_pRwn_

12 karma · joined July 17, 2016

_pRwn_··on Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

mwahaha! Americans encountering our unfiltered, brutal, German efficiency ... you better start learning how to pack your groceries at the checkout at German speeds ... see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LfkwjJdITA

_pRwn_··on Snowshoe hares found to routinely feast on their own dead

so Monty Python was right after all ...

_pRwn_··on Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

the main problems of mars are not oxygen but the missing magnetosphere and associated high levels of radiation

_pRwn_··on Nobel Prize-winning economist joins blockchain startup to fix smart contracts

There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. There's only the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" which was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank.

_pRwn_··on The C256 Phoenix Project aka What Commodore 256 could have been like

is this guy aware of the Mega65 Project ( http://mega65.org/ ) which actually already has working machines, a case and is on the brink to begin mass production?

_pRwn_··on Embedding files in C programs with koio

this like looking back to the 80s when we coded for Amiga & Atari ST ...

_pRwn_··on Instagram launches “Data Download” tool to let you leave

you can thank the EU-GDPR for this. The EU will enforce fines of 20 million Euros or 4% of annual global turnover if they don't comply.

_pRwn_··on Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

as a Kraut: if you start now, you're practically too late. It will be interesting to see which major corporation will face the fine of 20 million Euro or 4% of annual turnover the first.

_pRwn_··on Consistent Selenium Testing in Python

... and when you're done with this beginner stuff ... use the de facto industry standard http://robotframework.org/