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tstenner··on ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
It's hard to qualify Zeiss as a "small business". Also, they pay their own employees wages and deduct taxes and social insurance so it's not like they pretend to be an independent contractor to save some money.
tstenner··on Do you even need a database?
In the benchmark Rust is more than 50% faster than the runner up
tstenner··on Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)
Stores are required by law to provide the price per unit/weight/volume alongside the price, so you can directly compare the price of a pint of beer to the 0.33 liter bottle without calculating anything.
tstenner··on I decompiled the White House's new app
I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").
tstenner··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Buy a steam deck. It sends a strong signal to Valve to continue supporting Wine and you get a Steam Deck
tstenner··on Books of the Century by Le Monde
That makes it sound like 50 shades of grey would have had a 50/50 chance of getting into the top 100 if it only was included in the wider selection
tstenner··on The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
The architect should have required Hindu numbers. Same result, but even more confusion.
tstenner··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
The "small ones" do. The larger P models require a beefy 220W proprietary power supply.
tstenner··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
That's what I use a 2014 Sony tablet for. The battery last surprisingly long, but heavy websites are an exercise (well, the other form of exercise) in frustration
tstenner··on Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
If you were using everything in the toolboxes, it would be absolutely worth it. As it is, you often need an additional toolbox for basic functionality and pay for everything in it.
tstenner··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
Your taxi crashes because the driver skipped brake maintenance and his insurance doesn't reimburse you for your hospital costs because commercial transportation isn't covered. Sure would be nice to have some minimum requirements for taxis.
tstenner··on Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
Which often means that e.g. loading an image for displaying it increases cost by a few thousands
tstenner··on Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
I assume that was meant to be "session"
tstenner··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
Unless you needed a SATA driver not included in the installer because you wanted to avoid a legacy IDE emulation for your disks.
tstenner··on Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
Even better: grades range from 1.0 (best) to 5.0 (failed) with partial grades (.3, .7) in-between. Caused a few problems when a 1.3 got interpreted as the first May and converted to the number of days between the epoch and the first ofay of that year.
tstenner··on Rust's Block Pattern
I have been using this in a web application that acquires a lock, retrieves and returns a few variables to the outer scope an then immediately unlocks the mutex again
tstenner··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
Go.
tstenner··on Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
You can't pay for blood, only an expense reimbursement. Which is coincidentally 25 euros almost everywhere.
tstenner··on IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
Even k9s would profit enormously from detachable dialogs. Just let me do something without losing my current log view.
tstenner··on Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco
Europe just nixed the general €100K limit on SEPA instant transfers. Before that, you had to split it up or wait 1-2 days for the regular transfer to go through.
tstenner··on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
FYI Idealo is part of Springer (Bild), Geizhals belongs to Heise (c't, iX)
tstenner··on General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt
Are these the kind of statistics that omit stay-at-home parents but have the average pulled down by people working part time that wouldn't work otherwise?
tstenner··on Find SF parking cops
Straight to jail.
tstenner··on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently
Our city replaced some train tracks with high quality separated bike streets (no cars allowed, obviously). Biking five kilometers each way with only three street crossings is perfectly doable, even with small children on their own bikes.
tstenner··on A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system
To be honest the few rust formatting options are easier to remember and more logical than the printf placeholders, e.g. ? for debugging, x for hex, X for upper case hex etc.
tstenner··on ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
Or detected easily with package builders like Arg Linux's makepkg that ship a hash along with the source URL. As soon as one user gets a different file, he has an alert and the compromised package for later analysis
tstenner··on The cost of interrupted work (2023)
With VS Code and IntelliJ you can even do it in the same documents at the same time
tstenner··on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming
I'd say the sprinter is more like Fortran. You use it when you need to move around lots of stuff and although it's quite fast on its own, you would drive it neither for fun nor when you only have a few things to move around.
tstenner··on Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles
That's his point. You won't get any reasonable charge because you (mostly avoid parking your car in direct sunlight
tstenner··on AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
Of course, the next European neighbor country where you can continue your studies (even taking most of your credits with you) is often only a few hundred kilometres away.
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