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Nice to stumble over this thread. I'm not sure if Flint is the right tool for me. I'd like to have a tool that expresses code in visual form for me. For example, right now I need t…

The pro-swap stance has never made sense to me because it feels like a logical loop. There’s a common rule of thumb that says you should have swap space equal to some multiple of y…

Finnix seems to serve the same use case as GRML Linux it seems. I never tried Finnix, but GRML helped me a few times so far.

Me, Austrian and two Austrian friends were doing a road trip through western Canada. We had a rental car with a remote key fob, and forgot the key fob on the cars roof when driving…

What exactly is overly bureaucratic in the EU? I as an European get the feeling people usually hate on the EU just because it dares to interfere with local legislation. But that's …

Doesn't he just say that Romanian Jews overperform? I don't think there's a need to read the authors words in the worst possible way. > I understand this as ‘it makes sense for a g…

I'm not sure I understand. Estonia invested a lot? In what? Military? So the optics are positive?

It sounds like you attended this workshop and can recommend it. Is that true?

Wow this is bringing back youth-hood memories. Great to see this page is still around. Thanks for bringing this up. SelfHTML has been an invaluable tool for my younger self.

Pretty cool, nice job! And wouldn't it be semantically more correct to put the tag into the and turning the into a aragraph? Since this is targeting beginners I'd think it's import…

This post seems very well researched. It's great that OP has brought this up. If we could push further the state of the art in 3D printing, by simply no longer adhering to an (now …

> Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe. Not in the part of Europe I'm in. I can't recall the last time I've seen an American car here in the streets of Vienna. …

Which one is more resistant to bitrot, Restic or Borg Backup? (Yes, bitrot might better be mitigated at the filesystem layer, but I'm not switching to ZFS, btrfs or bcache-fs anyti…

Which edge cases do you mean? Are you confusing it with YAML? I know YAML has some serious footguns [1]. In JSON I'm not aware of any. [1] https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/t…

Discussions on checksumming filesystems usually revolve around ZFS and BTRFS, but has someone any experience with bcachefs? It's upstreamed in the linux kernel, I learned, and is s…

Where do you live? I transitioned to software development in the age of ~30 and am based in Austria, Europe. The way I did is was to work on a project in my free time, and use that…

> sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf Why that?

Since an embedded Linux system will likely require use of either Buildroot or Yocto, I'd like to ask the following slightly off-topic question: Which SoM product line would you say…

> It's a bet that China's rivals cannot successfully resist short-term greed despite the huge and transparent long-term risks. Seems they have correctly identified the western worl…

Hello Cosmin, nice to read you again. Cosmin applied at my place for the position as Software Architect. I was impressed by his ability to articulate ideas clearly and comprehensiv…

Since you are keen on feedback: A LaTeX using collegue I forwarded this to objected that you need to approve latex keywords (\alpha) and can't just keep on typing. Not much of a La…

> around-the-world Not to dimish their perfomance, but still worth noting that they are taking the curves as tightly as anyhow possible. Which is okay, I guess, it's a race after a…

FYI, also modern helmets are not designed to stop bullets but rather to protect from shrapnel and hand grenades. Stopping a bullet would mean breaking the wearers neck. (The kineti…

That reminds me of that Werner Herzog documentary on Penguins, and the one Penguin that leaves to group just to wander off into the island towards certain death. https://youtu.be/m…

Isn't IBAN just the account identifier SEPA uses? (The other identifier necessary to make SEPA transfers being the BIC = bank id.)