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by nbadg 24d ago
Good post, bad title. From the title alone, I'd expect a typical think-piece from someone (possibly outside the EU) about overregulation, "the solution is no regulation at all", etc. Instead, it's a solid critique of the
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by nbadg 1mo ago
This shows a profound ignorance for how much of modern life, especially within a bureaucracy, is powered by banal software like office suites. If you can cripple the everyday workings of government, even temporarily, by shutting off access
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by nbadg 8mo ago
This is a sensationalist piece of not-news. The CSU/CDU Union party (from which Merz comes) has been, at least in recent historical time, consistently pro-nuclear (at least in terms of their actions). They have consistently voted to le
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by nbadg 8mo ago
I mean, for retail investors outside the US, the question you're asking boils down to „does purchasing power parity follow popular US domestic market indices?“, to which the answer is a resounding no. There may be some offset for goods
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by nbadg 9mo ago
Putting aside, for a moment, a lot of important questions around (gestures broadly at the political situation in the US), what are the economic implications of a conflict between the US and Venezuela? Is this likely to increase inflation? A
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by nbadg 9mo ago
Certainly for many applications, the autoint approach would be fine. The benefit of uuid in this case is that it allows horizontally scalable app servers to construct PKs on their own without risk of collisions. In addition to just reducing
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by nbadg 9mo ago
I'm also not a huge fan of leaking server-side information; I suspect UUIDv7 could still be used in statistical analysis of the keyspace (in a similar fashion to the german tank problem for integer IDs). Also, leaking data about user a
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by nbadg 9mo ago
For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where yo
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by nbadg 10mo ago
> I didn't mean that you could 3-D print tiny laparoscopes or even visible-light metamaterials; I meant that you could 3-D print machines for making tiny laparoscopes and visible-light metamaterials. Huh, thanks for the clarificatio
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by nbadg 10mo ago
I'm not trying to say that there aren't plenty of applications for small scale mechanical devices, but rather that the applications where FDM-style 3d printing would be an appropriate manufacturing process are likely to be largely
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by nbadg 10mo ago
From TFA, they're using it to print bioinks. Think scaffolding for cell cultures. At these kinds of physical scales, biology is almost certainly a much larger market than mechanical applications. A 20 um line width (slightly less than
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by nbadg 10mo ago
Having used both extensively, Geizhals doesn't hold a candle to McMaster. McMaster is, bar none, the single best e commerce website I've ever used (if you already know what you're looking for, and definitely still top shelf i
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by nbadg 11mo ago
In that case I'd opt for dynamic module creation using metaprogramming instead of an import hook. And I personally would argue that grabbing the code objects from module members and re-execing them into a new module object to re-bind t
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by nbadg 11mo ago
If you only want your own code to see the patch, then why not just wrap it? I mean if you really need super strong isolation, you can always create a copy of the library object; metaprogramming, dynamic classes, etc, all make it really easy
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by nbadg 11mo ago
If the goal is to actually package and distribute the changes via import hook, that makes the supply chain attack question particularly relevant. And it still doesn't explain why you couldn't just package and distribute the monkey
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by nbadg 11mo ago
No, but I'll definitely post it to HN when it is!
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by nbadg 11mo ago
For context: one of the several projects I'm working on right now is an automated extraction system for literate-code-style documentation in python. This isn't the place nor time to talk about the why of it (especially compared to
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by nbadg 1y ago
Indeed. IMO, the trick to really enjoying python typing is to understand it on its own terms and really get comfortable with generics and protocols. That being said, especially for library developers, the not-yet-existant intersection type
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by nbadg 1y ago
Wow, did not realize that private-party purchase vehicle loans were a thing. Wild that the banks are willing to take on that much risk.
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by nbadg 1y ago
This is a really clear picture of things, thanks! I am actually originally from the US, but I've been living in the EU for 5ish years and haven't had a car since I gave the one I had in college back to my parents after I moved to
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by nbadg 1y ago
Additionally, a lot of people who would otherwise be in the used car market for price reasons in the US cannot afford to purchase even a used car outright, and getting financing for cars sold on the private market is, to my knowledge, not r
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by nbadg 1y ago
Certificate transparency logs are likely the only realistic way, but you could make the same argument against your DNS provider. Trust has to start somewhere. Whether or not something like this makes sense to you is probably a question of y
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by nbadg 1y ago
"As of January 2025, implementation has started for MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native." [1] Github shows java, js, rust, and typescript folders, though I didn't poke any further beyond literally just looking at the folder na
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by nbadg 1y ago
As an immigrant to Germany, I've often made the observation that Germany frequently has a really severe implementation problem. So I'm generally very sympathetic to that idea. That being said, I'm not entirely sure that'
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by nbadg 1y ago
That's not what the exit tax is, though. The German exit tax is effectively just a way to give the existing capital gains tax a way to tax unrealized gains when you leave the country, to prevent you from dodging taxes on capital gains
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by nbadg 1y ago
The technology certainly exists, though some of it is pretty new and not all of it is mature or commoditized (particularly in the context of high levels of penetration of variable renewables on the grid). That being said, politics aren&#x27
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by nbadg 1y ago
As it should be. The purpose of post mortems is to prevent future incidents, and obscuring the facts of what happened by removing names detracts substantially from clarity of understanding and, therefore, defeats the point. There are two im
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by nbadg 1y ago
Or simply perform a timing attack as a way of exploring the local network, though I'm not sure if the browser implementation immediately returns after the request is made (ex fetch API is called) but before the response is received. Pr
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by nbadg 1y ago
Also, dependent types, IE value-based dispatch. Which can be incredibly useful when dealing with enums. That alone is enough to make me curious to try it!
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by nbadg 1y ago
As far as I'm aware, the proposed mechanisms for this have to do with the distance to the focus point -- in other words, the fact that the display is close, not that it's a display. The virtual distance to the display, and hence y

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