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chopin··on India's surprise baby bust
Where in Europe should that be? I live in Germany and for example Stuttgart has a shortage of nurses because they can't afford living in a 1 hour commuting range (one way).
chopin··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
Same experience with Australia. Japan is very painless, as well. Friendly, helpful staff on both.
chopin··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
How can the third party not know I visited pronhub when pronhub verifies a token with the third party handed to me by the third party?

This may protect my privacy towards pronhub if I am not logged in. But not my privacy against the third party where I need to be logged in and who likely knows my real identity.

chopin··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
So, the trusted third party gets to know which sites you visit?
chopin··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
I just don't allow outbound connections for our HP printer.
chopin··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Which options are faster?
chopin··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Does Thunderbird have rules? I searched for this and didn't find them.
chopin··on Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
How do the mirrors get upgraded?
chopin··on I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
Internal structures often require support. This makes postprocessing necessary which kills your margin or makes the part expensive.
chopin··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
One can call Windows support? And get help?
chopin··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
I just have been quoted 40k for an installation. So, no.
chopin··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
Heat pump installations are far too expensive in Germany to make any sense economically.
chopin··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
Rooftop solar is prohibitively expensive in Germany. My installation would only cover its costs if electricity becomes so expensive that it would lead to complete economic collapse.
chopin··on Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?
That's prohibitively expensive. And not possible everywhere. And Germany's grid is not ready for heating with electricity.
chopin··on A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging
The main constituent of paper is wood, which consists of hydrocarbons.
chopin··on FreeCAD v1.1
I started with FreeCAD a couple of weeks ago. Parametric modeling is pretty hard and a couple of things are pretty hard to understand (no easy reuse of sketches between parts for one, one cannot extrude a binder is another one).

However, without it fine-tuning models for technical use would be untenable.

Unfortunately , refactoring is nightmare stuff.

chopin··on Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong
Isn't that law in the UK as well?

China takes the west as role model...

chopin··on Java is fast, code might not be
I worked with ORM (EclipseLink) and used SQL just fine.

When using JDBC I found myself quickly in implementing a poor mans ORM.

chopin··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
That's strange, I have exactly the same combo and I can see the caller numbers just fine...

Doesn't seem a universal bug.

chopin··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
I configured my user to run Cinnamon as desktop which works ok'ish.

I am not a great fan of the GNOME desktop, though.

chopin··on Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
The main problem here is the banks relying on an untrusted device as second factor.

Only immutable devices should be allowed as second factor.

chopin··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
There is a special law for politicians.
chopin··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
Which, of course, isn't true.
chopin··on When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
You should know the trade-offs of different algorithms, though. Many libraries let you choose the implementation for a spcific problem. For instance tree vs. hash map where you trade memory for speed.
chopin··on When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
Is there a O(n) shuffling algorithm? In place, I don't think so.
chopin··on Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
But now you have both...
chopin··on Bad UX World Cup 2025
1970-01-01
chopin··on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
I'd love this for a Fairphone.
chopin··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
Your first one gets me puzzled. Normally, you take the shorter time to the full hour. Nobody says 'fünfundvierzig vor zwölf', for example. I never said or heard 'fünfunddreißig vor zwölf'. Before half past an hour everyone says '... nach elf'.
chopin··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
It's absolutely correct German. Native speaker here.
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