zepearl

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by zepearl 7y ago
I just got "Something's not working. Try again in a few minutes"
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by zepearl 7y ago
Were Spectre/Meltdown/etc... remediations active while benchmarking?
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by zepearl 7y ago
4Eur/m is really really cheap... . I do have FTTH (Switzerland, outskirts of Zurich) with unmetered 1Gb/s upload & download but I pay 54 CHF/month (cable installed by Swisscom but I'm using another Internet provider)
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by zepearl 7y ago
> It will give the Russians access to S400 telemetry of F22 and F35 planes... Thx a lot - I now think that I understand the issue => it's once more a reminder for myself that often nothing is as simple as it is presented. Unlucki
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by zepearl 7y ago
The S400s you're referrint to are the ones that Turkey just bought from Russia (and which caused all the mess with Trump not being happy about it), right?
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by zepearl 7y ago
NDT = Non Destructive Test
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thanks a lot - zstd is reaaaally fast for the compression ratios that it achieves. I personally use it all the time in Clickhouse tables (the "Yandex Clickhouse" database). I admit that I'm still using "xz" when I f
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by zepearl 7y ago
> Fortunately, there is a simple way to end the company’s monopoly without breaking up its search engine, and that is to turn its “index”—the mammoth and ever-growing database it maintains of internet content—into a kind of public common
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by zepearl 7y ago
My personal experiences with FedEx in Switzerland: very positive: a laptop from Lenovo from China + replacement keyboard from US + CD from Japan (because of some VAT-war I cannot buy anymore mp3s from amazon.com) during the last 6 months ha
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by zepearl 7y ago
I agree. In general the risk of enterprise code and/or informations leaking out would be high when using a single device for both. And even if you're doing everything perfectly and implement an algorithm for the external project a
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by zepearl 7y ago
I just noticed by chance last week that when my father entered a URL in Chrome, he entered it into the google search field instead of into the browser's address bar => not great as at that time he was trying to connect to his bank&#
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by zepearl 7y ago
This is funny - here in Switzerland & Germany I have never, ever heard anybody mentioning "Slack". I read about it the first time when I was reading docs & posts about the chat riot.im/matrix some months ago (maybe i
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by zepearl 7y ago
Oohh, ok, I think that I got it (you keep opening new/unknown links in additional tabs and once you have them all you go through them) - thx.
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx!
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by zepearl 7y ago
Peasants around Apple's newly launched $1000 monitor stand (c. 2019): https://9gag.com/gag/an9wYQo :)
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by zepearl 7y ago
Agree. I usually use http://themoviedb.org to have an at least slightly more reliable idea of how a film is - not perfect but I can usually get an idea if I compare the rating of the candidate movie against other films which I l
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by zepearl 7y ago
Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaa
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by zepearl 7y ago
> It truly is the new IE Funny, and true at least in the company I'm working for (officially supported browsers are primarily IE11 and optionally Chrome). A colleague told me a few months ago that Firefox was not supported because i
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by zepearl 7y ago
My additional rules: - if I'm driving on the right lane and I'm approaching a car in front of me while some other car approaches me on the left lane to overtake me (or even if it's on the right lane but quickly approaching) t
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by zepearl 7y ago
I did not assume that it was "wasted" ("little" is more than 0).
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by zepearl 7y ago
This is maybe a little bit (in a contorted way) similar to "Parable of the broken window"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window In this case there are probably some highly skilled people
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by zepearl 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044853 ?
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by zepearl 7y ago
Wikipedia has many lists about nuclear accidents - the "mother" of all those articles might be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and... It points to other sub-lists and some o
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thanks for the heads-up - I totally missed this "detail" when I skimmed through the article & specs table earlier today. And just in case that somebody missed it, here is again the link to the PDF "What Every Programmer S
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by zepearl 7y ago
Unluckily in my case Libreoffice Calc (using it privately) is a lot slower when using formulas than MS Excel (using it for work).
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by zepearl 7y ago
A friend of mine worked for a logistic company and he told me many times that dealing with Aldi was a nightmare for them because they were extremely demanding: very thin profit margin, tough quality checks (when delivering the items to the
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by zepearl 7y ago
Speed bumps: interesting, I never thought of that so far. Potentially quite difficult to detect them if the car doesn't have them marked in its GPS-map, or?
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by zepearl 7y ago
I keep wondering if... 1) AMD knew about the potential vulnerabilities that would have emerged by making the CPUs faster "Intel-style" and therefore said something like "no we won't take those risks", or... 2) if it
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx!
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by zepearl 7y ago
The game is engineered not to attract parent's attention (e.g. no visual "extremes") and to attract youngsters and make them spend money - in this context I'm happy not to be a parent right now :) Respect for your effort

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