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Re:The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:31AM (#50286030)
> since "wenn" is temporal, like the English "when".
Nope, "wenn" is both "if" and "when", it's not limited to time.
Re:Will There Be a 7G?
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#49676100)
3G has been shut down in several countries to free up frequencies. 2G was also shut down in several countries, it seems to be still up in most european countries with shut downs being scheduled in the next few years up to 2030.
Re:Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:52AM (#49628559)
Even weirder that it doesn't show the lungs or they belong to some other group than the rest of the respiratory system.
Re:How Railroad Crossings Work (2024)
on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:56PM (#49540748)
I know about quite a few in Hamburg, Germany. Most level crossings are in the relatively low speed cargo rail system in the port, most of these only have traffic lights, but some don't even have that so you have to check if a train is coming and there were a few deadly collisions in the last few years. There aren't that many level crossings in the regular rail system in the city, but even there last year a deadly collision with a lorry happened.
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:01PM (#49484211)
German here, this is the right definition, trying to improve something but ending up making it worse.
Re:Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:02PM (#49443283)
You wouldn't expect ... = 42 to work syntactically.
Re:The SpaceX Sham
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:01PM (#49263655)
There are a lot of people who want to see them fail. Have some patience, it's not even been a year.
Re:Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA ...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:45AM (#49220534)
If it's a custom industrial installation then the source code is part of the documentation just like the electrical schematics, specifically so that any trained electrician can maintain it. On the other hand Joe from shipping wouldn't even know what a PLC is and if you let untrained staff maintain electrical systems I think you have some more serious problems.
Re:Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:55PM (#49216145)
And it's not immediately obvious how to close a pop-up again.
Re:Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:04PM (#49171713)
You skipped GWh.
12B kWh = 12M MWh = 12k GWh = 12 TWh.
Re:Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:45AM (#49067640)
EU chip industry: best I can do is power electronics.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain
on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:02PM (#49040251)
There was a post about something similar here a few days ago, it called it a "dirt notebook" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954149
Re:Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ...
on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:09AM (#49035020)
Yeah, should be .rb for Ruby. Also .mm isn't Objective-C, but Objective-C++.
Re:Why malloc always does more than I asked for?
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @07:30AM (#49019876)
There are two types of load/store instructions, one type requires alignment (vmovdqa), the other can load unaligned data (vmovdqu), in the case of AVX-512 the required alignment is 64 bytes. I assume aligned loads and stores are faster/have lower latency. For SSE/AVX you can look up the alignment requirements in Intel's intrinsics guide [0].
[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:14AM (#49003823)
15 years ago people would've called it spyware.
Re:EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children ...
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @08:32AM (#48844862)
The EU parliament has 720 representatives (at the moment 719, one seat is vacant apparently), so 113 representatives didn't show up for the vote. The absolute majority would've been reached with 361 votes.
Re:24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:50PM (#48764136)
If it has been transmitted via hollow-core fibres it will obviously sound hollow.
Re:Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't se...
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @09:38AM (#48659629)
You don't get double taxed, you get taxed on your salary and your company gets taxed on whatever profit remains after paying salaries.
Re:Cyberdecks, going analog, and convivial technology
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @07:03AM (#48643169)
> we completely miss out on what's happening in our own local area.
Almost every larger city has a more or less active subreddit these days, on platforms like Twitter you can look what people post with a city name tag. And then there are Mastodon and Lemmy/Piefed with instances for geographic regions.
Re:MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in AN...
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:03PM (#48576879)
Almost all of these immediate mode UI libraries for C/C++ come without a rendering backend. Usually there are "example" implementations for libraries like SDL that you can use, or you implement your own backend. A lot of these libraries are popular for debug UIs in games and you probably need a custom backend for whatever graphics engine you use in your game.
Re:Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTM...
on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#47730938)
I implemented a very rudimentary copy of it at https://fac3.org/slingshot.html
Drag on the red circle to set angle and velocity, let go to launch it, try to hit the green circle, avoid the blue circles (planets with gravity). To try again hit "r" or reload the page to create a new random set of planets. Doubt it works at all on mobile, only tested it in desktop firefox.
Re:Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTM...
on Saturday April 11, 2026 @04:25AM (#47728656)
Reminds me a little of an old game called Slingshot[0], I think it implemented the idea much better as you actually had to slingshot and consider gravity. Someone should turn it into a browser game, would be much more fun than this.
Re:Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't fi...
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:33PM (#47617481)
Probably not possible. Their Wi-Fi access point is inside the capsule, the capsule is made from metal and probably shielding the signal somewhat. Maybe even quite a lot if it's intended to provide some radiation shielding. Also it's low power as it only needs to work inside the capsule, at the given distances signal attenuation will make it almost impossible to pick up anything.
Re:Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the nu...
on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:46PM (#47468670)
I would take low voter turnout more as indifference than as lack of enthusiam. To take the parking fee for SUVs example, I would assume a lot of people affected by it and complaining about it aren't even living in Paris, so they can't vote against it.
Re:Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:50AM (#47385806)
Considering that Korean is an SOV language it would've been interesting to see that factor into the design of this programming language.
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem
on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:56AM (#47216872)
I wouldn't call Android user hostile. What makes most Android phones user hostile is Google Play Services.
Re:ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chi...
on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#47129252)
Which isn't easy considering they explode tin droplets in the machine. I think that's the point the other commenter wanted to make.
Re:Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:04PM (#46830588)
Especially in autumn and winter.
Re:In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels
on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:20AM (#46729910)
The largest "but" is that they only look at electricity generation, not energy in general. There's a lot of heating with natural gas and of course most cars still have internal combustion engines which burn petrol or diesel.
Re:Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwar...
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:52AM (#46705713)
But that only works if you already know the exact movement and you basically end up playing a film on the background screen walls. You can't change anything of this on set anymore. Using real-time rendering with Unreal or whatever gives you more flexibility in exchange for visual quality.