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by rob74 1y ago
Glad to see Europe (in this case Germany https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund ) is doing something to support Open Source as part of its bid to make itself less reliant on the US tech giants. They could of course do
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by rob74 1y ago
Ok, I guess we'll see in 20 years (you did read the "20 years" part I hope?) if my assessment is correct. It was maybe a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I don't have any doubts that Trump would like to be an "actual dictat
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by rob74 1y ago
If you ask me, Putin is welcome to end the Ukraine war at any time he wants! Getting out of a war is actually easy if you don't care what happens after that, e.g. in the case of Afghanistan accept as "sunk costs" the billio
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by rob74 1y ago
To his credit: he didn't start any of those wars. But yes, I agree that the Nobel prize was unfounded.
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by rob74 1y ago
I had fun with Mini Metro for a while, but in the long run it's a really frustrating game, because it always ends in failure - you start with a few stations and a few lines, but the game keeps throwing more and more passengers at you u
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by rob74 1y ago
That... kind of makes sense. But (the way I* see it) modern large aircraft aren't very overpowered (otherwise they would be less efficient), so their engine power is just a little bit above what's needed to get them into the air w
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by rob74 1y ago
Well yes, it runs Excel in a VM running Windows. Which means you need an extra Windows license to be able to do it legally, but other than that, it works...
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by rob74 1y ago
Unless "affecting the towing aircraft" means "ripping its tail off", in which case you're screwed no matter what height you're at. GA aircraft are probably a bit sturdier, but large cargo aircraft (based on lar
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by rob74 1y ago
Their current implementation (or prototype?) actually uses a powered airplane instead of a glider, which has its engines on for takeoff and then switches them off during the gliding phase ( https://www.aerolane.com/aerocart ,
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Yeah, "being a dick" is kind of the opposite of "being empathetic". Case in point: the current US administration ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sin-empath... )
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The thought expressed in the title came to my mind when I saw Nvidia described as an "AI company" in the press recently...
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by rob74 1y ago
TIL that "uppercase" and "lowercase" come from the actual cases where the types were stored. When I saw this picture https://cdn8.openculture.com/2025/09/23222831/OC-Printing-Ty... from
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by rob74 1y ago
How has mathematics gotten so abstract? My understanding was that mathematics was abstract from the very beginning . Sure, you can say that two cows plus two more cows makes four cows, but that already is an abstraction - someone who has
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by rob74 1y ago
I think Asimov wrote something along those lines in one of his robots cycle novels (which leads us back nicely to "iRobot", er, "I, Robot"): why build a vacuum robot, a window-cleaner robot, a robot lawnmower, a robot ca
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by rob74 1y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I just cleared the history for the last hour, that works too (but using incognito mode is definitely better).
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by rob74 1y ago
Call me naive, but I would presume that even a junior, once they start working at a company, should be familiar enough with a language that they know all the basic syntax, idioms etc. Still, even if they are, over-using some language featur
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by rob74 1y ago
Because the current right-leaning US administration (ok, some would call it far right - or rather, if you would go by the standards of pretty much any other country, you'd have to classify it as far right) is so fond of conspiracy theo
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by rob74 1y ago
> Accenture are just trying to sell it as a good thing. Layoffs to increase profits are a good thing for shareholders. Not so much for those laid off of course, but who cares about those?
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by rob74 1y ago
Ok, maybe that was a little bit clickbaity, but the first sentence should clarify it: > The challenge, simulate millions of particles in golang, multi-player enabled, cpu only, smart tv compatible. Usually you wouldn't do that on
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by rob74 1y ago
> Google's move to reinstate previously banned channels comes just over a year after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said [...] that the Biden administration had repeatedly pressured Meta in 2021 to remove content related to COVID-19. &qu
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by rob74 1y ago
Not sure about Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, but for the many European aircraft companies that first cooperated under the Airbus name and then (much later) merged into a single company, there wasn't really an alternative (unless you co
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by rob74 1y ago
A few years ago there would have been comments along the lines of "why sink money into this, SpaceX is years ahead, just use their rockets", but I think that the recent events in the US have proven that it makes sense for ESA to d
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by rob74 1y ago
That solution is actually suggested in the article. However, that still leaves the cost issue mentioned by GP, and until that is solved, this will remain something for specialized applications (operating rooms) and maybe hypochondriac milli
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> A sweeping 40-year analysis of United States government spending reveals that federal science and research programs received more funding when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives and the presidency. Well, the current
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by rob74 1y ago
Well, I have to admit that your friend has a point. Humans are bad at reacting quickly and correctly to unexpected situations, and some debris large enough to damage your car showing up from out of nowhere after several hours of boring driv
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I suspect that in the case of tech companies, the end result of this won't be more jobs going to Americans, it will be either remote workers in low wage countries or outsourcing to low wage countries. Which, in the long term, might lea
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by rob74 1y ago
As I wrote in another comment, I think the Sagrada Familia is a worthy successor for the grand gothic cathedrals you mentioned, because Gaudí made the most out of late 19th century technology, same as the medieval builders made the most out
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, this is really a building that you have to experience yourself, words and pictures don't do it justice. Gaudí is a worthy successor to the unknown masters who built the great gothic cathedrals: like them, he used the technology o
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by rob74 1y ago
Without being very familiar with any of them, I suspect Low German and Dutch are pretty closely related?
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Maybe a David Lynch mega-fan who has $ 15 million to spare will buy it and convert at least part of it into a (nicotine-heavy) museum? But the neighbors would probably object, as they always do when tourists dare to stray into hallowed Holl

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