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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Being European, I prefer "Sunday in column 1" calendars. Not for religious reasons or because I consider Sunday to actually be the first day of the week, but for practical reasons: It gives me a clearer understanding of the workwe
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
There were more reparations paid by West Germany, mostly by losing territory and by dismantling of surviving industry, taking industrial products, intellectual property and rail lines. There also were payments to Poland, Greece and Yugoslav
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Just because a thing can be expressed in different words does not mean everyone always has the awareness to choose words that are politically desirable at every single point of their lives - especially when you are trying to teach children
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> "What did you do during summer break, Mrs Dickson?" > "Clara, my wife, and I went to see bears at Yosemite. It was so exciting! Can you point to Yosemite on a map?" Everyday situation at any school I ever went
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Just because this post made me remind this page, which may be useful for people looking for stuff to read: https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Part of the function of a school is to free parents time so they are able to go to work. Even high school essentially is in large parts teenage daycare. This function gets diminished when they start later in the day - meaning economically,
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Hm, to me it sounds more like Microsoft Teams was not designed to be a tool for teaching, but meant to be used in Office-like environments, which have other requirements than classrooms. Trucks are useful and many features of them make sens
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Hm, I didn't go over there since Brexit due to Covid ... don't they have those e-Gates anymore?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I wanted to try Stadia. My Google account hails from 2004, when GMail first came out. I am in good standing, and consume a lot of Google services, many of which I pay for. Stadia would just not accept any credit card I threw at them, includ
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> - Why two windows when you are in a meeting? The second window is sometimes hard to find intuitively. Seriously, that is a godsend if you are presenting a lot and have a two+ monitor setup - have the presentation up on one, still see y
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It may just be good enough. I work as a consultant, and that also means I adapt to the videoconferencing solutions my clients use. In the last week, I used Teams, Zoom, Slack, Cisco Webex and Google Meet. Each of these come with different a
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
No such thing as a risk-free investment, especially not high-interest government bonds. Just ask Greece, ca. 2010.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Coming from an European country: 16 year olds can openly buy beer in the supermarket and consume it on their way home from school. Driving licenses start at age 18, but there's two years of special probation that punish DUIs more exten
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Deep down in my soul, the long-locked-away SEO of my money-hustling youth just grinned in anticipation. We have had embedded metadata in websites for decades. In the beginning, Search Engines did even use them. Until someone started stuffin
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> wow, you are a great performer. No, you aren't. You just either suck at estimation, or you deliberately underestimate to shine brighter in the eyes of your slavemaster. And if the rest of your team also "overperforms" co
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
And now google "J. Edgar Hoover blackmail" and despair...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Hm, from a purely agile standpoint: This seems to reduce daily stand-ups to status report meetings (and then, why have a stand-up at all?). Does a stand-up that is over in 5 minutes (and has 10-15 minutes of prep time) really bring value to
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Much like surface trash cleanup, the perfect is the enemy of the good. The goal is "less junk on the streets", not necessarily "absolutely squeaky-clean streets". First get rid of that rusty fridge that someone dumped in
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I wouldn't necessarily describe fast-food chains as "restaurants"...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
See also: Washington, DC
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I expect this to go the way of the 3D movie/TV set industry: It'll start as being a novelty, but in the end, people just won't pay extra money to get distracted from the movie.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
How inaccurate does an estimation have to be before it becomes a lie? What happens when a bank teller asks me during a credit application how many assets I have and I estimate about 10 billion bucks, when it later turns out I own the three
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In all fairness, that sounds a lot like "The citizenry is too stupid to get it, so now we force our will upon them." or, and that's even less charitable, "the section of the citizenry that wants carbon emission decelerat
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It would be, if people were actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and invest some of their own cash to take certificates off the market. Apparently, people are unwilling to do so in meaningful numbers. Ergo: They do not s
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Given that San Francisco has decriminalised basically any crime, it's curious this took them so long.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In all fairness, Ballmer seemed to be right back then - the iPhone 1 had tons of problems with very little utility, and outside of fanboy circles was considered more of a joke. Not only was it ridiculously expensive, an unproven concept at
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
USB9 V1.742.ac/3 ... it is important to be precise here, because otherwise, the cable will be incompatible and the systems involved will fall back into a safe mode that's essentially, but not quite USB 1.0 standards. /s So, w
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Technically, the Olympics are considered an open event - while you are supposed to compete under your country's flag (more specifically: under your country's NOC), there is a process in place for when this is not possible[1]. Th
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The problem with easy solutions is that they aren't solutions, and they aren't easy. It is massively unfair to a top athlete to not being allowed to compete because he's the second best in India, or China, or the United State
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Avoiding a lawsuit is easy in that case: The Intel lawyer would have to make the argument that Pentium PCs are, in fact, harmful. Which would have opened a whole new can of worms.

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