skrause

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by skrause 6y ago
You should specify where. For example in Germany you can get a colonoscopy paid by the health insurance without any specific reason every 5 years from the age of 50. You can always get one at any age for no reason if you simply pay yourself
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by skrause 6y ago
That's the point...
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by skrause 6y ago
It's funny that this took so long since multiple people in this thread (including me) mentioned that they implemented their own UUID generation function which encodes the timestamp into the first bits just to create sortable UUIDs.
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by skrause 6y ago
A better term for that is "developed country".
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by skrause 6y ago
> I don't know about French employment law but in Germany you can fire anyone for any reason. You don't seem to know about German employment law either because that's simply wrong. Basically in every company with more th
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by skrause 6y ago
> We are literally a dying breed, and on our way to extinction Yes, of course, humanity's biggest problem is currently that we're basically going extinct because we're not reproducing enough.
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by skrause 6y ago
> Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1]. This statistics is simply misleading. It says that 2% of the fathers with children under 3 years old are currently on parental leave at any given time. Let's say yo
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by skrause 6y ago
Well, I've simply changed my SSH port to a different port <1024 (e.g. 950). That invalidates the rest of your argument.
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by skrause 6y ago
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones: https://qntm.org/abolish
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by skrause 6y ago
> Expansion: how are nude scenes not family friendly? The answer is "American Prudery".
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by skrause 6y ago
I use `chronic` in almost all of my cron jobs so that cron sends me an email with the output only if the command has a return code of != 0.
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by skrause 6y ago
Here are two fairly recent YouTube videos in English about the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: * Tom Scott ("Why Wuppertal's Suspended Monorail Wasn't The Future Of Travel"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4KZ
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by skrause 6y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/320/
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by skrause 6y ago
The current generation of Starlink doesn't actually have any optical inter-satellite links which would forward your packets from satellite to satellite around the world. Your packets will go up to the satellite, immediately down again
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by skrause 6y ago
Restricting people's freedom so that they're forced to continue working for you? Congratulations, you've just invented slavery.
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by skrause 6y ago
There are normal SEPA transfers (taking between a few hours and 1-2 days) and there is SEPA Instant which transfers the money within a few seconds. Those are two different systems and not all banks support SEPA Instant yet. I've done a
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by skrause 6y ago
Same-day wire transwers were already common in Germany in the last few years with the old system (the settlement is done every few hours), except for a few slow banks. SEPA Instant is literally settled in a few seconds. I tried this out a w
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by skrause 6y ago
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/leds-good-prizes-bad...
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by skrause 6y ago
The total cost of the app (over a 2-year timeline) is about the same as 1-2 days of Covid testing in Germany. If it helps to reduce the spread of the pandemic it will be absolutely worth it.
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by skrause 6y ago
You basically only need to learn about "zstd -T0". Better and faster algorithm and multi-threading directly included.
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by skrause 6y ago
How this that convenient when you then have to use something like 13/16? Just look at the standard wrench sizes ( https://www.cnm.edu/programs-of-study/programs-a-z/automotiv... ): * Standard Combination Wrench
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by skrause 6y ago
XCA is reasonably easy to use, it's open-source and cross-platform: https://hohnstaedt.de/xca/
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by skrause 6y ago
But they are usually in unrelated fields.
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by skrause 6y ago
I know, it's just a stupid acronym because it's already used for something else (the partition table).
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by skrause 6y ago
The GUID Partition Table is already at its third version?
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by skrause 6y ago
OpenBSD doesn't want any GPL code, so they couldn't just port the Linux kernel module. The OpenBSD kernel module is also written in C: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/i
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by skrause 6y ago
> Given the variation amongst different varieties of English, a phonetically-based reform would be tricky. Spanish has managed to do that. It has as much variety in its dialects as English (e.g. some dialects have very different "
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by skrause 6y ago
That is part of the ePrivacy Regulation ( https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/proposal-epriv... ) which was supposed be implemented at the same time as the GDPR, but got stuck because of (so far) successfu
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by skrause 6y ago
The Windows NT4/95 Explorer was the best because I could actually configure the exact same details view everywhere and the Explorer would remember and keep my settings. Actually respecting the user's settings is something modern M
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by skrause 6y ago
In Germany they do protest coal power. 100% renewables is the goal.

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