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That person explicitly dismissed "advanced mastery" and thus challenging and bettering oneself or themselves as being non-inclusive. I find this attitude highly offensive, because …

Depends on the technical expertise of the staff, I guess. My alma mater (FAU Erlangen, https://fau.de ) did have some internal and external IPv6 already back when addresses were st…

Ah, the lowest-common-denominator argument for why your code is crap. That is the reason that Python code has become what PHP was 10 years ago: The mark of projects to avoid at all…

WSL1 was a dead end, not because of compatibility but because of performance, especially when it comes to file system access and process operations. Windows is supremely complex in…

For photo and video backups, I'm using auto-upload in the Nextcloud Android app together with my own Nextcloud instance. There are various Nextcloud apps like memories where you ca…

I've found ext4 to be generally unsuitable to HPC environments due to the 16TB filesize limitation. So it is the wrong tool for the job anyways. xfs all the way!

xfs has had large file and large filesystem support for ages, so it is well-tested in that regard. ext4 can do larger filesystems now, but is still limited to 16TB files. zfs ist c…

Me too. But the CA and browser mafia is too intertwined to let this change anytime soon.

> 3 years of security updates at least from the US release date Which means that after an initial period of half a year of "production is still slow, you have to wait" and another …

The typical tax-related depreciation term for computer hardware is 5 years over here. Which is already half of what typical office equipment is expected to last. After which it is …

Break out the DDT! https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2022/wides...

No, you are right, 60% is a theoretical maximum achievable maybe with supercritical reactor coolant. The actual maximum for existing reactors is somewhere just below 40%.

60% is feasible for e.g. nuclear and gas, if you use more than one turbine and there is a big constant temperature differential. This typically isn't the case for gas plants which …

One could discuss whether it really needs to be Rust. But TypeScript is definitely the wrong tool for the job. The performance reference is xterm. If you cannot beat that, don't bo…

Writing the first (small) program (I think drawing a line in qbasic) that, on the very first try, went through the compiler without any warning or error and did what it was suppose…

Your numbers are off. Thermal power plants typically do have a thermal-to-electric efficiency of around 30% (40% max), so with your heatpump having an electric-to-thermal efficienc…

You are both right and wrong. It depends on the intelligence of the person you are dealing with. There is a thing called "intelligence". There are several definitions of it, the on…

It's not that it usually is the Scotty Engineering principle. It is more often a hedge against unforeseen complications, because if you give a realistic estimate that would be true…

> Not because of skill issues, but maybe forced because they work for a dealership that sells a particular make exclusively or, less often, a specialty shop; most “car repair guys”…

This level of dependence on certain tools is neither rare nor unprecedented. Your run-of-the-mill business drone will be trained on Word/Excel/Outlook and be hard to impossible to …

You are right. Justice and injustice are entirely subjective, there can be no objective measure of those. Why? Because they stem from an individual's value system. Which is the sub…

Food stamps are an injustice, however, the ends there justify the means, food stamps are so people don't starve. They aren't "luxury dinner at fancy restaurant stamps" in the same …

I find languages with symbols far easier to read than verbose textual syntax like in BASIC or pascal. Symbols like (), {}, [] satisfy my need for symmetry and are far easier to cor…