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by cmenge 2y ago
Interesting. I built a recurring billing startup and was always wondering how Stripe dealt with those edge cases... As a note, I watched the video, the company name does become visible at least twice, once from 6:33 in the header pane and U
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by cmenge 2y ago
You can travel across Japan, similar or even larger distances, with practically no delays. As a passenger it's not always about the bare number of minutes, the problem is that I might get stranded somewhere, and train stations in Germa
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by cmenge 2y ago
I agree that it's a hard and interesting problem. Yet other countries seem to be managing it better, or there is something structurally different. I read somewhere that one of the key issues in Germany is that freight and passenger tra
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by cmenge 2y ago
That's a false argument. Uranium gives you power for years, and can be sourced from multiple sellers. That is very different from a line that the other side or a third party can simply cut. Point in case: NordStream pipelines that supp
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by cmenge 2y ago
This is very interesting, I had a similar feeling about Claude performing much worse than GPT-4. Granted, I didn't put much work into optimizing the prompts, but then again, the prompts were certainly not GPT-optimized or specific eith
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by cmenge 3y ago
You got a point there. Maybe I'm more annoyed by the implementation (cost, lack of reliability, absurd waiting times) rather than the idea itself.
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by cmenge 3y ago
After my luggage went missing for the first time recently, my key takeaways are: - If at all possible, avoid checked luggage - it's overpriced, slow and unreliable. No news to pro travellers I guess - Luggage reimbursement is capped at
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by cmenge 3y ago
Eastern Arabic digits are read left-to-right, surprisingly. So e.g. in license plates, phone numbers, etc. (where you read the digits separately), you go left-to-right. When speaking the numbers, you are right, the rules are the same as in
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by cmenge 5y ago
not an issue anymore thanks to qled!
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by cmenge 5y ago
> The US has now outsourced most of the production of goods to places in other countries. I think that is the point (or one of the points): it's not just logistics and spare capacity - it's a much more complex set of issues. Th
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by cmenge 5y ago
I was trying to be a bit dramatic there... Sure, it affects everything and given the complex interconnections and dependencies within production chains / networks, the cause-and-effect relationships are hard to understand and cause for
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by cmenge 5y ago
Agreed, good point. I should have said "we have been faring relatively well [so far]"
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by cmenge 5y ago
Hm, seems like a monocausal 'explanation' of a complex problem - or let's say a mere opinion with little background information. Given the 'hundred year crisis', I think we have fared relatively well from a purely e
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by cmenge 5y ago
Was trying to draw the "Cross of Coronado" from Indy Jones, got 2001 - A Space Odyssey... There goes my artist career :)
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by cmenge 5y ago
Things get really confusing when you also use SAP R/3, migrating it to S/4: "So the S/4 gets some of its data from R/3 via S3 and writes reports to R2 which are used for a consolidated view in R/3 as long as th
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by cmenge 5y ago
I guess the point is: you can't really tell anyone about it, because they have died tens of thousands of years ago. So it's "bring your friends"?!
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by cmenge 5y ago
Steven Soderbergh also wrote about it and made a black-and-white version to highlight Douglas Slocombe's work. He also replaced the sound with The Social Network's soundtrack: https://extension765.com/blogs/so
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by cmenge 5y ago
Something similar happened to me when I remote-controlled a buddy's computer. This was I guess in the early 2000s when disc drives were still a thing. Opening the drive knocked over a glass of wine and caused quite a mess... Noone hurt
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by cmenge 6y ago
I agree. Something doesn't fit. Probably because some actor is trying to get an advantage? Cui Bono?
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by cmenge 6y ago
+1. I think it is the same on spending and income: you must understand what scales with what. The number of coffee machines scales with the number of employees (and office layout), but the cloud service spend depends on many factors. If nob
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by cmenge 6y ago
I haven't used it, but I do share your skepticism. I ended up rebuilding the last website that was exported from it because it was horribly slow on mobile, despite it being an extremely simple site.
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by cmenge 6y ago
For a moment, I was wondering how meatballs and Marching Squares could possibly be related... d'oh :)
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by cmenge 6y ago
That's even better than the furlongs per fortnight example, which gave me a good laugh already :)
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by cmenge 6y ago
"What I cannot create, I do not understand" ― Richard Feynman Very humbling.
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by cmenge 6y ago
Meh. According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_travel , it takes a mere 28y to get to Andromeda if you have the tech to do constant 1g acceleration. You could say that is not "communication" f
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by cmenge 6y ago
I totally agree, I have the 13.5" and suffer from the same problem. MS Teams warns me that my audio quality will degrade because of the CPU load - on a machine that is essentially idling. Sometimes it takes tens of seconds to react to
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by cmenge 6y ago
Oaktree Technologies | Hamburg, Germany | Software Engineer - Full Stack | Full-Time, REMOTE | https://www.oak.tt We're building a platform of products in the logistics & manufacturing space, among other things. We&#x27
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by cmenge 6y ago
I can see why it feels this way, but often times it seems to me the opposite is true, like a phase transition: it remains a bunch of commits until at some point it 'suddenly' becomes a product, usable by the designated users, so
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by cmenge 6y ago
The thick leather strap of the Paukbrille ("duelling glasses") protects much of the nervus facialis. When the cheeks get severed, however, some people complain from weird effects for a while (e.g. skins starts sweating when chewin
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by cmenge 6y ago
> the lower and middle class started to duel in emulation of the upper class isn't that a common effect, e.g. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/ho... > custom

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