benjamir

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by benjamir 5y ago
Most major cities on Germany either use district heating or gas (esp. in eastern Germany). Overall, rounded: 48% natural gas, 25% oil, 14% district heating https://www.bmwi-energiewende.de/EWD/Redaktion/Newsletter&
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by benjamir 5y ago
That cannot be stressed enough: no stock Android is a pain (at least if coming from there) E.g. more or less bound to their camera app, my automatic sync with Google photos isn't working because they want me to use _their_ gallery. Onl
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by benjamir 5y ago
Google is becoming incompetent. It's not only their phones. Currently they fail to fix their speech services for over a month. Doesn't update the language over mobile networks and drowns batteries while waiting/trying -- no m
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by benjamir 5y ago
Autos rolling?!? That ugliness is intentional? That website doesn't work as a business card...
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by benjamir 5y ago
Thanks, I have another "Sedgewick" and wasn't aware of the repo (not in immediate need of it, but nice anyway!)
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by benjamir 5y ago
Yeah, sadly. But good you say it explicitly and it a fair spin(?) -- I just wanted to point out the IMO damage that license does, not blame the authors/BBC. In Germany it's the same with the "Mediathek" nonsense. Shows p
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by benjamir 5y ago
Well intentioned but close to negligible (globally). China has contracts with African countries to build coal powerplants, despite transforming their own energy sector. On a globally scale the billions could be spend with higher impact -- e
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by benjamir 5y ago
Which costs you more than $100k monthly to operate with the same level of manageability and reliability. We don't use AWS, because our use cases don't require that level of reliability and we simply cannot afford it, but if I need
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by benjamir 5y ago
First thing I notice: the license is horrible. Even GNU recommends liberal licenses for snippets with less than 300 lines (and allows for commercial use anyway!): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html " What i
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by benjamir 5y ago
What the ELO ratings of established chess players were already suggesting. Sharp decline seldomly happened before 65. Nice to see that rigorously researched.
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by benjamir 5y ago
* I wrote about CO2. * The boiler's flame is visible (through a slit). * The system doesn't have a separate supply stream -- it takes oxygen from the flat. An CO sensor seems obligatory to me: after the chemney sweeper (obligatory
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by benjamir 5y ago
I like keepassxc. For everybody trying it: avoid the password sharing feature. It's currently hopelessly broken. The last time I had a look it was a known issue that needs major rework. IMO that can be worked around be keeping a dedica
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by benjamir 5y ago
I recently bought one of the best CO_2 meters available here (and had a CO alarm since before that): the low temperature boiler (natural gas, 1991) in our kitchen contributes close to nothing to the CO_2 level despite getting its air from i
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by benjamir 5y ago
Piggy bank -- as long as there are coins. Safe -- regarding obsoletion: probably a safe bet compared to a piggy bank (pun intended)
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by benjamir 5y ago
One of FAANG out of ideas? * Change the name of it * Change (brand) color(s) * Modify icon (slightly) and have it as the major news of a release * Do something seemingly stupid to get press coverage
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by benjamir 5y ago
Yeah, otherwise HRH will be very disappointed in heaven. Look, Petrus is standing there and only ever to let you in if the rituals were done in order. Otherwise... no luck for you... straight to hell. Says an intuition full of child gropper
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by benjamir 5y ago
<sarcasm>Thank god that they "decided" in 2007 that there isn't a limbus for unbaptised babies anymore.</sarcasm>
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by benjamir 5y ago
Ff on mobile with uBlock origin is IMO awesome. I switched angrily to Chrome on mobile ca. 4y ago, but came back ca. 2y to give it a 2nd chance and I'm not missing Chrome.
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by benjamir 5y ago
headscratch I used profiles with Ff for ages... what is the difference to Chrome's?
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by benjamir 5y ago
14°F, a worst-case scenario? WTF? I had to keep shelter in a telephone booth just to survive waiting for a train at -14,8F (-26°C) in Weimar, Germany -- called a taxi. That's a worst-case, not the "every decent winter in Europe&qu
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by benjamir 5y ago
Uh... my mind read: DHS' misinformation greatest terrorism threat to U.S.
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by benjamir 5y ago
I think I would cry tears of joy even seeing _anyone_ even just wiggle their toes after not being able to do so. How awesome that most be to witness somebody who could only recently dream of doing this, really accomplish this? _This_ is inf
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by benjamir 5y ago
I waited for this. I agree with you and always have to think about "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy": https://youtu.be/nUBtKNzoKZ4 -- and I don't care it's Louis C.K. saying it. Like I don&#x27
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by benjamir 5y ago
"...most beautiful.... wheels inspired by analog telephone dial..." I suggest: "mental".
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by benjamir 5y ago
Tank, or something like this: https://youtu.be/cD5dIyI7AoY Done. Who says the tires have to be treated nicely?
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by benjamir 5y ago
The current Samsung Update to Android 12 installs Facebook without question -- despite my removal beforehand. Thus I would welcome the EU kicking as much Meta corporations into the nuts as possible. After that, pick either Google or Samsung
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by benjamir 5y ago
A language that changes the semantics of functions between minor versions has no "right way". "count()"less examples of crap. I have currently two weeks of code migration behind me because code running correctly on 7.0 f
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by benjamir 5y ago
+1 for the problem of the translations. Considering the room of interpretation it is outragous that some claim to take their (often random) translation at hand literally. Nobody should take the collected stories of a far away tribe (time an
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by benjamir 5y ago
Meanwhile the former pope and his bishop protected known child abusers who continued to abuse children. Aiding a criminal is itself a crime in Germany -- I would go for "Täterschaft durch Unterlassen"; without their enablement, no
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by benjamir 5y ago
Yes, please do shut down here! What a quack.

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