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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> prevent leaks about their practices from becoming public Google is a company that provides gyms, cooking classes, non-work discussion forums, extensive cafeteria service, massages and so on and so on to make sure employees are living w
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> it was conceived as a way to boost the German economy (before Euro the German mark was just too strong Interesting theory, but I wonder when the German economy was so strong that Germany forced the rest of Europe to agree to the Euro:
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
One design quirk of the Euro is that there is no sovereign to go with it.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Germany gave itself a bunch of rules on debt, and we're not in a catastrophic situation that allows bypassing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget_amendment#Germ...
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> because the power losses due to occlusion are significant and can make a system non-viable and non-economic That depends on how large the individual cells are and how they're wired up. There are panels that have a pass-through if
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
concrete is a permeable material, solar panels not so much. If you coat your driveway with a resin cover, the stains will probably disappear every time it rains. But nevertheless, it wasn't a talking point before - of course, with enou
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I think putting a roof on streets (on a relatively light aluminium/carbon fiber scaffold) for the panels is less outlandish than trying to fix "solar roads" by adding maintenance vehicles (or solar roads themselves, really).
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
You have some device complex enough to tell you the words, surely it can store them. Same for OLC or any other scheme more complex than Lat/Long (and even then it's not the early 90s anymore).
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's the same letters around the globe though. If you have a bunch of folks exchanging the following 3 Word Addresses, you better hope they get it textual in a medium that allows copy & paste - in which case OLC is no worse off. 语焉
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
And apparently it has to feed 100 employees (what are they even doing?) I doubt that's true for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code and so I'd be less concerned about incentives changing over tim
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> since it'd run afoul of many basic guaranteed rights Such as the guaranteed right to be paid as CEO while not being responsible? As I understand OP there would still be a right to be heard, rule of law, court proceedings and every
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The Management Engine is very a different beast, if only because its code runs long before the main x86 CPU is even started (and UEFI can run). It also seems to run Minix these days (and before they moved the ME to the tiny Quark-style x86
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> That's not really UEFI though per se. Having an oracle in SMM is one option, but sticking them in the Management Engine/PSP or an expanded TPM are other options. It's UEFI code that's linked into a separate module.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Except for the parts in SMM (often considered "ring -2", below virtualization) that are installed by UEFI to implement stuff like Authenticated Variables (the thing that makes UEFI Secure Boot work and requires a rather complete c
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
s,book,leaflet,
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Project Mu, like EDK2/Tianocore lacks everything coreboot has - and vice-versa: coreboot doesn't care too much about OS-side or user interfaces but delegates that to something we call "payload". EDK2/Tianocore on th
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> what is it about collective action that triggers contempt so quickly and automatically for those attempting to organize? One part "unions are evil mafia fronts", one part "if you organize you're no 10x $job_descript
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Project Mu is mostly about getting the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem sorted out: Instead of hoping that IBVs ("Independent BIOS Vendors") clean up their act (because, to be frank, they don't), they get ready-to-use compon
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Claiming > West wasn't ready to die for Danzig in 1939 by linking a Wikipedia that argues that this slogan was a fringe opinion that was promptly disavowed by political leaders and had _very_ limited political or societal impact in
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
As kfreds correctly states, there are important questions other than who the OEM for a mainboard is. With the exception of notebooks (where OEM specific components like the embedded controller require a fair bit of work that can be transfer
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The idea isn't to capture the entire billion dollar market, but to navigate a market that is large enough to safely feed you and many more for the next decade+, precisely because it isn't scalable (so there won't be any FAANG
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The 10.1" seem carefully chosen so that on Android, most tablets and phones are covered by the "free" edition while Chromebooks (that can run Android apps) are not.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> and mostly only cover fundamentals I consider that a feature when entering a new field. Once I have the fundamentals, it's much easier to read a paper and have at least a rough idea if it's a crackpot theory or the real deal.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Thanks for providing well thought-through advice like that. Following your arguments it seems pretty clear to me that you put a lot of thought in that. If I may ask, what's your background that tells you things like "most CS folks
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's rather uncommon to run into a "y" in German, so why give it such a central position on the keyboard? "Z" is more common, if only because German has a "tz" digraph. Es ist eher ungewöhnlich, im Deutsch
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> blah_blah_blah, written in [...] Rust Those are too popular as well, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895655 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19583384 , https://news.ycombina
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> In most of France, Belgium or Germany it's impossible to find apartments with ceiling fans or air conditioning. I live in Germany, in a house that's nearly 500 years old. There's one room that's holding up well agai
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I'd rather boil than open a window at 280km/h
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Since this is tarnishing your brand, maybe ask Ubuntu to cease shipping "VLC" if they do such a half-assed job (enough effort to replace integrated libraries with system packages, not enough effort to maintain those packages)?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Just that Ubuntu apparently forgot about the "S" part of "LTS", or they could have updated that package. Alternatively (because libebml is "universe", that is, unsupported), stop ripping out maintained componen

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