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The first. In German, many words that refer to a person (e.g. Fahrer/Fahrerin, male/female driver) have a plural which is identical to the male singular. For a while now, many writ…

Would have been interesting to connect back to Java's own journey to improve its time APIs, with Joda-Time leading into JSR 310, released with Java 8 in 2014. Immutable representat…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

This study from the University of Reading found that severe turbulence has indeed increased significantly and measurably over the last 40 years: https://research.reading.ac.uk/rese…

My assumption is by creating a service account with limited privileges and activating it for gcloud when running this.

Interestingly, the page you linked is missing Germany.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify > Trust, but verify (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, tr. doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a Russian prove…

For those interested, the competitive AoE2 scene is alive and well with one of its biggest tournaments, NAC5, going on now, an in-person LAN in Berlin. https://liquipedia.net/ageof…

https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

That sounds like a bold statement. I would imagine the large majority of players of any mass-market title don’t know about or use any non-built-in mods.

What exactly do you mean by "damned" here?

Gigabits, I presume, so 100 GB/s.

Beancount ( https://beancount.github.io/ ) plus a script for formatting bank statement CSVs.

Maybe you're aware of how Rotten Tomatoes scores work, but in case someone reading this isn't: the score is not some average of individual scores like IMDb uses (I think), but just…

This is a mischaracterization of P.A.s (well, not the being-paid-less bit). Do you know any personally?

My monthly electricity bill went up by ~29%, so sounds about right. In fact, my electricity provider raised everyone's rate, even those with a contract, but giving an option to lea…

Note that Thread Reader loses the images attached to some of the tweets (at least for me). Edit: strike that, it was Firefox's social tracker protection blocking them. Just need to…

I encourage you to read the first sentence of QuadrupleA‘s comment to this post in LGR’s voice.

What are you trying to say, exactly? "Confidential computing" doesn't _use_ anything, it's a technology for working with encrypted data, mate.

Where do you turn when you run into a tech support issue you can't solve yourself, even when leaning on the brain-cache that is the internet? What I thought was a minor issue has s…

They did not mention the US government.

Written December 29th and updated 9 days later. :)