Speaking as a software engineer, it's usually a combination of things.

The root of all evil is that yes, fixing that thing doesn't just take one hour, as it should, but rather a few days. This is mostly preventable by having sufficient automated tests, high code quality and frequent releases, but it's a lot of work to keep up with. And you really need management to not pressure early feature delivery, because then devs will skip doing necessary work to keep up this high feature-delivery velocity.

Well, and as soon as such a small fix has a chance of taking more than a day or so, then you kind of need to talk to management, whether this should be done.
Which means probably another day or so of just talking about it, and a good chance of them saying we'll do it after we've delivered this extremely important feature, which usually means 'never', because there is always another extremely important feature.

"Dicke Nüsse" means "big nuts", by the way.

That's the journalists that inflate the meaning of these studies. The study itself will just say "we did measurements like this, here's the data" and probably even "we should do more studies to confirm or deny or narrow it down".

Den Kritikpunkt, dass sie kaum Spiele zockt und dafür trotzdem einen Preis erhalten hat, halte ich für durchaus valide, auch wenn der im Beitrag so ins Lächerliche gezogen wurde.

Hätte der Beitrag besser darauf eingehen können, ja.

Ich finde, es gibt schon viele Möglichkeiten, um besonders 'gute' Gamer:innen zu zelebrieren, nämlich Tournaments und Speedrun-Veranstaltungen.
Dass mal ein Preis dabei ist, um politisches Engagement in dem Umfeld auszuzeichnen, finde ich absolut sinnvoll. Und es gibt ja keine Anforderung, dass man 24/7 durchballern muss, um sich Gamer:in nennen zu dürfen.

Ob der Preis sich total überhöhen muss und das "Gamer:in des Jahres" nennen muss, ist 'ne andere Geschichte, aber jetzt auch nichts Neues. Darüber ärgert man sich einmal kurz und dann ist gut.

Is it illegal to eat the interstitial fibers of grapefruits? I just can them into rough slices with a knife and shove those wholesale into my mouth. 😅

I usually cut them near a window, with a fan blowing towards me. It's not perfect, but anything to have less of the gas reach your face helps.

Holzlöffel macht brr.

Ist für Facebook zwar nur Kleingeld, aber für das Geld hätten sie trotzdem einige Sicherheitsarchitekten bezahlen können, also bin ich mal vorsichtig optimistisch, dass die Strafe tatsächlich wirkt.

Krass, immer wieder was von dem MontanaBlack gehört, aber mich nie damit befasst, was der für Inhalte macht, weil's ja Tradition ist, dass die populärsten YouTuber ziemliche Grütze abliefern.

Aber dass der gleich so ein vulnerables Zimmerpflänzchen ist, hätte ich trotzdem nicht gedacht.

I've got some wasps living in the railing of my balcony. They don't care that I'm sitting there at all...

Eine Luftnummer also, verstehe...

My workplace preinstalls Ubuntu, personally I'm using openSUSE. I don't even think that Ubuntu is particularly bad, I'm mainly frustrated with it, because it's just slightly worse than openSUSE (and other distros) in pretty much every way.
It's less stable, less up-to-date, less resilient to breakages. And it's got more quirky behaviour and more things that are broken out-of-the-box. And it doesn't even have a unique selling point. It's just extremely mid, and bad at it.

The guy is the lead dev of the Budgie desktop environment. Budgie started out kind of reusing components from GNOME, but Strobl has been rather frustrated with GTK and the directions it took with GTK4, for various reasons: https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-ecosystem

(The disclaimer is important, some opinions on what alternative to use changed, but the frustrations with GTK remain.)

The idea for the when-part is that people will have electric cars at home, which can double as a big battery, or as the other guy already said, you can buy dedicated storage, too.

You could also hook these storages up to the grid, and then have an algorithm decide to sell to the grid when electricity is expensive, or to charge from the grid while electricity is cheap, possibly even taking the weather forecast into account.
Definitely still lots of details to figure out, but I expect things to head that way...

It's often said that probably the biggest challenge with switching over all the cars and heating to renewables here in Germany, is going to be the transport of so much electricity to all the homes.
That's what I also really like about the balkonkraftwerk, that it produces electricity right where it's used.

.desktop files are a Linux/Unix thing. Basically, it's a fancy shortcut, usually to an application, which allows specifying additional infos, like e.g. translated names.
In particular, the contents of the application menu are defined by just a folder filled with .desktop files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut_(computing)#Unix

Yeah, solid counterexample. Wikipedia and other Wikis have a clearly defined goal, i.e. collect factually correct information about a specific topic, which is also a goal shared by enough people to drive collaboration.

Another cool example is the Mutopia Project, which basically archives sheet music. Contributors can just pick a piece of music and transcribe that, and they kind of don't even have to talk to anyone for the project as a whole to benefit.

But then there is lots of examples, like writing a new song, writing a new novel etc., where the goal is not clearly defined, where it's difficult to collaborate, because what you contribute might not mesh well with what the others provide.

I think, it's mainly a matter of the works to which Creative Commons is typically applied, being less suitable for collaboration. You might occasionally see remixes, but that's mostly it.

In the case of open-source, collaboration is what elevates it, and often makes it better than paid-for software.
You rarely see Creative Commons works that outdo paid-for works in terms of objective quality. Heck, chances are that more collaboration happens in paid-for works, because they can hire an editor, a sound engineer etc..

2013-06-13T17:34

Alright, I have no idea. It's probably been around ten years since I've deleted it.

That prices for photovoltaic are dropping rapidly: