Posts by GrumpenKraut 1856 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Sep 2014
Had my blood pressure taken while ago, also with a stratospheric result. Doctor looked at me "this cannot be right!". Asked her to take the blood sample I assumed being required, then check blood pressure again. She informed me no blood sample was needed. Upon second blood pressure check right away it was perfectly normal.
Need I say I am not a great fan of syringes?
Closets I can come up with: ETSI ES 201 671 (pdf) "Lawful Interception (LI); Handover interface for the lawful interception of telecommunications traffic"
> ...TV or an internet device capable of video playback.
Last time I looked: irrespective of ability of playback! You have an Internet connection, you have to pay, cf. Rundfunkbeitrag.
Cannot say I like it. Still better than the old GEZ/Stasi thing.
"eliminating the illegal trade of firearms" is not much a lawmaking effort, the laws are quite tough already (at the very least in Germany). It's rather a policing effort. Police is trying to catch up with that new fangled internet thing, with varying degrees of success.
I notice that many of those juvenile murderers were bullied in school. This one needs to be addressed MUCH better than it currently is (again, speaking about Germany).
> ... real-world.
On a few occasions I had to deal with, erm, "vocal" animal rights people. Think PETA and from there go several miles in the general direction of raging insanity.
Having several people screaming in your face at about 130 dB until their faces are a dark shade of red is, well, royally fucking unpleasant.
Internet worries, pffft.
> Courtesy makes the world go around,
I do agree.
However, when you have to deal with constant ass-hattery by some person for years, then patience and politeness wears out. Just think about that very special colleague in some company who you certainly had to deal with at some time of your life.
Some people have the gift to stay diplomatic, no matter what. From what I see, this is not the majority, at least not in any kind of community I ever dealt with.
Allow me to add (about the people receiving swearing/hostility)
- cannot be arsed to fucking read anything, ever
- cannot be arsed to spend a single fucking second of thinking, ever
- cannot string one fucking sentence together, ever
- cannot be arsed to stay fucking on-topic, ever
- fucking resistant to any kind of advice
Some people expect to be treated kindly with behavior that wouldn't for a single second be accepted on a personal level. Shockingly, this doesn't happen. Fuck them, with a rake.
Icon totally is me, honestly.
systemd-free Devuan hits stable 1.0.0 status
> Debian can run with any init system, including systemd.
To my best knowledge there is no option to install sans systemd. Yes, there is that kludge (I used it) to remove systemd. This breaks stuff, such as gnome.
More things will depend on systemd in the future under Debian, and I cannot find _any_ commitment that Debian is even supported w/o systemd (pointers are welcome).
Hence I thank Debian for all their good work so far and move on.
Upvote. ... but:
Have you recently watched a VHS tape? You might find (like I did) that while "bad quality" is not part of what you remember, VHS is shockingly bad by any means.
In a similar vein, I recently saw original installs of both WIndows 3.11 (on a glorious 800 x 600 CRT screen) and some early Apple OS. Both utter crap in all aspects, something that my memory was gracefully missing.
> Not sure what the quality of your turntable was Mr Dabbs but ...
Some cheap turntables had a flaw that the arm was pulling _way_ to strong to the center. Users thought it would be normal because they did not know better. Hence the pennies.
The quality of the vinyl pressings also varied a lot. Some companies reliably produced top quality, others reliably crap.
At some time vinyls appeared that were so thin/floppy that even when you held them correctly (both sides, two hands) they would sag so much it was difficult to place them on the turntable. Funny enough some of those actually had decent audio quality. Unsurprisingly they tended to get distorted when stored without due care.
Friend of mine tried to flatten such a distorted a vinyl with a smoothing iron. The result was pretty hilarious. ---->
> Well encoded MP3s can sound virtually indistinguishable from the original CDs in blind tests, even for earlier and well-mastered music.
Indeed. There was a test with musicians (classic and modern), studio technicians, and "just" music lovers. Double blind test, top notch studio, and all that. The result was that no one can tell mp3 apart from CD quality if the bit rate is sufficient (IIRC 256 already suffices, 320 most definitely).
There was ONE exception, a guy who could tell what is what above statistical error: he was deaf on one ear and his hearing on the other ear was severely limited (due to an explosion, IIRC). He described the artifacts of the mp3 encoding as some sort of "breathing".
> That's why scrums should be short...
Here is how one company, which shall go unnamed, does it.
Scrum is on Friday and everybody has to attend. Scrum happens at the location the owner lives, which is about 400 Kilometer away from where actual work is done. Scrum lasts 8 hours, with just a short mid-day break. So folks have to get up really early to drive (own cars, train tickets are expensive; traveling time does not count as working time) to that other location, survive that Very Special Scrum[TM], and arrive back at their place only late in the evening.
I was told that your will to live reliably ended before mid day.
This, as an utter surprise, did not work as expected. So now scrum is only every second week, procedure as above.
Methodology, when done as a perversion of some real methodology, is a fine way to terminally destroy the spirit of any good programmer. It is some years since I am out of industry, but, boy, do I hear stories of that!
What stays in such a company is the not-so-good programmers.
> wow, did it go!
Friend of a friend had the bright idea to put a record, not vinyl, but a good old shellack one, on the pulley of a motor that he had stripped off a vacuum cleaner. He did it in the attic. The record disintegrated as planned. That the fragments gut stuck deeply in the wooden beams of the attic, perpendicular to the fibres of the wood, came as a surprise.
That not a single piece hit him: sheer luck.
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