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by rf15 3y ago
Heyne is well known by now for their questionable translation work, at least in the genre fiction section. Covers get modified towards more blandness, language gets defanged, etc.. One of the more prominent examples in recent times is their
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by rf15 3y ago
Tasteless and inappropriate towards someone who suffers from a life-threatening disease.
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by rf15 3y ago
I'm always happy to have stuff like f-strings in languages. This on the other hand feels much too overladen with separate requirements of safety/etc. which reduces its general usability. Suddenly you don't have to prefix it w
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by rf15 3y ago
`"what is so bad about" + this` uses 4 less characters, and that includes the spaces around the plus.
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by rf15 3y ago
Even after reading this proposal over the past months over and over in all its iterations, I still don't get it. Is this what many developers want? I fear people will just stick with +concatenation because it's less verbose than t
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by rf15 3y ago
Confirming this experience, it is Security Theatre all the way down.
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by rf15 3y ago
I know the history of xml, but just to get back to my original premise: why has a tag (a kind of key in the mind of most readers) multiple "kinds" of values/children in parallel, especially one set that is map-shaped (attribu
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by rf15 3y ago
We actually offer both for configuration files of our software - YAML can be very pleasant to write and read for small datasets or those without much depth, without the overhead of curly brackets and quotation marks on everything. The origi
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by rf15 3y ago
In my job I often have to deal with developers who were supposed to implement a standard and went with a "more like guidelines" mentality. So I'm with the author here: Either you claim to support protobuff and fully implement
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by rf15 3y ago
Good luck! Better use this advantage.
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by rf15 3y ago
Personal anecdote: Windows Update has a habit of resetting microphone frequency settings, causing problems if Windows and connected professional hardware suddenly speak "different languages". This is strictly an OS-level issue, si
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by rf15 3y ago
what's specifically preventing it from becoming just that?
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by rf15 3y ago
> We live under a global survelliance network But we don't, right? Neither every word nor every move you make is recorded. Not to mention not globally shared, of all things.
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by rf15 3y ago
You can extend this to the whole of "the west". In fact, you even have this effect between west german and east german culture.
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by rf15 3y ago
a year ago at least (when I dexompiled the app) it was explicitely not possible.
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by rf15 3y ago
yeah nobody cares about the "Latest in <location>" menu that takes up a third of your phone's screen when you use the Maps app.
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by rf15 3y ago
> If the augmented-student pair performs at the required level, what's the problem? The problem is that they have none of the general knowledge themselves and their brain is exclusively optimised to seek out openAI interfaces for gu
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by rf15 3y ago
"God it must really suck to have this kind of life, thank goodness I am fully in control of everything I do" I think as I keep scrolling through HN like I do every day. ...actually it made me close the tab and do some chores inste
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by rf15 3y ago
Those numbers don't seem right, looking at Wikipedia[0]. I'm sure console pricing can skew that a bit, but xbox is basically dead outside the US in terms of marketshare. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis
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by rf15 3y ago
Controversial take: The laptop formfactor is somehow a worse compromise vs desktop/phones in terms of manufacturer care and quality.
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by rf15 3y ago
xbox still exists despite everything, and Nintendo is an even bigger player in the space than Sony. So I guess legislators ARE willing to go that far to protect Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft's DRM. The interesting bit here is that
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by rf15 3y ago
I don't buy apple products so I don't quite understand the implication here; how is a physical property you cannot really perceive relevant to you?
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by rf15 3y ago
All throughout reading this article I asked myself just how long a frog leg can be usable, considering nerves decompose quicky. It's answered towards the end with 44h, which is... a lot, and yet almost nothing for what you expect of a
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by rf15 3y ago
Does anyone know why they used bubblesort in the first place? It is known for its bad performance, so what other factors came into play? Number of ops, maybe?
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by rf15 3y ago
they blend pixel and other rendering styles together, which is awful since they each demand stylistic consistency.
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by rf15 3y ago
I think people are very aware that c++ is a lot more verbose than Java. What's the advantage of making this particular comparison?
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by rf15 3y ago
point 1 is sadly wrong and I wish people would stop thinking that fusion doesn't cause radiation damage in all surrounding material.
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by rf15 3y ago
past a certain point it will only help algae, and they tend to kill marine life if they grow out of hand. Also warmer water means less oxygen.
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by rf15 3y ago
While I cannot offer concrete evidence, it's fairly easy to see that this could happen for Russian nationals or similar.
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by rf15 3y ago
I guess germany's ambition has been wholly crushed following ww2. Certainly an interesting effect. All the more surprising that they managed to aspire to so much when it comes to the EU.

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