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by perlgeek 7mo ago
In the 12+ years I've been a professional developer, I can only remember two bugs that were caused by the compiler / interpreter, everything else were logic bugs, oversights, 3rd-party libraries, misunderstanding of the requiremen
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by perlgeek 8mo ago
In Germany, you don't need permission for recording image material (including moving images) in public places, though usage of the material might be restricted. However, audio recording of conversations is prohibited.
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
> Strip mining moon is the easy part. Is it easy though? The moon surface is full of nasty regolith that can jam up machines pretty quickly. Plus the lack of atmosphere means that any small particle you accelerate fast enough goes into a
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
Which stock is being manipulated? Both xAI and SpaceX are private, no?
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
At that point, country could just sanction the company, so that it's illegal for its citizens to pay them any money. Seems like a standard thing to do to a company that breaks laws and that you cannot otherwise reach.
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
They don't. It's a con / financial engineering, to hide the losses from Twitter.
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
Another aspect: GPUs depreciate very fast. There's not much use case for building GPU satellites and expect them to last for 10-20 years. So let's say you expect them to do useful work for you for maybe 2 or 3 years? You have to a
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
> They should probably fund their military first. They should do both. Resilience must be achieved in depth. > It’s petulant the way the EU is throwing a hissy fit after we’ve had lop-sided trade deals for years and funding the entire
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
The switching cost keeps decreasing, because more and more stuff is being migrated to the browser and/or cloud. Combined with some digital independence movements outside the US, I have some hopes that Windows monopoly starts to crumble
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
There are three main sources of air pollution from cars: 1) Byproducts from combustion (like soot and nitrogen oxides). Only ICE produce these, EVs don't 2) Break abrasion. EVs tend to do better, because they can do most of their break
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
Try to be innovative without staff though...
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
I'd like to add a very simple one: Uno. With the rules variant that you can play out-of-order if you add an identical card to the one that's on top of the stack, it disrupts the otherwise pretty linear play, and easily scales up t
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
IMHO Open Source Software is a public good, and should be mostly funded like other public goods: through government grants. GitHub charging its users, who themselves are mostly OSS developers (and not end users) doesn't seem like a sen
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia likely leads to them forgetting it (unless they continue to use it well beyond that age range).
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
In Firefox with ublock origin, I got in the console: "Loading failed for the <script> with source “ https://uncrossy.com/js/cookieManager.js ”." looks like a false positive in the ad blocker. Allow-listin
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by perlgeek 9mo ago
Both of these comments have a kernel of truth. Yes, you must do more than average to get promoted. But also yes, if you do more and more and don't get the rewards you want, don't just continue. Either scale back again, or modify y
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
Sounds like in countries like Denmark, they are already on their way to becoming the most prevalent. Hope we'll develop vaccines against those too.
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
> who are the consumers of the software produced at industrial scale? Basically every company that does anything non-trivial could benefit from tailor-made software that supports their specific workflow. Many small companies don't h
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
The definition of "market niche" must do too much work for my liking to make this true. For example, for the market niche "getting people from one location to another" there are quite many technologies, like walking, bic
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
We need every approach that's viable. Batteries are part of the solution, and will be in future. But I don't see why we we should assume they're better in every way than this approach
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
There are a few factors at play here, I think * Many breakthroughs from the first research stages never make it into medical application. * Many breakthroughs are touted as some kind of "novel treatment", but when they get into th
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
They also have the "extensions that can do real ad blocking" angle.
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
Do you also make fun of people who condemn war crimes?
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
If you initiate a military conflict with another nation, the proper thing to do is to declare war first.
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
The proper action then would be to declare war, and announce that the airspace is no longer safe for civilian use. The whole "oh yes, our military is active, but we aren't at war, and yes, the president tweeted about that" sp
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
In the EU there is the "reverse charge" mechanism for VAT when commerce crosses country borders, and it is often used for defrauding EU countries / governments. The invoicing standard is an attempt to mitigate reverse charge
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
For a database-driven application with sqlalchemy, I've found mixer[0] to be pretty helpful. It gives you an easy way to generate an object, and it automatically creates dummy-objects that your object depends on. You can also supply de
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
Hardly a distinction worth making; if the USA votes for such unstable and highly egoistic politicians TWICE, it's quite clear they aren't a reliable partner anymore. Even if they vote in a sane president next, we cannot rely on th
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by perlgeek 10mo ago
> What is the political element in Germany that makes these very public walk away from Microsoft viable? Mostly the widespread perception that the USA has betrayed the security guarantees given to Europe, and that the USA isn't a re
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by perlgeek 11mo ago
The problem is that you don't know in advance which will be doing well when.

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