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All Creatures Welcome [documentary](media.ccc.de)
3 points by rawfan 8y ago|1 comments
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by rawfan 8y ago
Check out https://twitter.com/systemdsucks My biggest personal grievance is how it handles DNS or rather how unpredictable and undocumented the process is. If everything fails, e.g., they actually hard coded usage of 8.8.8.
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by rawfan 8y ago
From what I heard, this is not true for the Dell XPS 13 and other new Notebooks that supposedly run well with Linux. I get almost 5 hours out of my decade-old Thinkpad T410 (original battery). My 2018 Macbook Pro 13" with touchbar only
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by rawfan 8y ago
Not Germany. EAST-Germany. Different country (at the time).
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by rawfan 8y ago
I don't have kids myself but what always amazes me with my friends is the drama when the kids have to go to bed. One friend doesn't force his kids (3 and 4) to go to bed at a specific time. They can stay awake and play (quietly) f
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by rawfan 8y ago
I read a study last year, that at least in the US actual STEM graduates are more and more balanced between male and female with females having better degrees. When they looked at the jobs the graduates got it was not at all representing of
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by rawfan 8y ago
How is knowing and writing down what your actually do with user data (and employee data, btw) and who is responsible an onerous regulation? In a world where lots of small shitty businesses (and some bigger ones) don't care what happens
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by rawfan 8y ago
Why would you think that? If he wanted to be compliant he only needs two things: 1. Some procedure that allows him to answer users privacy requests ("what information about me do you have?", "Please delete my personal data fr
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by rawfan 9y ago
China is not what many people make it our to be. Comparing to just a couple of decase ago, it now has a huge educated middle class. I don't think China is a free country, but if you dig a little, you'll see that many people openly
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by rawfan 9y ago
Good explanation of the options. I needed this half a year ago and found a solution and stackoverflow. Using MAX and CASE still feels like an ugly hack, though.
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by rawfan 9y ago
Yeah sure. Remind me when I buy my next iPhone for a ~45% markup compared to the US prices. The 64GB 4.7" iPhone 8 is $699.00 in the US and $998 (799 EUR) in Germany.
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by rawfan 9y ago
I only live a couple of km away from Ayden and this is the first time I've heard of this company.
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by rawfan 9y ago
But these problems don't exist if you use a service like Stripe. You never ever store any confidential customer information on your own servers.
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by rawfan 9y ago
That's not how Stipe and similar services work. They exist to prevent your scenario. They actually work very similar to Paypal except that you don't have to be redirected to the Paypal site to enter your credentials. Instead you g
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by rawfan 9y ago
I was once in an underground train tunnel fire. There was no real danger (at least I'd like to think so), but it was interesting to watch how people reacted. In some folks eyes you could see hysteria taking control and the brains shutt
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by rawfan 9y ago
I edited lots of screencasts in Blender. Can confirm it's more than suitable and above basic. There is a complete series on Youtube on how to use Blender for video editing.
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by rawfan 9y ago
If it is a complex project, I usually would avoid a rewrite. There is good literature on how to approach modernization of legacy applications step-by-step. Read it, apply it. In the end the modernization is a re-write. It's just one wh
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by rawfan 9y ago
The only rare earths mine in the US was shut down because of environmental problems. After that no owner was profitable producing REE because of environmental standards to keep up. That was until 2007 when China restricted REE exports. Now
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by rawfan 9y ago
What are you doing to use this amount of energy? I DO have an always on computer, an old fridge, a laundry machine (no dish-cleaner, though, I do that by hand) and electric water heating. I use ~290kWh/month in a 2 person household. Th
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by rawfan 9y ago
Most of the Cobalt reserves are concentrated in Kongo, though.
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by rawfan 9y ago
If you're looking to add an OAuth2 server to your PHP app, check out Laravel Passport ( https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/passport ).
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by rawfan 9y ago
I never had to look for sideproject ideas. They are there all the time by the dozen. The time to start and finish them is usually what's missing.
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by rawfan 9y ago
I repeatedly tried "living in another search-engine" for a month at a time. I tried Bing, DDG and Yahoo. If I didn't search for something easy (like "population new york") the results were useless and superficial. S
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by rawfan 9y ago
Can't speak for other countries, but of the 12002 total weapon discharges by German police in 2015, 11901 were against "animals or inanimate objects". Just for completeness: 101 were directed at people (half of those being wa
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by rawfan 9y ago
It's not about disarming police officers, it's about disarming the public. We have armed police officers in Germany. The number of people they shoot per year is close to nil. They can expect no one is going to kill them and act th
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by rawfan 9y ago
Yeah, this is totally Flattr. Except for the even-split concept.
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by rawfan 9y ago
It's not true. At least for Germany. Take a friend of mine for example: He went to Hauptschule (Germany has a 3-tier school system where children are split up after primary school, Hauptschule is for the least skilled children). He lef
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by rawfan 9y ago
The difference is: with physical access, "they" are in control (during import). Importing over the internet, the user is in control (by using proper encryption). If they beat encryption, everything is over anyway.
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by rawfan 9y ago
I will definately reach out to people to crash on someones couch.. If money is an issue, do the same! When the congress was in Hamburg I had people staying at my place from all over the world. ;)
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by rawfan 9y ago
Be sure to make room to acommodate people. ;-)

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