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aard, 4 months ago

Which of them, though?

aard, 4 months ago

The problems come when the woman turns around and keeps closing the notebook with her breasts.

aard, 4 months ago

In den letzten Jahren haben verschiedene Boardhersteller angefangen die eingebauten Soundkarten via USB anzubinden. Das kann gut gehen - wenn man einen ordentlichen Soundchip verbaut, und das an einen USB-Controller haengt bei dem man garantieren kann dass der nicht ausgelastet wird. Wenn einem die Soundkarte abhaut nur weil man was von externem USB-Speicher kopiert ist das dann auch nicht mehr so toll - seitdem hab ich auch wieder eine separate Soundkarte.

aard, 4 months ago

Ich hatte auch lange Zeit keine Kuechenmaschine (nichtmal nen Handmixer - in ner ordentlichen Kupferschuessel laesst sich Eischnee auch mit nem Schneebesen relativ schnell schlagen). Ich hab mir dann doch mal eine gekauft, und bin gluecklich darueber - der Vorteil ist nicht dass einzelne Schritte (oder alles) schneller gehen, der Vorteil ist dass ich in der Zeit schon was anderes vorbereite.

aard, 4 months ago

Ich hatte frueher auch mal einen Reiskocher - kann ich bestaetigen dass das eine gute Idee ist. Falls ihr dafuer keinen Platz habt, aber eine Microwelle: Einfach den Reis in der Microwelle machen.

aard, 4 months ago

On a real UNIX (not only AiX) killall is part of the shutdown process - it gets called by init at that stage when you want to kill everything left before reboot/shutdown.

Linux is pretty unique in using that for something else.

aard, 4 months ago

killall typically sends SIGTERM by default. It accepts a single argument, the signal to send - so shutdown would call it once with SIGTERM, then with SIGKILL. killall is not meant to to be called interactively - which worked fine, until people who had their first contact with UNIX like systems on Linux started getting access to traditional UNIX systems.

It used to be common to discourage new Linux users from using killall interactively for exactly that reason. Just checked, there’s even a warning about that in the killall manpage on Linux.

aard, 4 months ago

Back then I was testing modelines to see the maximum I could push to my 14" monitor. I then backed it with a 1200x1600 virtual screen.

My girlfriend got sick from watching me scrolling around and bought me a 19" display which could do that resolution - and ended up frustrated when I added a larger virtual screen.

aard, 4 months ago

The same people who, in my field (software engineering), don’t know the difference between Java and JavaScript

The same people who don’t understand that zip codes are not unique to a country, and do a zip code search on recruiting platforms without also setting a country. And then offer you to move to their country (at your expense) when you explain them the concept of zip codes and countries.

aard, 4 months ago

The real danger is when people start believing the artist more because of how much more aesthetically pleasing they can make their misunderstandings, and trust me it is a real danger.

We already have that a lot in our field - people just buy a shiny UI, and don’t care about the rest.

One of the first times I’ve encountered that was when a customer bought a ridiculously overpriced firewall box because of the easy to use GUI, and asked me to implement a pretty complex rule set. The irony of having bought the fancy UI so the can do it themselves, and then hire an expert to do it instead was completely lost on them.

This thing had troubles doing what was needed there, and had pretty much zero debug functionality exposed - so eventually I suggested they give me one of their old desktops and half a day to see if I can get the ruleset done the old fashioned way with OpenBSDs pf (that was before Linux kernel 2.4 was released, so Linux firewalls couldn’t do stateful filtering yet, which was required there) - got everything running in a morning, they decided to just stick with it, and the expensive fancy box was collecting dust.

aard, 4 months ago

Koennten das bitte jetzt noch ein paar mehr machen, damit bei der naechsten Wahl dann alle rechten Parteien (gerne auch mit der CDU) unter 5% fallen?

aard, 4 months ago

RAM is cheap, and even if you’re just doing absolute basic shit your current PC will work better with 16GB of RAM (also looking at you here, Apple). If it’s not a phone you’re buying don’t get anything with less than 16GB.

aard, 4 months ago

On a phone the additional power draw of larger modules can be an issue - plus phones are designed to freeze background apps to conserve memory, so you can get away with less.

I currently have 6GB in my phone, which mostly is fine. In a few situations I’d have preferred having 8, though. 4 or less hasn’t made sense for a few years now.

aard, 4 months ago

I guess it depends on how you are using your phone. If you’re mostly using it between charges (possibly replacing other devices) it indeed doesn’t matter. If you care about standby time, or use it as music player or similar tasks more than active use it does matter.

aard, 4 months ago

You’ll get different results depending on the printer type, though. For example, that kitchen paper would work in a inkjet printer (as in, would get pulled through, but you couldn’t read the result), and work perfectly in a dot matrix printer. I know the latter as I used to print, err, learning aids on paper handkerchiefs with my dot matrix printer in the 90s. A few times teachers were suspecting something, in which case I’d just use it to clean my nose, and toss it. Nobody ever was curious enough to continue their investigation afterwards.

aard, 4 months ago

For an inkjet printer with paper feed issues pulling it through a few times might actually fix those - the print head should be far enough away from the paper that it will not get damaged, and there shouldn’t be other parts close enough. I’ve prolonged quite a few inkjet printers life in the 90s by just sanding the rollers a bit (in some cases you could even get maintenance kits from the manufacturers - which just would be an overpriced tiny piece of sandpaper).

In a laser printer I’d be worried about some of the internals, though.

aard, 4 months ago

Make sure you use a long extension cord to a fuse without RCD for the hair dryer, though - otherwise the constant resetting of the breaker will eat up all your time savings.

aard, 4 months ago

Wall is a linguist, which influenced several of his design choices. You have a wide variety of expressing what you want in perl, just as with natural languages - some ways are maybe a bit harder to read for newcomers, while others are not worse than something like python. Typically you’d have coding guides for projects.

I did a webchat in perl in the 90s, and eventually rewrote it in php3 - php was easier to manage properly isolated between users than perl via the CGI interface, so it became popular with hosters very quickly. I went back to doing all my web scripting in perl once I started hosting my own servers,though.

aard, 4 months ago

Du weisst schon dass Spaetzle selbermachen nicht viel schwieriger ist als so ne Packung aufzuschneiden?

aard, 4 months ago

Das ist kein ungewoehnlicher Preis fuer nen halben Liter Bier hier. Wir haben hier meistens ne ziemlich grosse Auswahl an Bier - aber ist teuer.

(Und ich mag das Zeug nicht, ich habs vor 15 Jahren mal in Bamberg probiert)

aard, 4 months ago

Keine direkte Uebersetzung, aber im Deutschen Katalog wuerde da vermutlich sowas wie “im Angebot” oder “begrenzte Zeit” stehen.

aard, 4 months ago

Wo bist du? Ich hab aktuell zwei Spaetzlebretter in der Kueche.

aard, 4 months ago

Ab heute, bis es ausverkauft ist - wie lange das dauert haengt von der lokalen Kundschaft ab.

aard, 4 months ago

Ich persoenlich hab inzwischen die Schnauze voll (aktuell ist glaub ich noch eine Anzeige gegen mich offen) - ich mach in Zukunft nur noch direktes full disclosure. Falls es danach aussieht als ob persoenliche Daten betroffen sind, und ich die Moeglichkeit habe die zu loeschen wuerde ich selbiges (natuerlich nicht zu mir verfolgbar) vor disclosure tun.