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Since the spelling reform of 1996 both are spelled Föhn

GPT 4 gave me this answer: In this variant of the Monty Hall problem, since all the doors are transparent, you can clearly see what is behind each door. This changes the nature of …

Curious that they translated it to German based on my phone settings for a product that only supports US banks? (I don’t mind that it is US banks, just… why did they pay a human to…

The game has an end, and you can get there in a much more reasonable amount of time.

Seeing this made me donate a small sum to the Internet Archive, maybe you (dear reader) want to do it too? https://archive.org/donate/

Also noteworthy that on Intel at least, using AVX/AVX2 reduces the frequency of the CPU for a while. It can even go below base clock.

I've never quite understood the appeal of Dependency Injection. What's wrong with just using constructors?

Pardon my ignorance: How did Solaris solve this?

There is in fact a DPDK related project for NVMe storage: https://github.com/spdk/spdk (I have not had reason to use it yet, unfortunately)

The fact that it showed me a pop-up advert for an Ayn Rand book was also indicative.

In 1517174122 daylight saving time is so obsolete...

A quick google says: > Where can a mediocre software developer get $450K+?!

The article spends 4 paragraphs on them. Just one example: Although AMD’s response in the forum was that these were isolated issues, phoronix was able to reproduce crashes by runni…

In a five party system, it is quite common for voters to not feel too much allegiance to any party in particular.

The very article mentions at the bottom that AMD has its fair share of nasty bugs recently, too. If anything, I would expect AMD to spend even less effort on validation (because th…

Fun fact: Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett's company) now has a huge stake in Apple. So it's not really true anymore that he avoids IT.

True, but Cmake has a lot of users already familiar with it and who have it pre-installed. So I applaud this change to use Cmake!

The article indirectly says it's using special MRI machines with much better than millimeter resolution. So I think your first analogy is likely better than your second.

I for one find this GROẞARTIG. Maybe not using umlauts or writing nouns in lower case is more efficient, but sometimes it feels good to have something like this.

You could just make a new clean checkout in a different directory?

You can install a devtoolset[1] to get a newer GCC which keeps ABI compatibility. I'm using gcc 6.2.1 on CentOS 7 that way. [1]: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/d…

Try indenting your code section by 4 spaces. :)

"protocol buffers which have zero backwards compatibility" Either I misunderstand you, or this is _remarkably_ wrong: Protocol buffers were designed to make it easy to define proto…