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From which country are you connecting?

Centralized only became mainstream when everything started to be offered "for free". When it was buy or pay recurrently more often the choice was to buy.

Also the last one where important features were not reserved for enterprise volume licenses but available in the Pro version.

The repository uses it to abbreviate "Model Context Protocol".

Times are given as "c.t.", cum tempore.

> Meanwhile jet fuel for private jets is (and remains) not taxed at all, even in the EU.

Not correct. Fuel for private aviation is taxed, including jet fuel and avgas. However, there are very few "private" jets, most are operated by some company, and therefore not private. Jet-A1 for a truely privately operated C172 with a diesel engine is taxed.

"if your application requires a non-standard custom solution, then you should use the WebTransport API"

That's a pretty convincing use-case. Why use something standard if it can be non-standard custom instead!

Calling it "oldest" instead of "first known" would have avoided most of the confusion.

Full scale is unlikely. Russia could not, but they might send 250k/year to die in Estonia. EU and Nato (with or without US) would defend. But I doubt they would go all the way through Russia to force them to stop.

Nuclear option is not likely to be used for some "minor" conflict like that, because it would go both ways quickly.

Even if the EU doesn't collapse there's a non-zero risk of war though, after Russia is done with Ukraine.

Light pens are old, too, and with touch screens we are going back to that, without the light of the pen needed.

Drop tanks, well, drop batteries, to get rid of the excessive mass.

How about not actively providing false information, but being allowed to respond with wrong information?

Starting from the second note the brain switches to reative mode (at least a brain that got some relative recognition trained before) and no AP pitch will be memorized.

Looks like primer used for aircraft, as if they forgot to paint their builings.

Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.

In some parts of the world a will must be written by hand or needs an attesting notary.

Notepad is attempting to fix spelling without asking.

If you get bitten by flying bug, that's it. No escape.

I would love to live a carbon-neutral live, but giving up on flying - no way. An easy choice compared to those at war.

Bader willingly reentered the airforce, putting his life at risk, just to be able to fly.

On the German side, to get to fly at least prentend to be a Nazi. Without that, no flying.

Sacrifices have to be made to get airborn.

Ads are doing worse, not better. The purpose of an ad isn't to be clicked but to increase revenue. In the end of the year data will show clicks have gone up but other more important metrics haven't.

Who is guilty for tracking users? The site relying an income from ads with user-tracking, or the company buying the ads based on tracking instead of some less invasive method of distribution?

Huge difference between EU and US: In the EU, the seller always pays VAT to the government. In case of B2B, the buyer can claim it back from the government. As proof, store the invoice and data about the payment (and that the goods/service have been received). Proof is rarely verififed. Huge potential for tax fraud.

With all invoices going through government computers, only VAT that has actually been paid can be claimed back.

The easier solution would of course be to get rid of VAT, and increase income tax instead. But then people earning barely enough will suddenly notice how much the are paying. VAT nicely hides that fact.

2024/1257 [0], for checking fleet compliance, not the individual vehicle, anonymously. How a car is supposed to connect to a cell tower anonymously isn't explained though.

"6. The OBM systems installed by the manufacturer in the vehicles shall be capable of: [...] (b) communicating data on exhaust emission performance and battery durability data of the vehicle via the OBD port, including for the purpose of roadworthiness tests in accordance with Directive 2014/45/EU and technical roadside inspections in accordance with Directive 2014/47/EU, and anonymously over the air for the purpose of monitoring compliance of vehicle types;"

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

By "subscription" do you only mean subscription? Don't notifications need to be enabled in addition (bell button)?

I'm using the RSS feeds, so I'm not sure...

Not yet. But soon, when cars are required to transmit data about emissions.

Those windows are not just pieces of art to look at. They do also tint the sunlight, and with that the inside of the cathedral. The proposed new ones each use different colors, which is probably going to cause different parts to be tinted differently.

Should they indeed be replaced, it's a hardeware problem. But by adding computer controled (depeding on sunlight conditions) tinted light bulbs it can be fixed in software.

> [...] I remember this one dev who was super obsessed about code coverage [...]

Oh, you are lucky. Where I work that's the person who defines how to test and which tools to use. Look at the code, create tests to paint everything green. Whether the code actually works does not matter. I don't think these tests have ever caught any kind of bug. That isn't even their purpose.

> So I don’t even know who to blame here.

Money. If tests can be written without understanding what the code is supposed to do, they can be written by people who do not understand. Which appears to be the cheapest way to get passing tests. Not to find any bugs, but that's not what the process requires.

I use a second plate, upside down.

They do have different prices, too. And the supermarkets try to nudge people to buy the higher priced variants for greater revenue.

The underlying problem that makes it tempting to promote cheap music is the flat rate.

> Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone [...]

I write a mail (usually subject only) to myself. Actually, to noone, because my mobile devices Bcc myself. The notes are accessible from any device I can access my mailbox with, with no additional tools or servers for note keeping needed.

> While I concede that most people think of perfect pitch as something that is instilled in some way in early childhood rather than achievable through practice, I guess I would ask those commenters... why do you think the latter is fundamentally different, or is using some separate mechanism?

As soon as having learned some relative pitch, it becomes very difficult to train absolute pitch. One single note a day. For the second note the brain will switch to relative mode, and there's no progress on absolute. Forcing the ear/brain to run in absolute mode seems possible, but is difficult consistently enough to practice absolute.

Source: Experimenting with my own ability (or lack thereof).