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Schengen has independent of the EU status. Eg. you can move freely from Germany to Switzerland (without obligatory border check) but not between Germany and EU-member Cyprus (there…

> They could not be making any money on advertising there, I assume? When they show an advertisement of, say, some asian company to a russian user, they are still making money, are…

> but its rarely gb at the same time. Thats the point. Its a dumping ground for stuff thats not used very often. But it has to be GB to actually make a difference. If your swap is …

Firefox (and I guess Chrome as well) throws aways memory of unused tabs.

> What if I don't have no more free DIMM slots but I already have 1 TiB NVMe and I am fine with my workload being finished slightly (or even noticeably) slower as opposed to not be…

> Given that the author works at a large company, that has millions of machines, and where any swap change has cost implications in the tens of millions pounds, I suspect the artic…

> Swapping 32GB of memory in and out of an NVMe SSD is much faster than swapping 1GB out of a spinning disk so I really don't get that argument. This is true, but it still takes ti…

This reads like something from the 90s. Buy whatever you think you need as swap as "more RAM" and call it a day. I'm running my desktop Linux without swap since maybe 20 years, and…

What I wrote was a bit unclear: They want to avoid that you buy a low cost ticket and resell it to somebody else a day before the flight (because you either cannot make it or becau…

The do that so that you can't resell your ticket.

The "your username/password is wrong" message came in a timely manner. So someone transformed "some unforeseen error" into a clear but wrong error message. And this caused a lot of…

> That said, getting there strikes me as pretty challenging. Automatically detecting a down state is difficult and any detection is inevitably both error-prone and only works for t…

> If 0.01% of the transactions a bank processes daily need some form of human intervention Then these transactions will be delayed anyway. You could still process 99.99% of the tra…

X86 has ENDBR32 and ENDBR64 (end branch) for this.

How can I disable this? The popup is super annoying.

> I'd personally rather have the choice than not. There are browser settings since the invention of cookies to control which sites are allowed to set cookies.

The EU is showning these banners on their own websites. So not even the EU is capable of creating a website without banners (because - even the EU - wants analytics and other bulls…

> And you clearly want to carry 3000+ EUR in your pocket than paying by card? Europe is safe, but I will definitely not walk around with that much cash on my person. I'd also rathe…

> Oh absolutely, you'd never want to run such a program. However, it's existence is a useful mathematical trick. This was the beginning of the thread: If you have a non-constructiv…

> ~50% of the world population are women yet 95% of the prison inmates are male. There are obvious differences on the extreme ends of the spectrum between males and females and the…

> Running prediction markets is probably more free money than that. Building and maintaining research teams like that is not easy or cheap, if it would be then Good Judgment Inc. w…

> It's been shown that teams of such researchers consistently beat prediction markets on these sorts of topics. This sounds like free money.

> Maybe if GHacks didn't comply with the legislation in such a user hostile manner, browser developers wouldn't have to waste time on such features. You need the same feature for v…

The problem with SEPA is that is does not work at night or over the weekend and even during normal business hours it might take a day for the money to arrive (depending on some spe…

> It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies. I just check some web p…