DasFaultier

+1 for zramswap, especially if you’re tight on RAM but have a few CPU cycles to spare.

40,-€ or something for 50/10M Fiber in Germany.

a service that would be dirt cheap if it weren’t run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons.

Flightradar24 had the flight of a Concorde on their map.

Rebecca Cunningham from Tailspin.

Great choice!

Like a real programmer would.

Male lions are now called lioners. Also, as I’m German and we don’t have a proper word for lioners either, I propose “Löwer”.

I have a corded Bosch Zooo for my Bernese Mountain Dog’s hair that has done a fantastic job over the last ten years, and I have an iRobot Roomba E5 that’s also doing a decent job with dog hair. Would gladly recommend both, though iRobot’s business doesn’t seem to be doing so well, so there’s a risk of the company going bankrupt and the vac robot losing its (few) cloud features.

Oh, EDIT: missed the “Europe” part, so that probably rules out iRobot.

Yup, that one. EDIT: also other stuff like bike helmets; they’ve acquired a range of other companies to broaden their portfolio. But yeah, I would say they’re best known for locks.

Abus. Fundamental evangelical Christians who think women’s rights are optional, used forced labor from concentration camps during WW2.

See, as a German, when I see a country go down the same route as the Weimar Republic after handing over the power to the Nazi party, I think it’s just very obvious. Hitler took some two months to completely destroy democracy, and the US are juuust in the middle of that. History doesn’t repeat, but sometimes it rhymes, and the similarities are just remarkable.

So yeah, I guess that would be a big fat trench in the sand.

Pffft, your earbuds are gross!

For sure. What I’m saying is: hug your children, so they might become decent beings, because they were loved.

I wholeheartedly agree all of the people listed in the thread as “needs hugs”, but, hear me out, maybe if all the MAGA and conservatives and hateful people had gotten more hugs in their childhood, then they wouldn’t be such giant assholes now.

Yeah, the wrong way!!!1!

If you mean from an energy/climate/water/resource consumption perspective, then no. But of you’re looking at it from a labor perspective, then also no. From a copyrights perspective? Nope as well. Okay, but surely from a correctness perspective? Very clear no. Okay, but there’s still the aspect of showing recipients respect and not wasting their time by giving them something to read/view/process that you didn’t care to write/think through yourself in the first place? Well, you guessed it, hard no as well.

The things that AI was made for are:

• finding a use for superfluous Blockchain GPUs when that hype began to die (initially), and more importantly…
• replacing human workers who demand nasty things like wages and vacation and sick days and rights, in order to redistribute wealth to the wealthiest.

Yeah, we wrote a racer game for that thing. Loved it!

I was carrying not one but two programmable Casio GFX 9850 graphics calculators with me pretty much all the time. You could write some kind of Basic-ish code on these things. Neat machines, considering their age.

I was just a kid so it put me off science for a bit tbh.

And isn’t that a fucking shame? I mean, science can be such an interesting thing that can improve and enrich your life and can even become a career, but or just takes one bad teacher to let all that go to waste.

I had a guy teach biology and chemistry, and he was… well just not a good teacher (but a very decent human outside of class, to be fair). Made me really hate his classes and subjects. It took quite a long time for me to get more interested again.

On the other hand, I had a teacher in computer science teach is the basics of relational databases and object oriented programming in Borland Delphi (yes!), and now that I’m almost 40, I STILL feed on that knowledge, have become a sysadmin, have helped a dozen of co-eds in uni pass their programming test by tutoring them… He’s just a huge part of what I’ve become as a person. One teacher really can make a difference, one direction or the other. Thank you Mr. Barchmann, wherever you are.