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This shows a profound ignorance for how much of modern life, especially within a bureaucracy, is powered by banal software like office suites. If you can cripple the everyday worki…

This is a sensationalist piece of not-news. The CSU/CDU Union party (from which Merz comes) has been, at least in recent historical time, consistently pro-nuclear (at least in term…

I mean, for retail investors outside the US, the question you're asking boils down to „does purchasing power parity follow popular US domestic market indices?“, to which the answer…

Putting aside, for a moment, a lot of important questions around (gestures broadly at the political situation in the US), what are the economic implications of a conflict between t…

Certainly for many applications, the autoint approach would be fine. The benefit of uuid in this case is that it allows horizontally scalable app servers to construct PKs on their …

I'm also not a huge fan of leaking server-side information; I suspect UUIDv7 could still be used in statistical analysis of the keyspace (in a similar fashion to the german tank pr…

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio si…

> I didn't mean that you could 3-D print tiny laparoscopes or even visible-light metamaterials; I meant that you could 3-D print machines for making tiny laparoscopes and visible-l…

I'm not trying to say that there aren't plenty of applications for small scale mechanical devices, but rather that the applications where FDM-style 3d printing would be an appropri…

From TFA, they're using it to print bioinks. Think scaffolding for cell cultures. At these kinds of physical scales, biology is almost certainly a much larger market than mechanica…

Having used both extensively, Geizhals doesn't hold a candle to McMaster. McMaster is, bar none, the single best e commerce website I've ever used (if you already know what you're …

In that case I'd opt for dynamic module creation using metaprogramming instead of an import hook. And I personally would argue that grabbing the code objects from module members an…

If you only want your own code to see the patch, then why not just wrap it? I mean if you really need super strong isolation, you can always create a copy of the library object; me…

If the goal is to actually package and distribute the changes via import hook, that makes the supply chain attack question particularly relevant. And it still doesn't explain why y…

No, but I'll definitely post it to HN when it is!

For context: one of the several projects I'm working on right now is an automated extraction system for literate-code-style documentation in python. This isn't the place nor time t…

Indeed. IMO, the trick to really enjoying python typing is to understand it on its own terms and really get comfortable with generics and protocols. That being said, especially for…

Wow, did not realize that private-party purchase vehicle loans were a thing. Wild that the banks are willing to take on that much risk.

This is a really clear picture of things, thanks! I am actually originally from the US, but I've been living in the EU for 5ish years and haven't had a car since I gave the one I h…

Additionally, a lot of people who would otherwise be in the used car market for price reasons in the US cannot afford to purchase even a used car outright, and getting financing fo…

Certificate transparency logs are likely the only realistic way, but you could make the same argument against your DNS provider. Trust has to start somewhere. Whether or not someth…

"As of January 2025, implementation has started for MapLibre GL JS and MapLibre Native." [1] Github shows java, js, rust, and typescript folders, though I didn't poke any further b…

As an immigrant to Germany, I've often made the observation that Germany frequently has a really severe implementation problem. So I'm generally very sympathetic to that idea. That…

That's not what the exit tax is, though. The German exit tax is effectively just a way to give the existing capital gains tax a way to tax unrealized gains when you leave the count…

The technology certainly exists, though some of it is pretty new and not all of it is mature or commoditized (particularly in the context of high levels of penetration of variable …