
The same presentation without Google tracking: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...
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When I pay something via credit card in an online store, my bank's app gives me a transaction notification within 3-5 seconds. I don't know whether that means that the transaction has been fully settled, but at least it appears to
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Consider giving Satisfactory a try, if you have a PC good enough to support its 3D graphics. In Satisfactory, all ore deposits are infinite. It generally has much less survival elements, using mobs only as a way to gate higher-tier ore depo
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For what it's worth, I'm one of those people that you're looking for. Out of the 11 games I completed this year so far, the only AAA title I played is Tears of the Kingdom (and, if that counts as AAA, Satisfactory). Everythin
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Since you bring up Donald Knuth, TeX and "modern software development", you might be interested in his "earthshaking announcement" from 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaI78K_rgA
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F-Droid is an Android app store, yes. You can install it on every Android device.
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It is probably not true today, but it may well have been true in 2010 or so, when Youtube started prioritizing watch time over raw views for the very first time. Back then, let's-plays were the cheapest content to produce in large volu
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> I had no idea they've been collecting sites like infinity stones. Katamari Fandomcy.
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Why is Twitch not blocking a method for delivering their embedded video ads onto unrelated websites? Yeah, no idea.
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I believe you mean speech-to-text , not text-to-speech , right?
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The direct parent commenter (i.e. the person the comment responds to) cannot downvote. It just does not show a downvote button for them, only an upvote button. So the downvotes have to come from everyone else.
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> I wish they’d gone the Move route instead of rushing to 1.0 and then retrofitting in Pin. That is easy to say, and I don't disagree with the sentiment, but there are valid reasons for setting a 1.0 release date and cutting corners
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The problem with this is that it relies on an unspoken standard of "annoy". If you misgender someone, does that count as annoying them, or as them being easily annoyed?
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I'm from Germany. Also, note my wording. I was not saying "this happens all the time", but "those were some of the most memorable moments".
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> where everyone meets out of the home, for a shared event Yet almost all of the shared experience is removed. Some of the most interesting experiences I had in a movie were when the entire audience reacts to something happening on scree
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It would help your "defense of heterodoxy" if you provided at least one argument in support of it, instead of just dog-whistling.
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Space elevators have never been a thing besides in sci-fi or maybe project plans somewhere. Wireless electric transmission is an established commodity. I used it to charge my phone this morning.
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> Unfortunately, the vast majority of users don't want to spend a dime on any digital good ever. The subscriber count for Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, etc. easily disproves this. Please, while making a good argument, try not to includ
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Only the first one has been closed, apparently because it is a duplicate of the second one which is still open.
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> Do we measure trust (upon which all business is based)? Yes, absolutely. It's difficult to do this in customer surveys because you need a motivation for the customer to engage in a feedback process (e.g. a product review, or a que
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Yes, but you need to consider purchasing power parity and cost of living, as well as out-of-pocket expenses which in other countries might be included in taxes or paid by the employer.
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> Don't know what EDC means. The Wikipedia disambiguation page is your friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDC leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_carry
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That's like saying that I should not be required to pay for Office 365 because I'm already paying the power company for the electric power to run Office.
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Go is sufficiently entangled in a lot of modern tech to ensure that someone would take ownership. Possibly even the CNCF, seeing how most projects under their wing are Go-based.
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Thank you for mentioning this example. I never knew units had that feature! (Also, to save the next person the few seconds to try out the most plausible symbols, it's "You want: hours;minutes" with semicolon.)
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> it is actually a good experience to run Linux on the gaming laptop instead of Windows Not a laptop, but I am livestreaming games from a Linux desktop. In the roughly two years since I've started doing this on a regular basis, I ha
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This is not informing about other services, this is pushing them on them with sleezy tactics. The article calls out that MS refers to this as "second-chance out of the box experience", or in plain English, "you did not want t
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In Futurama, there is a gag where Fry finds out about ads being injected in his dreams through brain waves or something. When he is upset by this, his peers do not understand him. So he explains: "Of course we had ads in the 20th centu
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Both KDE and Gnome have task manager apps as far as I'm aware. And even then, in my experience it's very rare to observe any kind of hang-up that requires restarting the entire PC. Might be because I use a different set of applica
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They have cache servers deployed into the ISP networks close to your home. The ISPs allow them to do this because they also benefit from it: Their bottleneck is the connection from their own network into the wider internet backbone, and hav

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