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Student at TU Berlin experimenting with rust, golang and python. Working at TU Berlin as a student assistant.

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Comment · 19 days ago
I would maybe tone that down that sentiment a bit and limit the adjustement.

You actually do want to be able to monitor them remotely, like most industrial/commercial refrigeration, to detect failures faster and more reliably. They should still be at least secured with normal auth/autz in addition to perimeter security, though.

If I can know when a fridge failed within the hour (even at night) then I can also dispatch a technician same/next day more easily.

Comment · 21 days ago
> we can't assume present returns will match future returns.

Funnily enough, after spending some time in public service albeit in another country, genereally budgeting for public agencies works almost inverse to this.

If you get allocated X budget but only spend 0.8 * X, then next time you will almost always get <X. This is in itself reasonable, you don't get more allocation than you need. In practice though this means you are incentivised to not save money from your allocation iff you expect to need more in the next period or do not want to lose your allocation (maybe a renovation or smth similiar has been pushed back due to external factors).

Comment · 26 days ago
Sure but almost no OSS projects build containers for Windows (to my knowledge). The same goes for XNU/darwin afaik. They may get binaries but container images often assume Linux by default.

Developers, ime, also don't really want to start building their own container images for auxiliary services like, e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB or MySQL.

Having virtualized Linux support means you can take the existing ecosystem and make it accessible to the other two. It also means docker itself doesn't have to fully embrace & support either which is part of why it's "cheaper".

Comment · 27 days ago
In those two cases they also use VMs because they don't really have another cheap option.

Neither XNU/Darwin nor Windows have had an oob option for running Linux images. WSL is rather new in comparison.

Comment · 1 month ago
They do take it mostly into account for IC(E) journeys and some regional trains.

You will usually have an announcement like "Alle Anschlusszüge werden weiter erreicht werden" oder "Zug nach $ort wartet auf uns" here.

It just doesn't propagate to traffic within a federal regional (Bundesland) a lot which sucks but is somewhat understandable (the frequency there is supposedly high enough although connected journeys kinda break this).

Comment · 1 month ago
> Be easier to use for someone with long fingernails (hello Nosferatu)

Long nails are somewhat common as an aesthetic/cosmetic choice usually for women (ime). No need to make a joke around accessible design.

Comment · 1 month ago
it writes to the file with elevated priviledges and doesn't write it back to the terminal, effectively a 'sudo sh -c '{cmd} > {file}''.

sudo tee is a common way to work around priviledge restrictions in shell pipes (you can't easily 'sudo' a pipe), if /secure was 0600 and owned by root:

"sudo echo "test" > /secure" or "sudo printf '' > /secure", would not work because your user's shell process can't write to /secure. However, "echo 'test' | sudo tee /secure" works because the elevated 'sudo tee' can write to the file.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
That seems a bit overzealous, most consoles[0] run on AMD chips today.

Both PS 5 and Xbox are based on AMD APUs and both serve the AAA market quite well. GTA 6, Assassin's Creed and CoD are probably good enough indicators that the performance is enough, even if there is always room for more (as PC ports show). The PC market will also probably be fine even if stagnation in perfomance gains has been creeping in for a few years now.

[0]: except Nintendo which relies on NVIDIA although their APU there focuses more on efficiency than top performance.

Comment · 1 month ago
She got nominated by Biden in Biden's last term in March of 2021 and left in 2025 two weeks after Trump assumed office.

She did not get appointed under Trump nor did substantial work done under his administration.

Edit: I do not necessarily disagree with your comment on the partisan aspects of this issue. This is only meant to respond to the first paragraph.

Comment · 1 month ago
Coaster brakes are ime one of the best brakes for beginners/intermediates because they can be a reliable backup in addition to rim/disc brakes.

Had my rim brakes at least once lose a lot of efficacy during a large downpour and coaster brakes make a great backup for extra breaking power. They sure do like to lockup your rear wheel but that is still better than the alternative of only having very weak rear/front breaks.

Comment · 2 months ago
This might have to be put into the context that they do in fact move the conflict over resources to economic wars. They also actively engage in wars over ressources when they think they can win outside of MAD, see U. S. vs Iran.

Economic warfare also does in fact kill people. Denying a population, e. g., Cuba, the ability to access medicine/food kills humans just as well as a bullet in the long term.

There are various other ways this causes suffering. Different forms of warfare are still warfare, even if you don't to hold a gun for all of them.

Being "rich" also requires someone else to be "poor".

Comment · 2 months ago
For android, the answer is yes (without rooting being required).
Comment · 2 months ago
Lenovo also takes orders without Windows. Only for "configurable" skews through the website though.
Comment · 2 months ago
E-Sports teams are still the funniest here. From Shopify Black/Rebellion Gold to T1.

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