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New comment by Genmutant in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

Genmutant — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:23:22 +0000

You don't have an offered number of sick days in Germany. If you're sick, your sick. At some points (after 6 weeks) the employer stops paying for it, and the payment switches to the health insurance and drops down to 70% of your usual gross salary (with some more specifics).

New comment by Genmutant in "Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)"

Genmutant — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:00:25 +0000

In Germany it's eaten either as a pie - which is usually quite dry and with crumble or meringue on top [0] - or as a compote.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabarberkuchen#/media/Datei:R...

New comment by Genmutant in "ChatGPT makes up fake academic papers"

Genmutant — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:00:59 +0000

ChatGpt is finished training and doesn't update itself in any way. The current conversation is fed each time as additional context back when you ask additional questions.

New comment by Genmutant in "QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation"

Genmutant — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:26:02 +0000

You can use XSLT to XSL-FO if you want that. I haven't found it very nice to use.

New comment by Genmutant in "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf]"

Genmutant — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:22:05 +0000

The python code also prints the resulting list in the same order. It's a completely different problem to solve. In python I would throw the list in a set and return the size of it / print that.

New comment by Genmutant in "When to use generics"

Genmutant — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:43:47 +0000

An use case that comes up quite often is building a List / Map / Set implementation. You want to have it to enforce to (typesafe) take only objects of the same type, and when taking it out again, get the object in the same type back. And you want the compiler to complain, when to try to put a String in a List (a list of strings), or try to asign the object you get out of the list to a boolean.

And obviously you don't want to write a specific List implementation for every Type, like a StringList, DoubleList, IntList,... especially as every method in it would basically work the same.

New comment by Genmutant in "€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP"

Genmutant — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:57:08 +0000

What happens if you upload copyright protected data in cleartext on a blockchain without having the distribution rights?

New comment by Genmutant in "Sqlfluff the SQL Linter for Humans"

Genmutant — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:01:55 +0000

In MS SQL Server, with ANSI_NULLS set to OFF, it will select all rows having a NULL value for col. AFAIK not used that often.

New comment by Genmutant in "S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'"

Genmutant — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:49:38 +0000

Doesn't the Netflix app already do that? Or was that the Prime Video one?

New comment by Genmutant in "State machines are wonderful tools"

Genmutant — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:52:41 +0000

They are great! My bachelor thesis was implementing an algorithm to generate minimal petri nets based from an infinite partial language, described in something like a basic Regex.

New comment by Genmutant in "No Recent Automation Revolution"

Genmutant — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:02:42 +0000

All of that is automated at my company using SAP. Could be a nicer interface, but at least everything is online in the portal.

New comment by Genmutant in "Cat purr generator"

Genmutant — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:01:23 +0000

Which one are you the most proud of?

New comment by Genmutant in "Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design"

Genmutant — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 09:17:43 +0000

That's why I love Monkey Island so much. You can't do anything wrong so that it becomes impossible to finish the game, and you can't (really) die. Although it is possible to "die" and get the "credits" or a "load old save" screen, you come back to live through some miracle (like the rubber tree).

New comment by Genmutant in "The Lost Art of C Structure Packing"

Genmutant — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:47:39 +0000

I don't think gcc or clang can reorder structs, or do they?

New comment by Genmutant in "Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food"

Genmutant — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:59:00 +0000

We normally use "normal" white flour for many things like cakes and pasta and stuff. But we have maybe more "real" bread which is not made of white flour?

New comment by Genmutant in "Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food"

Genmutant — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 22:56:30 +0000

Yes, they do. I think that's the only one which is (normally) fortified.

New comment by Genmutant in "Vitamins Hide the Low Quality of Our Food"

Genmutant — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:08:40 +0000

"In fact, for products like milk and flour, where fortification and enrichment have occurred for so long that they’ve become invisible, it would be almost irresponsible not to add synthetic vitamins."

How come most countries don't do it, then? At least in Germany I have never seen added stuff in milk or flour.

New comment by Genmutant in "C99 tricks"

Genmutant — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:34:44 +0000

The first one (?:) is not standard but only a GNU extension, so be carefull with that one.

New comment by Genmutant in "WhatsApp doesn't understand the web"

Genmutant — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:53:16 +0000

I think your screen is to small for the message window. There is a button below it which dismisses the white window and enables the scanning.

New comment by Genmutant in "Your waitress, your professor"

Genmutant — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:24:55 +0000

That's how trade schools work in Germany. About two thirds (up to 3/4) of the time you are at work and learn there, the other you are at a normal school. After you graduate (about 3 years) you most of the time stay at the same place to work.