I would have said that this is covered under vanity sizing. I have the feeling some consumers might be more inclined to buy a product if it has size M instead of XXL, even if the product is exactly the same. So my take is that, in the name of profit, companies lie about size.
> bring it to your neighborhood tailor. Most alterations are simple and not very expensive.
I think, this is a misconception, some "simple" things like resizing a shirt, when done properly, might require multiple hours + a decent amount of skills and the alterations might be cheap because they are performed by underpaid workers. Nonetheless, I like the idea of supporting local tailors and I'd be in for paying premium for a local premium product.
I don't think you are wrong, I do want guardrails and personally try to ensure that there are those guardrails before driving. However, it seems that a lot of people cannot wait for them and just want to go out and drive, fast, even if everything points towards the fact that that's not a good idea. If someone really wants to touch the fire after everyone stated multiple times that they shouldn't do it, I guess it's ok to let them go fo it.
I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's more effective to learn like that rather than reading stuff upfront and take necessary precautions and maybe these will be cautionary tales also for others.
Thanks to the reports, hopefully, with time, some additional security measures will also be added to the product.
I think that Google has some partnership with Deutsche Telekom where they provide the software and Deutsche Telekom Runs it because Google doesn't have the encryption keys. In that case Google even if they want they cannot provide the data. Anyway that is still not digital sovereignity as Google might decide to stop providing updates or add a backdoor...
If you kill someone when drunk driving you face more serious consequences than if you weren't drunk. There should be similar consequences here you get a disease you could have vaccinated for? You pay 4 times the amount for the cure.
Germany is incredibly under developed in the digitalization plus the amount of red tape to do even basic things is also very large as well. Getting rid of these things takes a lot of will power and at the moment there is very little.
Well from my experience on a Mac or in iOS you either adapt to their workflow or you leave the platform, I don't think there's a middle ground there. From my experience Linux is actually on the total opposite side, which might be even more confusing: it will allow you to create any workflow you want, if you are willing to sacrifice your sanity to get there. Btw Linux user here who already lost part of their mental health.
> Any other operation will be written on paper in a step by step well phrased manner.
Same exact experience, I cannot get my parents to think about what they are doing, they just follow the steps; if an icon changes or if the button is in a different place the whole workflow stops until I help them. Any suggestions here on how to improve the approach?
Probably yes at least to a certain level. At the moment to many countries are relying too heavily on a single point of failure, there should be independent alternatives so that is possible to have more and better competition and in case the administration of the current single point of failure goes nuts it's possible to switch over to something else.
I had a couple of Pis that I wanted to use as a Media center, I always had some small issues that created a suboptimal experience. Went for a regular 2nd hand amd64 with a small form factor and never looked back, much better userspace support and for my use case a much smoother experience, no lags no memory swapping and if needed I can just buy a different memory bank or a different component. I have no plans to use a raspberry pi any time soon. I am not sure these days if they really still have a niche to fill and if yes how large this niche is.
If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, system programming, wine tasting, carpentry, sport, traveling etc... There are *so* many interesting things to do and so little time.
I guess time will tell but at the moment I have a hard time imagining myself getting bored.
In general the S-Bahn in Munich is a massive s*t show I can report more info about this if needed. However, in the S1 going to the airport (the train you took) it is quite well described that the train splits and it's both on German and in English.
IANAL, but it seems it's a technicality on how the conditions of the contract changed? IIUC they forcibly changed the contract without notice. If they would have sent a notice first and then let the consumers decide whether to get out or move on with the new contact and new conditions, it would have been fine to serve ads. The title seems like a clickbait.
The car was not really idle, it was driving and fast. It's more like it crashed into the garage and burned it. Btw iirc, even IRL a basic insurance policy does not cover the case where the car in the garage starts a fire and burns down your own house, you have to tick extra boxes to cover that.
How I can imagine it works: Amazon only provides the packaged software, the infra and the ops are officially driven by a 100% European company. AWS probably provides support, but they don't have the encryption keys not any access to the installation.
I understood what's going on in this article only after reading the paper. It's might be good to define things s bit better in the article or say that the paper is a prerequisite for reading the article
I think that also macs suffer of the repairability disease, keyboards issues are relatively common and to change the keyboard they whole thing needs to be torn apart. Additionally, even the best component are also not immune to gravity and other physics laws, if something falls it will likely get damaged and it needs to be repaired.
Honest question, how is it possible that Macs are so much better in terms of hardware? Context: I use a MacBook at work and a Lenovo with Linux at home and now I might need to change my personal laptop, but I struggle to find (hardware) reasons why not to buy a MacBook, a MacBook Air is actually cheaper than another laptops with similar specs. There's still the ideology of repairability and openness which still plays a big role for me, but from a hardware perspective I see a clear winner. How is it possible that no other manufacturer can come close to the apple offering? There are big players (Lenovo, Dell, HP etc...) that I would have thought they would have the capabilities for producing similar products, why do they lag so far behind?
Nice idea, awesome implementation, but please no. I now need to learn a new UI and UX, I have to to organize windows inside my windows. I want websites to be more like a block of text rather than a super fancy interface.
Always initializing with a default and no algebraic types is an always loaded foot gun. I wonder if the people behind golang took inspiration from this.
I like the approach! I'd be interested in reading more. I might not fully adopt it but I m on a similar wavelength about stability. I don't want things to change unexpectedly, I just want my tools to just work consistently without surprises.
Set up a VM on AWS/azure/gcp/... in the desired cell, install a VPN server and done. Once you have automation in place it takes ~2 minutes to start, you can run it on demand so you can pay per minute.
It might sound absurd, but on paper this should be the best way to approach the problem.
My understanding is that PDFs are intended to produce an output that is consumed by humans and not by computers, the format seems to be focused on how to display some data so that a human can (hopefully) easily read them. Here it seems that we are using a technique that mimics the human approach, which would seem to make sense.
It is sad though that in 30+ years we didn't manage to add a consistent way to include a way to make a PDF readable by a machine. I wonder what incentives were missing that didn't make this possible. Does anyone maybe have some insight here?