luca_ing

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by luca_ing 9y ago
It is my understanding that in German civil suits it's customary for the loser to pay the cost of the law suit, including lawyer's fees (which are usually coupled to the monetary value of the lawsuit, so frivolously racking up the
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by luca_ing 9y ago
The thing is, kids are incredibly primed to recognise and cherish brands. I find it shocking, to be honest. They want a Paw Patrol figurine to emerge from the play-doh, for the millionth time. Not some stupid liquid hydrogen (I view it th
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Good idea. But judging by my son's behaviour he would just select the next video once the "boring" educational content starts :-(
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops. But isn't that common practice? Someone with prior convictions will get a harsher sentence. By that same logic it's co
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> Can anyone who has been using ZFS long-term at home comment? How do you add more space? My solution is to use RAID1 exclusively. That means that I can keep attaching pairs of devices if I run out of diskspace. I can never get them out
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> If you ask someone “Which do you think is safer: artificial vanilla or vanilla extract?” they’ll often prefer the “natural” one. This feels like an accidental trick question :-) For me personally, I know I'll prefer vanilla extrac
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> usually a more difficult path than gaming on Windows Just to speak against this notion (which absolutely used to be true, no contest there): anecdotally, I don't find that to be true anymore, at least using Steam. It works really
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by luca_ing 9y ago
While you make a good point, the thing is that in my personal observation only the Chinese students (they were probably the largest group, which probably plays a role TBH) kept to themselves. The other foreign students would merrily mingle
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Since I had kids, I haven't gone climbing natural rock. I still go to climbing gyms (mostly to boulder these days, for unrelated reasons), but not outside. I've discovered that I now get too fearful while climbing, too scared some
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by luca_ing 9y ago
You're right, I misremembered.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> Surely the copilot can look at a map (when I say map I don't mean a piece of paper -- I mean a digital one with GPS and everything) and see their trajectory while the pilot is landing, right? It's not like the pilot doesn&#x2
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by luca_ing 9y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects. WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU: I've worked on many embedded syste
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Can't confirm.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> VDSL is certainly not a "dead end". 50Mbit is available in most of Germany, with 100Mbit slowly rolling out. Using increasingly involved techniques to get more speed out of a century-old technology is pretty much a dead end.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
For your and any other readers' benefit: On Android, you might try using the app "reddit is fun". It requires no permissions and its style is delightfully basic and compact. It's my preferred way of redditing these days.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Absolutely seconded. Decent support for ZFS in general, especially during installation already. Ideally, ZFS root filesystem support (snapshot before upgrade, yay!). I've been using ZFS for six(?) years now, on both Debian and Ubuntu,
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> If you could Free-solo the same wall but with without (or greatly reduced) danger? [...] Does that somehow dampen the feeling of achievement when completed? I've pondered this. For me personally, the answer is: yes. I think part o
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by luca_ing 9y ago
I agree. This is why I prefer bouldering these days.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Backblaze b2?
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by luca_ing 9y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects. WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU: I've worked on many embedded syste
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by luca_ing 9y ago
In 2016, Germany was a net exporter of electrical energy: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag... However you're right that Germany was a net importer from (among others) Fr
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Here's the link: http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/de/untersuchungen/u140.html It being a German government publication it's in German unfortunately. As far as I can tell from skimming it your impression
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> Wind most certainly isn't base load. The German government's scientific service, for one, disagrees with you.
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Reddit as a whole, sure. The front page itself though? I don't know how others use it, but my frontpage is populated by my favourite subreddits, which are luckily mostly free of politics. TBH I have no idea how the majority use Reddit,
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by luca_ing 9y ago
>> Can we focus on renewables and stop trying to sell people hazardous waste that can last for millenia? > No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do everybody a disservice when they try to argue that an
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by luca_ing 9y ago
I read that as you fall into a black hole, there comes a point where the gravitational difference between your head and toes would be large enough to rip you apart. (Not that you wouldn't have other problems anyway :-) ) If they&#x27
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by luca_ing 9y ago
I am a freelancer, so I need to protect myself much more than a regular European employee would. On top of regular public healthcare and pension, I have three policies: 1) sickness daily allowance (the dictionary says this is what it's
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by luca_ing 9y ago
The thing is that detecting test situations is good, certainly useful, perhaps necessary. E.g. detecting you are on a test stand, you might * deactivate plausibility checks which would normally limit engine power * deactivate air bags and o
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by luca_ing 9y ago
> I posit that for a city of 500,000 - 1,000,000 it might become practical to have subways and that radically changes the transit equation. Cities of 500000 inhabitants which have a subway exist. See https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by luca_ing 9y ago
Common wisdom is to test for a minimum of 24h if you want to be reasonably certain of a negative result. But an hour is certainly better than nothing.

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