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by manuel_w 2y ago
Interesting that for me as a native German speaker the title poses no problem at all. It seems to follow a structure I'm used from German language.
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> Compare: if a large minority of Icelanders wanted to work for the Baby (which Iceland doesn't have), theb stopping the brain drain (convincing them to work in the Merchant Fleet) is the best outcome, but funneling them out (traini
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by manuel_w 2y ago
I've got no idea about finances and would like to invest a meaningful part of my money in ETFs. Because I'm so clueless I assume I cannot really go wrong with a ETF that is tracking the MSCI Developed World Index. My problem: I re
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by manuel_w 2y ago
TIL that in Python you cannot use a mixin class to provide implementation for an abstract base class that defines the interface. In other words, in the inheritance tree, the class providing the common implementation must sit between the int
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> If base classes were only allowed to be used in inheritance and couldn't be parameters, generics, etc then that would force users to create base classes and public interfaces in pairs and would decouple their names and by writing
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> Wait I'm not following, why must the decompressed contents of the initramfs fit within half of physical ram? It makes sense if you replace "initramfs" with "initrd": > One pitfall of this is that the decompr
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by manuel_w 2y ago
There's one (not always but often enough) viable alternative to read-only root filesystems that is often overlooked. It's the possibility to copy the entire rootfs onto a ramdisk when booting. It increases the boot time and obviou
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Thank you. Slightly francophile Austrian here. Gonna watch.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
> Reading between the lines, there is likely no legal obligation for Amazon to attend those hearings Is there a legal obligation for Amazon to have access to the European parliament? When Amazon is ignoring the Parliament when they seek
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by manuel_w 3y ago
This is completely unrelated to the article the OP posted other than it's also related to robotics. But it's the coolest robot project I found recently. And since readers of this thread are likely to be interested in robotics (I a
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by manuel_w 3y ago
> Beautiful visualization of data Absolutely. The visualizations in that song text really add value.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
> indent-based structure [...] less suited for more complex cases How so?
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I feel you. I was very disappointed with the noise made by my nuc7i5bnh. Did a bit of research and found out that a) the default BIOS fan settings are crap and b) the installed fan is crap as well. Found some recommendations for the fan [1]
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by manuel_w 3y ago
> I just hope to emigrate soon in a country with better infra & about same pay (Switzerland, NL, Austria, maybe Denmark Do you put these countries in the same income bracket because you expect the cost of living to increase equally?
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by manuel_w 3y ago
This page is very well designed! I really like that it puts the focus on text arrangement, font sizes and the strength of border lines around the cells and whole tables. Looks very pleasing.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Which again is a successor to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885 8 days ago, 357 comments
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I was once told by a chemist that bacteria breaking down plastic is not an unthinkable thing. He said it's chemically quite similar to something existing (fat?), so once bacteria stop ignoring plastic due to details in their chemical f
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by manuel_w 3y ago
You keep it illegal for PR purposes but force below you to bend the law to allow what's illegal. That's supposedly what happened in Germany in Foreign minister Annalena Baerbocks office. Basically the embassy reported that it has
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I took so much away from this discussion already. But what I'm really missing I guess is a video that explains double entry bookkeeping in a concise and though-out way. Can anyone recommend one?
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by manuel_w 3y ago
It don't understand what's the big deal about it. To make the system immutable, isn't it enough during boot to just 1. create a ram-backed filesystem 2. copy `/`s contents to that new filesystem 3. Optional
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by manuel_w 3y ago
The "as gateways for the respective core platform services" is the important part here. The linked page states in its very first sentence: > The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Al
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by manuel_w 3y ago
From what I read on the internet, ice cream machines in American McDonalds restaurants are broken a lot. Why doesn't McDonalds switch out the vendor for another one that produces working machines for purely economic reasons? Did the ic
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by manuel_w 3y ago
If anyone is wondering: With X64 the author is referring to x86_64 a.k.a. AMD64. Wondering why they're introducing yet another name for the same thing.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Electrical wiring typically involves materials gained through mining, which is carbon dioxide intensive.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
That helped, thanks!
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by manuel_w 3y ago
$ ip address --color Command "--color" is unknown, try "ip address help".
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by manuel_w 3y ago
> Marx with a clever fool. He invented a "religion" and claimed his way is superior. Well, his way was superior. Back than factories consumed people like... well, consumables. If you started working in certain factory, you coul
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Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18(theguardian.com)
57 points by manuel_w 3y ago|70 comments
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by manuel_w 3y ago
You're completely ignoring the point that the parent was making.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Rebasing patches is pretty hard I'd say. Much harder than just explaining someone the logic behind /lib, /etc and /run. I mean, this directories are seperate for a reason. Knowing the idea behind the directory split (a.k

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