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by rob74 2mo ago
LibreOffice uses libexpat ( https://libexpat.github.io/doc/users/ ), and one of the major issues with using OSS in public administration is that there is still no open source office suite that can compete with M$ Of
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by rob74 2mo ago
"Microsoft got a nice campus in the city" - plus they decided to pay taxes (Gewerbesteuer) in Munich rather than Unterschleißheim, despite Munich having a higher rate.
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by rob74 2mo ago
And, fittingly enough, the airport where the accident happened is named after the guy who did that. Must feel like a daily middle finger to all the controllers who work there...
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by rob74 2mo ago
I started playing that at least three times along the years (if for nothing else, then for the dialogue: "You need a rad suit to go in there! -- What do you mean?! This suit is totally rad!"), but somehow never got very far...
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by rob74 2mo ago
That's one of the usual failures of science fiction: most authors imagine technological progress, but don't also predict what societal changes it might bring. So this family had a quaint picture-book suburban 1950s life, just with
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by rob74 2mo ago
I second that - they do write "this list has been truncated to those titles with heavily involved narratives with settings and themes that are decidedly within the genre", but a game about a hacker hired to hack the AI controlling
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by rob74 2mo ago
TIL that the original Kermit (after which this tool was presumably named?) is already more than 70 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog
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by rob74 2mo ago
Even though the price of RAM has gone up recently, it's still (even if you don't adjust for inflation) several orders of magnitude cheaper than it was in 1981... This graph ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/
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by rob74 2mo ago
I mean, instead of investing so much effort to get glutamate into your food, why not use MSG directly? Sounds like much less hassle? Reminds me of the time when Big Food over here in Germany replaced MSG with "yeast extract" so th
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by rob74 2mo ago
All foreign films are also dubbed, something I'm not a huge fan of, but at least you don't have to watch an actual German film to hear German... Also, BTW, there are some very good German films, but to enjoy most of them, you have
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by rob74 2mo ago
Nice! But for a city renowned for its steep streets, this looks suspiciously flat :) Ok, you could say it's only a 3D rendering of a 2D map, and it probably has to be this way for practical reasons, to avoid hills obscuring objects beh
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by rob74 2mo ago
Thinking like this is exactly what's wrong with public transport in most of the world. It has to be there, but god forbid you make it actually attractive , then people might use it more and it would cost even more . Better to keep it
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by rob74 2mo ago
Well, some people spend a significant amount of their time on transit. Of course, utility should come first, but I also would totally support trying to make them look nice (even if most people wouldn't notice nowadays because they star
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by rob74 2mo ago
Yup, that's the utilitarian reason for having a different design for each week. Most companies didn't go so far however. But even the monthly passes that I used in Romania during my youth were printed with different background col
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by rob74 2mo ago
Hm... race to the bottom? We bought our current apartment (built in the 1980s) 12 years ago, and I have switched to LED lighting everywhere from the beginning. Main learning: old relays and/or dimmers seem to generate voltage spikes th
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by rob74 2mo ago
If their customers (customer companies specifically) are not concerned, they should be - if it turns out that Claude hacked a competitor's servers because of a prompt of one of your employees, I wouldn't be sure everyone would a
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by rob74 2mo ago
Undoubtedly cool, but not something you couldn't do with a less expensive VR headset?
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by rob74 2mo ago
I have especially fond memories associated with this logo (which is a work of art all of its own IMHO): https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/Logos/Psygnosis_1990_b.png And this one https://amiga.lychesis.n
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by rob74 2mo ago
Actually I wrote something similar yesterday as a reply to the (since flagged) comment below. Glad to see that more people have this association. But apparently the founders of Hugging Face didn't have it, or else they probably would h
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by rob74 2mo ago
Sure, most commercial aircraft were probably broadcasting their position etc. via ADS-B, the question was just if they were picked up by a Flightradar24 receiver. Also, I'm not sure what the threshold is for Flightradar24 to consider a
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by rob74 2mo ago
History, as recorded by Flightradar24: "a whopping grand total of 153,359 commercial flights were tracked between 00:00 UTC and 23:59 UTC on July 23, 2026" So I would say it's justified to qualify it. Not sure how Flightradar
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by rob74 2mo ago
> If China goes to war, it's probably going to be because their economy is in tatters. Well, they probably also have to factor in whether invading Taiwan is likely to improve that situation, and I would argue that it's not -
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by rob74 2mo ago
I'm not really familiar with ancient or modern Greek, but according to https://speakgreektome.com/blog/ancient-vs-modern-greek/#hom... , people who can only read modern Greek need a translation too if they wan
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by rob74 2mo ago
Yes we do. We also (despite theories stating the contrary) know that the current climate change is caused by us burning too many fossil fuels, that the utility of vaccines preventing deadly diseases outweighs any rare side effects, that air
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by rob74 2mo ago
It's the machine learning platform that started with "developing a chatbot app targeted at teenagers" (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face ), which helps explain the weird name (which
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by rob74 2mo ago
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. As the saying goes: "better the devil you know". China can at least so far be relied upon to not shoot itself in the foot (and take the whole word with it). The same cannot be said of other
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by rob74 2mo ago
I case you're wondering, HF = Hugging Face
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by rob74 2mo ago
"How does Uncle Bob code today? Find out in Clean Vibe , the long-awaited sequel to the legendary Clean Code - coming soon from Prentice Hall!"
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by rob74 2mo ago
That reminds me that people who hear the word for butterfly (Schmetterling) in German for the first time usually think it sounds extremely violent. Ok, then again, "butterfly" sounds slightly disgusting if you think about it. But
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by rob74 2mo ago
To me it's very clear what's going on: - gather some unrelated data, bend it to what you want it to say - make an inflammatory post - go viral and profit!

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