manuel_w

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by manuel_w 2mo ago
Nice to stumble over this thread. I'm not sure if Flint is the right tool for me. I'd like to have a tool that expresses code in visual form for me. For example, right now I need to reverse engineer some code for debugging purpose
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by manuel_w 7mo ago
The pro-swap stance has never made sense to me because it feels like a logical loop. There’s a common rule of thumb that says you should have swap space equal to some multiple of your RAM. For instance, if I have 8 GB of RAM, people recomme
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by manuel_w 9mo ago
Finnix seems to serve the same use case as GRML Linux it seems. I never tried Finnix, but GRML helped me a few times so far.
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by manuel_w 9mo ago
Me, Austrian and two Austrian friends were doing a road trip through western Canada. We had a rental car with a remote key fob, and forgot the key fob on the cars roof when driving off for a multi-hundred kms trip. It obviously got lost and
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by manuel_w 10mo ago
What exactly is overly bureaucratic in the EU? I as an European get the feeling people usually hate on the EU just because it dares to interfere with local legislation. But that's its job. And usually the EU interferes for a good reaso
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by manuel_w 1y ago
Doesn't he just say that Romanian Jews overperform? I don't think there's a need to read the authors words in the worst possible way. > I understand this as ‘it makes sense for a group with skin color X and hair color Y to
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by manuel_w 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Estonia invested a lot? In what? Military? So the optics are positive?
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by manuel_w 1y ago
It sounds like you attended this workshop and can recommend it. Is that true?
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Wow this is bringing back youth-hood memories. Great to see this page is still around. Thanks for bringing this up. SelfHTML has been an invaluable tool for my younger self.
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Pretty cool, nice job! And wouldn't it be semantically more correct to put the <style> tag into the <head> and turning the <span> into a <p>aragraph? Since this is targeting beginners I'd think it's im
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by manuel_w 2y ago
This post seems very well researched. It's great that OP has brought this up. If we could push further the state of the art in 3D printing, by simply no longer adhering to an (now proven to be invalid) patent, it's a no-brainer to
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe. Not in the part of Europe I'm in. I can't recall the last time I've seen an American car here in the streets of Vienna. Also: Don't large American SUVs consu
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Which one is more resistant to bitrot, Restic or Borg Backup? (Yes, bitrot might better be mitigated at the filesystem layer, but I'm not switching to ZFS, btrfs or bcache-fs anytime soon.)
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Which edge cases do you mean? Are you confusing it with YAML? I know YAML has some serious footguns [1]. In JSON I'm not aware of any. [1] https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Discussions on checksumming filesystems usually revolve around ZFS and BTRFS, but has someone any experience with bcachefs? It's upstreamed in the linux kernel, I learned, and is supposed to have full checksumming. The author also seem
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Where do you live? I transitioned to software development in the age of ~30 and am based in Austria, Europe. The way I did is was to work on a project in my free time, and use that to a) LEARN, b) demonstrate that I can aquire skills myself
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf Why that?
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Since an embedded Linux system will likely require use of either Buildroot or Yocto, I'd like to ask the following slightly off-topic question: Which SoM product line would you say has the best vendor support? I'm talking about qu
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> It's a bet that China's rivals cannot successfully resist short-term greed despite the huge and transparent long-term risks. Seems they have correctly identified the western worlds weakness. Isn't it the same with climat
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Hello Cosmin, nice to read you again. Cosmin applied at my place for the position as Software Architect. I was impressed by his ability to articulate ideas clearly and comprehensively. He doesn't rush an answer but gives things a thoug
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Since you are keen on feedback: A LaTeX using collegue I forwarded this to objected that you need to approve latex keywords (\alpha) and can't just keep on typing. Not much of a LaTeX user myself, so just forwarding the feedback as is.
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> around-the-world Not to dimish their perfomance, but still worth noting that they are taking the curves as tightly as anyhow possible. Which is okay, I guess, it's a race after all. https://www.vendeeglobe.org&#x2F
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by manuel_w 2y ago
FYI, also modern helmets are not designed to stop bullets but rather to protect from shrapnel and hand grenades. Stopping a bullet would mean breaking the wearers neck. (The kinetic energy needs to go somewhere after all.)
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by manuel_w 2y ago
That reminds me of that Werner Herzog documentary on Penguins, and the one Penguin that leaves to group just to wander off into the island towards certain death. https://youtu.be/mnTU_hJoByA?t=131
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Isn't IBAN just the account identifier SEPA uses? (The other identifier necessary to make SEPA transfers being the BIC = bank id.)
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Interesting article -- thanks for sharing! I'm surprised though that the article honors and praises things while at the same time spelling them consequently wrong. One would assume they would at least spend the effort to keep the Umlau
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by manuel_w 2y ago
> I don't write code by hand because my hands are broken, and I can't use the keyboard long enough to write any significant amount of code. I've developed a relationship with nonbiological junior programmers such that I no
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by manuel_w 2y ago
The article says they're providing GStreamer integration. Can someone tell me how a GStreamer pipeline to run the camera feed through an object detection ML model would look like? Am I free in the choice of model type? (I heard there a
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by manuel_w 2y ago
Sounds reasonable. In a project I used to work in I disabled stdlib, exceptions, RTTI. Not sure what else to disable to essentially have C with different syntax.
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by manuel_w 2y ago
February 8th, 2024 a.k.a. 2024-02-08 a.k.a. 08.02.2024.

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