rob74

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1. 4081.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   As long as the bugfix is at least in a commit of its own so it can be cherry-picked into another branch if needed, that should work too...
2. 4082.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   I think the only actual reason why the power frequency has to be precise is so all the power plants can be synchronized. But in an emergency situation, you don't really care if it's 60 or 65 Hz...
3. 4083.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   First vinyl records, then fountain pens... out with the new, in with the old! But why stop at fountain pens, why not use dip pens, those are even more stylish and minimalistic, kinda like a fixie bicycle? Or why not go all in and use a quil
4. 4084.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   I'm wondering if there isn't a business model in this: couldn't the inmates (or their families) hire some law firm that calculates the correct release date and sues the state to get a hefty compensation for every day the inma
5. 4085.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   ...however the exact type of engine Boeing is using for the 777 (PW4000-112 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_PW4000#PW400... ) is not used by any other airliner. I'm no expert, but as the most powe
6. 4086.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   I was only talking about numbers , where this issue only applies to the "1" - all other numbers take up more or less the same space.
7. 4087.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   Sorry if my comment sounds overly critical, I edited it now to try to tone it down...
8. 4088.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves too for anything displaying columns of numbers, or a changing number. I heard of "font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums", but is there actually any reason for font designers to not make all nu
9. 4089.▲
   by rob74 6y ago

   The page doesn't contain a lot of information, but still it manages to contradict itself: - upper left corner: "I am Jeff Bezos" - middle: "see how much $$$ I earn while you are looking at this page" - lower right c
10. 4090.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    I agree it sounds like a joke, but when someone starts making death threats because of these misguided conclusions, it stops being funny...
11. 4091.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yeah, they are currently decommissioning all West German nuclear plants (initially announced by the Social-Democrat/Green government before 2005, then delayed by the Christian-Democrat/Social-Democrat government, then finally set
12. 4092.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    > VVER power stations have been mostly installed in Russia and the former Soviet Union, but also in China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, India, and Iran. Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (
13. 4093.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    The distance between the plants is not the point - the point is that the Ignalina plant was in a sparsely populated area ~150 km from Vilnius (and subject to EU regulations), while the new plant is only ~60 km from Vilnius (and subject to B
14. 4094.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Do you mean the repetitive strain on your patience caused by long compile times?
15. 4095.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    > Your product manager appreciate your work. Your engineering manager is engaging the team. Your peers enjoy working together. Your users love your product. Your business loves the adoption. What company did he have in mind when writin
16. 4096.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Ah, Lemmings... one of my favourite games of all time! It's rare that you get to play a game that defines a whole new genre. One interesting tidbit I didn't read about before was that the music that made it into the game was actua
17. 4097.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Thanks for the recommendations! I already played Spirits, it's really nicely done, adds something original and works well with a touch interface. Of course I also tried Pingus, but while it's a perfectly competent Lemmings clone,
18. 4098.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Well, the concept of the original Lemmings games only works with a mouse-based interface which enables you to (more or less) precisely pick out one Lemming out of the crowd you have milling around on your screen. But there are a few good &q
19. 4099.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yup... when Embarcadero bought Delphi from Borland in 2010, the pricing scheme and lack of a "community version" made it clear that they were considering it a "cash cow" and weren't putting a priority on expanding i
20. 4100.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Errr, the article you're quoting says: > Tundra vegetation is composed of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses, and lichens. So, they want to replace grassland with... grassland (maybe with less shrubs)?
21. 4101.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Well, that's the question then: whether the globally negative effect of eradicating trees which bind CO2 isn't worse than the local positive effect of "trampling the snow [which] will result in a stronger cooling of the groun
22. 4102.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yeah, they could , but why would they? There are lots of less controversial fields to invest in...
23. 4103.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    That period of time between 5 and 9 the next morning is actually there for the mental break you mentioned before. I'm not advocating a very strict separation between work and free time, but if the line between the two blurs too much (m
24. 4104.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Although Marie Curie probably wouldn't object to other female scientists being honoured: https://xkcd.com/896/
25. 4105.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Great writeup, and also thoroughly answers the first question that popped into my mind: "how on earth could a bug in the Linux network stack that causes the whole data transfer to get stuck stay undiscovered for so long?"
26. 4106.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Ah, so it's "bookmaking" as in "making books", as opposed to what the people usually referred to as "bookmakers" do... good to know!
27. 4107.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    It's usually not a good idea to explain a joke, and I'm not the GP so I'm not sure that's what they meant, but "plant" has multiple meanings, and I suspect they are referring to meanings 3 to 5 from this list:
28. 4108.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yeah, guess that the Wikimedia guys are not adepts of the "name and shame" method. Although it would be entirely justified in this case, and stop people trying to guess it and implicating the wrong app...
29. 4109.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yeah, of course a Big Tech company would rather employ a developer and allow them to contribute to Rust (and influence its development in the direction of the company they work for) than donate money to the foundation so that it can pay dev
30. 4110.▲
    by rob74 6y ago

    Yeah, (re)reading that reinforces my opinion that Rust is better off being supported by a foundation - provided of course that the foundation is better managed than Mozilla...