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by skrause 5y ago
> Germany is also one of those countries that blanket bans particular groups/parties in general You make it sound like Germany is constantly banning political parties. There have been exactly two bans of political parties in the p
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by skrause 5y ago
When I switched the company to Black, I reformatted the whole repository history with it. Every developer had to clone the repository again and reapply their local changes to it, but in the end it was a good choice because "blame&quot
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by skrause 5y ago
GSM can easily share a frequency block with LTE/5G, so it's much easier to keep it around. 3G needs a whole 5 MHz frequency block for itself, but could you use the same block and assign 4.5 MHz to LTE or 5G and just 0.5 MHz for a
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by skrause 5y ago
It's not really decriminalized. While you don't have to fear criminal prosecution in most cases (unless you're in Bavaria) they will punish you by taking away your driving license, even if you never actually drove under influ
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by skrause 5y ago
"PostgreSQL's model of one process per connection doesn't scale, so let's build a connection pooler that uses one process per connection." Certainly sounds like a strange concept. How well does it scale with thousan
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by skrause 5y ago
Some algorithms of the past weren't cracked because we could brute-force them, but because somebody found a weakness that reduced the computational need by many orders of magnitudes. This could happen to AES as well.
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by skrause 5y ago
List of HN discussions of List of Lists of Lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633972 h
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by skrause 5y ago
They're mostly old and EOL.
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by skrause 5y ago
PSD2 is really bad. It doesn't actually allow you, the customer, to sign in to your banking account using your own application and an API. It only mandates that regulated thirdparty companies can access your banking account using some
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by skrause 5y ago
> I think it's a bit funny that German government is complaining to Apple The German government isn't complaining. Looking at the original German article it was a single parliament member from an opposition party that wrote
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by skrause 5y ago
> In many places in Germany for instance, straight tap water is quite disgusting to drink. I'm a German who has been to many German places and I've never encountered tap water that was disgusting to drink...
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by skrause 5y ago
But you were probably using NTFS-3G, which is a FUSE driver and not a kernal driver.
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by skrause 5y ago
Dry air is a bad thermal conductor, so the body can easily deal with the hot air for a while. It quickly gets uncomfortable when they pour water on hot stones in the sauna. Humidity really makes all the difference.
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by skrause 5y ago
Why doesn't the new Freenode staff just shut down the IRC servers? That would be a lot less work than killing off each channel individually.
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by skrause 5y ago
MP3 is also royalty-free now and MP3 encoders are much better than they were 20 years ago.
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by skrause 5y ago
The EU Commission has just started negotiations with BioNTech-Pfizer for 1.8 billion additional vaccine doses in 2021-2023: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1382306561008230400 They're simply betting on
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by skrause 6y ago
This "what if" xkcd is somewhat relevant: https://what-if.xkcd.com/74/ The vast majority of water molecules in the oceans have never been drunk by any human ever.
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by skrause 6y ago
Well, which Edge and how? Because I'm using Chromium Edge, have enabled the option "Show block option in autoplay settings" in edge://flags/, changed the "Media autoplay" option to "Block"..
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by skrause 6y ago
Boats don't have a high density. It has to be lower than water or they won't float.
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by skrause 6y ago
> At some point, your fans will start spinning This problem has been solved with the M1 MacBook Air.
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by skrause 6y ago
In 13.1. (e) of the contract AstraZeneca warrants that: > it is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to any Person or third party in respect of the Initial Europe Doses or that conflicts with or is inconsistent in any mat
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by skrause 6y ago
It also has static query "statistics" at the bottom which suggest heavy use, which are most likely made up and haven't been updated since 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160328163252/https:/
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by skrause 6y ago
It's funny that your first example for Germany's lack free speech is a case that was dropped after public outcry which and ultimately lead to the abolishment of an outdated 19th century penal code: https://en.wikipedia.
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by skrause 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25299574
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by skrause 6y ago
You can self-host the receiving side of your mail server (with spam filtering etc.), but send all your mail through a mail provider with a good reputation. Configure your own SMTP server to use that other server as a relay, you can even d
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by skrause 6y ago
For Germany check out the graph on this page (grey is black coal, brown is brown coal): https://www.bmu.de/themen/klima-energie/klimaschutz/national... It will be reduced to half by 2030 and phased out comple
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by skrause 6y ago
I used https://www.privoxy.org/ back then.
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by skrause 6y ago
Even worse is that the RAM upgrade pricing hasn't changed in almost a decade. When I bought my 2012 MacBook Air more than eight years ago it cost me 100 euros to upgrade from 4 to 8 GB of RAM. Currently it costs 225 euros in the German
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by skrause 6y ago
They have been a thing for four years already.
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by skrause 6y ago
Since TeamViewer is a German company I looked up the rules for a non-compete clause in Germany ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wettbewerbsverbot#Nach_Beendig... ): 1. It can only be valid for up to two years after your e

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