Moter8

As an answer to your comment, I had flagged the post. Guess what, they changed the title :)

We had to use OSGi in a student project for a distributed systems module.

It was a nightmare. We were basically forced to use Eclipse (instead of IntelliJ which everybody was accustomed to). Eclipse alone was a nightmare to use (slow, imports not founds, etc).

On the OSGi side:

There is no package manager. One team tried to set up maven but they failed. We just loaded jars.

The manifest files were a mess. Eclipse launch configurations were a mess (had to be re-imported after any change).

A small project which only required a backend was needlessly split into 5 parts. Over-engineering at its finest.

I've almost finished with my cooperative work/university CS degree, and I always disliked programming "games" there.

Creating the 10000th Conways Game of Life? Developing some crappy game on my own? No, thanks.

Developing something for an existing game? That would have been great! I'm all with you.

My take on this: The only thing this will do is make Google either remove the audio captchas or make them super difficult to solve, even for us humans.

The EU roaming rules are only valid for a certain time period.

I can't get a polish SIM card and use it for an entire year in Germany, for example.

On snoonet at least there is a channel option frequently used, that makes the channel send the last x messages to the recently joined user.

It exists.

Seems logically invalid.

If you gave to answer "it depends" on a "was ist ever", you should have written "yes" instead, imo.

Did this but with an app in Germany. As I "scored" 95 out of 100 points and was apparently at the top 1% of the drivers, I got a pretty good discount on my insurance.

About 500€ per year less than without this app. So yeah, for that price they can track me anytime I drive, I don't have an issue with that.

Tesla caused a hype around EV cars and is probably the primary cause as to why everybody is talking about EVs.

I doubt regular manufacturers would have begun releasing real EV cars without their pressure.

The files are available up until they have been downloaded (from 1 to 100 times) or until a certain timeframe has elapsed (from 5 minutes to 7 days). See the screenshot at the article.

> you can only call one person at a time.

what? In the times where 15 people have phone dailies/dailys?

I travel quite a bit on the weekends, on the way to my girlfriend, and all toilets that I've seen are nfc-enabled (Baden-Württemberg -- Bayern). Except for Crailsheim. There are Toilets by the Bahn, but are closed at 18:00 or so.

Also: Are Maestro cards supported? Girocards (EC cards)?

Most Germans have a girocard, way less hava got a debit/credit card.