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by majewsky 4y ago
> The decision was made under Schröder/Fischer around 2006. Read up on your history once more. Schröder/Fischer were both voted out of office in 2005.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I switched to Iosevka after I started learning Japanese, because the exact 1:2 aspect ratio of Latin characters means that square-shaped CJK characters align perfectly with the monospace grid.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Correct. I was going to implement LDAP myself, like lldap does, but after realizing that the "L" in LDAP is a lie, I went with a battle-tested implementation instead.
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by majewsky 4y ago
FWIW, I have another entry in the same genre: https://github.com/majewsky/portunus - Seems like there really is a lot of pain with LDAP to go around.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I think it's more like malware. A virus that spreads from CEO to CEO.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I wonder how many people actually register that there are two buttons at the bottom? It's very obvious to power-users like us since we're used to [ Accept ] Cancel at this point, but I can only imagine the borderless de
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by majewsky 4y ago
Sounds about right. I have an API service written in Go for which we also offer a client library in Go. We moved the common ground between the two into a separate module to avoid code duplication. That module ended up having the type declar
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by majewsky 4y ago
You are right that most of what SAP does is in the SaaS market, so not "cloud" as in IaaS. SAP _does_ have IaaS offerings, but it's not something that's open to everyone. This is one example: https://news.sap.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Isn't that just how all desktop OSes are? It works most of the time, and then sometimes you run into things that are bafflingly broken. For me, it's the Windows desktop at work. I'm accustomed to Windows spawning windows full
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by majewsky 4y ago
Your user account may be old enough to be grandfathered into a lower obnoxiousness setting. When migrating from Android to iOS 1.5 years ago, I decided to set up a fresh Feedly account linked to the Apple identity instead of the Google iden
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Yesterday was for me like disaster. I worked until 22 o'clock, (I had to stop at 17 o'clock) to find out that I'm running a microservice in a Docker Container and the changes I made on a mail template had no effect, when
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by majewsky 4y ago
No, because in that case there are other options. A 3-year old child can be put up for adoption if the parents are unable to provide adequate care for it. At our current medical level of progress, doing the same for a 3-week-old embryo is i
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by majewsky 4y ago
> For instance, you are not allowed to [...] even mention [a competitor's] products. This is directly refuted by the section of legal code that you linked. The phrasing in there (translated in German) is along the lines of "Men
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by majewsky 4y ago
Lots of modern software is getting faster and better over time as time is spent optimising it. Sure, there is also lots of software that gets more bloated as time goes on, but the big problem is functional software (or parts thereof) being
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by majewsky 4y ago
> For many clients I have set up a cookie compliance tool like Onetrust Every time I've seen a cookie popup from Onetrust, it was obviously illegal because "Reject all" was not the easiest option. It's fine if "A
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by majewsky 4y ago
This sentiment alone makes me interested in checking out your work. The average tech stack is a complete hodge-podge driven by resume padding and CADT and I feel like this is the source of at least some of our current problems in tech.
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by majewsky 4y ago
There are other useful things to do with "stranded energy" though. In Northern Germany, they're now building hydrolysis plants to convert excess offshore wind energy into hydrogen. And if we're talking about natural gas
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by majewsky 4y ago
Re examples 1 and 3: Your judgment does not change the fact that those are, as GP put it, "technologies that lasted a long time, then hit a hard dead end".
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by majewsky 4y ago
EVE Online has done several citizen science minigames over the years where human players can perform image-classification tasks. 2017: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/eve-online-citizen-sc... 2018: ht
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Tell them that you haven't slept. This is the odd one out here. Showing your grief about an undesirable decision is one thing. But implying that you're making significant decisions about your employees' welfare in a dete
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by majewsky 4y ago
Agreed on the food container waste, but why would eating at the desk vs. in a restaurant cause more food waste? I'm just eating the same portion in a different place. Also, when no one else is in the office, I sometimes like eating at
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by majewsky 4y ago
In a way, GP's post perfectly captures what's going wrong in much of modern software "engineering". Piling on and on more complexity to work around follow-up issues, instead of having the courage to go back and reverse a
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by majewsky 4y ago
Even if the entire German populace woke up tomorrow in full support of nuclear power, that would not change the immediate issue. We need a lot more electrical energy very soon to phase out combustion as a power source across all sectors (fr
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by majewsky 4y ago
Poe's Law applies: I'm honestly not sure if you're being sincere or engaging in deliberate parody.
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by majewsky 4y ago
How did it actually go in the Netherlands? Was it "better bike infrastructure -> more bike usage" like you suggest? Or was it the other way around?
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by majewsky 4y ago
I'm not a car expert by any means, but I just did a quick look through the Euro NCAP database, and apparently there are some models with 5-star ratings that are below 1.5 metric tons. I don't disagree that safety features don&#x27
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by majewsky 4y ago
> it’s similar to how we fork our laws in the real world as we realize they contain pitfalls and loopholes I don't think politics work like you think they do. If the opposition could just "fork the law" when they don'
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by majewsky 4y ago
IANAL, but as far I understand, "money is speech" relates to the 1st amendment, whereas wiretapping and key escrow relate to the 4th amendment. Which legal theory could be reasonably applied to map from "ban/regulation o
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by majewsky 4y ago
> My Nintendo Switch uses USB-C charging, but I can't use my MacBook charger for it. Then I guess you got one from the first hardware revision. I have a 2018 Switch (second hardware revision as far as I understand), and I have in th
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by majewsky 4y ago
> I would think volume is a better metric because landfills don't really much care about mass. Most EU countries have actually outlawed landfills in favor of waste-to-energy systems. [1] Of course waste-to-energy only works for stuf

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