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… means I can show the numbers from 0 to 10 with my fingers. But base 10 means I only have digits from 0 to 9. … would 10 fingers not be a better argument for base 11?

Yes, I think I am with you. That search should not have happened (and consequently was ruled unlawful by a court afterwards). But it should not have happened in the first place. I …

Please tell me more about that much better system. And probably also tell it to some lawmakers. But start with me.

There is a strong hint in the search warrant, that they knew about the distribution of Nazi materials. Just calling someone Schwachkopf doesn’t get prosecutors to investigate furth…

Yes, I agree. But I can not see how the legal framework could be better. Insults are illegal. Prosecution needs to look into all reported cases.

Germany really did not. Where do you get such nonsense? The guy was sentenced for distributing forbidden Nazi materials. The initial insult investigation was dropped, because of it…

No authority was used (or misused). Anybody can report a crime and prosecution is required, by law, to investigate.

Regarding the Pinocchio thing: Local police said „that‘s probably insult“ and sent it to public prosecutors. Public prosecutors investigated and said „nope, free speech“. I really …

Because it is wrong. Lev is pegged since 1999. And if you (or the first comment author) had read the article, then you would immediately have identified the problem with the commen…

> Bulgaria is unusual in that it pegged its currency, the lev, to the euro right from the beginning of monetary union in 1999, even before it joined the European Union in 2007. App…

This reply makes the mootest point of all the moot points.

Total trade with Russia in 2024: $3.5bn Total trade with Ukraine in 2024: $2.9bn https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia... So, Ukraine will get an exemption, …

There are only 144 Bytes in a PhotoDNA hash and they are used to identify the whole picture. This is definitely not enough data to identify a face reliably. The proposed AI does no…

Judges usually rely on experts in forensic science who, of course, are infallible and absolutely not influenced by what they read online during their day. https://innocenceproject.…

You can certainly not produce inversions. The data that is left in the hash is not enough to produce anything vaguely photorealistic. However, you can fill the gaps and generate ph…

MD5 is “broken” as a cryptographic hash function. It still is perfectly fine as a non-cryptographic hash function.

Zebras come in colors? Ours are all kinda monochrome.

So ... your solution is no tfa? Putting second factor material in password managers is terrible advice. For reasons unknown to me, it might be the right solution for you. But in ge…

It makes perfect sense if you consider the right abstraction. TCP connections are streams. There are no packets on that abstraction level. You’re not supposed to care about packets…

I guess parent is focusing on the point, that PDFs can render as perfectly human-readable documents, but can be completely non-machine readable at the same time.

That's not how latency or responsiveness works. Dan Luu did cool experiments with input lag ( https://danluu.com/input-lag/ ).

Sure. I'll oversimplify a lot, but the feeling of how things work should be correct. The clock frequency is not a good way of measuring performance. Never was. Even earlier designs…

A modern 4GHz CPU is not only 40 times faster. It is a few thousand times faster than a 100MHz CPU back from the days. Probably not 20,000, but at least 2,000 times faster seems re…

Mathematicians do not have funding for „large scale“. A 10-year old mid-range server is exactly the kind of system I would expect Magma to run on in the average case. Perhaps even …

Back of the envelope: for 20-30 kWhs of capacity less, you put in an ICE that can burn gas for 10kWh/kg.