The Lunduke effect.

Das klingt als ob mir die Reagan Administration Tropfsteine erklären will.

Der trickle-down Stalaktit funktioniert wie geplant.

Being able to own a car without a license probably isn’t the main cause behind the rise in these statistics. At least I’m not convinced that requiring a DL to own one will do any good. Many countries don’t require a license to own or even register a car and have far better traffic accident statistics.

At least in Germany, most unlicensed drivers are just the ones that continue driving after having their license revoked, which explains why they are a big source of accidents. This also means however, that most of them have completed their driver training at least once. From what I’m reading it sounds like in NY, administrative chaos during covid has caused some people to just not get a license at all? If so, then the most obvious solution to me is lowering administrative hurdles for getting a license. In car-dependent places like the US and Germany, it’s very difficult to prevent people from driving a car at all. So, why not focus instead on making sure the people who need to drive can get a license?

It’s his biggest scam yet.

If anything, post-war occupation and the close relationship with the US in the decades to follow have done more to shape this particular aspect of German foreign policy. Ironically, you’ll probably find more people who obviously haven’t learned from the second world war outside of Germany, particularly in the USA. You can criticise Germany for many things, but certainly not for actually confronting the past.

It only checks mirror latency every transaction if you enable “fastestmirror”. Repositories are only synced if the local cache is out of date or the metadata timestamp has changed. There might be a way to prevent dnf from refreshing repository metadata at all, but I really don’t think that’s a good idea.

Eine Wärmflasche und eine Tasse heißer Kakao für jede Weichanlage.

In my experience, dnf has pretty good mirror selection by default. Setting “fastestmirror=true” replaces the more complex mirrormanager2 heuristic, which tries to select an appropriate mirror by available bandwidth, with a simple latency check that runs before transactions. In most cases this has no effect or worsens dnfs performance. They changed the description in dnf5 to better reflect the behaviour.

Having said that, it’s worth giving a try in a case like this. I just want to make sure that people realize that there is a reason this was never enabled by default, since this is a popular configuration tweak suggested all over the internet, whose actual function very few seem to know.

Good marketing or influencers perhaps? I’m not sure but I’ve been wondering myself.

There is nuance here and it’s up to medical professionals and researchers to find the right balance. The biggest source of the unnecessary usage of antibiotics is rampant over-prescription, not taking a few more doses after the first second you feel better. Rebounding with a more resilient infection after stopping antibiotics early is still a relevant concern and happens frequently.

If you use omarchy, you have bad taste.

The default paste action is pretty much the only thing preventing anyone from picking a different function for the button. That’s the the biggest reason for reversing the default behaviour.

Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can’t reasonably prevent the paste action. This is a much saner default and I have no idea why this is such a big deal.

Whatever action is bound to it in applications that use it. It’s a mouse button like any other. You can scroll a page in Firefox or click-drag across a surface in certain applications. That’s actually the most common usage for the middle mouse button.

There are programs that use the middle mouse button but also support pasting from clipboard. I’ve been annoyed at work plenty of times when I’m trying to translate across a canvas but accidentally paste a random node of text. Bonus points if it contains some kind of password that was still in your clipboard. I don’t think it’s a good default.

The choice of programming language for new projects almost always comes down to the existing ecosystem and its popularity in the space you’re working in. Some of the most popular languages also have the advantage of being deeply embedded in the academic pipelines educating newcomers to the field, which obviously includes C++. Being one of the worst choices for a first programming language to learn hasn’t stopped C++ yet and likely won’t for a long time to come.

Even so, what does it matter? Where is the indication that a user with a high downvote ratio is doing anything harmful, let alone worthy of a permaban?

Asking for help online just gets you a “lol, RTFM, noob!”

Depends heavily on what place you ask for help in. There are plenty of spaces explicitly meant for community tech support. In OPs case, I’ll say the title doesn’t help and asking an LLM for advice on a topic you’re unfamiliar with (and not second-guessing the commands you paste into the terminal) is such a bad idea that it really can’t be understated. I regularly catch some of my colleagues making AI-assisted mistakes and they’re professionals who genuinely know better. This shit shouldn’t ever be recommended as a learning tool for beginners without some kind of supervision or guard rails to ensure you’re not being gaslit.

I like the '89 and '93 Patlabor movies.