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by majewsky 5y ago
> Developers with experience can definitely handle this out but what if a newbie directly starts with the help of AI, he will spend more time on stack overflow than writing actual code. (oh wait that's how most of the developers ar
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by majewsky 5y ago
I mean, it's honest. Using a human voice suggests that you're talking to an individual, only to that one device next to you. Saying "Ok Google" makes it abundantly clear that you're feeding (and being fed by) a plan
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by majewsky 5y ago
Ah, if only all our problems could be solved by handwaving away the hard part (in this case, distinguishing commands directed at the machine from other speech, including voice lines on the TV).
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by majewsky 5y ago
I see what you're doing there. A 10-year-old most likely wouldn't know what the word "homophone" means.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Laschet who was prefered by the establishment was vastly less popular overall than Söder. Laschet is now their candidate I too was quite baffled when they went with Laschet. I've since heard the theory that the CDU leadership was
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by majewsky 5y ago
We had a famous case of this in the German federal election of 2005. The conservatives (CDU/CSU) wanted to increase sales tax by 1%, the social democrats (SPD) were opposed to increasing it at all. They ended up forming a coalition tha
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by majewsky 5y ago
Just because they're tested positive for Covid and later die in the hospital, doesn't mean that the death certificate will state Covid as cause of death.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The core of the problem is the part that I sort of glossed over when I said: > tax-exempt if you put the right weasel words into the statute The law lists a finite amount of ways [1] in which an e.V. can act in the public interest (&quot
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by majewsky 5y ago
If your Sauerkraut is not made through fermentation using lactic acid bacteria, you got a cheap knockoff. Source: I'm German.
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by majewsky 5y ago
OP said "if you're in a niche and have deep expertise you'll be fine". The analogy apparently means that deep expertise in a particular field won't guarantee your employment when that field is not in demand anymore.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I think in Germany it's more common to incorporate as a registered association (eingetragener Verein, e.V.) for most non-profit activities. For example, the legal entity for the KDE project is KDE e.V. Admittedly, IANAL, and I don&#x27
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by majewsky 5y ago
Not necessarily. Making a technology of this magnitude "feasible" requires substantial investments on a scale that requires buy-in from politics and the populous. Just look at how cars got where they are now. If cities had not inv
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by majewsky 5y ago
They may not "waterboard creativity out of people", but they provide incentives for affected companies to properly fund R&D into alternatives (both on the technical level, like alternate propulsion systems, and on the business
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by majewsky 5y ago
No, we just need to train a neural network to generate cat pictures from a small set of inputs (like a uint8 for pose, a uint8 for breed, etc.) and then just transmit those parameters instead of the entire picture.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> If you injected spike protein directly, it could end up anywhere. I don't know if this has been tested in humans yet Isn't that what the Novavax vaccine does? I'm not a medicine expert by any means, but my understanding
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by majewsky 5y ago
I work in a cloud environment where SAP HANA databases are provisioned. We offer VMs with multible TiB RAM for the larger HANAs.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> they’re cutting off a lot of current and high end systems built by enthusiasts, while supporting far slower and inferior PCs. No they don't. All those systems may not have hardware TPM, but they support firmware TPM, which is eno
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by majewsky 5y ago
Steam users are not a "fair representation of all users" either. The gamer demographic is biased towards newer and faster hardware than the average user, and the newest greatest hardware is only going to be supported on the latest
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by majewsky 5y ago
If anything, ecological collapse might hasten this future. Just last week, there was this news about the Texas power company that remotely raised temperatures on people's thermostats to save power and avoid brownouts/blackouts. Th
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by majewsky 5y ago
That wasn't OP's point. They meant that they don't have work e-mail or work slack on their private phone, to provide separation between work and private time.
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by majewsky 5y ago
So if you have a dentist appointment in the evening, after work, you don't put it on any calendar? I find that hard to believe.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The default message is empty though, so not editing it will abort the commit.
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by majewsky 5y ago
IME, "Turn off incoming video" fixes most of the slowness, and it's fine for me since I don't need a grid of heads anyway.
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by majewsky 5y ago
--allow-empty refers to the changeset [1]. You still need a message. [1] To be precise, it allows to create a commit that has the same tree as the parent commit.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Can mods change the link to https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/index.html ? This one explains what's going on.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> The USA also has a population 13x larger, so we should expect any given issue to occur about 13x as often in the USA as in AUS. Nitpick: "13x as much", not "13x as often".
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by majewsky 5y ago
Liable for what? GDPR says you can only collect data if you have informed consent from the user. It does not imply any right on the side of the business to be able to obtain such consent.
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by majewsky 5y ago
This is Damian Conway's "coding in paragraphs" advice, and in my experience, it's the single best advice for more readable code. When you have a large function, split the code into blocks with a heading comment on each s
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by majewsky 5y ago
You forgot "making money off people who just want to get in on the hype".
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by majewsky 5y ago
Let's make a petition to HN to support proper typesetting of the LaTeX logo when you input "\LaTeX".

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