MaxPengwing

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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I calculated it, living in Dublin Ireland, it's cheaper for me to just use taxis and public transport than owning a car. Im 40 years old and dont see the point in owning one.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Basically just make sure that you route EU institutional customers to a version of your product that is on a Datacenter that is GDPR compliant in Ireland and does nto send data out of Ireland. Good thing about EU Educational institutions is
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
true, but when they are good, they are some of the best I have seen.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
You can find jobs that have great tangible impact on the world and society. You just cant get paid 200K a year doing that. Unless you're in defence industry, but I get the feeling that kinetic impact was not what you were looking for.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Microsoft Developer documentation is imho best in class. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/docs/ Point in case https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enu...
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
This looks very useful, I can see this being used in schools and universities for a plethora of studies. However I am European in EU, and while your Privacy policy is eminently readable, I don't think it can be used in EU school settin
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
no this is just user hostile and a bad sales funnel. Even Googles Tutorials are not login gated, however it expects you to get a 14 day free account to test Google Apps if you want to do the practice material. Show what you have, then gentl
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
You can still read the tutorial without getting a Google Account, and that can be more than enough to get a feel for the product. At least enough to decide if you want to get a test account. Here the Tutorial is Login Gated. That's jus
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
not the same device. Would be nice if they did a tear down of Vindstyrka as well.
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
This guy might be the man you need to speak with about this. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbudwig
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
you can find them here as well https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812...
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
a wise mentor of mine once said, a Job can have Great Coworkers, Great Pay, or Satisfying tasks. You if you find a good job, it has one of them, a great job will have two, but the unicorn of all three is neigh impossible to find. Personally
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
IQ tests are not useful to anything other than predicting social outcome on larger groups IMHO, well that and using it for what it was intended: measuring child development against peers in the same age group. Trust me on this, once you sto
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
The most common academic titles are: Bachelors - Masters - Licentiat - Doctor A Lic. is not use din the US, but very common in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licentiate_(degree) And is basically what you can tak
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I work at a comapny that has a Web 3.0 NFT as SaaS supporting product. Not one single one of our sales people have been able to make a business case for it that could not be implemented cheaper and more effectively with a traditional datab
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I think everyone who wants to design anything, software, hardware, woodworking, ceramics... medium doesn't matter... should read the Design of Everyday Things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Th
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
This is exactly why I a native Swede had to leave Sweden for Ireland. Im now back in Sweden and jesus christ the bureaucracy is insanely streamlined and optimised for the upper middle class happy path people. Everyone else is looked upon w
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I'd say that 18xx & Food Chain Magnate, are good business strategy board games. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/19/series-18xx https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175914&#x
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
TL;DR: This year I want to learn Japanese, Python, and Singing. Longer answer: I think it's good to journal your attempts with the understanding that it is okay to not accomplish them this year, but at least give it a try. There is alw
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
When I moved to Ireland in 2014 I made the mistake of having an Oxbridge accent, and there was quite a few people who did not take kindly to that. One train station attendee put up a gone for lunch sign in my face mid sentence, and it wasn&
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I find that UK businessmen tend to always first look at your shoes, and I have seen peoples behaviours change based on the type, perceived exclusivity and cost of the shoes. "Suits should look decent, but the shoes makes the man"
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
On personal computer: One window with Youtube for entertainment. One window with a different youtube account for serious research (Different account as to not poision the recommendation feeds to much with cross polination) One Window with
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
It's also about some people do not want a career, they want a job. They want to clock in do their tasks, and check out. What is also clear is that a surprising amount of companies does not like this, they do not want a person in the s
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
So what you want is Plan 9 from Bell Labs. But with a modern GUI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
You actually can store energy. But it depends on if you have a house or an apartment, but you can get a Goal Zero or Jackery "off grid power station" which is basically a large power bank. That can keep your most essential tools l
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Scandic Northerner here. I've made sure I have rice several kilos, a couple of bags of dried legumes like lentils, and beans for proteins, and a few boxes with crushed tomatos. For lights everything is LED, and I have bought 20+ campin
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I have been thinking a lot about this. I htnk there are different motivators at different levels of management. Workers, devs, support engineers, admins, whoever is doing non managerial taskas seem to be split pretty much 50/50 with so
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
I don't know how you all do it in the US, but ever since Biometrics was introduced after 9/11 we have had open public access to verify passports on the Swedish Police website. https://polisen.se/en/services-an
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Every channel in slack has a huddle. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/4402059015315-Use...
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by MaxPengwing 4y ago
Very true. This is why I rage quit Using Windows at Windows 8... adn barely accept the horrific state of Win 10. Im particularly pissed off about having system preference settings in at least 4 different places that are all counter intuitiv

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