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by rob74 5mo ago
There's also siblicide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siblicide#In_birds ): > In these three booby species, hatching order indicates chick hierarchy in the nest. The A-chick is dominant to the B-chick, which in
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by rob74 5mo ago
...and don't get me started about all those tin cans with wheels parked all over the place outside of garages! I consider myself lucky to have several windows in my apartment where I usually don't see one of those eyesores when I
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yeah, that was my first thought too - why not just ban smoking on the airship altogether? But then again, before smoke detectors were invented, it was better to provide a place where people could smoke under monitored conditions than have t
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by rob74 5mo ago
Well, especially if the mission of the company who will fire them at a whim is driving "engagement" at any cost in order to sell ads, or (as in the case of the company I work for since the company I originally applied at was bough
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I guess you were among the ones applauding when Elon put USAID "into the woodchipper"?
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First time I heard about Mistral, so I went to the site. I first thought their logo is a pixel-art letter M. Then I read that their chatbot/agent is called "Le Chat"... wait a minute, that means something different in French?
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by rob74 5mo ago
> they state that they follow whatever privacy laws exist in your country Well, that's kinda obvious - if they want to do business in a country, they have to follow the laws of that country. That doesn't in and of itself mean
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by rob74 5mo ago
I think you're slightly overestimating their influence there... my theory is that they addressed all of these topics (along with others like robots, high speed trains and models) simply because they sounded cool and/or futuristi
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Then again, if we hadn't had the Cold War and the associated nuclear arms race, we wouldn't have had civil nuclear power either, so...
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by rob74 5mo ago
> And those dangers can be handled, if companies and regulators act responsible. As further proof of how well that works, Fukushima arrived in 2011: https://www.scribd.com/document/819988755/Examining-Regulato
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by rob74 5mo ago
The problem is just that already operating plants don't become safer or more state of the art as time goes by. I'd be as comfortable with a 70-year-old nuclear power plant as I would be flying in a 70-year-old airplane...
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by rob74 5mo ago
According to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe , the only certainly known "relative" of Uwe is Ove, which is used in Scandinavian countries. Other than that, the origin of the name is unclear, and there is a t
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by rob74 5mo ago
Space is cold. Space is also an excellent thermal insulator - there's a reason why Thermos bottles use vacuum for insulation...
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Well, yes, it's zero-native (as in 0% native).
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That was my interpretation too (no idea if it's correct though)...
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Each night is laid out like tracks in a music editor: one for sleep stages, one for heart rate and HRV, a few for the sensor events, and one for the noise events with the audio loaded in. As an avid reader of aircraft accident reports (ok
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by rob74 5mo ago
I sympathize with you, but there are people who don't have a tinnitus, and for those, they might be a solution...
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yeah, they're so uncompetitive that Trump had to introduce tariffs to keep them out. China is a different topic, but I wouldn't generally call German products uncompetitive...
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by rob74 5mo ago
That also works the other way around: Eastern European countries wanted to join the EU (ok, more importantly NATO, but also the EU) to make sure they never ever again slid into Russia's "sphere of influence". Notwithstanding
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OTOH, the more developed EU countries want the less developed countries to be reasonably well-off, so they can keep buying stuff from them. E.g. 56% of Germany's exports went to other EU countries in 2025. And, while Trump and Xi Jin
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by rob74 5mo ago
Not the parent commenter, but what Delphi always excelled at was being able to quickly click together a GUI (with a WYSIWYG UI designer) and easily hook up the events (onClick etc.) to your code. That, and the blazing fast compilation speed
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It's "weird" if you compare it with modern-day "child-safe" stories/comics/movies. It's definitely not weirder or more shocking than its contemporaries or predecessors. Here in Germany, the most well-
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> The Italian is plain enough that an early learner with a textbook behind them can finish a chapter in a sitting. Hm, that gave me an idea... sounds like a fun way to learn Italian if you already have some basic knowledge?
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by rob74 5mo ago
I was a heavy user of Delphi from when it first appeared in the 1990s until 2010, and I can't remember ever being annoyed by a UX change across all the versions I used over all those years, so thanks for your efforts! I guess this is o
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by rob74 5mo ago
Cool! I assume TRUST stands for "Turbo Rust"? If yes, maybe it would be worth mentioning that in the readme. I doubt that Embarcadero Technologies (the current owners of the Delphi and C++ Builder IDEs, and probably also the owner
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Wow, a Babylon 5 quote, I'm impressed :)
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The US constitution?
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I clicked on the link half expecting to see a scale model of the (in)famous Lockheed Starfighter ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104 ).
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LIES from the Radical Left Lunatics from reporters without borders! Also, total Losers! USA is #1 in not Supressing the Speech that Really Matters!
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> It took four months from the time I applied and went through a series of three interviews before I was selected from a field of 20 applicants and brought onboard. This is a critical time for the newspaper to be without an ombudsman wh

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