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¹: which ever since having my natural lenses replaced by synthetic ones appear violet to me instead of the bluish-white before
Why do you see that a negative though?
Sure, and "unsafe" is not only a huge red flag but can and should be tightly scoped and can then be audited much easier than chasing around NPE through an entire Class or even codebase.
Secondly, I've used Rust for a few years now and have NEVER needed to or thought of using raw pointers once. It's unnecessary for almost every single usecase I can think of except maybe OS or driver development but even then you can tightly control where "unsafe" uses pop up.
Meaning there's Sodium chloride (NaCl) in solution which not only makes the solution (more) conductive but also in combination with the application of electric current should electrolyze the solution into gaseous O2, H2 and Cl2.
Seriously, one of the (seemingly) more popular "parking" spots for singular ones of these scooters I've found in my city is on an un-/dimly lit foot- and bicycle path at night, cosplaying as a tripping hazard.
Fuck these scooters and the dangerous morons who ride and just leave them everywhere.
The backside of this magazine is a full-page ad for this exact laptop.
[1]: " c't Make: Sonderheft Elektro-Technik " https://www.heise.de/select/make/2022/7
[2]: Seriously, 12,90€ for one edition is IMHO too much to just buy every single one without all the content being something I'm really interested in.
[1]: Obviously not Kotick and the rest of the scum, who not only tolerated but even engaged in the "alleged" instances of all manners of abuse for years. I actually wouldn't mind if they provided themselves as kindling on that corporate bonfire after having their golden parachutes cut away to pay damages/"reparations" to their victims.
[2]: ie. with at least a background in games development, not how to best financially screw their workers.
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I really couldn't care less about statistics, which like with many other topics/courses made/makes it incredibly hard for me to concentrate on and actually learn something about it. I could force the knowledge into my brain to be able to recite and use it in practice over and over again, but the moment the exams come around it's all gone from my head. That certainly made university very problematic.
[1] Edit to add: I forgot to say that using RStudio was the only remotely pleasant part of that Stats course and in later courses where some stats work was needed.
And can we talk about how stupid and actively malicious it is to use the Fukushima accident as a reason for shutting down nuclear plants in Germany?
Fukushima: nuclear plant in a seismically very active region in very close proximity to the ocean where tsunamis are not really a rarity
vs.
German nuclear plants: not very seismically active (if at all), no tsunamis i've ever heard of, not counting floods as those are
1. easier to foresee and manage and
2. very much less intense than a sudden wall of water razing everything in its path.
Also in Japan you kinda have to build near the coast since its surrounded by ocean on all sides while being stretched out long and not that wide with mountains as a backbone in the middle. Germany on the other hand only has the North and Baltic Sea at its northern end then progressively gets higher above sea level the more south you go, ultimately ending at the northern end of the Alps.
This decision and especially this reasoning didn't make sense then and still doesn't nowadays. It was just a kneejerk reaction to retain voter support by exploiting the fear of the uneducated and the anti-nuclear crowd.
I'm in my mid-20s.
From the time I signed my first debit card and ID card at around 16 to my driver's license at around 18 my signature already significantly changed, not to mention that I rarely if ever have to physically sign something on paper forms and the like so it's not uncommon for there to be months or even more than a year between signatures. How am I expected to replicate my "signature" almost exactly?
I.e. "make an example out of them"
It's as simple as that.
The DVD/Blu-Ray season sets cost 85-90€ each(!!!) for 13 (~20-22 minutes) episodes per season. That price to me is simply unacceptable, since that's more for one season than the entirety of series like "Friends" or "House, M.D.", either of which provide vastly more content and are WAY more popular than any anime.
As it stands now, I'll probably just wait until the last six episodes of this season become available then use the free "test period" for the "aniverse" channel on Prime Video, on which I arbitrarily can't watch 1080p HD because I have the absolute audacity of not using Windows (a problem which downloads from certain ... 3rd-party sites do not share).
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Basically: "You think you don't like ads but we know you actually do like them deep-down."
> Jail is incomprehensibly horrible the first day. Eventually, it’s less awful.
> But if you let that prisoner out for a day…
> That’d be practically cruel. You’d stop the adaptation and retrigger those initial feelings about jail when they had to go back.
Yikes! "Don't mind being in jail for long, you'll get used to it."
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To me the only good point of this article is the last question by the interviewer:
> What are you doing next? Trying to prove we actually love the dentist?
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What was the meme'd phrase again from one of the press conferences years ago? Something like "you think you do but you don't"?
Although he was an older physics teacher who only really did computer class ("Informatik") because there was nobody else available or (more) qualified to do the job. When later on there were classes on programming, he made us use TurboPascal instead of something less cluttered and actually useful in modern economy like Python.
That same teacher later on performed some show experiments about induction and electromagnetic forces in physics class where he let a magnet fall through a glass tube with several copper coils around it. So far so good, but he then tried to readjust one of the coils one the glass tube, which predictably shattered in his hands, nearly severing some fingers and actually severing some tendons, which IIRC were later replaced with other tendons from his legs or something. Needless to say, not the sharpest tool in the shed.
My other physics teacher during 10th-12th grade physics classes was a severely esoteric nutjob, preferring to hold long rants about "science" being able to diagnose diseases in people by somehow shining a laser at a drop of their blood and interpreting the reflection/refraction because there was a "connection" between the person and their blood (or something like that, I honestly tuned out his ravings after a while). Apparently his wife is/was some kind of homeopathic "healer".
All that is to say, computer and physics class teachers for me were "very fun" and "useful", since one did not have a clue that their students were "cheating" and both were not very in tune with modern and/or scientific methods.
Since then it's been Motorola phones all the way (essentially unmodified Android OS), affordable, no bloatware etc.
edit: grammar
> "We need to boost Japan's economy! What should we do?'
> -"Well we could let tourists in to take advantage of the weak yen, bringing in billions of dollars of revenue & saving businesses around the country?!"
> "NAH! Let's encourage younger generations to become alcoholics instead!"
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I think that sums it up pretty well.
They looked and felt like flatter, drier versions of the regular patties and the flavor wasn't bad but it also lacked something that you just can't really get without real meat.
Also IMHO products and companies should be banned from advertising using terms that are directly opposed to the product, like "Meatless Meat", "Fischstäbchen ohne Fisch" ("fish sticks without fish", a slogan by "iglo" for what's essentially just breaded veggie sticks). Just honestly call those products what they are, "meat alternatives", "meat replacements", "vegetarian/vegan alternatives", etc. These would all be perfectly fine and in time people will get the idea.
And I say this all as someone who really likes meat and is curious about trying things like insect-based protein in the future but also really likes purely vegetarian or even vegan dishes.
We had ONE meeting per week, every monday morning, where everyone told what they achieved the past week, what they planned to do that week and the department head handed down news from corporate to us (planned expansions, transitions in corpo IT etc.). That meeting took about 60 minutes and we were then all on the same level for that week with finer coordination done as required by specific incidents/projects.
Haven't yet worked in another institution with such a process but from my limited POV it worked really well, whereas daily meetings to reiterate the same things every, single, day sound like such a waste of time.
Title : "Botanists are disappearing - just when the world needs them most"
Avatar (IIRC): "[...] but when the world needed him most, he vanished [...]"
[1]: Maybe on lagrange points?
"Mozilla Corporation" bought Pocket in 2017.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) :
> On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary but that it would be leveraged as part of an ongoing "Context Graph" project.[6] There are plans to open-source the server-side code of Pocket,[11][12][13] with more than 50 repositories already available on the company's GitHub account, including their iOS app.
AFAIK the last big push to get out of "it works on my machine" was the JVM which has become a bloated, inefficient mess that a vast chunk of the industry uses anyway, because most often it's deemed "good enough" and Java, Kotlin etc. devs are relatively easy to find and/or train compared to "native" development in say C/C++, Rust, etc.
Don't know if you knew this, you can use RSS to get feeds of the channels you want without subscribing or even having a Google account.
Good in-browser add-on for following, organizing etc. of RSS feeds: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...