rndgermandude

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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Maybe that, to some degree. But amazon.de has a lot of problems, too. There are a lot of fishy listings, but it's also often quite easy to detect those fishy offers, because the German text is usually full of grammar and spelling error
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>App stores are the way they are not because of any fundamental limitation of app distribution over the Internet, but because users have chosen that model. Users have not chosen. App developers have not chosen. Apple has chosen and Googl
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
It seems voting-age adults are in a large majority, with "only" 28% under-18 and therefore 72% over-18 Tiktok users[0]. However, you have more of a point if you look at typical likely-voters instead of all voting-age people. [0]
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>Why not? I understand that a lot of people don't like this behavior, but why should it be illegal? Because these large companies are basically utility companies in my humble opinion, and wield a whole lot of power over people'
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
IIRC (and I haven't done any php in quite a while) upload_max_size is dependent on post_max_size, so I'd think there might be a ton of php deployments out there configured for large file uploads where this exploit precondition is
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
I would be in favor of legislation which allows for bans, but makes it harder to (not impossible) do so for the large companies. The EU's DMA (Digital Markets Act) defines "Gatekeepers", which is an OK definition of what coul
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Tiktok claims to have a billion monthly active users now. That puts them #4 in the social/public-user-generated-content category, behind Facebook (2.9B), Youtube (2.2B), Instagram (1.4B), and well ahead of the likes like twitter or red
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
As for NIH, kinda a bit but not really. Fossil was first released in 2006, Git in 2005 (mercurial in 2005 as well). At this point in time, there was no clear "DVCS" (distributed version control system) winner yet. The author of Fo
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
They might not have authored it, but they certainly had to be asked for their approval prior to sending anything out with an Apple logo prominently displayed and a [redacted]@apple.com in the letter. And it's not unreasonable to think
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Back in the early 90s, my mom took me and my sisters shopping for winter clothes. After we were done (and us kids had stressed her out), she opened up the car, parked in the mall car park, put us in the back of the car, checked we put on th
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
You were quicker with your response than I was ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30809570 ), I concede defeat :D But in my defense, I got sidetracked googling pictures of Mettigel.
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Not that person, but... In Germany, eating Mettbrötchen is rather popular in certain regions, and somewhat popular in the rest. As far as I know, that also applies to some neighboring nations. A Mettbrötchen is basically minced raw pork wit
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
In this example? Because we know that one is a true positive. We tested 100 people with a false positive, and 1 with a true positive. If we test again, and the test is "fair", then of these 101 people, we will retest 99% (or 99) t
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
It forgets to consider false negatives, which will not really change much for this example as the accuracy at 99% is pretty high and the incidence is pretty low, and false negatives thus would not really change much. However, when it comes
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Donations are all fine and dandy, but there are some problems: - Getting people to donate in a recurring fashion is exceedingly hard. Not impossible (as some patreons prove), but still hard. - Getting businesses to donate at all, let alone
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Neither. As the article specifically mentions, they will not be charging for the existing open content, or any future changes or additions to it. Why you would try to suggest they might do this is beyond me. They will be selling additional
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
The tall ones were a sight :D The one I remember looked something like this in size. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bootleggames/images/d/db/G...
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
How many is "too many" tho, realistically? In an OS like Windows, on "typical" hardware, the amount of memory per thread for stacks and bookkeeping the OS and/or userland allocate is usually negligible. In this cont
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
I first encountered one of these as a 100 in 1 or 150 in 1, sold at a local flee market. I remember it almost broke my brain seeing that thing. Not only had it more than one game on a single cartridge, it had so very many, but the cartridge
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
>In Germany no way would have i have been allowed to go to college. Why do you think that? Genuinely curious.
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
You and blinkingled are both right of course. I totally blanked out that the mobile frontend code is now in it's own repository and indeed mostly kotlin. Being in a different repository, it didn't show up in OP's stats, eithe
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
The python code is mostly really the build system and build support tooling and test systems, and some other "helpers", indeed. It's not shipped code.
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Most is in media codecs (like libvpx, dav1d and jpeglib-turbo), some is in nss (encryption), and some is in the JS engine (part of libffi, enabling privileged javascript code to load and call into non-js library code) and a tiny bit in nspr
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Firefox to my knowledge doesn't use much kotlin. Checking searchfox it seems the only uses of kotlin are in some geckoview tests, while the Android frontend including geckoview are still plain old .java. The one other place I know of (
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
She was already a paying customer, willing to pay them the price they had set before (which might have been too low, but that's their fault then, not hers). So up until this point she was a paying and "legit" customer. And
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
It doesn't mean it is necessarily more directly expensive. The decarbonizing nations, notably the "West" and even China to a degree, have a lot of influence and control over the markets of good and services, both politicall
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
Geo-thermal is a little bit geographically dependent, but by far not as much as you make it sound. Hydro is indeed very geo-dependent, no contest there. Large-scale electrolysis is not unproven. E.g. Air Liquide operates a 20MW plant produc
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
I am not saying we're almost there, just that we do not necessarily need break-though new tech. You're absolutely right that we will need to spend a lot of money and time if you seriously want to achieve to become globally carbon-
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
> It is irrelevant that the benchmark is written in Oberon. It is not irrelevant from my perspective. It might be mostly irrelevant if Oberon, as you say, "fairly directly" translates to CRL/IL, that is, there is no need t
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by rndgermandude 5y ago
We don't need massive breakthroughs in energy storage. And the goal is overall carbon-neutral, not carbon-zero. And other than wind and solar, we also have hydro and geo-thermal. The latter might become a very important part of the mix

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