CptMauli

I stumbled upon this video a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU

so recycling the batteries of the vapes is apparently a thing

over 200 comments and not one mention of Threema, come on!

And this is exactly why that report is somewhat misleading. On the cheaper end of cars, a lot of those are not maintained regularly, and this is the reason why they fail in the first place. And if you look closely, in most cases the reason for the fail has something to do with lights or brakes or tires. Stuff which does not cost much to fix in a Dacia, but is crazy expensive on the upper end, BMW etc.

I had the first major issue with my Dacia since I bought it 7 years ago, and it had something to do with the LPG installation, and it was about 1000€. From a TCO standpoint of view, that car is so dirt cheap, only my little Seat Mii (CNG) - which I bought used, is cheaper.

A bit of a strange article. Of course they are right that VW is struggeling. But to suggest to only favour tech monopolist solutions is from a strategic standpoint a really bad idea.

And it is very surprising that nowhere in the article is mentioned that VW - in comparison to other auto makers - at least, has a plan. They specifically bundled all the software operation into a new company, CARIAD. If that will work is a different question.

Any article about modern airships, failing to mention CargoLifter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter) is woefully incomplete

It's pretty simple, they are all bad, aren't they?

Especially all the network configuration variants went from bad to worse over the time.

I think its not fair to put the Elbphilharmonie in the same category.

The original plan looked very different from what was later realized. Which was a significant driver of the cost.

Just for fun, lets compare it to the Sydney opera house:

Elbphilharmonie, original projected cost: 186 Mio EUR

Elbphilharmonie, final cost: 866 Mio EUR

So in the end, 4.65x the projected cost and 7 years late.

Sydney Opera house, original projected cost (inflation adjusted cost in parens): 7 Mio AUD (70 Mio EUR)

Sydney Opera house, final cost: 102 Mio AUD (632 Mio EUR)

So in the end: 9-14x the projected cost and 10 years late (depending on if you compare based on the inflation adjusted costs).

Therefore, in comparison, not that dissimilar.

Since the number of dependencies is way less then in the JS world, its possible to pin them down manually.

If you absolutely need to have multiple versions of the same dependency, you probably need to use OSGi.

The point is, that in a moderately complex Java project that might be something on the order of 150-200 dependencies, and updating just one of those usually doesn't lead to a big change in the transitive dependencies (it is a different thing for a major update, Java 8 -> 11, or from the pre jakarta JEE to jakarta), but its possible for a single person to track whats happened. But with 1500+ dependencies, so an order of magnitude bigger, its just not possible.

Even then the cost of utility scale solar and wind was not that much higher than it is now.

I still think plus is fine in this case. And really, my expectation is, that anybody who thinks about adding a months, knows about their own intention. Because I suspect just adding the month is not what most people are actually doing, I guess in 90% of the cases most developers will add another step, rounding to the last (or first) day, or to the next same weekday, whatever.

The one thing nobody wants, is to add a month and land in the month one over.

So even if the semantic differs between libraries for adding a month, it actually doesn't mather that much. Because for all the other cases one could imagine, most people will add days or weeks, if staying on the same day matters.

Just because the air isn't prewarmed in his original setup, it doesn't mean its no heat pump.

It was reported about it in the German press. I'm an opponent of nuclear power, but in this case I can only shrug and conclude that everything worked as expected, the issue was identified and dealt with.

I wan't drop a single tear. Every time I rented from Hertz it put strange additional charges on my tab.

Just from some discussions from the last weeks, I don't think simple is possible anymore: just Unicode and Font Rendering by themselves have a complexity which boggles the mind. If you then consider stuff like authentication/authorization, i18n and support for blind people its clear that "simple" just doesn't cut it.

I bet if they would have just given each Afghan a monthly stipend of the same amount, there would have been peace in no time.

Any good recommendations for logging? (Embedded environment with SD card)

And even that is not entirely true. The TGV can only run this fast because it runs on tracks where only the TGV is allowed.

The rail bed is even not that great, that's why only some ICEs are allowed on TGV routes, because they need a special deflector which is more robust to tolerate the stones which are thrown up in the air when the train drives over it.

I think they took this in consideration when they designed the latest iteration of the ICE.

Does anybody have real world experience (and maybe data) for websockets when used in a mobile environment (with a lot of dropped connections)?

Maybe you might enjoy having a look at what Zed Shaw (of Rails is a ghetto fame) does:

https://github.com/zedshaw/learn-painting-the-hard-way

https://zedshaw.com/category/art/

Never seen this!

Is there something similar for other brands?

The pricing is way too high. The price should be compared to a car sharing program, not with a taxi service.

The trip to school for my kid would cost, when using a car from a car sharing program around 4€. This is quite a difference to the mentioned $19. Even DriveNow, which is maybe the most expensive car sharing service in Germany, we are talking about maybe 9€.

I think with chocolate its much easier to practice restraint. My children have access to endless sweets, but they seldom take advantage of it. But with the iPad its a different ballgame.

To plug it here: If you want to build an RPM via Maven (or just want to build one with Java using the underlying lib)

https://github.com/ctron/rpm-builder

For me, one of the best interviews I heard, at all.

These kind of regulations are essentially in place in Germany.

So its a bug?

tell me again why you think the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a bad idea?

probably, my wife had it, and she received doxycycline. She felt terrible for days, not fun. Fortunately we discovered the tick, and later the "bullseye" quite quick, so we hope that it exterminated everything.

But "Kohlenstoffmonoxid" is the actual correct term. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenstoffmonoxid