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Genmutant··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
You don't have an offered number of sick days in Germany. If you're sick, your sick. At some points (after 6 weeks) the employer stops paying for it, and the payment switches to the health insurance and drops down to 70% of your usual gross salary (with some more specifics).
Genmutant··on Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
In Germany it's eaten either as a pie - which is usually quite dry and with crumble or meringue on top [0] - or as a compote.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabarberkuchen#/media/Datei:R...

Genmutant··on ChatGPT makes up fake academic papers
ChatGpt is finished training and doesn't update itself in any way. The current conversation is fed each time as additional context back when you ask additional questions.
Genmutant··on QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
You can use XSLT to XSL-FO if you want that. I haven't found it very nice to use.
Genmutant··on Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]
The python code also prints the resulting list in the same order. It's a completely different problem to solve. In python I would throw the list in a set and return the size of it / print that.
Genmutant··on When to use generics
An use case that comes up quite often is building a List / Map / Set implementation. You want to have it to enforce to (typesafe) take only objects of the same type, and when taking it out again, get the object in the same type back. And you want the compiler to complain, when to try to put a String in a List<int> (a list of strings), or try to asign the object you get out of the list to a boolean.

And obviously you don't want to write a specific List implementation for every Type, like a StringList, DoubleList, IntList,... especially as every method in it would basically work the same.

Genmutant··on €2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP
What happens if you upload copyright protected data in cleartext on a blockchain without having the distribution rights?
Genmutant··on Sqlfluff the SQL Linter for Humans
In MS SQL Server, with ANSI_NULLS set to OFF, it will select all rows having a NULL value for col. AFAIK not used that often.
Genmutant··on S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'
Doesn't the Netflix app already do that? Or was that the Prime Video one?
Genmutant··on State machines are wonderful tools
They are great! My bachelor thesis was implementing an algorithm to generate minimal petri nets based from an infinite partial language, described in something like a basic Regex.
Genmutant··on No Recent Automation Revolution
All of that is automated at my company using SAP. Could be a nicer interface, but at least everything is online in the portal.
Genmutant··on Cat purr generator
Which one are you the most proud of?
Genmutant··on Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design
That's why I love Monkey Island so much. You can't do anything wrong so that it becomes impossible to finish the game, and you can't (really) die. Although it is possible to "die" and get the "credits" or a "load old save" screen, you come back to live through some miracle (like the rubber tree).
Genmutant··on The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
I don't think gcc or clang can reorder structs, or do they?
Genmutant··on Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food
We normally use "normal" white flour for many things like cakes and pasta and stuff. But we have maybe more "real" bread which is not made of white flour?
Genmutant··on Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food
Yes, they do. I think that's the only one which is (normally) fortified.
Genmutant··on Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food
"In fact, for products like milk and flour, where fortification and enrichment have occurred for so long that they’ve become invisible, it would be almost irresponsible not to add synthetic vitamins."

How come most countries don't do it, then? At least in Germany I have never seen added stuff in milk or flour.

Genmutant··on C99 tricks
The first one (?:) is not standard but only a GNU extension, so be carefull with that one.
Genmutant··on WhatsApp doesn't understand the web
I think your screen is to small for the message window. There is a button below it which dismisses the white window and enables the scanning.
Genmutant··on Your waitress, your professor
That's how trade schools work in Germany. About two thirds (up to 3/4) of the time you are at work and learn there, the other you are at a normal school. After you graduate (about 3 years) you most of the time stay at the same place to work.
Genmutant··on The Masterful Marketing of the Heimlich Maneuver
In Germany it's the same. Are there countries except the USA where this method is the normal one?
Genmutant··on An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not
garage door opener would be translated to Garagentoröffner or Garagentüröffner. (door = Tür or Tor, depending on context, opener = Öffner).
Genmutant··on Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
So a meal plan is like an subscription to meals? Why don't they sell it normally? How much is each meal with that plan? In our Mensa at the university we pay between 1.50 and 4€ per meal (exclusive drinks).
Genmutant··on Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
What is a dining plan?
Genmutant··on Uber No Longer Banned in Germany
You also need a commercial insurance for your car.
Genmutant··on Uber No Longer Banned in Germany
So, are they going to comply with the law now, or continue to ignore it?
Genmutant··on What I know about Minecraft
Almost any language is platform-agnostic if you don't use platform specific things like system calls.
Genmutant··on German court requires Google to stop ignoring customer emails
It's not about free support, but the ability to contact them at all.
Genmutant··on The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
We have Boskoop apples in our garden, which I love! They are sour and great to cook with. And you can keep forever in your basement.
Genmutant··on How to zero a buffer
The compiler understands memset, so that would probably not work.
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