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by skrause 10y ago
> Sometimes I almost wish someone smuggles a bomb through the TSA security line, and successfully storms a plane so we can finally have concrete evidence that those processes only provide annoyance, not security. That would just lead t
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by skrause 10y ago
I can personally confirm that I used to have a strong correlation between skipping breakfast and obesity. Back when I used to eat a big pizza at 11 pm followed by some beer I could never eat the next morning because I was still full, so I s
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by skrause 10y ago
Here is an example of such a street: https://www.google.de/maps/@51.2310008,7.0720156,3a,75y,127.... You bascially park your car somewhere half on the street, half on the curb. The sidewalk is just wide enough for peop
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by skrause 10y ago
Where I live (in a dense German city) there wouldn't even be space at the roadside to install charging points; even the street lights are attachted to the houses because there was no space left. I have the same situation at work, so pe
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by skrause 10y ago
It's very easy to rename (or symlink) the piwik.js script to something else that is not blocked by any filter list. And unless you're a major site nobody will bother creating a special rule just for your self-hosted Piwik.
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by skrause 10y ago
In a way the US is regulated by a high risk of expensive lawsuits with really high amounts of compensation if they harm someone. So a company will not release a product that might be harmful because they could end up paying hundreds of mi
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by skrause 10y ago
My main problem with Apple Maps has always been that it just shows too little information on the screen, exactly what the author now criticizes about Google Maps. That doesn't seem to have changes with the current Apple Maps.
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by skrause 11y ago
The total number of reported crimes means nothing, there might just be a whole lot of minor crimes reported. It's mainly the number of crimes with your personal safety affected which make you feel unsafe.
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by skrause 11y ago
In Germany I get unfiltered internet, freedom of speech and still always feel safe. It doesn't really have to be a choice between freedom and safety, both together is possible.
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by skrause 11y ago
You just don't want to use Clementine on a laptop if you value your battery life. I tried to use Clementine for a while, but on my MacBook it was using 20-30% CPU just for playing a simple MP3, where iTunes could manage with 2%.
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by skrause 11y ago
When I went full-time Python in 2013 I directly started with Python 3. The new version of Python actually has a very healthy ecosystem, just about every good library supports it. By now the lack of Python 3 is actually a very good filter wh
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by skrause 11y ago
Here in Germany it's more common to have 1 GB for $10 per month. So more or less the same price you pay per GB, but not many people can justify paying >$100 per month for a mobile plan. I also have to manage with 1 GB data per month
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by skrause 11y ago
Are you sure it's a 2012 Air? Because I have one and with a brand new battery and light use you maybe get 7-8 hours battery life out of it. The 2013 Air with the Haswell CPU is the one which gives you far more than 10 hours of battery
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by skrause 11y ago
The release notes at https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html mention that you can now backup to a local directory or network drive. It's weird that the most interesting features were not actuall
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by skrause 11y ago
Arq's author has said on Twitter that the B2 API doesn't support all commands Arq needs, so even if B2 support was planned (which it isn't) it wouldn't be possible yet: https://twitter.com/arqbackup/
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by skrause 11y ago
Arq's data format description says that the other supported compression type is gzip, which I assume was used before: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt
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by skrause 11y ago
Great! It should have been mentioned in the announcement because I've been waiting for this option a long time.
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by skrause 11y ago
Still no support for S3's "Infrequent Access" storage class? It would be perfect for backups and is a good compromise between normal S3 and Glacier.
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by skrause 11y ago
Unfortunately electric cars won't solve that problem. The graph on http://www.leiserstrassenverkehr.bayern.de/laerm/entstehung/ (a German government website) compares the engine noise ("Antriebsgeräusch&
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by skrause 11y ago
I like the Unix command line, but I don't really like Desktop Linux anymore (after having it used for >10 years), that's why I use OS X at home. At work I'm required to use Windows because I develop Windows software, so it
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by skrause 11y ago
No, I saw it in the presentation, but the slide was only shown for a very short time.
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by skrause 11y ago
"Branchless banks" are nothing new. In Germany we call them "direct banks" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_bank ) and in 2012 they already had 15.8 million customers which is around 20% of the
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by skrause 11y ago
I'm not sure if you know how electric kettles work, but the heating element is always right under or even in the water. Most kettles are also insulated quite well, there's not a lot of energy lost.
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by skrause 11y ago
The main use of my electric kettle is parallel processing for my cooking water. I put one fourth of the cooking water into the pot and turn on the stove, then I put the other three quarters of the water into my electric kettle and turn that
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by skrause 11y ago
How can my 900 W microwave heat water quicker than my 2400 W electric kettle?
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by skrause 11y ago
I made a snapshot before booting the image for the first time and simply restore to that snapshot when the trial expires.
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by skrause 11y ago
It's still strong in Germany and even available over the web ( http://www.ard-text.de/ ) and a mobile-friendly site with the same content: http://www.ard-text.de/mobil/100
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by skrause 11y ago
But if you take away cash people will simply invent their own non-fiat currency to do their shady business or giving tax-free presents from grandma to grandson. In the end people will simply use silver and gold coins again, you can't j
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by skrause 11y ago
In PostgreSQL you could use a native type to store your IP addresses and subnets (even for IPv6): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/datatype-net-types...
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by skrause 11y ago
Globally 500 kW transmitters aren't actually that special, Europe has a lot of transmitters even more powerful, some transmitting at up to 2000 kW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_medium_wave_t... I

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