MatthiasP

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by MatthiasP 6y ago
You have to be a sovereign state before you can protect your tech scene from the US. There is a reason only Russia and China do that.
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
No mention of any kind of encryption?
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
The gotcha in the German university system is studying 4-5 years and then dropping out without degree, because there is very little support and a culture of expecting knowledge and not teaching knowledge, which hits underclass students the
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
The most scary part is the usage of if(0).
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
The Virus Total detection list is very interesting [1]. How can your antivirus-software not detect a dangerous, publicly known, two year old exploit? How can anyone take these products seriously? Of course McAfee does not detect it. [1] ht
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Primary Password is replacing Master Password(support.mozilla.org)
2 points by MatthiasP 6y ago|0 comments
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
A sane commander that starts useless wars in the Middle East to transfer billions of tax payer money to his donators?
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
If woke clickbait a la Vox does not work in these times, I can't imagine other media companies with the same business model surviving for long.
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
There is a good chance that macOS is being neglected precisely because Apple is moving away from x86.
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Suddenly, Social Justice Matters More Than Social Distance(politico.com)
3 points by MatthiasP 6y ago|1 comments
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
For comparision, here is the AI bachelor degree from JKU Linz: https://studienhandbuch.jku.at/curr/714
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
This is not as common as you might think. Some universities do closely collaborate with their regional industry, but the vast majority of master thesis have zero practical application, just like in the US.
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
But iPads and iPhones have. The existing library of already ARM-optimized software will make the transition easier.
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by MatthiasP 6y ago
Will be interesting to see if bootcamp grads are more affected by the recession than your average CS college grad.
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How the pandemic could shatter college dreams(politico.com)
3 points by MatthiasP 6y ago|0 comments
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
Yeah, 10 litres per day.
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
There are good reasons to go with AMD over Intel CPUs at the moment, the number of published security exploits should not be one. There is nothing fundamentally more insecure in the Skylake CPU architecture than in Zen 2, just one has more
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? Even at a lower angle you still get some UV B and energy from the sun.
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
Can anyone give some substantiated information about Kape? Why is so bad? All I found was FUD.
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
The amount of tech workers migrating is minuscule compared to the number of unskilled migration coming from countries like Syria and Afghanistan to Berlin. That is where the demand shock on the housing market comes from.
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
TL;DR; The major question in the philosophy of computer science, according to Smith, is: What is computation?
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
Atleast WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted unlike Telegram.
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by MatthiasP 7y ago
That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and holding up to that schedule for months and years.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
It works, but it is hardly the silver bullet for higher education HN wants it to be. The biggest problem is the lack of incentive for staff to deliver quality in teaching. Free college does not make the opportunity costs of bad and protract
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
Pretending to be interesting enough to be spied on is one of the main reasons why people care about their cyber security.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
Not from a UX point of view. Many non technical people enjoy iOS exactly because you can't too much with it. It reduces complexity.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
I wonder if the information he got from his calls helped in this case.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
Because it is marketed towards people who buy a spec sheet, not a user experience. Personally I love the fact that one single USB-C port + a decent dongle can replace lots of ports.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
Also one of the reasons business laptops could get away with awful displays for such a long time.
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by MatthiasP 8y ago
The engineer that got told to fake data probably was not overly enthusiastic about the task. Maybe it is even the same guy who leaked the harddrive to the newspaper.

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