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  • They were all conscripted and when in that kind of situation (drafted by monsters) you just do not say no

    at least werner von braun was a high ranking nazi. I am not sure about the others

    And while being there you may also do everything that is possible to make the shit little less shit.

    yes, you could argue, that slaves under werner von braun had better survival chances than else where. (I am not sure if that is true though)













  • self promo should be allowed if it’s marked as ad, and the account is older than 12 months, and keeps it down to 1 post/month. update this rule to ban all ads, when ads make up for more than 20% of all posts.

    shirt concepts: dont make a new rule, just because you dont like a single post. whats wrong with you?





  • the linux-file-deletion is used as a example for good software design. It has a very simple interface with little room for error while doing exactly what the caller intended.

    In John Ousterhout’s “software design philosophy” a chapter is called “define errors out of existence”. In windows “delete” is defined as “the file is gone from the HDD”. So it must wait for all processes to release that file. In Linux “unlink” is defined as “the file can’t be accessed anymore”. So the file is gone from the filesystem immediately and existing file-handles from other processes will life on.

    The trade-off here is: “more errors for the caller of delete” vs “more errors due to filehandles to dead files”. And as it turns out, the former creates issues for both developers and for users, while the later creates virtually no errors in practice.