rciorba

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by rciorba 20d ago
Sepa is how my kid's daycare debits me each month, or how I transfer money to other accounts (most bills are direct-debit, but sometimes I get a one-off invoice and I have to transfer the money myself). But for the small person-to-pers
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by rciorba 21d ago
Critical mass? I had to start using it after moving to Germany, because everyone else expects you to use it. One of the ladies at daycare is leaving? Here's a paypal link to chip in for a good-bye present. Split a take-out order with a
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by rciorba 2mo ago
If NATO as a whole responds, yes it's in Ukraine's interest. If the NATO response is weak and non-cohesive, it is a victory for Russia, demonstrating article 5 isn't worth the paper it's written on. Let's see how
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by rciorba 3mo ago
I assume you're thinking of Tick-borne Encephalitis
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by rciorba 3mo ago
This is not in-kernel eBPF, this is a userspace eNPF runtime, so I don't see why it would pass fewer boundaries
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by rciorba 3mo ago
Because it's an implementation detail, not a change to the language itself. Similarly, when they re-implemented the dict type to preserve insert order, they also introduced it without a pep, because it was a side-effect of an implement
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by rciorba 3mo ago
I read the first Dune books in Romanian, then re-read the first one in English, and I was amazed at how nice the translation was. I actually prefer it to the original. For example, stillsuit sounds really basic, but distrai, a portmanteau o
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by rciorba 5mo ago
And the Galaxy S5 that came after it, still had a replaceable battery while being waterproof.
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by rciorba 7mo ago
I mean, the "one-queue per consumer" they eventually ended up with, is basically an inbox that the sequential process reads from.
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by rciorba 1y ago
Fair enough, this is a sign of clear progress for Eastern Europe.
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by rciorba 1y ago
> And the migration exists in the other direction, you'll be amazed by how many French dentists are studying in Romania. Those people don't really plan to stay in Romania. They intend to get their degrees then move back to West
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by rciorba 1y ago
In Germany you can sometimes find it at Turkish grocery stores. I grew up eating it every autumn. It's still common in my part of Romania.
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by rciorba 2y ago
Firefox has such a small slice of the browser market, that I doubt Google will bother.
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by rciorba 2y ago
Just tried it for German. The cards gave me the word without their article. Because grammatical gender is so important and impacts so many aspects (adjectives, case markers, etc), you really should learn the word with the article, otherwise
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by rciorba 2y ago
The seasonality is not an exception. It's not a case of "just this once". It's a well understood thing of "every year, before the tax deadline we have crunch-time, so don't plan on going on holiday in that time
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by rciorba 2y ago
I have lived in several commie block apartments over the 30 some years I lived in Romania, and in every single one every radiator had a manual valve I could use to regulate temperature.
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by rciorba 3y ago
Having the workers acquire the lock and update the terminal themselves seems like it would cause lock contention. An alternative would be to have only the main process do the updating and have the workers message it about progress, using a
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by rciorba 3y ago
if you choose to share data with Bob, you have to accept the consequences of Bob being sloppy with your data
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by rciorba 3y ago
CANDU reactors use un-enriched Uranium. Technology exists, and has been in use for half a century.
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by rciorba 4y ago
It really depends on the use-case. Async Python is nice for IO-heavy APIs If CPU-heavy workloads are likely, I'd probably look into using go. In terms of FE, it really depends on the skill-set in the team. I went for Vue over React whe
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by rciorba 4y ago
And even before apps became common-place, in Europe it was common to call a dispatch and ask for a cab at an address.
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by rciorba 4y ago
I've ordered from such a place in Munich. The novelty factor made it entertaining to watch and at some point I could identify my order being prepared. Not sure how many people you could deceive before you start to get called out, if t
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by rciorba 5y ago
that deal is (was?) only available in few parts of the world, sadly
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by rciorba 5y ago
Brilliant!
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by rciorba 5y ago
I just add intermediary way-points for long routes. Works well enough.
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by rciorba 5y ago
Even just using an ad-blocker will prevent this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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by rciorba 5y ago
The FB pixel is how FB gets to know about conversions. If your company runs FB adds, FB encourages you to let them know about which users converted to paying customers so it can improve the targeting of your ad campaign. And if you offer a
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by rciorba 6y ago
> Boots. I can afford the boots I can afford today and I like them. But I am sure that 10 years from now I’ll be able to afford better ones. If you can get 10 years out of a pair of boots it means they were good. I've had a pair of
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by rciorba 6y ago
Don't remember the details of the legacy app, but I don't recall seeing that. I think it just used dicts for the data and stored that in a blist.sortedlist https://pypi.org/project/blist/ blist was the o
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by rciorba 6y ago
> I think PyPy is switching to cffi as the way to connect to C code so most native code "just works" now. As far as I know extensions need to be written for cffi specifically. cffi is a newer way of writing C extensions, devel

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