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Comment · 3 days ago
I hope the EU will follow soon. Or at least my home country. Since the EU already has different time zones, the stalling because "all should have the same time" doesn't make sense.
Comment · 6 months ago
The generated satellite tiles are interesting. The sea is very dry. And some mountains are looking very strange. At least for some places (e.g. Mount Doom) the AI should have been able to generate more "realistic" images.

Interesting project. I might "steal" that for teaching purposes.

Comment · 6 months ago
I do have an ancient Dr. Stika cutter plotter which works on an old WinXP with parallel port. I did try a few times to get it to work in a VM with an USB-Parallel adapter but haven't been successful so far.

"Fixed" it by replacing it with a new CriCut. But unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any open driver or software for CriCut - so I'm afraid I'll run into the same problem in a few years again :-/

Comment · 1 year ago
What do you mean? It's exactly that in almost any programming language.

What is it you don't understand: "method" (a representation) or "decimal" (a number that consists of a whole and a fractional part)?

Comment · 1 year ago
And American prices are already insanely low. If I want to buy a RAM in Austria for $30k I get a used car with 150.000km. If I want a new one it's (much) over $100k.
Comment · 4 years ago
I do have set up different workspaces for different development tasks where only the necessary plugins are activated. If I do embedded development I open my platformio.workspace, if I'm doing Java I have a workspace and if I'm doing JS/Frontend stuff I have a workspace as well as for LaTeX. It really works well and isn't really difficult (although I'm not really sure that workspaces should be used for this)
Comment · 4 years ago
Depends on the content. For some: yes, for sure.

For some others I should get money back because I couldn't find what was advertised before (for example recipe sites that contain mostly Blabla with interspersed ads and only a rudimentary recipe that isn't reproducible).

Comment · 4 years ago
Why not ban ALL ads?!?
Comment · 4 years ago
Nobody ever said the vaccination will stop transmission. It reduces the symptoms and hospitalisation rate (successfully).
Comment · 4 years ago
How long ago was the second shot? There's a reason why Europe accelerated the start of the Booster vaccinations (third shots). Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that didn't receive their first shot willingly although it's freely available.
Comment · 5 years ago
Looks great, just tried it.

One feature that is missing: "reload map" or something. It's only showing things near my "real location"; but I'd also like to explore different locations (e.g. a city I'd like to visit next weekend).

For example "Komoot" is doing that really nice for hiking routes and similar activites: explore at my location, explore near a given location, use the map, ...

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm still using my 12 (!) year old 17" MacBook Pro as daily work machine. Yes, it's not the fastest computer but for my usage it works. Granted, starting IntelliJ needs some time, but coding still works well (and compiling big codebases isn't done locally).

The one thing that really isn't usable anymore is Aperture/Lightroom. And missing docker because my CPU is too old (but docker it still works in VMs ...) is a pain.

Comment · 5 years ago
Why not wireless charging?

I don't mind the connector (lightning works well), better would be mandatory quality of the cables (the iPhone cables are regularly breaking).

Comment · 6 years ago
I'm still using my 2009 MBP (updated HDD and replaced battery once) without problems. Unfortunately it seem's that I will have to update some time in the future because of missing software support :(
Comment · 6 years ago
I tried opera because I couldn't find firefox in the store. Opera worked about a month longer than the default browser, but doesn't work anymore.

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