ravingraven

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by ravingraven 3y ago
If by "common" user you mean the desktop user, not much. But this is a huge deal for embedded devices like industrial control and communication equipment, as their devs will be able to use the latest mainline kernel if they need r
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by ravingraven 4y ago
>But it's been that way forever in tech companies: SWE make enormous amounts of money and can control their work + environment a lot. This has certainly not been true since for ever and is only partially now. Only a small minority o
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by ravingraven 4y ago
For many companies this is counter-intuitive but true. Companies (just like people) are not fully rational economic actors. A lot of the decision-making in companies revolves around power-plays and revenge. Managers fire people they don&#x2
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by ravingraven 4y ago
So, you don't care about the movies you watch or the music you hear?
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by ravingraven 4y ago
No, you can't. Netflix, Youtube etc. (arguably the largest players in the digital properties game right now) have demonstrably failed to do so.
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by ravingraven 4y ago
Please refer back to my original comment about people hearing NFTs and for some reason which I fail to understand jump to "physical property". NFTs do not work for physical property but they do for digital. Enforcement of digital
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by ravingraven 4y ago
Digital ownership is enforced by laws and nothing else. There is no amount of code that can technically prevent me from copying any data that lands on my system. >Tokens signed by an app-trusted key solve the problem with almost zero res
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by ravingraven 4y ago
>...but ownership of property requires physical and/or legal protections, which they do not. This is not true for digital property. Digital property is just as "made up" as the NFT that proves its ownership. People hear &q
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by ravingraven 4y ago
I was short on Tether for years. Had to give up my position because “Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
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by ravingraven 4y ago
>I think the core problem is huge and extremely traditional management. Not saying that this is not a problem, but bulky management is a constant for DB, even during the years where it was considered world-class. I think it is the budget
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by ravingraven 5y ago
Nonesense. The Lira has been massively losing value since 2008 while Bitcoin has been massively gaining value for years, the only Turks that are not eating because of Bitcoin are the ones who bought it the past few months.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Are you guys me? Exact same story. Network programming on embedded systems. Beej to the rescue.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
>Twitter, Facebook and Google need to be treated like utilities [...] Our generation is reinventing the wheel here, our ancestors had exactly the same problems with the power, water, gas, telephone and rail networks (at some point in tim
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by ravingraven 6y ago
I live in the EU. I don't have instant money transfers (they are within the day but not instant). Across EU countries it still takes days.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
It is much much smarter compared to any electronic alternative. It is actually the smartest way to do it if done correctly. Only people who do not understand crypto say stuff like that.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Are you refering to this: https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BMP280_driver/blob/master/... ...? Because there is nothing inherently modern about this code, this is how C has been written for decades if no
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by ravingraven 6y ago
In Greece it is of course mandatory reading in junior high-school but not in ancient Greek. There are other ancient Greek texts though which are mandatory reading and learning ancient Greek is mandatory as well.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Looks awesome!
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by ravingraven 6y ago
I work with embedded systems and I can tell you for a fact that there are exactly two reasons for not including Python or newer versions of it: 1) Hardware constraints. 2) Software must be real-time. Non-embedded developers are usually unab
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Let us not kid ourselves, opting out of Google is suicide for any kind of content. Google is (sadly) critical internet infrastructure by now and lawmakers can not ignore it.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
>It's far better to switch to solar/wind/geo/nuclear than natural gas in the long run... Solar and wind require gas plants as balance when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. All other "infinite&q
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Direktbanken (i.e. purely online Banks) are an exception but they come with their own set of asterisks and are not a blanket solution as you can't open an account from all European countries.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
First of all, you are not allowed to have a German account if you are not a resident of Germany. Besides that, this is not the point of the conversation. The original comment compared SEPA to Bitcoin, saying that SEPA is better since it is
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by ravingraven 6y ago
They do not, around 7 Euro will arrive (depending on your bank, but all Greek banks charge a fee). I am a Greek expat in Germany, I do those kinds of transactions very often.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
All banks in Greece charge a fee. The fact that plenty of people do SEPA transfers for free means nothing for the other people (e.g. the whole population of Greece) that can not do SEPA transfers for free.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Transfer 10 Euro to Greece and let me know how much of it will actually get there.
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by ravingraven 6y ago
A) Not charging differently does not mean it is free (which was the original argument). B) The "target" bank can still charge you independently of your bank. E.g. (and I do this kind of transfer very very often so I am 100% sure i
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by ravingraven 6y ago
They certainly are not. Not between countries (even if they are EU countries and both use the Euro) and not for 1 billion Euros/Dollars. Edit: A lot of people here are saying "I do not pay for it so it is free". Just because
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by ravingraven 6y ago
>By analogy you're basically equating tortute in order to prevent the detonation of a bomb to torture in order to detonate a bomb. I really can not see how I am doing this. Care to illustrate? >Also, no one included SA as part of
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by ravingraven 6y ago
Neither is Germany. The DDR, sure but there are movies from West Germany there too, e.g. World on a Wire.

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