It’s not that far-fetched, PDFs in my opinion are closer to vector graphics than to document formats like odt and docx. They have no understanding of format if not using advanced features, like a table in a PDF is just spaced text with lines between them, and text is just independently placed letters. In fact the space symbol doesn’t exist in most PDFs, it’s just that two letters were spaced further apart. So they basically are multiple canvases that are being painted on with letters, lines, fill areas and even bitmap graphics.

Modern PDF actually does further in the direction of a document format by providing the content in a structured way, mostly for accessibility, but also for making the format suitable for automatic processing the contained data.

Not being able to Syu every 5 minutes and only being able to update once a day was the biggest challenge when I changed to NixOS

Which he can borrow cash against

less comes with all distributions I know

What else did you have in mind? Firing squad? I don’t think this is a “slap on the wrist”, the guy got rightfully fucked. Slap on the wrist I’d consider something like 6 months probation, fine, relocation to a position where you don’t deal with secrets and timed ban from promotion or a demotion.

As said, he’ll only be retroactively be insured by his rather low gross, and only the employer share, not employee. So yeah his social security will be pretty much Grundsicherung. Which is much less than what he would have had if he didn’t fuck up, which was my original point

There is a hidden “fine” for him though as he’s removed from service (rightfully so) and as such he goes from comfy pension with 70% of his last pay to retroactive normal employment for which he never put any money aside because he was calculating with that state pension. And since for soldiers the gross is quite small compared to what others make with the same net his social security will cover for very little later. The prison time isn’t his actual biggest problem.

That said he fully deserves it, I served in a very similar position (also Captain in the very same procurement agency in Koblenz) and you 100% know that this is an absolute no go. Absolutely inexcusable, and the only thing that saved him was that the information he passed on weren’t state level secrets. Traitor scum but the damage has been done and all you can do now is make sure these things don’t happen in the future

Interesting how similar our distro careers are. My switch was also after a long time (15 years). Wouldn’t go back to Arch. Still think it’s a good distro for what it’s trying to achieve.

Hey, I never said this is what people want, just that it is in fact a transferrable skill. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone just trying to get their machine running, but if you’re looking to gain some insight, is not the worst choice.

If you actually try to understand what’s happening, I think it’s one of the best ways to learn how a system is composed, at least if you install manually. What’s a partition, file system, what does mounting do, chroots, you name it.

I don’t use Arch anymore but still think it’s a great distro to learn the basics while still having the luxury of new binary packages. Manual Arch install abstracts basically nothing away from you, for better or for worse.

Currently on NixOS, I’d say while its engineering is better overall, the things you learn there are much more distribution-specific or maybe concept-specific and often not applicable to other distributions.

I guess there are also probably ways to install e.g. Debian manually, I’ve never seen instructions for it though as there was always the focus on the installer, and frankly I’m not a big fan of apt and all. It always seemed to be much more convoluted than pacman plus it does a lot of stuff for you, whether you want it or not was my impression.

As a proponent of psychedelics, this can’t be the solution. The fact that 25% of the population is impacted enough to warrant a prescription is scary, but psychs won’t fix it long term. The underlying societal issues need to be tackled.

Is docker even declarative?

Also you can build docker images from nix derivations

Mostly holding Nano, used Monero quite often - should probably spend some Nano at one point… But vendors accepting it here are rare

Omg we’re cryptocurrency twins. I hold exactly these two for the same reasons

Letting the interest rate is usually an instrument used when invest is too low, a growing economy however is a sign of invest going up.

Low interest rates have been a major driver for a lot of prices the last years, especially housing, so I don’t mind interest rates not coming down immediately and I don’t expect the ECB to do so when the Fed doesn’t.

I would like to see banks offer fair interest rate to customers though. There’s a huge gap currently.

Yeah weird in that regard that a car wash can render it non-functional if you forget to put it into car wash mode

I initially thought it was a joke

The folders actually do make sense.

Roaming: this data can be moved between machines in a domain if you have a roaming profile. E.g. go to another workstation and your browser configuration is the same? Means it’s in Roaming.

Local: this data will not be synchronized between machines when you roam. This could be your browser’s cache.

LocalLow: like local, but for applications that are “low integrity”, like Internet Explorer. These folders have special properties. https://helgeklein.com/blog/internet-explorer-in-protected-mode-how-the-low-integrity-environment-gets-created/

Ah, to be 13 again.

I’d personally advise against NixOS as a first distribution for that matter. It’s a great distribution, but if you want to understand the underlying mechanics, start with something where you interact with them, like Arch or whatever.

Definitely not

The fact that I can’t seem to find traces of this game online makes me think that maybe my memory is wrong? But also hard to find information from back when the internet wasn’t flooded with stuff