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No. You want a parametrized "Money" type, one that can do calculations in varying numbers of decimals, and configurable rounding. There are legal requirements that make this necess…

Yes, but there is more to it: The compiler may assume that UB will never happen intentionally and optimize out the branch containing UB.

Out-of-order execution isn't the reason for this. The C standard assumes an abstract machine that allows OoOE, of course, but even with strict in-order hardware UB can hit you at a…

Roman imperial power isn't fascism in that some important aspects do differ. E.g. fascism uses a special kind of modern aesthetics that Romans wouldn't recognize, even if fascist m…

> The fact that it appears on the Senate building probably refers to the Roman meaning. The roman meaning is very much fascist, if phrased in modern terms. Fasces were carried by l…

In German, there are no two terms for those, both are called "Hakenkreuz". And the Nazi ideology actually made references to eastern culture and peoples, claiming that Germans were…

Because, while the same problem exists, it doesn't exist to the same extent. The average size of the vehicles is smaller, even bigger European SUVs are far smaller than what americ…

You don't need oil, just rope works as well. Every DIY store (at least over here) has loose manila fibre for that purpose. Wrap into the thread, screw it together, done. The not-so…

Yes. My question is always "show me the shop where I can buy it". Never an answer ;)

The official argument is that fining public institutions is a game of taking from the right pocket to put in the left pocket. It's the state fining itself. Also, officially, public…

The first example isn't enforcement, it is due diligence and compliance in companies. That does happen, of course, sometimes in a useful way, sometimes to just have some fig leaf t…

Don't know about Norway. But whether fines apply to public institutions is up to the member states, and most member states, including Germany, have decided not to fine their public…

Yes. But there is too few of them, and usually in situations where other companies can still wait and see. "We aren't Facebook", "We are too small to be noticed" and "but we had th…

It would really depend on the situation to be decided, whether MS would have to pay up, or rather the company using MS products to handle customer data. One can imagine a way to us…

Imho, the "FUD" is largely right and most cloud platforms are indeed illegal. However, due to enforcement being absent or taking ages, there are too few legal decisions and big exp…

Problem as always is, it's all talk and (almost) zero enforcement in Germany. Complaints to a data protection official take forever, are usually dismissed at first, even if counter…

There have been numerous such "solutions". Either it was about MS pinky-swearing that data processing would somehow be CLOUD-act-safe, or about some European hoster providing Offic…

It is, not the pareto principle as such, but the basic laws of statistical distributions: Depending on the underlying mechanisms, large systems will converge on some statistical di…

Even if, by magic, you manage to get all the world on exactly the same income per family/person at one point in time, that equality will only last a moment. Add any amount of time …

I'm not quite sure about it, but I also think that the whole "if you cannot say anything nice, don't say anything" thing is very much an anglo thing. Around here, Germany, art crit…

A person's behavior and its abilities are determined by genetics ("nature") or family/society/circumstances ("nurture") or some ratio of mixture of both. Current political sensibil…

You are trying to put a racist spin on something that is simply a matter of time and circumstances: You cannot instantly, just by declaring it to be so, have technology, infrastruc…

Because "rich", in many definitions, is a moving goalpost. If you define rich and poor as related to some global average, inevitable differences (we are not a Borg collective) will…

This is about art. Art is about aesthetics, taste, and emotions evoked. All of those are subjective and personal. Therefore, there are no invalid reasons to hate on art. The only v…

No, the draft requires the purpose of a software to be declared. So if you declare Linux to be a terminal emulator, not an operating system, and only sell/import/distribute it as s…