enzo1982

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by enzo1982 4y ago
> A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course makes them slow. That's not generally true. For exa
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by enzo1982 5y ago
I'm German and I never heard the term "Kleincousin". According to Wikipedia [0] it seems to be used regionally to refer to 2nd degree cousins (which I would call "Großcousin"). Anyway, "Kleincousin" and &q
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by enzo1982 6y ago
We have mandatory 1 business day bank transactions in Euro currency in Germany and the EU since 2012. If your bank is taking "up to three _work_ days" for regular Euro transactions they are violating the law (§675s BGB). As of las
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by enzo1982 6y ago
More discussion in this other thread which I didn't find when submitting this. [0] It appears that the file system is not actually corrupted. The bug is just triggering a warning popup and a consistency check at the next boot. [1] [0]
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Windows 10 Bug That Can Corrupt Hard Drives(answers.microsoft.com)
8 points by enzo1982 6y ago|4 comments
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by enzo1982 6y ago
Does it? Apple's documentation seems to disagree [1]: "A weak memory ordering model, like the one in Apple silicon, gives the processor more flexibility to reorder memory instructions and improve performance, but doesn’t add impli
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Building XNU for macOS Catalina(kernelshaman.blogspot.com)
1 points by enzo1982 6y ago|0 comments
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by enzo1982 6y ago
No it hasn't. [0] Unless you want to claim the Unix developers deliberately chose the slash as a path separator to be incompatible with TOPS-10. That could be. [0] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-reall
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by enzo1982 6y ago
> But do you understand people who dare to run executables from 'proper-company' site? It's closed source, you have no idea what you are running, isn't it? As long as it's not free software in terms of FSF there
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fre:ac v1.1(github.com)
2 points by enzo1982 6y ago|0 comments
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by enzo1982 7y ago
These 320k tests were performed in the Guangdong province which has a population of 113 million and ~10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, or about 0.009% of the population. If they found a 0.5% positive rate on background tests there, that woul
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by enzo1982 7y ago
> We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 14 days before. This seems seriously flawed to the point of being outright stupid and irrespons
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The Brutal Performance Impact from Mitigating the LVI Vulnerability(phoronix.com)
2 points by enzo1982 7y ago|1 comments
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by enzo1982 7y ago
And beta 2 should be coming soon. There's only one blocking issue left on the bug tracker [1]. [1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=assigned&status=in-pro...
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Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X(phoronix.com)
37 points by enzo1982 7y ago|6 comments
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std:algorithm for Audio, Part 1(elk.audio)
3 points by enzo1982 7y ago|0 comments
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fre:ac v1.1 Beta 1(github.com)
1 points by enzo1982 7y ago|0 comments
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by enzo1982 7y ago
Yes, that's my own custom UI framework. Most of the platform dependent stuff is implemented in the smooth library. In hindsight, it would have been easier to just use Qt, GTK or wxWidgets. But I learned a lot by doing this myself and w
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by enzo1982 7y ago
As an open source developer, I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, Microsoft seems very keen on keeping Windows compatible even with ancient versions of the OS. New stuff usually is optional and APIs that behaved strangely in Windows 95 st
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XY Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by enzo1982 7y ago|0 comments
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Intel Clears Up Microcode Licensing Controversy(phoronix.com)
5 points by enzo1982 8y ago|0 comments
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SuperFast LAME technical details(freac.org)
2 points by enzo1982 8y ago|0 comments
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by enzo1982 8y ago
Apple gets a bad reputation for their supposed lack of backwards compatibility. Nothing is further from the truth. Well, they definitely break a lot of things. Mostly things that were never documented or guaranteed to work, though. My app
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Speeding up audio codecs with faster CRC checks(freac.org)
2 points by enzo1982 8y ago|1 comments
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Jim Keller reportedly joins Intel(wccftech.com)
2 points by enzo1982 8y ago|0 comments
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by enzo1982 8y ago
> > - Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again. > That's strange. I have never seen this and I've been using OS X since day one, every day. It happens to me quite often when working w
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by enzo1982 8y ago
Wikipedia has some more information about the three hares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_hares
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by enzo1982 8y ago
No, "we may monitor your communication for any business purpose" would not be consistent with that ruling. There's no chance "any business purpose" would qualify as a legitimate reason for monitoring communications.
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by enzo1982 9y ago
Requiring approval of the worker's council is how an employer's demand to read an employee's mail is usually handled in Germany. I did not mean to imply that it is handled the same way in the whole EU, just that unsubstantiat
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by enzo1982 9y ago
The European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that an employee's communication may not be monitored without prior notice and without specific reasons. [1] This ruling applies not only to the whole EU, but to the 47 member states of

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