usr1106

12 ms·

181.
by usr1106 1y ago
Clickbaity title: In the text he analyses that Finnish has preserved loaned aspects that the indo-germanic languages have lost ages ago. So we indo-germanic speakers don't know them. That there are plenty of words in Finnish which ha
182.
by usr1106 1y ago
The joke goes: There are 3 kinds of people The pessimist says: Finnish is too hard for an adult to learn, mission impossible. The realist says: With 10 years of hard work, it's doable. The optimist says: I can do it in 5 years. Myself
183.
by usr1106 1y ago
Correct. But if we are at comparing Finland and Sweden already: Finland has had one of the highest capital crime rates in Europe for ages. With Swedens increase in bombing and shootings in recent years they might have come close. Finland ha
184.
by usr1106 1y ago
But you need to develop and maintain 2 apps. And to deal with 2 ugly companies. And even F-Droid if you were an ethically responsible business. So the GP's approach makes sense if you want to run your business in a lightway fashion.
185.
by usr1106 1y ago
Take a boat trip in the Swedish archipelego and notice that many islands are called "Kabel". Or when in Finland "Kaapeli".
186.
by usr1106 1y ago
Widerstand can be the resistor (an object) or resistance, protest, opposition (not an object).
187.
by usr1106 1y ago
Why? I immediately thought: Which country and starting to read the article gives the answer. Americans seem to assume that there is only one country and abroad is an exception needing extra disclaimers. Edit: The article also says the study
188.
by usr1106 1y ago
Abstand, Widerstand, Vorstand, Mittelstand, probably the list can be continued. Some seem to have an obvious explanation, for other it feels long-sought and more obscure. I would not over-interpret words.
189.
by usr1106 1y ago
That's why I wrote it is for geeks. Maybe I should have said it's for geeks that keep don't mind the offort of their stuff/data/code organized. You need to put some thinking to use reusable topics. And when discussi
190.
by usr1106 1y ago
It was not transmitted live, but with a suitable delay. They would not have shown it in case.
191.
by usr1106 1y ago
1998 the game was already lost, although we could not imagine how evil Google would become and many others did not exist yet. Eternal September was 1993 after all https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September . In
192.
by usr1106 1y ago
The best chat system for geeks is zulip. Messages threaded, everything markdown. very efficient use of screen estate. For less geeky use I indeed have had Delta on my list for years. Haven't really tried yet myself, not to speak about
193.
by usr1106 1y ago
Something like that has not worked in Finland for several years. All addresses are scanned and matched by the mail with a DB of "valid addresses". There is a big student dorm in this city here, which has had problems with mail del
194.
by usr1106 1y ago
Ironically Cloudflare blocks the real Mozilla derived browser on this Linux phone, so I can't access SO anymore. (Turnstile was broken a long time. It finally got fixed half a year ago. Now I note it does not even come up any more, jus
195.
by usr1106 1y ago
If lying were a crime, Trump would never be released from jail again.
196.
by usr1106 1y ago
That fingerprints exist is nothing new to someone who has visited https://amiunique.org whenever I get a new device or install a new distro for many years. (It also tells me that the project is not very alive, they had the same
197.
by usr1106 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115
198.
by usr1106 1y ago
Hire him full time for a Silicon Valley salary? Employ a team of testers using state of the art test automation, fuzzing, static analysis?
199.
by usr1106 1y ago
Apple, Google, AWS, Microsoft, ... I would call it criminal neglect using hobby software like libxml2 written in a memory-unsafe language (to cite the maintainer) to process untrusted input in systems that need to protect personal data or a
200.
by usr1106 1y ago
Good link. After reading this it's not a surprise that this code has security vulnerabilities. But of course from knowing that there must be more to actually finding it, it's still a big leap. 4 years after the article, does any r
201.
by usr1106 1y ago
You do it, I do it, probably many programmers or other systematically thinking people do it. How big share we are of the general public? Even many programs don't do it in their default naming when saving files. I find myself renaming o
202.
by usr1106 1y ago
According to GDPR this is clearly illegal. I am pretty sure their subscriber contracts don't contain consent for sharing your location to any caller. Now UK has left the EU so GDPR does no longer apply. But it is my understanding they
203.
by usr1106 1y ago
Interesting, how standards just ignore reality. At work we had discussions what date format to use in our product. It's for trained users only (but not IT people), English UI only, but used on several continents. Our regulatory expert
204.
by usr1106 1y ago
Before 1582 the rule is just simpler. If it is divisible by 4 it's a leap year. So the difference is relevant for years 300, 500, 600, 700, 900 etc. For ranges spanning those years the Gregorian algorithm would result in results not ma
205.
by usr1106 1y ago
Interesting. In one place the author argues: 0 is missing, but we already know... The is no year 0, it goes 1 BC, 1 AD. So testing whether 0 is a leap year is moot.
206.
by usr1106 1y ago
While AI assistants can give ideas how to address something I'd strongly contradict the statement "there is no point in learning". You should understand the AI suggestion because it could also be very bad or working incorrect
207.
by usr1106 1y ago
No. Play Services is Google's way to make Android closed source. Many new features don't get implemented in Android, but Play Services. Many apps don't work (correctly) without Play Services.
208.
by usr1106 1y ago
Usability on mobile Firefox was not great.
209.
by usr1106 1y ago
Both are official https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme... 112 was made official by EU in 1991 when GSM did not exit yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telep
210.
by usr1106 1y ago
Is it? In EU 112 is legally mandated. Did they roll back after Brexit? Either way the numbers are mostly legacy. On mobiles emergency calls are a special protocol, no number is really transmitted to the network. If the phone application rec

More ›