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by wott 9y ago
Where? I went to check and didn't really find any (I checked only the Norway-Russia border, that's shorter than the other ones :-) ).
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by wott 9y ago
I have more problems with bridges than with cars. The damn thing forces you to select 3 bridges, except that there are only 2... So you are forced to select what it thinks is a bridge, and confirm his erroneous bias even more.
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by wott 9y ago
> Permanently hiring someone (and emphasis on the permanent, firing someone on a CDI contract is extremely costly, far easier just to leave someone without work but still pay them until they quit) is so expensive that almost all new job
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by wott 9y ago
It is not a challenge, it is by far the most common way to program them.
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by wott 9y ago
> One of the most common bugs in C (in my experience) is forgetting to check the error return on a malloc call. Very unlikely. 1. it won't happen in regular use, only if your are asking for a huge amount of memory (possibly by mista
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by wott 9y ago
Yeah, it is plenty stupid. I have read many people complaining the same, but to no avail. You can also add the lack of reliability to the drawbacks (more hardware, more software involved). I am fond of thumb trackballs, and the M570 I was f
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by wott 9y ago
Except that they go annoying everyone with their memory safety as if it was a huge breakthrough, when in fact most of the serious information leakages do not originate from such problems but simply from design errors. Same goes for the prop
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by wott 9y ago
"getting a FTP account" ≠ "self-hosting a FTP server"
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by wott 9y ago
It's been a while I don't bother much about security any more, because I consider everything insecure. So I just do not put all my eggs in the same basket, I do not store much personal information on my computer, I store even less
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by wott 9y ago
Introspection is analysing oneself, it does not mean taking actions about it, IMO.
461.
by wott 9y ago
Looking at the plots, it seems obvious that it is useless to work on Mondays and Fridays. I cannot agree more.
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by wott 9y ago
That's what they pretend. However, the reality is this: * car sales do not drop, they oscillate depending on various governments subventions; * vehicle fleet keeps rising (albeit slowly because the market is saturated); * car owning pe
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by wott 9y ago
> I agree about Reddit being Usenet-like. Unfortunately it's a really horrible version of Usenet, partly thanks to the number of unpleasant people who use it, but also due to the karma system - in theory a way to collectively highl
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by wott 9y ago
Yep, there are stuff that could (or sometimes even should) be done, there is available workforce, but nobody wants to pay the workers to do that stuff.
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by wott 9y ago
> Also, salesmen/saleswomen are being automated by websites. But their job is not beneath human dignity That is disputable.
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by wott 9y ago
According to the nickname, I'd says Netherlands. But it doesn't matter, you can find people from every single country in the world holding the same (mostly fictitious) discourse.
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by wott 9y ago
> Here in the UK our cop shows are like Midsomer Murders. Most episodes don’t even feature a gun... But your rusty gardening tools seem as efficient and they enhance murdering creativity :-)
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by wott 9y ago
> That's certainly one thing I don't miss about old DOS gaming, having specific boot disks around with the proper config.sys/autoexec.bat magic to make ornery games work -- base RAM, HMA, EMS, XMS etc.. You could make me
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by wott 9y ago
One problem in these days is drivers. There was a glorious period of the DOS days, when: * all sound cards had a mode compatible with SoundBlaster or at least AdLib cards; * all Ethernet cards had a mode compatible with NE2000 cards; * all
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by wott 9y ago
I completely disagree. It has been a while that demand stalls. We can see it by observing that energy (time, investment, ...) doesn't go much any more to production means, but to advertisement, marketing, new forms of distribution, and
471.
by wott 9y ago
"Children" are nowadays more than 50 years old when they inherit... Their life and situation are already made and set, and their active life mostly behind them.
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by wott 9y ago
> what else are they supposed to do? Work in Dollar General in a city of 12,000 people their whole life? And here we go... it did not take long. Why on Earth would living in a 12000 inhabitant city be infamous, be a failure, be a shame?
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by wott 9y ago
Mmmyes, but the process implies a heavy chain of verifications. So even when there has been an idiot and a lazy guy, at some later stage in the process, it has to go through someone who cares at some point and it gets fixed at that point. A
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by wott 9y ago
I find Google Maps a PITA to use since the last big revamp of its interface a couple of years ago. It became slow, unreliable (tiles never loading, UI element never loading, freezes) and unpractical (moving routes points became horrible, I
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by wott 9y ago
It depends on the country and/or the city. In France, it is legal: * in all "30 km/h zones" (which are a bit different from a single street with a 30 km/h limit), unless specifically disallowed in a specific street;
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by wott 9y ago
That's not from the 80's but the 90's.
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by wott 9y ago
It is always funny to see Americans using huge (as in HUGE) glasses to drink wine, believing that it is the French distinguished way of tasting wine, and being disappointed when they discover that French people just use regular/smallis
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by wott 9y ago
The client would be the one customizing the appearance. You pick the client you like, or pick one which is themable as you wish. You know, like for e-mail, or newsgroups, and so on.
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by wott 9y ago
I don't get this habit of always blaming every problem in the world on NAT. NAT has (almost) nothing to do with that. The real reasons are twofold. 1. As others mentioned, the work of maintaining a self-hosted service. Nowadays you can
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by wott 9y ago
Unfortunately, it does not really work. * The denser the area, the slower the transportation (by any mean). * People in dense areas spend more time commuting than people in sparse areas. * When you upgrade the infrastructure making transpor

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