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> A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course…

I'm German and I never heard the term "Kleincousin". According to Wikipedia [0] it seems to be used regionally to refer to 2nd degree cousins (which I would call "Großcousin"). Any…

We have mandatory 1 business day bank transactions in Euro currency in Germany and the EU since 2012. If your bank is taking "up to three _work_ days" for regular Euro transactions…

More discussion in this other thread which I didn't find when submitting this. [0] It appears that the file system is not actually corrupted. The bug is just triggering a warning p…

Does it? Apple's documentation seems to disagree [1]: "A weak memory ordering model, like the one in Apple silicon, gives the processor more flexibility to reorder memory instructi…

No it hasn't. [0] Unless you want to claim the Unix developers deliberately chose the slash as a path separator to be incompatible with TOPS-10. That could be. [0] http://www.os2mu…

> But do you understand people who dare to run executables from 'proper-company' site? It's closed source, you have no idea what you are running, isn't it? As long as it's not free…

These 320k tests were performed in the Guangdong province which has a population of 113 million and ~10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, or about 0.009% of the population. If they fou…

> We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 14 days before. This seems seriously f…

And beta 2 should be coming soon. There's only one blocking issue left on the bug tracker [1]. [1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=assigned&status=in-pro...

Yes, that's my own custom UI framework. Most of the platform dependent stuff is implemented in the smooth library. In hindsight, it would have been easier to just use Qt, GTK or wx…

As an open source developer, I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, Microsoft seems very keen on keeping Windows compatible even with ancient versions of the OS. New stuff usually …

Apple gets a bad reputation for their supposed lack of backwards compatibility. Nothing is further from the truth. Well, they definitely break a lot of things. Mostly things that w…