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I think it's amazing that Beyond Meat has managed to convince everyone that their extremely complicated, oily, fatty, plant-protein based burgers are any sort of ersatz for beef.

I have tried burgers made with it, they taste fine, but I can't believe that it is any healthier than beef. And I don't believe that a more expensive product has any chance of offsetting beef demand.

"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten."

I predict they will "ban" pornography within a few months after such a statement.

I mean, the mundane explanation would be that there are simply a huge number of Chinese businessmen, and that by proxy there are a large number of successful ones (and an even larger number of unsuccessful ones).

No, actually, they don't. Typically the barrels are machined using electricity and the pressure-sensitive parts are hardened steel. Many firearms are made out of plastic anyway (Glocks, to name one you might be familiar with).

It's not hard to build a reliable firearm with fairly little skill. In the United States, it's not even illegal to do so.

I think Hydrogen fuel cell tech doesn't belong in passenger vehicles; there batteries can do a fine enough job. I believe the future of H2 is in intermodal transport, that is, trucking and (previously diesel) trains.

Why?

Do the math on weight, and you'll quickly see that you can't fit enough batteries in a Semi to give them the range that they need for long haul, while still being able to carry any appreciable amount of goods (There's a 40T limit on the roads in Europe, YMMV).

Together with Green Kerosine for Airplanes, and you've got Carbon-neutral transport: Electric Cars, Hydrogen Trucks and Trains, and (Green) Kerosine Airplanes.

My first house was a condo in a building which had been built about ~2 years before I moved in; I joined the board as the developer was transitioning out and handing over responsibility to the tenants.

This sounds exactly like what happened with us, just on a grander scale. Things like the post-tensioned concrete construction where the steel post-tensioner cables were left exposed to the elements, severe life-safety issues, electronics and machines which died far too early from being under-spec'd and improperly installed.

The developer, of course, had incorporated a new company just for the building, and it was super easy for them to let it go bankrupt. In the end we managed to recoup some costs, but had to raise everyone's fees to cover the reduced lifetime of some of the major structural elements of the building.

I've done NB-IoT in 32K of ROM... 512K is a luxury :)

I work in an organization which is part of a huge multinational. We've successfully managed to spearhead Gitlab into our giant company, and it's slowly making inroads.

until this price change

And now we're looking at alternatives. Sorry, the price hike for our case (~500 devs) is hefty, to the point where we're willing to eat crow and go with Gerrit+Jira+Confluence+Jenkins, and basically disentangle ourselves.

So like, I guess it makes financial sense in the short term? But definitely will hurt in the mid-long term. You've lost us at least as a customer. And no--we aren't going to talk to our account leader about this, or discuss any discounts or anything.

As a software engineer (or similar), there are quite a few options for Europe. First, you need to understand that your salary will likely be lower, but your overall quality of life will probably not chage. Second, look into national visa programs which are oriented on demand, often in the "EU Blue Card" category: Often, if the job title is right, and the salary is high enough, you can get priority access.

Other than that, try and enjoy the adventure. I've been in Germany for almost ten years now...

So, Threema?

One mention of "climate" on the whole page. :(

The European tech job market is plenty competitive, especially if you're not looking just at money. I gladly moved to Germany from the US, taking a lower salary. I have never had less stress.

I can pick four DAX companies with non-German CEOs

Daimler... Ola is Swedish Adidas... Kasper is Danish Beiersdorf... Stefan is Belgian Linde... Aldo is Italian

I think you're drawing conclusions where there are none to be drawn

Here's my not-quite-complete Telegram bot to help you track your eating/exercise habits. Log in with Telegram, the rest happens in the app.

https://gesundheit.ai/dashboard/

Reading this article gave me the warm fuzzies for the same reason; The GBA was a dream to homebrew for.

Why does it feel like the Apache project has become a dumping ground for unwanted (and partially unmaintained) garbage?

Apart from a few projects (Apache httpd, Hadoop, OpenOffice) it looks like a dumping ground for open source projects which have lost their original way or otherwise would not be a good idea to use for any modern project, many of which are writen in Java

Never happier to have DNS66 on my phone.

I am a fairly competent (110+ wpm) typist, across a few different layouts (mostly qwerty/qwertz). I don't do this kind of deep customization for the same reason I don't use many plugins in vim or a browser: It would render me completely useless on 99.999999999% of the other terminals out there. I have a few different laptops, a desktop, and even with total control of those devices, I still end up on other people's hardware.

If you have medical reasons, I mean, I guess it's better than nothing, but this reads to me like the computing equivalent of moving into the woods and becoming a hermit.

Twitter has an algorithm to pick which part of oblong images to showcase in the feed. People have been posting examples where, given the "choice" between a white person and a person of color, the white person is always picked, regardless of orientation or where they are in the picture.

This was noticed in a thread about how Zoom's background detection seems to not work great for people of color, and how the WebEx cross-talk protection seems to favor men over women.

No, incorrect. Snap is a distribution format akin to VMDK or anything else which is not intended to be "installed" to a system, but rather run in a virtual machine or sandboxed.

I am working for the Daimler daughter which is building the next next-gen Infotainment system. Curious to hear what your concrete concerns are--given the alternatives (buying in to Android or some other ecosystem), what would you do?

One of my first hardware projects was homebrew related for the DS: http://kraln.com/passme/

Easily explained: It's a keyboard, not a screen. I don't look at the keyboard when I use a computer, so a random, context-sensitive action which occurs when I randomly miss the number keys is extremely distressing.

I don't find it to be controversial that questioning someone's humanity or personhood isn't simply "offensive." I find it very surprising that people chanting anti-Semitic nonsense continue to find acceptance and defenders in the United States.

To have a tolerant and open society you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant. Why is this new or subject to debate?

Grats on the cheap grand! I bought a similarly inexpensive piano in a similarly decrepit condition before Covid, I've been meaning to MIDI-fy it as well. Thanks for the inspiration!

Checking in with 2xWQHD @ 144hz. Definitely invest in a good set of monitors...

This is a hot take which is in line with some of the extreme right-wing positions in Germany. For a more balanced view of the impact of the immigration to Germany, see https://www.aicgs.org/publication/burden-or-blessing-the-imp...

In short, what caused the increased food and housing prices was government spending leading to inflation; immigration was only one of the causes of this spending (the financial crisis in the southern European countries was another.) The expected outcome on Germany is a net-positive one.

Ethnofascism or Ethnopluralism...

Quassel

I have a comment and a question:

The comment: I noticed that your demo video also had "emotional" video layered on top of the dialogue. This could be considered manipulative; perhaps consider sharing a naked version so we could attempt to interpret the emotion based solely on the text to speech engine.

The question: You mention you met at EF. I was wondering if, beyond bringing you together, you found EF to be worth the cost of admission?