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But why would the US destroy NordStream? There was no gas flowing through the pipeline anyway. Ukraine is already winning the war. European states are already looking to buy gas fr…

The problem is that C++ is full of so called "zero-cost-abstractions" that are only zero cost if you ignore: 1. Compile time 2. Non-optimized builds Stuffing everything into the St…

Most lost books weren't lost because they were burned. Ancient manuscripts were usually written on Papryus, which does not last very long. So only the ones that were repeatetly cop…

Interesting. I have been near a lightining strike as well (about 20m), so a similar distance. There was a very loud bang. The lightning struck a tree, so maybe that's different.

Also capacitive touchscreens. The resitive ones of older Smartphones wouldn't have worked for the revolutinary UI

I often hear about the great battery life of the Pebble watch, and that there is no smart watch with a comparable one. Thats kind of true, depending what one wants from their smart…

I like the video, but the title is a bit misleading. There is hardly any talk about logistics in the video.

It's not that weird, but I stopped eating meat during lent a few years ago. I'm not religious, but here in Austria, many non-religious people abstain from something during lent (sw…

Most people don't use Bitcoin, and most who use it (from what I see), just want to sell it at a higher price than they bought it. Only a minority of Bitcoin users use it for anythi…

I think one of the biggest problems of Wayland are the "non standard, but kind of necessary" extensions. E.g. screencapture. Does Wayland support screencapture? Yes (kind of), but …

I'm not from the USA, but if I can choose if the USA, or China gets my data, I will choose the USA everytime. Sure, America does a lot of shady stuff, but the situation in China is…

Where I live (Austria), Facebook messenger does not have the same reach as Whatsapp. Pretty much everyone with a Smartphone has Whatsapp, but there are lots of people without a Fac…

Ah yes, the typical problem of Open Source applications, especially ones without a company behind it. The implementation of the actual sync is pretty good (I never had a problem wi…

Yes you can, but if you do that you have to release the Object files and make it possible for the customers to link them to their own Qt version. This is a much greater hassle than…

Nothing is wrong with the LPGL version for us. Static linking would be nice sometimes, but really necessary. My point is that my company would be willing to pay for Qt (and it did …

I think Qt needs to rethink their licensing model. Currently you either pay them a LOT of money for everything they offer, or you don't pay them anything and just use the LGPL vers…

That's because most users don't actually need the distributed part of git. For most projects the sanest solution is to have a single master repository that all users pull/push from…

I see the 90% rule as a recursive function: First we get 90% of the whole work in the first iteration, then 90% of the remaining code (now we are 99% complete), then 99.9% and so o…

Does this argument really work? Nobody says that Facebook has a monpoly in everything they do. They say that they have a monopoly in a very specific area, which should be enough fo…

They could just specify that the module/import statements need to be at the top of the file (excluding comments). Most people will do this anyway. Then the build system only needs …

Not really. You can't wrap a translation unit that uses a 3rd party library into a module. That means every other translation unit that uses this unit also can't be a module and so…

That would mean that it's impossible to mix old and new C++ codebases, which would make it very very hard to port larger projets. It may even make it impossible if one uses a heade…

Popcorn time was popular because it was way better than any of the legal alternatives. You just had to open it, type the name of the movie/series and you probably could start watch…

I actually like the bad design of the reddit mobile site, but not for a reason reddit will like. I used to have the Reddit is Fun app installed, which works really well. The proble…

There are loads of products that I would consider classical monopolies in tech. E.g. Youtube/Facebook/Android/Whatsapp. Sure you could use one of the alternatives, but then you won…