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by dagw 2y ago
Foreigners buying property are not tourists. Not all of them, but certainly many are. Plus they're often also buying to rent out to tourists.
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by dagw 2y ago
While I personally would always use Postgres as first my first choice, I've used both Oracle and SQL Server in various projects in the past. Oracle because we needed to run an application that only supported Oracle, and SQL Server bec
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by dagw 2y ago
Not the OP, but I have written a fair few python wrappers around old Fortran code. There is a pretty great tool called f2py which automates almost all of the hard work. If the Fortran code isn't to weird it can completely autogenerate
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by dagw 2y ago
modern IT professionals usually take their "work" with them. This only became really prevalent post covid in my experience. Pre-Covid, when coming into the office every day was the norm, a lot of people, at least at places I wor
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by dagw 2y ago
Even that is only really true when traveling within zone 1 and 2. If you're further out and not going into zone 1, then driving is generally faster, especially if you have to change trains/busses.
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by dagw 2y ago
newer generations have not been confronted with the hardware limitations older generations had to cope with. That has been true for every new generation of programmers since the invention of computers. My uncle started to program using Fo
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by dagw 2y ago
If you think that taking a more generative and procedural approach to 3D Design sounds interesting I highly recommend taking a look at Rhino3D and Grasshopper (www.rhino3d.com). At €1k it is not really affordable, but it's still worth
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by dagw 2y ago
"Community college" in the US can offer everything from remedial high school for adults, via technical certification and job skills training to 'real' university level education and university associate degrees.
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by dagw 2y ago
Looking back at my career, I find that understanding the reason why having this milestone done by this date is important really helped. Is it "according to our contract if we don't deliver all of this by this date, the client does
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by dagw 2y ago
My only possible explanation for the numbers is that a lot of people in that group defined 'owned' as "my parents own one and I sometimes get to drive it"
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by dagw 2y ago
I would have liked to see the data on this This seems to be the source: https://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/blog-posts/182-electric-car... Their methodology is, shall we say, open to interpretations.
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by dagw 2y ago
Voted in by the Danish people.
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by dagw 2y ago
They're using accident data from 2013-2017, but the linked to demographic car ownership data [0] is from 2023. Even if electric car owners tend to younger in 2023 (and I'm very sceptical), that is completely irrelevant, since wha
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by dagw 2y ago
I've witnessed this first hand via a friend of the family. Their kid didn't have the grades or entrance exam test scores to study what they wanted at university. So the kid got to take a year off after high school and focus entire
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by dagw 2y ago
You know all the professional software, on your desktop? My daughter has access to a computer with many of those programs if she wants to use them. I've showed them to her and what you can do with them, and offered to help her learn
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by dagw 2y ago
why don't we have more prestigious universities? Depends what you mean by "prestigious universities". If you mean "one of the N best schools in the country" then per definition you cannot create more prestigious u
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by dagw 2y ago
If you are genuinely smart you will do well enough on qualify for top schools just by studying at school and on your own and relying on your own ability. And even the best and most expensive tutors cannot do that much to improve your scores
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by dagw 2y ago
Big difference between public and private schools. Getting expelled from a public school is pretty hard, you basically have to do something seriously illegal involving guns and/or drugs. Getting expelled from a private school is an ent
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by dagw 2y ago
Is college that important when you’re already rich af? A lot of people care about prestige and reputation at least as much as they care about money, especially people who have money. For many people being rich isn't enough, they also
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by dagw 2y ago
I (and many of my friends) basically learned how to read English playing LSL and the early Quest games. And yes memorising the answers to LSL 1 age verification questions taught us a lot about US culture (we learnt about the secret skip ke
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by dagw 2y ago
Milošević died before any judgement could be rendered. So we have no idea what would have happened if had been found guilty.
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by dagw 2y ago
as the pension scheme is in the order of 30% of your salary Honest question, as I have no idea, but don't US employers also offer pension schemes that they pay money into, on top of the listed salary?
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by dagw 2y ago
Notes was a bit weird in that it was actually a pretty great rapid application development environment and 'no-sql' (way before that term became trendy) document store that was sold as a mediocre email client.
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by dagw 2y ago
slrn. Although I think what I actually miss is old usenet and the community I had there.
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by dagw 2y ago
I think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite qu
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by dagw 2y ago
Surströmming is mostly only eaten in August and really only in costal communities. In fact it used to be illegal to eat surströmming before the third Thursday in August, and many people still follow that tradition. Even the people who osten
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by dagw 2y ago
"The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic To be fair, they do this with a lot of location in the US as well. "New York" is often Atlanta or Toronto in many American movies.
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by dagw 2y ago
Could you explain more. I'm using protobuf (without grpc) in a project right now. Yes, getting your toolchain set up to compile and update everything when you make edits to your .proto files takes a little bit of work and you need to d
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by dagw 2y ago
akin to saying I tried to divide by zero on my calculator and it doesn't work The big difference is that if I try to divide by zero on my calculator, it will tell me it doesn't work and perhaps even given me a useful error messa
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by dagw 2y ago
My university taught Haskell in their intro programming class at the mathematics departments, and the students that were new to programming had on the whole no problem with it. The ones that struggled were the ones that knew a bit of progra

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