manuel_w

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by manuel_w 3y ago
Yes, it's 3 tons of TNT equivalent, but it's still an IMplosion rather than an EXplosion. From my understanding, things get pushed together rather than torn apart and disintegrated. I'd assume the submarine is basically a cra
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I would really like to use UML as documentation language more often, but I have yet to find a nice drawing that is simple, stupid and runs natively on GNU/Linux.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
There doesn't seem to be accurate data available, but surveys show it's around 39%. [1] I wouldn't be surprised if the German government doesn't collect reliable data on purpose. Original text: > Wie viele Schüler in
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Rockstar Games for sure didn't. They were "performing nearly 2 billion (largely pointless) item checks before each game." [0] Patching them out reduced load times by several minutes. HN discussion: https://news.yco
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I checked the wikipedia article on World War I [1] and fail to see how it can be attributed to Germany individually. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I > The first decade of the 20th century saw increasin
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by manuel_w 3y ago
It makes me a bit sad to hear NVidia is that successful. I'm working with their Jetson SoM product line professionally and was suffering from their bad support on several occasions. I hoped that their bad support would translate into t
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by manuel_w 3y ago
The EU stance and strictness on this is one of the things making me happy to be an EU citizen.
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I disagree. I'm quite happy to see the (sic) in quotes. Without, I'd read the quote and stumble over the incorrect would and would think "wait, did they really say that or has it been transcribed wrongly?". With the (sic
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by manuel_w 3y ago
How is it different to non-UK versions? How do I know I'm watching the UK one?
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by manuel_w 3y ago
Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372 I noticed that taking pain-killers is a very common thing in american TV shows. The main protagonist (male hero) gets hurt, goes to the bathroom, hastily pours
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by manuel_w 3y ago
I don't understand how that counters "Winner writes the history". If the winner wouldn't write history it wouldn't be a problem to talk about - Holodomor in Russia - the genocide on the Armenians in Turkey.
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by manuel_w 4y ago
Probably applying Hanlon's Razor which is "Never Attribute to Malice That Which is Adequately Explained by Stupidity."
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by manuel_w 4y ago
> My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're tra
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by manuel_w 4y ago
Tangentially related: One can store SSH server host keys in DNS and tell the client to make use of them. (OpenSSH supports `VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes`.) This is an alternative to the client asking the user to confirm the server host key, which m
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by manuel_w 4y ago
This is about the theory that it was the USA who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Hersh is referring to Seymour Hersh who, according to the youtube headline, is a reporter. OP: This is interesting, thanks for sharing. It's unfortunat
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by manuel_w 4y ago
Not posting to make a counterpoint but simply because related and interesting for the C++ folks around here. > Wt is a web GUI library in modern C++. Quickly develop highly interactive web UIs with widgets, without having to write a sing
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by manuel_w 4y ago
> Some of the most corrupt or impoverished countries are also monocultural. Which ones are you talking about? Are you sure they just didn't end up being monocultural ones just because their impoverishedness contributed to a former m
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by manuel_w 4y ago
I appreciate the effort you put into compiling this list, but need to point out some flaws: 1. You listed the Austrian presidents rather than Prime Ministers. Under normal circumstances, the Presidents dutys are mostly of representative nat
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by manuel_w 4y ago
I have been promoted to Team Lead recently and while I saw Jira as a burden while being a dev, I now totally rely on it to keep on overview. We're currently looking into outphasing Jira and going to GitLab, but as I see, you can't
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by manuel_w 4y ago
One might be because of the other. I once read an article that wrote about different cultures typical curse words. It explained that the principle of cursing is to break a taboo. If you know how a culture curses, you know what's holy t
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by manuel_w 4y ago
The one with Amélie was certainly very harmless, the other ones were a bit more spicy. Yet this shows the difference in thinking between America and Europe. Warning, NOT SAFE FOR WORK: For context here's the sex scenes in question: ht
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by manuel_w 4y ago
> I must agree. The most important thing for a writer would be the audience: "For whom am I writing" It may be very well the case, what he was writing was not correct for the audience targeted by the editorial. Yeah but why is
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by manuel_w 4y ago
My interpretation is that it is this thinking that the author is describing in their article. In short, if someone wasn't prudent, they would't feel to have to edit-out "not good" things. You could take them as just bein
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by manuel_w 4y ago
> The editors are not being puritanical. They're trying to illustrate to him that his writing (when read by an American) is adding context that he may not be trying to add. And why is that? Because Americans are puritanical. > bu
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by manuel_w 4y ago
> Maybe it's just me but I don't understand what this sentence means. I've never heard of a "marriage blackout night" and can't parse what it means. The author explains a few lines after: > In my version,
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by manuel_w 4y ago
Aren't governments subsidizing nuclear power plants a whole lot more than anything else? I heard without government subsidies, nuclear power plants would simply not be buildable. No insurance company would insure them. The cost in case
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by manuel_w 4y ago
Non-native speaker here. Didn't know what a "Peloton" is, but assumed it's what we call "Pedalo" [1]. Gave me quite a laugh when opening OPs link. ;-) [1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_
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by manuel_w 5y ago
Please don't just drop a link but elaborate a bit what your trying to say by posting that link. Was expecting something interesting GPS jamming related, but the article doesn't even contain the word "GPS". You likely pos
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by manuel_w 5y ago
I sometimes see this with C++ compiler errors. People don't even try to understand them. They just change some random things and copy/paste some snippets from Stack Overflow, and finally request help instead of just investing a fe
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by manuel_w 5y ago
> Why would that be relevant here Because it shows how wasteful these companies operate with resources others are in need of.

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