roelschroeven

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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
When you're going to color-code bytes in a hex dump, I would expect each ASCII character in the right column to have the same color as the hex byte in the left column, making it easier to pair them. I wonder why that wasn't done h
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
I found some more information in this other article: https://www.dw.com/en/teen-discovers-first-ancient-greek-art... ""After we understood where it came from, I had the task of figuring out where this coin wa
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
"At first, archaeologists wondered if the coin was a “modern loss”—perhaps dropped by a collector in recent years. However, a professional excavation of the discovery site suggests a much deeper connection. The field was found to be a
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
There are different types of trust, but at the very least with such a signature you can trust that the piece of software is really from Veracrypt and not from a malicious third party.
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
No worries. I played Kerbal Space Program so that shouldn't have surprised me but it did, and it took me a few seconds before the penny dropped.
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
I think their "Don't be evil" was pretty close to the truth, as much as it can be for large corporations, until around the time Google purchased DoubleClick. That was in 2008, so that seems to match your experience.
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
Have a look at the tracker at https://issinfo.net/artemis.html They're already at a point where they see the moon from a different angle than we see it from Earth, enough to see a bit of the side that we can't see
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
Does Italy use Peppol, or something home-grown?
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
I don't know the exact situation in the Netherlands, but if it's anything like in Belgium the employer pays taxes on top of the employee's gross income. The total cost to the employer is therefore significantly higher than wh
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
If you click the link to Eurostat in the article, you can see the numbers are "Wages and salaries (total)". So yes, that's the cost to the employer, which is much higher than the employees net income.
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
Let's not forget that, much more recently than Challenger and Columbia, NASA showed signs of launch fever in the Starliner program. Starliner was not safe to fly either, thrusters couldn't be trusted, but Boeing and NASA managed p
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by roelschroeven 6mo ago
> It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Seems consistent with the name of the website: "Literary Hub"
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
Same here. Afterwards I got more fat again, and again I don't notice a difference in how people threat me.
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
AFAICS the cheapest option is 250€/month. That seems geared towards businesses, not individuals.
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
But their servers are in the US.
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
This is an issue in many audio players. Maybe not as bad as in iOS (I don't know, can't compare), but the steps when the volume is low are nearly always too large. I like to play audio on low volumes, especially in quiet environme
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
The point is: when I was a kid, all Lego sets consisted almost completely of general bricks. You could, and would, start building different things from the moment you got your first set, and the possibilities would increase exponentially on
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
I know this is just one data point, but I don't notice any latency when typing code in VS Code. It takes a while to start up, and that is annoying especially for quick short editing jobs, but other than that I never notice any sluggish
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
Dianna got better sometime last year as well, just in time to fly home to Hawaii for her father's funeral (yeah ...), but she got a lot worse again later. I really hope things will keep going well for Dianna now. Props for her husband
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by roelschroeven 7mo ago
tl;dr: I you scp -r to your homedir, expect scp to copy not just files and directories but their permissions as well (which I think isn't all that surprising).
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by roelschroeven 8mo ago
Samsung isn't exactly a Western manufacturer either though.
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by roelschroeven 8mo ago
> > Won't this get flagged by anti-virus scanners as suspicious? > Unfortunately, yes. We consider this a problem for the anti-virus scanners to solve. I don't think the anti-virus scanners consider Zig important enough,
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by roelschroeven 8mo ago
You are correct in that the deflected airflow exerts an upward force on the wing (or at least a force with an upward component; there's also a backward component (called induced drag if my memory serves me well)). The way the airflow e
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by roelschroeven 8mo ago
According to the video the much larger weight is the main or even only cause of takeoff exerting more load on the runway than landings.
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
> One bad election, everyone knows it was influenced by Russia, no big deal. They know a sane person will be elected in a few years. That's what we thought the first time. And it did happen, a sane person did get elected a few years
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
I've been looking at mail providers too, and it's starting to look there are no real alternatives. Not just in Europe, but worldwide. I've been a happy user of Fastmail for quite some time now, and it's sad the the curre
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
I distinctly remember my dad too choosing for the TI-99/4A over the competition because of the 16-bit CPU. Little did he, let alone the little boy that I was at the time, know of the limitations of its weird design.
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
A[n] sizes are useful when enlarging or shrinking documents. Enlarge or shrink by muliples of sqrt(2) and there's always a fitting paper size available. Or you can put two A5s together on an A4, or two A4s on an A3.
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
I'm guessing the same kind of people who don't understand the difference between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents ( http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-... ).
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by roelschroeven 9mo ago
I feel this is somewhat similar to something Linus Torvalds once said about the faster merges git brought to his workflow: "That's the kind of performance that actually changes how you work. It's no longer doing the same thin

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