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by majewsky 5y ago
By personal experience, non-Germans tend to be poorer on average. Is there a version of that dataset that controls for poverty level?
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by majewsky 5y ago
Until someone did and everyone immediately realized how stupid this law is, and then the law was repealed.
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by majewsky 5y ago
ON DELETE CASCADE has been in SQL since approximately forever.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Small businesses typically have exceptions carved out (i.e. rules don't apply to companies under 50 employees). Even if the rules don't apply to them, that means that as an employee, I can choose a small company and have to w
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by majewsky 5y ago
You can change into an existing mount namespace, which is what commands like "docker exec" or "machinectl shell" do to execute a command within the mount namespace of an existing container. The container can do the same
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Microservices are the simplest solution to counteract Conway's law. I don't think that "counteract" is a useful frame of mind. I interpret Conway's Law more as a lesson: Build your software to reflect your org
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by majewsky 5y ago
Even so, you should provide some evidence to back up your claim. If you said "Fowler is the master of overcomplicating things, like in his work on A, or when he argued B", then people could engage with those instances or provide c
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by majewsky 5y ago
youtube-dl is also used by video players like mpv for live streaming. In this case, 70 kbps is completely unusable for the vast majority of videos.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Flipping rockets is a simpler problem in the sense that it the required technology already existed, there just wasn't anyone with enough incentive and resources to actually do it. Human-level robotics, on the other hand, is not a probl
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by majewsky 5y ago
If the problem is scrutiny from investors, I don't think it's a viable solution to become a payment processor and therefore attract additional scrutiny from banking regulators.
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by majewsky 5y ago
s/getting \(.* \)the pornography /going \1/ Happy now? :)
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by majewsky 5y ago
Not just sed. Also ed, which is where sed got it from.
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by majewsky 5y ago
More current-day developers are nostalgic for Windows 95/NT than for Motif because of sheer exposure. It's the same for me: Windows NT UIs have a vibe of "good old days" for me, whereas Motif UIs feel like ancient histor
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by majewsky 5y ago
Without arguing the merit of your personal position, "this isn't Minority Report" is a terrible argument. Minority Report is about pre-crime. If someone has CSAM on their phone (and it's not a false positive), they are a
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by majewsky 5y ago
> we are nearing a technological plateau Max Planck was famously discouraged from studying physics by one of his professors because "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes
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by majewsky 5y ago
I wasn't arguing editorial merit. This was about them having a large market share, which they do.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The comment you're replying to responds to that in the second half, starting at "It's no different to how official propaganda works."
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by majewsky 5y ago
They were presumably not referring to NPR specifically, but to public-service broadcasters in general, like ARD and ZDF in Germany, BBC in Britain, ORF in Austria, RAI in Italy, and so on.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Since we're listing well-made OSS games, I'm going to add Empty Epsilon to the list. It's a multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator. Like in Star Trek, you have a captain, a helmsman, a weapons engineer, and so on. Great fun
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by majewsky 5y ago
Same for my site: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
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by majewsky 5y ago
> the web would likely be a decade or two ahead right now Seeing how the trajectory of web development seems to be "pile on more and more complexity, most of it unnecessary", I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be sad or
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by majewsky 5y ago
And here's the obligatory rebuttal against such tweening models from an animator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g
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by majewsky 5y ago
I don't think that's the entire picture. I live near a part of East Germany that has a minority language community, the Sorbs. Unlike the language communities that you seem to be thinking off, the Sorbian language is actively supp
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by majewsky 5y ago
Is there a MySQL equivalent for "FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED"? That's a feature that I've fallen in love with because it has completely eradicated the need to have a message queue like RabbitMQ or whatever. For example, for d
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by majewsky 5y ago
I know you're trying to make a reduction ad absurdum, but these are arguments that are actually made. For one, this is exactly the reason why we don't allow young people below a certain age to drive on public roads. Furthermore, i
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by majewsky 5y ago
Wow, I wasn't aware that people have perfect precognition and know ahead of time what everyone else around them is going to do and how that is going to affect them.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Do you have any reasoning to back up these grandiose claims?
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by majewsky 5y ago
Which OP obviously does.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Re (1): That's technically true, but missing the point when viewed holistically. Those first feature phones were mostly just used to make quick calls to arrange an appointment or discuss one or two things. They were not a platform to m
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by majewsky 5y ago
What does switching to ProtonMail help me when all my contacts are on GMail?

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