korlja

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by korlja 4y ago
Should be, but I'm not so sure about Outlook, which is usually involved in all such reply-all-storms. Replies and threads in Outlook are very weird.
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by korlja 4y ago
A pedestrian with headphones needs to ensure that he can hear any relevant traffic noise, e.g. my bell or an approaching car. Noise-blocking headphones or loud music impeding the hearing of a pedestrian are a traffic offense.
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by korlja 4y ago
Leaving your computer unlocked usually also breaks policy (except if the policy is very much useless). The non-embarassing way would be to report the user leaving the computer unlocked, leading to disciplinary action and eventual dismissal.
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by korlja 4y ago
in postfix.conf, set header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks and in /etc/postfix/header_checks add: /In-Reply-To:.*msgid-2948573294867@example.com/ REJECT reply-storm However, blocking the who
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by korlja 4y ago
Yes, but the parent post specifically referred to Germany. And due to taxes, renewable subsidies in the range of 3 to 10ct/kWh (which every household pays (but not all industries)) and sky-high generation prices due to prematurely swit
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by korlja 4y ago
Quite impossible, except if you run a steel mill or something. End-user prices for electricity have been >0.20Eur/kWh for around 10 years now, currently approaching >0.40Eur/kWh (sometimes even more). See e.g. some compariso
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by korlja 4y ago
There are easy, non-offensive, non-interrupting methods of communicating while another person is talking. Signal yes/no, dissent, agreement? Thumbs up or down, Nod or shake head. Applause? Deaf people's clap (raise both hands, osc
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by korlja 4y ago
The translation is accurate. "Bei Level-2-Fahrzeugen bleibt die Fahrerin oder der Fahrer grundsätzlich immer in der Verantwortung." can be translated this way. The only nit I would pick is about the translation of "grundsaetz
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by korlja 4y ago
If you read carefully, they are talking about the difference in responsiblity between level 2 and level 3 autonomous driving, with the explicit remark that the driver is fully responsible in a level 2 vehicle and that the vehicle in questio
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by korlja 4y ago
> a hash of an ip address could still be 'personal data' under the eyes of gdpr. We did something similar for a project, which got approved by the relevant data protection officer: hash(IP + daily secret) as an identifier in th
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by korlja 4y ago
As a user, I've yet to see the user-facing benefits of analytics. I suspect there might be some which I don't know about. But mostly what I see is "we cancelled feature X you care about because analytics told us nobody uses i
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by korlja 4y ago
I guess the stigma is too established to get rid of. Maybe you can sway some users by transparency, i.e. a very thorough but user-friendly explanation about what your software is doing and how it cannot possibly be used to invade their priv
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by korlja 4y ago
Analytics is generally (in detail this might or might not apply for this project) seen as an invasion of privacy, wasting bandwidth, increasing load time and lowering performance. There is a population of users who would gladly accept adver
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by korlja 4y ago
RedHat licenses are just too expensive by sticker price. Beancounters haunt us for deploying RedHat because "the Windows license for that box would have been cheaper in our licensing model". That there is support included which we
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by korlja 4y ago
'sz' for 'ß' is sometimes used to make things roundtrip-proof in capslock, e.g. on military stencils. HTML calls it 'szlig'. Also, some use "Esszet" as the name of the character. But all are wrong in
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by korlja 4y ago
That is correct and solves the roundtrip-problem (in this case and language). But uppercase 'ẞ' is just an additional option at the discretion of the writer, the recommended variant continues to be 'SS'.
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by korlja 4y ago
Forget towns. Talk about the fucking name of the country. Actually, the name is "Deutschland" (if you leave out the political decorations declaring it a federal republic). One should think, knowing where the word comes from, that
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by korlja 4y ago
Vereinigtes Königreich von Grossbritannien und Nordirland bitte. Also, even more weirdness about the channel islands and the "British" overseas territories (which are isles, but not British isles...).
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by korlja 4y ago
.ToUpper() is locale-dependent, so can only be used if the locale of the text in question is known. E.g. German ß capitalizes to SS, and .ToUpper().ToLower() should give you either 'ss' or 'ß' depending on what it was be
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by korlja 4y ago
I do think computers are a huge net positive. And for what we need computers to do, there is a necessary, irreducible complexity involved, so there is a limit to how simple things could be even in theory. But the problem isn't with tha
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by korlja 4y ago
Yes and no. I think at least a part of that problem is that the usual support ticketing process infantilizes users. If you call in and the first question is along the lines of "is it plugged in? have you tried turning it off and on aga
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by korlja 4y ago
It isn't FUD if it is still true for a majority of deployments, even new ones. One popular example: EV chargers still rely on easily cloneable Mifare Classic for access and billing and are only very slowly changing over to more secure
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by korlja 4y ago
Around here, I as a support guy could theoretically open a ticket. But I'm shielded by policy, so users cannot call me directly. Instead they will reach a call center (same for emails) where tickets are written down, classified and ass
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by korlja 4y ago
Back in the day, if your pencil was dull, you sharpened it with your own personal workplace sharpener. You could replace your pencil or maybe even typewriter by just going to the supplies closet and get a new one. Security was done by clean
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by korlja 4y ago
Many superconductors are insulators at room temperature. The interesting part here is that it seems to depend on the angle between overlayed graphene sheets.
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by korlja 4y ago
Stake in the ground, as the sister post said, non-corroding, in the simplest case. But there is more to it: The stake has to have permanent contact to some electrically conductive layer in the ground, so you need to take geology and local c