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No, they’re banned because the people who decided the ban disagree with content that questions their political ideology. For example, this includes a lot of books on racism.

The problem is that it is impossible to create an engine that will run on synthetic fuels, but is guaranteed to never run on fossil fuels even if modified / hacked, because they’re…

All of the gift cards I’ve seen in the EU used barcodes, not mag stripes.

JIRAs growth strategy was based on developers adopting it without having to talk to their bosses first because it was cheap enough to do so. Nowadays, this probably works different…

Fun fact: Norway is not a member of the EU.

Apple has a 100% monopoly on the market for iOS app distribution, which can be argued is bad for the customer because the 30% revenue share they take is inflating app prices.

Tooling inside IDEs is somwhat useful. But being able to just run a compiler-like CLI tool to tell you if there are type errors in your program is much more useful still, since you…

They do static analyses that go beyond type checking. I have not tried phan and psalm, but the last time I used phpstan its type analysis threw false positives because it was using…

Unfortunately, PHP doesn't ship a tool for this (and it’s hard due to the way autoloading works). So PHP's typing is slightly less useful than e.g. TypeScript.

When I want to buy cherry tomatoes in German REWE, usually half the varieties have their unit price listed in €/100g, while the rest is in €/1kg. While metric does make converting …

> * Checkm8 doesn't bypass the protections offered by the Secure Enclave and Touch ID. All of the above means people will be able to use Checkm8 to install malware only under very …

„Under a second“ might be ok for websites, but doesn’t cut the mustard for web applications. People expect highly dynamic user interfaces which react almost instantaneously.

One third is next to impossible. Anecdotally, startup survival rate should be around 5-10%. However, that should still yield better results than distributing the money amongst SAP …

The point of the standard was to avoid power supplies becoming useless and going into the trash once the device they came with is no longer being used.

I’m stumped as to why they would pick such a ridiculously low sampling rate. Crashes often play out in minutes, wouldn’t it make more sense to have sub-minute resolution? Or is sen…

I know this is anecdotal, but I‘ve taken about 8 years and 10 attempts to successfly quit smoking. On half of those attempts, I made it past the 28-day mark, even past five months …

I was thinking of dealers selling heroin in particular, since that feels like the appropriate thing to compare fentanyl-pushing MDs to, but in a broader sense, your point is if cou…

> That just means we should treat low level criminals humanely. Four years is plenty. And the street dealers’ customers know full well that they’re buying a very addictive substanc…

The same can probably be said about US citizens’ relationship to their own country.

Maybe they want to evaluate VR commerce. That’s the only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me right now.

I’d say cars to belong to that category. Oh, and guns sold to private citizens maybe?

Did you get a lot of crashes before?

The article states that Kaby Lake is affected, too. Maybe except not the Kaby Lake versions used in MBPs?

This is subjective and very anecdotal, so take with a heap of salt: My 2016 Skylake MBP used to crash very regularly when waking it up from suspend (sometimes multiple times a day)…

Out of interest, what makes you not want to rely on auto-renew?