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Hetzner provides exactly that: a VPS. They're also cheaper than DigitalOcean, I assume, because EU web hosting is way more competitive and US VPS offerings have traditionally been …

The difference being that BTC has no utility that people depend on. They can refuse to buy the BTC from the now-GenZer or even the Winklevoss twins if they'd rather have food or sh…

At our (fairly large) company, you can query by team (and maybe job role) but it will hide responses where the sample size is smaller than a set number (I think 8 or 10). So yes it…

It takes substantial effort to build a good dataset, proportionally more if it gets bigger, and people like big datasets because you can train more powerful models from them. So I …

Probably i don't watch any of the YouTubers you're watching either - the long tail is exactly why people watch YouTube (and maybe a handful of 10k-1M subscriber channels) rather th…

Some of the more well-known YouTube creators are also on - Curiosity Stream/Nebula (Adam Neely, Mary Spender, Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, Super Bunnyhop) - LBRY/odysee (DistroTube) -…

False dichotomy. What you call "not studying" would vary between effectively dropping out (for the people who are only at uni to get drunk and end up with a degree at the end), gai…

Daimler (Mercedes) is quite close, and they complained loudly when Boris Palmer decided to drive a Prius rather than a Daimler car when he became mayor of Tübingen. So yes, the aut…

Skimming code is a legitimate task. At a large/FAANG company you will often have a 400k sloc code base and only a vague idea which bits of code you need to study more intensively t…

> The more I work with parsing, parser combinators and writing grammars for little languages, the less often I find myself using or wanting to use any regex at all. Surprise: The m…

> to turn one of those kids into someone worthwhile The basic insight here is: kids with learning disabilities, or who have a home environment not conducive to learning, are worthw…

So, delegating both responsibility and power to people with an agenda (because those are the only ones to step up when they get formal power, in addition to or rather than just inf…

I was assuming someone had an attack on the Alpaca altcoin. So if you throw in a random word, it could be either or all of a garage rock band, an indie game, an altcoin, or a softw…

Most likely they wouldn't stay at home but either would start their own small business (which would be more competitive now since people with employees have to pay them a livable w…

Agree that it's exciting to see, but what's the actual potential? Flutter developing into a latter-day Macromedia Flash?

Ok, I've lived in Schwaben but only ever visited Bavaria, and never ate Pretzels in the US. So Bavarian Brezeln are not completely hard and dry but they're definitely less squishy …

If you have a Masterclass subscription, they have a course on making sourdough bread (from the owner of a Parisian bread shop that has been making sourdough bread for some >100 yea…

One subtle difference/fact: Brezeln are different between Bavaria (southeast) and Schwaben (southwest) - soft Brezeln are common in Schwaben, whereas Bavaria mostly has the salty h…

there's no operator precedence if you don't have (multiple) operators that could precede each other. In LISP-like languages these are simply functions (or more correctly, forms) wh…

A wallet is two things: - a private key or set of private keys which are used to sign transactions - hardware wallets store this inside the "hardware wallet" thing - a program that…

err ... it's kind of what you'd get from Textkernel or LinkedIn Recruiter, probably at a similar price. But with nicer fonts, so ok.

does gold qualify as a ponzi scheme? Tesla stock? Google stock? 2000s dotcom stocks? There is a difference between overbought assets and scams, and it usually goes along the line o…

Google did an auction: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/19/es-took-off-but-the-auction-... For many pricing problems, auctions are the answer. Doing a roadshow and tickling investor's …

It highly depends on the corpus and you can check for yourself. I'm being lazy, but the results for Gutenberg books you can check online at http://labs.statsbiblioteket.dk/dsc/ - m…

How about: US citizens saved $34B by not having to stay in the highest COL areas? Why should we sympathize with a minority of rent-seekers?