rob74

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   by rob74 4y ago

   Those enameled steel panels are still very popular as heavy-duty vandalism-resistant wall cladding for public spaces (e.g. subway stations). That's probably one of the reasons why they fell out of favor for private residences...
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   by rob74 4y ago

   Well, there is this ecosystem of orange plastic cats in France: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-have-garfield-...
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   by rob74 4y ago

   ...especially since you don't want someone to bootstrap things again, you want someone to work on something that other people already bootstrapped - and lots of "top talent" don't find this kind of job very appealing..
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   by rob74 4y ago

   Pssst! Don't tell anyone I told you: they are already doing crazy stuff, but we shouldn't complain too loudly, or else...
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   by rob74 4y ago

   Not trying to justify that law (and I'm not a fan of the Bavarian "one-party-state" either), but I want to mention that "the police" can't put you into prison forever - they need to get it reapproved every thre
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   by rob74 4y ago

   Well yeah, if you put two slices of Swiss cheese side by side instead of on top of each other, you have given the attacker a wider choice of holes...
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   by rob74 4y ago

   It's more a risk management model than a security model. It tries to build a safe system from layers that are not 100% safe (e.g. because components on a plane may fail or people may not follow procedures exactly). That's why in a
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   by rob74 4y ago

   Do you have lots of followers at your local dry cleaner? Posted a lot of notes on their walls that people like to read?
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   by rob74 4y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecration#Churches,_altars,...
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    by rob74 4y ago

    My answer: not as many by far as are/were wasted with various character encoding standards and the problems involved in converting between them. Fortunately Unicode is slowly making that a thing of the past, but brings with it new issu
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Yeah, I also think it's the wrong priority - I mean, what are you going to replace them with? Electric stoves? Then you'd better make sure that the electricity is 100% from renewable sources, otherwise you'll be burning fossi
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    by rob74 4y ago

    In Python, "it’s very difficult to write a moderately complex program which uses even a single dependency and is bug free" - whereas in Rust, it's very difficult to write pretty much anything, but if you manage to do it, it
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    by rob74 4y ago

    The "bug" is (or rather, isn't) in this phrase: "[n]o person shall import into this state, or take, possess, or sell within this state, any bird, mammal, fish, amphibia or reptile , or any part or product thereof, that
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    by rob74 4y ago

    I would say anyone who makes such broad statements about groups of people is at least guilty of bigotry, yes...
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    by rob74 4y ago

    The common element is always in-group vs. out-group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group ). It doesn't have to be based on race or ethnicity, it can also be e.g. Democrats vs. Republicans in the US
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    by rob74 4y ago

    > Soundararajan appealed directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who comes from an upper-caste family in India, to allow her presentation to go forward. But the talk was canceled, leading some employees to conclude that Google was willful
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Except racism (and "caste-based discrimination" is also racism) shouldn't be considered "politics", everybody should be able to agree that it doesn't have a place in a modern company.
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Not sure what you mean: "Türkiye" is the (official) Turkish name, "Turkey" is the English name. The Romans did not have a name for it, as it didn't exist at that time - and for most of its history, it was called the
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    by rob74 4y ago

    I'm waiting for the requests from Hungary to be henceforth only called "Magyarország" and from China to be called "Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó".
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    by rob74 4y ago

    I think the part that people most take issue with is the "you have to spend 40 hours in the office (the other 40 hours you are expected to work per week you can do from home)" part...
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    by rob74 4y ago

    I think the hate mostly comes out of being forced to use a solution and then being annoyed because it tries to force itself onto you. Yes, I confess, when I'm waiting for an important email I sometimes check private emails on my work l
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Even easier: let LastPass fill in the password in Chrome, save it with the browser's function, view it in the browser settings.
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Can't really agree with that. For me, LastPass is a huge annoyance (it wants to fill in passwords on pages that these passwords definitely don't belong to, and it prompts you to save passwords over and over again with no "don
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Be that as it may, but the article you linked actually confirms that places like this exist all over the world: "Kaltluftlöcher wie jenes im ‚Bierchäller’ sind der Menschheit seit jeher bekannt und wurden überall genutzt" ("c
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    by rob74 4y ago

    In the spirit of that article, I wonder what DALL-E would spit out if you ask for "GilaWhamm" - probably images of scary medieval-looking men wielding scary medieval cutting weapons?
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    by rob74 4y ago

    Well, I assume you wouldn't submit a PR if it didn't look good to you, so the acronym is appropriate...
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    by rob74 4y ago

    The "Pascal-like" elements are the contribution of Robert Griesemer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Griesemer ), who studied in Zurich and is also a co-creator of Go. The syntax has the curly braces and
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    by rob74 4y ago

    The ones that made me laugh were the Tycho Brahe ones. It takes some time to realize that he's not looking through the telescope, but wistfully staring at it (or past it). Especially in the first moose picture, he seems to be looking
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    by rob74 4y ago

    I'm not familiar with the laws involved, but I hope they mandate some kind of counseling before making this decision? Which is definitely more than you have when contemplating "unassisted" suicide?
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    by rob74 4y ago

    > CEO Joost de Vries, previously a high-ranking official at Tesla and Karma [...] has taken the helm from Brit Stephen Wynne, who had run DeLorean as an aftermarket support service since 1995, when he acquired the brand rights following