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looperhacks

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looperhacks··on Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%
Very few people own a Bahncard 100. It's only useful if you need it for your job/business, otherwise it probably won't pay for itself. Most people prefer the car or plane (if you frequent between big cities) anyway
looperhacks··on Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices
Maybe for american English, but put an accent in there, or even just British English and it goes down, fast. I'm currently watching Taskmaster on YouTube and every time it's not crystal clear audio with no background noice, it's closer to 50% miss
looperhacks··on OtterCast: FOSS Audio streaming device running Linux using Sochip S3 SiP
Sadly it seems like there's no active development anymore and it isn't possible to purchase it directly. You can have it manufactured, but it still needs some manual assembly with SMT parts.
looperhacks··on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
You might want to take a look at the latest entry in the Metro series
looperhacks··on Programming languages going above and beyond
> The compiler still cannot tell when our loops will terminate (yes, this is possible).

Isn't this just the halting problem? Sure, for simple cases compiler could do it (in Java I guess my IDE will do it since the compiler doesn't care), but in the general case, how would a compiler figure this out?

looperhacks··on How to do the thing you've been avoiding
This article feels equivalent to "Feeling sad? Just feel happy instead!"
looperhacks··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
It's because they're easy to clean. No crevices or edges where oil and grime can accumulate. Sure, you can still clean buttons, but to have them look "as new" takes more work than touch controls, especially in an environment like a stove, where "accidents" can happen regularly.

I still prefer physical buttons though.

looperhacks··on On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
Note that "beamer" is usually used for a video projector. A polylux (which, for me, is "obviously" the better term, even though I was born after the unification :D) is only for overhead projectors that display slides. So beamer and polylux are two different things
looperhacks··on On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
The worst thing is someone trying to put it in past tense: For "herunterladen" it's easy: "herunter-ge-laden". For "download", the obvious choice is "downloaded", but instead some people prefer the weird hodge-podge of "down-ge-loaded"
looperhacks··on Two types of software engineers
You can run vault on your own infra
looperhacks··on Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
> You should care about your total compensation anyway and neither cash bonus, nor equity is covered in the disclosure, although especially for senior positions, those are very substantial part of your compensation.

Most people outside of the tech-sector will never see any bonus, equity, etc. besides their normal salary.

looperhacks··on Automating heating with Home Assistant
Especially in Europe, many people have radiators right under the windows. If the windows are open and the radiators aren't turned off, the cold air will come in, fall down and hit the thermostat, which will lead to the radiator running at full power because it stays cold.
looperhacks··on Tauri Mobile Alpha Release
Usually a beta is considered feature complete but not completely finished (expected bugs etc) while an alpha is not yet feature complete. An alpha version comes before a beta version
looperhacks··on Play Windows Pinball (Space Cadet) on the Web
I don't have a key for the forward slash either and still am able to write it: /////

The trick is that people like us can reach it by pressing Shift+7. Which of course is rarely recognized by games (or IDEs for that matter - many shortcuts simply don't work).

looperhacks··on Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
I did typeset in masters thesis in ConTeXt. It worked okay enough, but for me, it didn't provide any features that make up for the increased time spent searching for stuff because there's less documentation and a much smaller community.
looperhacks··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
You can find a PDF [1] on the website of the european parliament

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-9-2022-10-0... page 16

looperhacks··on 0 A.D. Alpha 26: Zhuangzi
Looking at the code, spidermonkey was added 2009, mayber earlier (stopped looking at around 2009). V8 was released in 2008, so the decision probably made sense back then, considering V8 wasn't nearly as big as it is today.
looperhacks··on Day ahead electricity prices for EU
Does this matter if we could transport electricity from somewhere not cloudy or evening ... -y?
looperhacks··on Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative
A good open source alternative to ProPresenter is desperately needed and is what I always wanted to work on. Right now I don't have time for it and it's not ready yet for our needs, but I will keep an eye on this project.
looperhacks··on Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
If you are referring to the latest discussion about a specific plant (Isar 2), the company running the plant (e.on) wants to shut it down. The discussion came up because the TÜV Süd (internationally mostly known for certifying that dam in Brazil one year before it killed 270 people because it was not safe and broke) certified that the plant is safe, but pretty much everyone involved claimed that the certificate is bogus (and the public image of the TÜV Süd is pretty bad anyway).
looperhacks··on Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
The search for storage has been ongoing since the sixties (in one form or another) and the current approach (started about ten years ago) is "planned" to lead to a decision 2031. Knowing how well such projects usually go in Germany and the massive pushback, especially from Bavaria in the last few weeks (not unfounded - one year before the exit-decision it was found out that our current storage was an absolute disaster), the storage site will probably be found when we don't need nuclear energy anymore (either because we found better solutions or it's too late anyway)
looperhacks··on Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange (2016)
Case-insensitive depends on the use-case I guess, but accent-insensitive really makes sense for (probably) most applications, considering that's also how dictionaries are sorted in german.
looperhacks··on Fourth patient seemingly cured of HIV
It's mentioned in the comments of the article, but "just the transplant" is not really enough. You still need heavy immune suppressants, which is rarely worth the side effects.
looperhacks··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
The normal Mac download works just fine for me
looperhacks··on Eating horsemeat in France
German here, horse meat isn't very hard to find. It's not commonly sold in stores, but it's everything but unacceptable.
looperhacks··on Helion Needs You
Is this a common number of vacation days in the US? In Germany the minimum _by law_ is 20 days on a 5 day week and I wouldn't even consider a position offering only that.
looperhacks··on Spotify to acquire Heardle
A friend reported the same, but I can access heardle just fine (both Germany). I wonder what's up with that ...
looperhacks··on Dolphin Progress May and June 2022
The way I remember is that RISC is just a class of computer design. The different architectures aren't necessarily close to each other (only that they have a reduced instruction set compared to other systems), so I can't imagine that this helps.
looperhacks··on How to fuck up an airport
I think TXL should have stayed open and know that BER is a terrible airport, but "well-oiled machine" and "loved by the city population" is a stretch.
looperhacks··on Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server
For many popular streamers it is indeed their job
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