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by throwaway294566 4y ago
No. You want a parametrized "Money" type, one that can do calculations in varying numbers of decimals, and configurable rounding. There are legal requirements that make this necessary. One (from memory, not exact) calculation I&#x
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Yes, but there is more to it: The compiler may assume that UB will never happen intentionally and optimize out the branch containing UB.
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Out-of-order execution isn't the reason for this. The C standard assumes an abstract machine that allows OoOE, of course, but even with strict in-order hardware UB can hit you at any time, even before you'd think it could. That is
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Roman imperial power isn't fascism in that some important aspects do differ. E.g. fascism uses a special kind of modern aesthetics that Romans wouldn't recognize, even if fascist monuments copied Roman building style. Fascism also
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
> The fact that it appears on the Senate building probably refers to the Roman meaning. The roman meaning is very much fascist, if phrased in modern terms. Fasces were carried by lictors accompanying a roman official, symbolizing the &qu
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
In German, there are no two terms for those, both are called "Hakenkreuz". And the Nazi ideology actually made references to eastern culture and peoples, claiming that Germans were descendents of the Aryan peoples: https:/&#
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Because, while the same problem exists, it doesn't exist to the same extent. The average size of the vehicles is smaller, even bigger European SUVs are far smaller than what americans call trucks. And there are less of the really big a
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
You don't need oil, just rope works as well. Every DIY store (at least over here) has loose manila fibre for that purpose. Wrap into the thread, screw it together, done. The not-so-nice problem: It might leak at first. The nice feature
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Yes. My question is always "show me the shop where I can buy it". Never an answer ;)
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
The official argument is that fining public institutions is a game of taking from the right pocket to put in the left pocket. It's the state fining itself. Also, officially, public servants are thought to obey the law as a matter of ca
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
The first example isn't enforcement, it is due diligence and compliance in companies. That does happen, of course, sometimes in a useful way, sometimes to just have some fig leaf to point at in case of a complaint. Google analytics and
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Don't know about Norway. But whether fines apply to public institutions is up to the member states, and most member states, including Germany, have decided not to fine their public institutions for GDPR violations.
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Yes. But there is too few of them, and usually in situations where other companies can still wait and see. "We aren't Facebook", "We are too small to be noticed" and "but we had them sign a waiver" are sti
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
It would really depend on the situation to be decided, whether MS would have to pay up, or rather the company using MS products to handle customer data. One can imagine a way to use MS products that might not be illegal, e.g. never use it t
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Imho, the "FUD" is largely right and most cloud platforms are indeed illegal. However, due to enforcement being absent or taking ages, there are too few legal decisions and big expensive enforcement actions that one can point to.
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Problem as always is, it's all talk and (almost) zero enforcement in Germany. Complaints to a data protection official take forever, are usually dismissed at first, even if counter to published opinions or decisions such as TFA. And on
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
There have been numerous such "solutions". Either it was about MS pinky-swearing that data processing would somehow be CLOUD-act-safe, or about some European hoster providing Office356 instances (I think T-Systems did this for a w
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
It is, not the pareto principle as such, but the basic laws of statistical distributions: Depending on the underlying mechanisms, large systems will converge on some statistical distribution of outcomes. The easiest-to-prove mechanism that
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Even if, by magic, you manage to get all the world on exactly the same income per family/person at one point in time, that equality will only last a moment. Add any amount of time with some random changes in society, environment, sunsp
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
I'm not quite sure about it, but I also think that the whole "if you cannot say anything nice, don't say anything" thing is very much an anglo thing. Around here, Germany, art critics are celebrated for their often acerb
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
A person's behavior and its abilities are determined by genetics ("nature") or family/society/circumstances ("nurture") or some ratio of mixture of both. Current political sensibilities prohibit talking ab
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
You are trying to put a racist spin on something that is simply a matter of time and circumstances: You cannot instantly, just by declaring it to be so, have technology, infrastructure, efficient agriculture. You need to start where you are
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
Because "rich", in many definitions, is a moving goalpost. If you define rich and poor as related to some global average, inevitable differences (we are not a Borg collective) will always produce some rich and poor people. If you,
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
This is about art. Art is about aesthetics, taste, and emotions evoked. All of those are subjective and personal. Therefore, there are no invalid reasons to hate on art. The only valid question is: which social circle can you share that opi
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
No, the draft requires the purpose of a software to be declared. So if you declare Linux to be a terminal emulator, not an operating system, and only sell/import/distribute it as such, you only need to comply with the somewhat eas
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
For developers outside the EU, this is automatically how it works. Only somebody selling or importing in the EU needs to worry about CE compliance. The big problem imho is for EU-resident OSS developers.
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
No, the regulation explicitly includes components: > For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘product with digital elements’ means any software or hardware product and its remote data processing solution
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
> Nobody wants to chase open source developers. That might be true for the lawmakers. But as it is, there will be unintended consequences: First, what the article criticizes: Open-Source development might be discouraged because the exemp
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
I'd guess large producers of commercial software. BigCo doesn't have any problem having an entire compliance & audit b.s. department. However, all the smaller companies, independent developers and OSS software will be regulate
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by throwaway294566 4y ago
CE certification requirements concern the sale of products in the EU. You are not allowed to import, make available or sell products that do not have a CE certification, if one is required for that kind of product. CE certification is usual

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