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by perlgeek 4y ago
I hear the Great Chinese Firewall is pretty good at blocking VPNs, they'll likely be able to block this one pretty quickly.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> But TSMC can delay 3nm until it has the clients. My impression is that they invested huge sums of money into the 3nm lines; you don't want to delay getting returns on such investments. Considering that capital has a cost, it might
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Ever-dropping prices for solar panels are slowly making it economically feasible where it used to be a bad idea. According to https://uk.renogy.com/blog/what-is-the-average-payback-perio... the payback time is now arou
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> German putting some nuclear shutdowns on hold ... or at least we "want" to do that, but it turns out that some operators of nuclear power plants have delayed some much-needed maintenance in light of the upcoming shutdown, so
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> As far as I know, they have never permanently lost even one byte of consumer data. It seems that every other day you learn about people being permanently locked out of of their Google account. Every byte of data stored in there is per
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Try 'loving not to be alone' as self-image for a month and see how that feels. Try to avoid negations, our subconsciousness has a hard time dealing with them. "loving being in company" would be a positive formulatio
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I love eating chocolate, but there's a limit to how much chocolate I can eat. Maybe you love being alone, but there's a limit to how much you can be alone?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
What do the authors get out of the book tour? Fame, maybe?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
It's simply not practical to determine with certainty who owned an Android phone during the time that Google violated the antitrust laws, and divide the payout among them.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I agree that we need better enforcement mechanisms, but I'm not sold on a "time out". What would that even mean? If you aren't allowed to participate in the Maps business for, let's say, 2 years, does that mean you
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Pay a fine, first of all :-) Wikipedia has more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google... > In October 2018 Google revamped how it would distribute its Google Play Store with Android in the fu
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I guess I just wasn't aware of it in the past. Back when I listened to radio, I wouldn't often come across the author doing interviews, but then I only switched between 3 or maybe 4 different stations...
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Everything (and everyone, including myself :D ) seem to struggle with Norwegian, it seems the corpus size is simply too small. And/or maybe the market. Deepl didn't do any Norwegian last I looked, even though it does most other Ge
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Kind of a meta comment, it's always interesting to see / hear that when a somewhat well-known author writes a new book, you see interviews with them cropping up on "all the usual" places, other outlets write about it etc
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Class-action lawsuit for attempted fraud? (charging money for a free account looks like fraud to me, but IANAL, much less in the US...)
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> In either case, guard your physical and mental health. In this regard, trust no one but yourself. If people close to you tell you they get a stressed or exhausted read on you, absolutely trust them. Sometimes we are slow to realize the
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by perlgeek 4y ago
It really depends. Was there some kind of thought-up end date? So what, it's running late. Otherwise a common approach is to cut scope, deliver fewer features than initially planned. If somebody asks you to work overtime, ask them how
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Clearly different people have different needs. Having two distinct "products" could help here. There could be a "bare rust" that is minimal and unopinionated, and used by those that need a small footprint, for example. A
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Relative DNS can be super useful. For example, you could have a project where, by convention, the app servers are just called as http://app/ the db servers are called as db etc. Saves lots of configuration effort. All you h
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I've gotten an offer from OTRS AG after contributing some to their core (back then Open Source) ticket system. I've declined, and a few years later they basically closed-sourced their platform (it's still source available, bu
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I agree. I've published three books with a publisher, and the one I'm most proud of and which got the best reviews (19 ratings on Amazon, all 5 stars) is the most niche, and got the lowest sales numbers. https://smile.a
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Most of these turn out to be sensor artifacts, operator errors and the likes, and even some blatant fakes. The problem is: it takes much more effort to investigate (and possibly debunk) each of these occurrences than to shout "UFO! UAP
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by perlgeek 4y ago
We should worry. Not about alien spacecraft, but about the inability of the public to deal with blurry photos. There will always be some blurry / ambiguous photos. The fact that no sharp pictures show alien spacecraft means that blur
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Companies might simply have to sign statements that they aren't doing forbidden mining, and in doubt auditors are sent.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I really wonder why supply chain security wasn't such a big issue before, and why there weren't really many supply-chain attacks on software before. Too few attackers understood it well enough? Or were other attack vectors easier?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Sources of Support: MS-Nutrition and MoISA received financial support from the French National Interprofessional Association of Livestock and Meat (Interbev)
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Really “material science” was a sort of fancy label for the chemistry of things we use to build other things. Wrong, much of what material scientists do relate to the physical properties of the materials. I know a few material scientis
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> 3. What parts are too easy to dismiss early on, but are likely to bite me later on? Regulation. (Highly depends on where you live, though).
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Amazon owns AWS, so lots of services that you don't think of as Amazon related (Netflix, lots of news sites, ...) would trigger this.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Disclaimers: our attempts to run a RabbitMQ cluster were a few years back, maybe things changed since then. First of all, operating a cluster is a hassle, sometimes (for no apparent reason) on of the members gets thrown out and doesn't

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