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pierrebeaucamp
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Comment #46985843
Reminds me of the app from the Swiss federal office of topology (swisstopo), which has the same functionality (albeit limited to Switzerland, of course): https://www.swisstopo.admi…
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Comment #44248364
fair enough :)
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Comment #44203301
This is almost exclusively just online behaviour. Everyone I met in person is very nice :). The conference I mentioned was ZuriHac. After the key-note Q&A there was a small hallway…
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Comment #44199385
> When the dude uses `foldl` over lists and `foldr` with `(*)` (numeric product) it is not the language that's the lost cause. This is a great example of Haskell's community being …
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Comment #42135580
Yes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/amazon-ai...
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Comment #41886086
> But my concern is always what happens to the poor. There are subsidies available to low-income households. I'm unsure about the specifics as subsidies differ from one canton to a…
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Comment #41851182
I hate to cite Wikipedia as a source [1], but it looks like the majority of countries do not add fluoride to tap water (only 24 countries in total do). But Sweden seems to have an …
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Comment #41625409
The EU average is 53%, with most eastern member states hovering around 60%. Croatia is at 65% (as of 2019, see https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... ). Su…
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Comment #38403856
Shopify has a similar dashboard as well: https://bfcm.shopify.com
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Comment #35674357
I disagree. While this dichotomy might hold true in other examples, in the case of iPhones it was always possible to push custom software to your own device for development purpose…
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Comment #34600743
It's also being used in aerospace & naval navigation. Interestingly, the more advanced systems use fibre-optic gyroscopes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre-optic_gyroscope .…
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Comment #32596972
> Email Protection is not available in this browser. I'm surprised to see that Safari is not supported.
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Comment #30154317
Some counter-arguments from n-gate.com: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/
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Comment #27885788
Just the issuing of new certificates
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Comment #25534284
> We can sell and ship within the EU as if it were one big country. Is that really true though? To my understanding, there are still laws such as the European packaging & packaging…
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Comment #25143298
Thanks so much for the comment - I was trying to do that with the stable source yesterday evening with no success. Saw your tweet too, but don't have Twitter to ask you over there.…
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Comment #24461684
> I'd call it adequate instead. It's above average for sure. As a counterexample, take the city of Münster, which covers twice the area of Freiburg and is often praised as one of t…
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Comment #23875221
Not in the 1.0 spec, but 1.1 brought modules. For example, MathML can be used as an XHTML module. Mind you, there isn't exactly a 1:1 mapping between modules & web-components, with…
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Comment #23874821
You're looking for XHTML
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Comment #23213194
> I paid a grand total of ~€500 despite being self-employed at the time (so I only had standard public insurance everyone in Germany gets). IMO, this is a somewhat misleading state…
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Comment #21463278
As I few commenters are concerned about cancelling trial subscriptions at Bloomberg: I did just that earlier this year and it was rather painless. You have to submit a request thro…
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Comment #20217064
What happened to Lisbon in the 90s?
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Comment #16269743
If you're looking for immutability, I can recommend NixOS. However what is drawing me to container Linux is mainly its update process