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Using heatpumps you only need a little electricity to heat quite a few homes with district heating.

But there probably is no nearby district to be heated.

Because it would have catastrophic consequences on the world order. Normalizing nuking your opponent will invite Russia to nuke Ukraine, China Taiwan, and North Korea South Korea. The USA will not let Israel nuke anybody.

I have a VAG ICE vehicle and had a problem with the navigation system not working. When I brought it in to get it fixed, they apparently put a completely new version of the software on the hardware.

Suddenly everything was fast. No slow lags anymore. System is ready even before I start the engine. Navigation now zooms smoothly. Voice recognition is finally working 95% of the time and only tripping up on hard words.

I don't know how many different software versions are out there but apparently they are working on system speed without changing the hardware. Maybe I got an early access version and they are waiting for data before they push it to all vehicles.

Counterpoint from me: I've been using Jetbrains tools for over 10 years as well. Mostly Webstorm and Rider and it's all working well. Sometimes there are bugs, yes, but I had plenty those in VSCode and Visual Studio as well.

Aside from their initial AI plugin rollout fiasco it has been smooth sailing for me.

Zero downtime doesn't mean redundancy here. It means that no request gets lost or interrupted due to a container upgrade.

The new container spins up while the old container is still answering requests and only when the new container is running and all requests to the old container are done, then the old container gets discarded.

Easy: because next to 100% of EU government computers run Windows and MS Office.

True. Part of the reason is aggressive saliva that just doesn't let some bacteria live and thus keeps the teeth healthy for longer. Dry mouth is literally damaging your teeth as well.

Same here. I work in an office with lots of daylight and dark mode makes it actually very hard to see.

Also, light theme allows for more distinguishable colors.

Didn't Microsoft argue this in a US court and lost?

Microsoft is getting ready to replace Azure DevOps with GitHub.

Don't all AM4 CPUs feature fTPM which is a firmware-based TPM? Bitlocker at least accepts this as secure enough to boot Windows 11.

How does one even do that? Browsers try quite hard to not break words and make text readable by default.

It's not just old people. Younger people (and especially GenZ) are falling for (social media) scams at an astounding rate.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...

https://time.com/6802011/gen-z-financial-scams-fraud/

I'd want more redundancy in that case. With such large HDDs zfs resilver could kill another disk and then you would lose your data.

Last time I checked modern aluminum alloys made it very hard to recycle aluminum waste efficiently. That's still the case, apparently.

Go probably has the last standard library I would take as a reference for my own datetime implementation.

Their datetime formatting implementation is simply nuts. Why not follow standards? Why the NIH?

That's because Mozilla has no interest supporting it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588883

As an Android user iOS is kind of bizarre to me.

There are so many weird limitations compared to Android. E.g. I cannot choose a different default navigation app. When I attach a location to a calendar event in the Apple calendar app, I can only open it in Apple Maps. Android asks me which app I want to use.

Same with browser engines, NFC payment providers, etc. Everything is unchangeably linked to the Apple ecosystem. Every user has to jump through hoops to get their favorite apps/user cases connected with each other.

I'd argue that Apple is operating on the same scale, at least regarding physical presence.

Apple disallows disabling Bluetooth and WiFi easily because it allows them to track their air tags everywhere.

EU and Russian economies are not liked in significant ways anymore. Russia was the number one natural gas supplier but has kicked itself off that position with the invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile the EU exports massive amounts of goods and intellectual property into China. China is also controlling the vast majority of rare earth supply. If China were to cut ties with the EU, the EU economy would tank massively.

China is also known to supply Russia with chips for their weapon systems, which means they work together in defense matters and if Russia is a threat, then China is, too.

Quite a few EU citizens travel to Denmark nowadays to get married to foreign nationals. Much less complicated and since Denmark is in the EU they won't have any problems to get it recognized in their home country.

Did this bank start out as a "telephone bank"? One of the largest German consumer banks still does this because they were the first "direct bank" without locations and typing in digits on the telephone pad was the most secure way of authenticating without telling the "bank teller" your password. So it was actually a good security measure but it is apparently too complicated to update their backend to modern standards.

They do require 2FA, though.

Not to mention that on all devices I used the official Prime Video app (yes, even Fire TV Sticks), there we massive audio latency issues up to the point where I stopped watching. On FireTV Netflix had also lagging behind audio, which it never did on any other platform.

I am talking about a like 1 second delay here, not 50ms (which is already not good).

Amazon doesn't care about the viewer/user experience. It is always a disaster.

TikTok is one of the largest social networks. It absolutely is a gatekeeper to information for millions of EU citizens.

If that's true, then it's just a plot to let Tesla's shareholders pay for his Twitter shenanigans?

It is incredibly hard to beat a sugar addiction (a lot harder than nicotine or weed) but it is worth it, I promise.

Going full on no-carb and taking long walks daily got a friend out of pre-diabetes type 2. No sugar, no fresh potatoes (cooking and putting them into the fridge for 24 hours is fine), no rice, no fruits, and much more got them off metformin and normalized their blood sugar enough for them to be able to eat cake and sweets again without fearing to get diabetes.

If you were to replace "Gen Z" with "women" in your comment, would you still think it's okay to submit it?

Ageism is just as bad as sexism.

Boeing's major competitor is Airbus which is largely a government effort.

I assume that you only drove each car 3 years max?

After 3 years a car has to be inspected for the first time by law in Germany. Maybe you just didn't know something was wrong? Because usually people have their car inspected before going to the mandatory "Hauptuntersuchung" (HU) which Tesla apparently doesn't recommend, thus Teslas failing the HU en masse.

It's incredibly confusing to me that so many American tech workers were ranting on HN how the GDPR is the biggest mistake ever and will sink the EU tech scene, only to discover that GDPR is a citizen's tool against total government surveillance.