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It is my understanding that in German civil suits it's customary for the loser to pay the cost of the law suit, including lawyer's fees (which are usually coupled to the monetary value of the lawsuit, so frivolously racking up the fees is difficult).
The thing is, kids are incredibly primed to recognise and cherish brands. I find it shocking, to be honest.
They want a Paw Patrol figurine to emerge from the play-doh, for the millionth time. Not some stupid liquid hydrogen (I view it the other way around, but I'm not the target audience).
And the pull of those silly videos is incredibly strong. We also have an excellent app with literally hundreds of educational clips from "Die Sendung mit der Maus" [1] [2]. My son likes them, and will watch them for hours on end if he gets the chance -- and so will I, because they are genuinely interesting and amusing.
Yet if given the choice, he will pick Youtube and the silly videos every time.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Sendung_mit_der_Maus [2] http://www.wdrmaus.de/extras/maus_international/englisch.php...
I was(am?) considering an education project
Wonderful. We can't have enough decent, genuinely amusing education, especially against this flood of trash.
Good idea.
But judging by my son's behaviour he would just select the next video once the "boring" educational content starts :-(
You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops.
But isn't that common practice? Someone with prior convictions will get a harsher sentence.
By that same logic it's conceivable that someone might receive a harsher sentence based on being held to a higher standard.
It's really messy.
Agreed.
Can anyone who has been using ZFS long-term at home comment? How do you add more space?
My solution is to use RAID1 exclusively. That means that I can keep attaching pairs of devices if I run out of diskspace. I can never get them out again, however :-)
If you ask someone “Which do you think is safer: artificial vanilla or vanilla extract?” they’ll often prefer the “natural” one.
This feels like an accidental trick question :-)
For me personally, I know I'll prefer vanilla extract (or rather, actual vanilla shoots) simply because it tastes much better -- precisely because of the impurities. I know it isn't what you asked at all, but since the question is meant to uncover emotions: I'm having a hard time taking my emotional preference for natural vanilla aroma out of my reply.
It would be better to use an example where people don't have a strong preference for one of the choices for unrelated reasons. Unfortunately I can't think of an example right now.
usually a more difficult path than gaming on Windows
Just to speak against this notion (which absolutely used to be true, no contest there): anecdotally, I don't find that to be true anymore, at least using Steam.
It works really smoothly for me, just as on Windows. In fact I'm just about ready to drop Windows as a gaming plaform. Maybe some titles aren't available for Linux, but I still have enough to fall back on.
While you make a good point, the thing is that in my personal observation only the Chinese students (they were probably the largest group, which probably plays a role TBH) kept to themselves.
The other foreign students would merrily mingle with the locals and other foreign students. Just the Chinese would stay in their bubble.
Since I had kids, I haven't gone climbing natural rock. I still go to climbing gyms (mostly to boulder these days, for unrelated reasons), but not outside.
I've discovered that I now get too fearful while climbing, too scared something bad might happen and I'd leave my children without me in the world.
It breaks my concentration, makes my actions erratic, and most crucially, makes me not enjoy it.
Who knows how I'll feel once they're older, but I suspect it won't ever change back. And that's OK.
You're right, I misremembered.
Surely the copilot can look at a map (when I say map I don't mean a piece of paper -- I mean a digital one with GPS and everything) and see their trajectory while the pilot is landing, right?
It's not like the pilot doesn't know there is a parallel taxiway. Of course there is. They would be (subconsciously anyway) looking for it to complete their mental map. It just went wrong in this case.
You wouldn't even have needed a fancy automated system to realise you were looking at a taxiway in that particular situation. There were four big aircraft on there, with position lights and taxi lights and everything. And apparently visibility was good. It was just a spectacular brain fart.
While the system you're suggesting might give better situational awareness, it might also be a dangerous distraction in other cases -- or be wrong for some reason. So more tools aren't automatically better.
In this case the existing system actually worked flawlessly: another controlling instance (the tower controller) discovered the error, took appropriate action, and all that happened was a 15 minute landing delay and a good story. Probably happens more often than we'd care to imagine.
Like I'm imagining there should be something on the plane that shows them their trajectory and the runway information. If there is, why isn't it telling them when they're going the wrong way?
Well, there's the ILS (instrument landing system), but pilots like to land manually. IIRC it's recommended these days, just to remain in training. I suppose it's also fun.
Also, ILS might be wrong somehow (interference, technical defects, the pilot accidentally entering the data for the left runway when he was told to land on the right, etc).
So the truth is this was just human error, and that kind of thing just happens. You know the saying: if you make a system idiot-proof, nature invents better idiots.
SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany
Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects.
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU:
I've worked on many embedded systems, in essentially all roles that exist in embedded software development: requirements elicitation & management, system, electronics or software design and development, test management and test execution.
I've set up and managed development processes, and overseen medium-sized development efforts, on-site and remote. I have brought automated tests and continuous integration to embedded projects.
A lot of my career was spent working on safety-critical systems.
OVERVIEW OVER MY CURRENT PROJECTS:
managing a small, experienced team in the development of an industrial robot.
advising a multinational company in the development of a highly safety-critical automotive electronics component used by several automobile companies.
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Can't confirm.
VDSL is certainly not a "dead end". 50Mbit is available in most of Germany, with 100Mbit slowly rolling out.
Using increasingly involved techniques to get more speed out of a century-old technology is pretty much a dead end.
100Mbit is decent, but it comes at the price of * the wires needing to be very short by telco standards * the use of DSL vectoring, which creates mini-monopolies in the DSLAM and allows one provider (usually Telekom) to hold all users on that DSLAM hostage
And keep in mind that if we had fiber, we could probably get a Gbit.
Make no mistake, the strong position of DSL in Germany is the result of politics, not common sense.
For your and any other readers' benefit: On Android, you might try using the app "reddit is fun".
It requires no permissions and its style is delightfully basic and compact. It's my preferred way of redditing these days.
Absolutely seconded.
Decent support for ZFS in general, especially during installation already.
Ideally, ZFS root filesystem support (snapshot before upgrade, yay!).
I've been using ZFS for six(?) years now, on both Debian and Ubuntu, and while ZFS root is so important to me that I'm willing to jump through the necessary hoops to install it, it's kinda grating and perhaps riskier. And not for the faint of heart.
If you could Free-solo the same wall but with without (or greatly reduced) danger? [...] Does that somehow dampen the feeling of achievement when completed?
I've pondered this.
For me personally, the answer is: yes.
I think part of the sense of achievement after success comes from knowing what you invested (effort, risk, ...). I'd like to say that for me the fun of climbing would be about "oneness with nature" or some such thing, and that's partly true, but in reality daring to take a calculated risk, and succeeding, gives it a big extra something.
Maybe compare it with heli skiing vs backcountry skiing. Let's say both are equally non-risky. The sense of achievement (and exhaustion) after making the summit is quite different, even though it's the same summit. And having come up by chopper you might be able to benefit from the fresh powder on the way down more (because you're not exhausted), but the feeling of elation is just not the same -- at least for me.
I agree.
This is why I prefer bouldering these days.
Backblaze b2?
SEEKING WORK / remote preferred / based in Germany
Experienced (10+ years) embedded software engineer with a mechanical engineering degree is looking for new projects.
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU:
I've worked on many embedded systems, in essentially all roles that exist in embedded software development: requirements elicitation & management, system, electronics or software design and development, test management and test execution.
I've set up and managed development processes, and overseen medium-sized development efforts, on-site and remote. I have brought automated tests and continuous integration to embedded projects.
A lot of my career was spent working on safety-critical systems.
OVERVIEW OVER MY CURRENT PROJECTS:
managing a small, experienced team in the development of an industrial robot.
advising a multinational company in the development of a highly safety-critical automotive electronics component used by several automobile companies.
CONTACT ME:
luca [at] ingianni.eu
In 2016, Germany was a net exporter of electrical energy: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...
However you're right that Germany was a net importer from (among others) France: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/180862/umfrag...
Which is surprising as I remember reading that France has tremendous difficulties satisfying their electricity demand, especially in winter (lots of electric heating apparently).
Here's the link: http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/de/untersuchungen/u140.html
It being a German government publication it's in German unfortunately.
As far as I can tell from skimming it your impression is correct.
So I apparently misremembered the article, and my claim about base load a few posts above may be incorrect after all. Sorry, rsynnott.
Wind most certainly isn't base load.
The German government's scientific service, for one, disagrees with you.
Reddit as a whole, sure.
The front page itself though? I don't know how others use it, but my frontpage is populated by my favourite subreddits, which are luckily mostly free of politics.
TBH I have no idea how the majority use Reddit, but don't confuse the front page with all of Reddit.
(As a side note, yesterday I went on /r/The_Donald out of morbid curiosity. I'm not sure what I expected, but it was rather shocking).
> Can we focus on renewables and stop trying to sell people hazardous waste that can last for millenia?
No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do everybody a disservice when they try to argue that an intermittent power source without storage is a reasonable replacement for base load power. This comic illustrates the problem: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/capacity
The comic is a bit disingenious as it implies that all renewables are intermittent.
But many renewable energy sources are base load as well, e.g. hydro or wind. Yes, they have variations, but so does the load -- from the perspective of power grid management there's nothing new.
In fact this is part of the problem: renewables and nuclear (or coal) are competing for base load. If we build a nuclear plant, we need to run it for 50 years for the investment to make sense. This means that it will economically and politically impede the installation of e.g. wind power for 50 years.
I read that as you fall into a black hole, there comes a point where the gravitational difference between your head and toes would be large enough to rip you apart. (Not that you wouldn't have other problems anyway :-) )
If they're as close to a decently-sized black hole as dramatic movie pictures require, I suspect they would be close enough for the separation not to be gentle at all, assuming their individual limbs wouldn't separate.
I am a freelancer, so I need to protect myself much more than a regular European employee would.
On top of regular public healthcare and pension, I have three policies:
1) sickness daily allowance (the dictionary says this is what it's called in English). This will kick in after 20 (half sum) and 40 (full sum) days of continued (but temporary) inability to work, and should be enough to keep the lights on. IIRC it stops paying if I turn out to be permanently unable to work.
2) occupational disablement insurance (again, according to dictionary). This will pay out a monthly allowance for the rest of my life if it is determined that I am permanently unable to perform my profession for health reasons (including mental health).
3) "dread disease" insurance, which pays a six-figure lump sum if I contract one of a finite list of common dangerous diseases (cancer, heart attack, stroke, ...) Keep in mind that I won't need this money for healthcare as I would be protected by health insurance. This is really to protect my family's and my lifestyle and future.
BTW both 2) and 3) have a contractual clause to pay me out first, and then go to court if they disagree with the assessment. That way their lawyers can't just starve me while I enjoy my chemo or something.
Talk to your insurance broker. They will have options for you.
The thing is that detecting test situations is good, certainly useful, perhaps necessary.
E.g. detecting you are on a test stand, you might
* deactivate plausibility checks which would normally limit engine power * deactivate air bags and other inherently dangerous systems * ensure correct system behaviour even if sensors give conflicting information * suppress error logs for certain failed plausibility checks
The only illegal thing is switching to a "massaged" parameter map under these conditions. And presumably a single person controlled this switch.
I posit that for a city of 500,000 - 1,000,000 it might become practical to have subways and that radically changes the transit equation.
Cities of 500000 inhabitants which have a subway exist. See
Common wisdom is to test for a minimum of 24h if you want to be reasonably certain of a negative result.
But an hour is certainly better than nothing.