corty

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by corty 5y ago
> They were aware there were issues, and negotiations happened on how to fix them, with the French leaving them with the impression everything is good. The French culture is to never deliver bad news before the deadline has arrived. Unde
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by corty 5y ago
Yep. France has sufficient votes on its side to veto this. EU voting rules make it easier to stop something than to get something done.
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by corty 5y ago
France cannot get the EU behind it. On the original contract in 2016, Germany also bid and in all likelihood could have won, since Germany has far more experience with building non-nuclear subs with Diesel or fuel-cell drives. France had to
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by corty 5y ago
These things, like user accounts, more auth methods, flexible endpoints, IP pools, ..., should be integrated in a product in a secure manner. What wireguard does is the irresponsible lazy approach of leaving everything up to the VPN provide
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by corty 5y ago
There are, but they can only audit and report. Change and punishment would need to happen politically, but that would need a majority of states. Two thirds of the states profit from Laenderfinanzausgleich (to various degrees) and will not c
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by corty 5y ago
Lowering rents was part of the plan anyways, I think. Market manipulation through rent caps has been tried before and (in the Berlin version) declared unconstitutional.
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by corty 5y ago
Context switching overhead is bad for microkernel performance. All the reasons why the userspace wireguard implementation was slower apply to each and every part of a microkernel system. And all of this got worse with spectre and meltdown,
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by corty 5y ago
Problem is, "not be paying market rates" will never happen. Market rates will be paid, because disowning anyone for the public good is only constitutional, if market rates are paid as restitution. There have been lots and lots of
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by corty 5y ago
Berlin doesn't care about money. Back when separated by the iron curtain, Berlin always got a special deal in federal/state finances because of its situation. After reunification, Berlin was pumped full of money because it was the
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by corty 5y ago
Nope, UCS-2. Which is UTF-16, but just the BMP, so only the first 65k codepoints and all characters are fixed-length 16bits. Only later windows versions at some point learned UTF-16.
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by corty 5y ago
Well, easy in case of VW: If the optimization involves checking "steering wheel has never moved out of 0 position since engine start" and "intake air is at exactly 293K", then it illegally optimizes for a test.
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by corty 5y ago
Red tape. Medical devices need to (depending on type and country) conform to medical device regulations, be approved by a medical device regulator, be sold only to medical professionals or people with a script from a medical professional. L
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by corty 5y ago
All the Java world is still firmly stuck in XML-land. So a better XML editor in Eclipse is right where it is needed.
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by corty 5y ago
Microsoft doesn't cater to the more knowledgeable admin population I guess. They are used to the point-and-click crowd mindlessly accepting every answer as gospel. Because usually you can't prove them wrong anyways, everything bei
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by corty 5y ago
Transmission or no transmission is a huge difference in maintenance cost. And land locations south of Hannover are poor conditions for wind turbines generally, with few exceptions. In those cases, earnings can be scarce and things can get u
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by corty 5y ago
Should have mentioned, I'm running testing/unstable. After the stable release, all the new experimental stuff for the next release floods into unstable.
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by corty 5y ago
Agreed. The latest Debian upgrade installed pipewire for me, and I didn't even notice, everything just worked fine! And that after years and years of fiddling with alsa and pulseaudio configs, uninstalling pulseaudio, hacks upon hacks
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by corty 5y ago
Another copycat change to get the same crappy non-ergonomics in unrecognizable controls as the others. Can we please fast-forward all the UI circus to arrive at something usable again? Pretty please?
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by corty 5y ago
Thank you, your phrasing is far better and clearer than mine.
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by corty 5y ago
Well, obviously China is suspected of having let Covid-19 escape, so of course this is first and foremost about restrictions that affect China.. What are you getting at? Also, of course there are accidents in any lab, most of them just repo
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by corty 5y ago
We are already at 4 Million fatalities from Corona, with a probably significant unknown number of deaths in third-world countries without proper diagnostics and healthcare. Vaccinations are still going too slow and will take another 5 years
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by corty 5y ago
There is a long waiting list for research at the south pole. Also, if that research is important enough, it can be sufficiently high-paid, so that people willing to do it can be found. If there isn't enough money for that, that researc
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by corty 5y ago
1. An unsafe lab is one, where pathogens can possibly get out with a non-negligible probability. And where those pathogens are infectious and deadly enough to be of concern. 2. Microsoft products don't carry biological viruses, because
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by corty 5y ago
It is theoretically true. They have changed the protocol at least three times, there are no user-accessible settings (just about:config) to point at your own sync server, there is no documentation. And at their rate of breaking stuff, your
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by corty 5y ago
All of them. Even a BSL-4 lab is just a day job. In the evening, you get out of the lab area through the airlock, take off the suit, shower and go home to your family. After shopping and a quick beer of course. Followed by going to the movi
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by corty 5y ago
> I imagine we'll see some monumental changes in Chinese lab safety after this, independent of whether or not they believe it came from a lab. No, we won't. That would be the party admitting it was wrong before, which can never
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by corty 5y ago
In that case, diplomatic pressure and travel and trade restrictions would be necessary. One would have to treat the whole irresponsible country harboring an unsafe lab just like that unsafe lab. I think this is also the real problem around
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by corty 5y ago
I would argue that there is a huge difference regarding the improvements in safety measures, depending on whether there is the suspicion or the proof of a lab leak. With just the suspicion of a lab leak, there will always be half-measures b
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by corty 5y ago
There may be proof in there that somebody lied about something related to the lab leak. In this case, of course funding is a trail of breadcrumbs, and even if there were no relation, a coverup would be likely. Because it makes the funders l
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by corty 5y ago
I would strongly disagree on the sysadmin stuff. Firefox has always had a very powerful settings system. All the stuff you could set in about:config can also be set via a set of configuration files provided by the sysadmin, the user and the

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