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_nalply

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About _nalply

Deaf Father of two children, one of them autistic. Wife Deaf, too, and additional a cancer survivor with cerebral palsy. Retired programmer (Dipl. Ing. FH) and legal (BLaw). Living in Thun, a city in Berner Oberland in Switzerland.

Languages: Swiss German Sign Language, German, English, and some French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Latin (good to low reading understanding).

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    I think the possiblities that a minority can leave the group is an important escape valve for them. Now assume that in the future they are going to be not such a minority anymore l…

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    I found grandparent's post still useful because it caused something to click in my head. I then researched and found that threads and processes share a lot of functionality. In the…

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    Comment #48785922

    Lipreading Deaf here. I tried to lipread the Inauguration, and where it was successful I did read the same nonsense, but often it wasn't possible because they weren't looking at th…

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    I am Deaf. I lipread German, but rarely lipread English and was successful with lipreading people speaking English as not their native language, namely Greek, Estonian and Marathi …

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    How do you manage zone 5 cardio 4x a week without PEM? I thought up to 3x a week and never consecutive days is the maximum.

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    Comment #45846727

    Have some air at the top of the top reservoir, assuming that the top reservoir is at most about 10 m deep in water (to avoid damage from storms). Or have the air in separate chambe…

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    Ah, so you meant UB = unspecified behavior, not UB = undefined behavior. Maybe. Bugs that come from spooky behavior at a distance are notoriously hard to debug, especially in produ…

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    It's WASM. WASM runs in a sandbox and you can't have UB on the hardware level. Imagine someone exploiting the behavior of some browser when UB is triggered. Except that the program…

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    I thought so, but "Copyright" is always the same? Haha, that's dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous.

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    That's Henry George. I don't understand all consequences yet, except one, that the wealthy and powerful object to it because it hurts them and so the Land Value Tax is rarely intro…

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    AI is one sharp tool cutting slices from the old internet. But perpetrators have used different tools from the start: SEO spam, algorithmic feeds, embrace/extend/extinguish, buildi…

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    Maybe. Maybe not. Given the human material (yes I know a dehumanizing formulation, but that's what Corporate does) it seems it's better not to step on anybody's toes except if it's…

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    Comment #44278341

    Or add spirits. Another way: Let ferment it to the max. If fermentation doesn't consume all the sugar, then it's somewhat stable. Ancient wines also had resins added. Today these w…