thyristan

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by thyristan 7mo ago
> The Gladwellian direct/indirect dichotomy (or continuum) is a misapprehension of how language works. All communication is indirect in some sense because we don't have mind control powers over our fellow humans. Even saying ‘I
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by thyristan 7mo ago
There are better and worse societies in this matter. I'm glad I live in a society where it is acceptable for a bartender to just bluntly ask "what do you want?" without all the pointless chitchat. Or for me to go to my boss a
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by thyristan 7mo ago
> The better a person is at communication the more they will fit their message to the audience to get the action intended. If 'direct' really works then over time it will be used but the fact that direct isn't used often i
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by thyristan 7mo ago
Which in itself wouldn't be too bad, if mobile platforms had proper backup facilities that allowed individuals and enterprises to easily get all their devices to the exact backed up state they were before being wiped. But that seems to
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by thyristan 7mo ago
Yes, but Germany isn't the US. We do believe in the "rules-based international order", meaning that there will be a strongly worded letter, some discussion in the UN security council, ending in a veto by China or Russia. Foll
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by thyristan 7mo ago
Energy.
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by thyristan 8mo ago
Maybe that could help a little, but on the other hand, there are just no more IPv4 addresses at RIPE. And European businesses seem to be very hesitant at adopting IPv6.
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by thyristan 8mo ago
Yes. But nobody cares about a few unimportant bugs and mice.
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by thyristan 8mo ago
You can't OCR handwriting. There are some AIs that do claim handwriting recognition, but I've yet to find a single one that can read my notes.
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by thyristan 8mo ago
> I assume the denominator is cars registered with ADAC, rather than all cars in germany? Presumably that means those with lease contracts requiring another breakdown service wouldn't affect the stats? Not quite, the denominator is
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by thyristan 8mo ago
Car insurance in Germany exists in 3 categories. The mandatory one, liability insurance, which pays out others' damages in case your car is in an accident and the driver of your car is found to be at fault. Base rates for those are by
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by thyristan 8mo ago
There is an ADAC report, that reports the number of road-side defects per car type that the ADAC was called to fix: https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/unfall-schaden-panne/a... And they do provide some statisti
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by thyristan 8mo ago
I do drive to work almost every day, and I don't drive an electric car. So there is sufficient use. And quite a few decades ago, people noticed that when you mix chromium, nickel, vanadium or things like that into your steel, it doesn&
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by thyristan 8mo ago
Worn brake disks are a manufacturing problem. Nominally my VW needs new brake disks every 100Mm. Practically it needs new ones every 40Mm, because VW makes them from shitty steel that rusts and wears like hell, especially when there is salt
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by thyristan 8mo ago
TÜV is the largest such organisation in Germany and almost has a monopoly. The inspections themselves are colloquially even called "TÜV", even if you do it at some other org. However, as others have written, there is still some hu
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by thyristan 8mo ago
The report from the original article is not a general problem rate but more specific: TÜV does mandatory technical inspections every two years. In those inspections, only safety- and environment-critical problems are checked for, so e.g. br
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by thyristan 9mo ago
Usually there is no official justification given, just a list (in excel...) of security requirements that have to be ticked off. One of them is "Disable IPv6". I've heard some ex-post justifications, make of them what you wil
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by thyristan 9mo ago
Ink on paper, where I work. There have been court decisions that have seen Fax as "remote copying". And said that those remote copies only had any legal value if there was an actual paper original. Thus the workflow always has to
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by thyristan 9mo ago
German situation is mostly/rarely/never. Small businesses have their DSL line where their cheapo router will announce an IPv6 prefix which almost all ISPs over here provide. Medium to large businesses usually have some braindead s
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by thyristan 9mo ago
Yes, and the three western allies agreed to let their occupation zones form a German state. Which the Soviets opposed and had their occupation zone form an East German state, thus dividing Germany at their zone boundary. The Soviets did the
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by thyristan 9mo ago
> But even accepting that argument, at the very least you'd have to agree that if the people decided to change the constitution through means other than those the constitution propose, then that could still be perfectly democratic.
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by thyristan 9mo ago
There is ample precendent for impounding the assets of hostile nations. The Soviets did it to Germany in WW2, so they cannot really claim that they are opposed to that practice. The only reason why this seizure of russian money in Belgium m
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by thyristan 9mo ago
> We the People of the United States [, in Order to ...,] do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. That is the literal first paragraph of the US constitution. I cannot imagine a valid legalistic argumen
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by thyristan 9mo ago
Oil tankers are basically "weapons of mass environment destruction" (slight hyperbole, sorry ;). When you shoot at them, or their captains have the valves opened, their oil will devastate a sizable chunk of sea and coastline. So y
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by thyristan 9mo ago
I can see a few advantages: Internal Propaganda. You show to your own people, that you can cut off the enemies' communication lines easily. External Propaganda. You show to the enemies that they are vulnerable, spreading fear and doubt
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by thyristan 9mo ago
In a democracy, "We The People" is the sovereign. It is in the hands of the voters, and it is their responsibility to choose leaders wisely and shape their overall legal system. In democracies, the population doesn't get to u
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by thyristan 9mo ago
"Benevolent" more in the sense of "currently unable to order the next massacre". The German unification only went ahead because soviet troops didn't intervene like they did in many prior instances: > https:&#x2F
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by thyristan 10mo ago
Same for a German. Scales of goodness of expressions are shifted relative to English: "good" (gut) to a German means "it totally fulfills all my needs and expectations, so it is perfect for my purpose". "very good&q
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by thyristan 10mo ago
Maybe. But you cannot PoC most hardware and driver related bugs without lots of time and money. Race conditions are very hard to PoC, especially if you need the PoC to actually work on more than one machine. So while a PoC exploit does mean
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by thyristan 10mo ago
All the issues basically boil down to "nobody wants to do the busywork of CVE filtering, triage, rejections, changes". As a developer, kernel or otherwise, you get pestered by CVE hunters who create tons of CVE slop, wanting a CVE

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