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nollbit··on Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
Practically, anyone with access to the Baltic Sea, boats, scuba equipment, underwater explosives could do it, but they couldn't do it undetected. This area is under surveillance from Sweden and Denmark.

If you want to do it undetected you need to do it completely underwater, including ingress and egress, and that absolutely limits the potential actors.

nollbit··on Swedbank customers positive balance turned into negative due to an update
Why would you ever sign that?
nollbit··on Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores
Another issue with game dev for games that release on PC is that devs are usually on very high-end machines. NVMe RAIDs, 3080's, etc. Great for productivity, but there's very little dog fooding on low-spec machines.
nollbit··on The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
To be honest, I'd like somebody to explain to me how a lockdown would have prevented more deaths in elder care facilities in Sweden.
nollbit··on Why Kids Love Garbage Trucks
Unless your daughter never met with other kids or other adults, it's seems hard to say there's been no bias.
nollbit··on The war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
Perhaps your friends parents were over-careful because their kids kept breaking bones? Kids are different. Mine is very risk-averse and has essentially never hurt himself bad. I was the same way as a kid. His friends are daredevils who hurt themselves constantly.

Also, when it comes to "our parents in the past would let us do anything and I came out ok" sounds a bit like survival bias to me. In Sweden, far fewer kids die today than in the 70s, so perhaps there's some merit to bicycle helmets, safer playgrounds and not letting your kids eats whole grapes unattended before the age of five or so etc.

nollbit··on The Cult of Kubernetes
I run a very small GKE cluster with two 1vCPU preemptible nodes. Costs me a few bucks per month.
nollbit··on Tesla increases Supercharging prices to the point that gas might be cheaper
I live in Sweden and hourly billing is available here for everybody with a smart meter afaik.
nollbit··on Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recognition Boarding
The actual scanning might be slower, but the queues are much shorter for self-scanning at the stores where I by groceries.

Also, where I live we have portable scanners. You pick up a scanner when you enter the store, you scan all your groceries and put them directly in the bag (or under the stroller) and when you reach the exit you leave the scanner and pay at a terminal and off you go.

nollbit··on FAA pushes back on Boeing exemption for 787 safety flaw
That's only true if Boeing was the only manufacturer that builds this category of planes (they are not).

Boeing has an issue in their planes that the A350 doesn't have. So if the price of 787's goes up because it needs to go from unsafe to safe, then airlines can buy A350s instead.

nollbit··on GitHub Coders to Microsoft: Cut Ties with ICE or We'll Move Our Projects
”Because if Compnay XYZ disagrees with your politics, you should punish them?”

If a company implicitly assists in putting little children in camps, then yes, it’s ok to “punish” them by not giving them your business.

“Just like one may dislike in-laws while loving a spouse. You don't have to divorce your spouse to prove your dislike of the inlaws”

Similarly, if my in-laws were racists and my wife didn’t think that there were anything wrong with that, then yes, divorce would be an option.

nollbit··on Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks
Infant in lap is supposed to be secured with a seat belt that attaches to the parents seat belt. They are not unrestrained.

However, an infant is much safer in a car seat strapped to their own seat of course.

nollbit··on Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal
This isn't about efficiency or cost per passenger mile I think.

The A380 was a bet that the hub and spoke model (where passengers travel to an airline's hub in small planes and onwards from there in larger ones like the A380) would continue to rule the industry.

Instead, what happened was low cost carriers flying passenger directly to the destinations. It appears that passengers prefers that, which is why the B797 and A350 exists.

nollbit··on Air Travelers Resisting the ‘Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat’
If you take an inch of pitch from many other rows + the 5,5 that allows you to fit an extra row or two.

Compare Lufthansas seatmap for the A320 vs A320neo. The neo has the Smartlav and two additional rows of seats.

http://magazin.lufthansa.com/content/uploads/2016/07/a320_si... http://www.lufthansa.com/mediapool/pdf/08/media_1555228708.p...

nollbit··on Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010)
Except the the science doesn't appear to support that. Read the thread.
nollbit··on I'm not a Woman in Tech
The women who report these issues has no obligation to solve the problems, they're simply pointing out that they exist (since for a long time, people wouldn't believe them).
nollbit··on Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy
If you can restart without downtime you don't need a hot config reload. Suddenly you can treat config as immutable and discard an entire category of bugs as well.
nollbit··on Kitchen worker becomes part-owner of top restaurant
The _entry_ salary for a RN in Sweden is about 25k SEK per month . The _median_ salary for a dishwasher is 17k. The rest of your statements are about as factual as that one.
nollbit··on Container orchestration: Moving from fleet to Kubernetes
The other responses to your posts are great, but I'd like to add one thing to them;

Why are you equating low barrier of entry with quality? I think MongoDB ought to have taught everybody in this field that you can have a low barrier of entry and still be a crap product.

nollbit··on Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests?

Afaik, most US citizens staying at Japanese AirBnB's (for example) do not speak Japanese nor know the local culture. Do you think that's a problem as well? When I stayed at an AirBnB in Italy I knew nothing about the local culture nor spoke the language, nobody thought that was an issue.

Or is this just, you know, racism?

nollbit··on Making the move from Scala to Go
Software can be complex without having very complex types
nollbit··on Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)
> I have to say that I did not experience a single data loss that was a result of the database misbehaving.

How do you know? Was your data checksummed? Did you read back changes after writes to verify what was written?