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by foepys 4y ago
Is minimum wage enough to live, though?
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by foepys 4y ago
In Germany, and possibly many other EU countries, there is a mandatory notice period plus a social plan. The longer you are with the company, the longer notice period, starting from 4 weeks and can get up to 6 months. You also cannot fire a
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by foepys 4y ago
You don't even have to go so far back. In January 2022 few believed that Russia would invade Ukraine because Russia was heavily depending on exporting gas and oil to the EU. The sanctions in 2014 for the annexation of Crimea were deeme
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by foepys 4y ago
Also, almost half of the French nuclear reactors were down for maintenance in 2022, requiring German coal and gas power plants to stabilize the European power grid. The reactors only recently went online again. https://www.nytime
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by foepys 4y ago
GDPR requires a full disclosure of which data and users are affected and when it happened, which I think is fair for the average user.
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by foepys 4y ago
You can buy electric scooters nowadays that can drive a lot farther than any car with the same battery. If one was big on emission reduction, one would ban all cars and only allow scooters.
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by foepys 4y ago
This is not the case in Germany. Unnecessary emergency breaking will have you be at least 50% at fault. You are putting other people into an emergency situation which is endangering everyone around you.
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by foepys 4y ago
If you bet everything on crappy code you will have to rewrite anyways and then I don't see why this discussion matters.
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by foepys 4y ago
US users are apparently confused. Germany does not have universal healthcare, everything is priced differently if you pay out of pocket.
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by foepys 4y ago
In Germany if you are liable for an accident the health insurance of the affected people will bill you for all incurring costs. At market rate, not at "health insurance discount" rate. I wouldn't bet that the cost in that cas
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by foepys 4y ago
If you plan your architecture carefully and modularize a lot, there is very little that will prevent you from branching out modules of a monolith into microservices when the time comes. If you produce spaghetti code with tightly coupled com
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by foepys 4y ago
Does nobody remember that Daimler was an early investor in Tesla? They sold their 10% share a few years ago. https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/strategic-partnership-dai...
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by foepys 4y ago
In Germany (where this system is already available) Mercedes takes liability and the system gives the driver a 10 second advanced warning before they have to take over. It's also only available on certain stretches of the Autobahn. If
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by foepys 4y ago
I also disabled it. The feature got inspired by Visual Studio. It had this feature for ages and it is working fine there, well integrated with the code. The annotations only look clunky in JetBrains' products because they are the same
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by foepys 4y ago
Then why not just use vim and leave others alone? I never understood why some people cannot accept that their way of doing things is not working for everyone.
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by foepys 4y ago
VS Code is only used this much because it is free. If Microsoft were to charge only $10 for it, its market share would be in the single digits. It's the same with MS Teams. A bad, sluggish program full of bugs and weird behavior that i
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by foepys 4y ago
Bold assumption. What I severely dislike about the new UI is all the negative space. All "modern UI" makes me feel like I'm using a 1024x768 pixel display again instead of UHD because of all the margins around everything. Eve
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by foepys 4y ago
The point is that my keyboard works everywhere, not just in some obscure programs that don't have tooling support for the domain I earn my money in.
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by foepys 4y ago
From my experience when a small company gets acquired it's often because people are no longer having the freedom they previously had. The last company I worked at was acquired by a 100x larger company and "do whatever you want&quo
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by foepys 4y ago
A programmable keyboard is even better. Doesn't even need to be fully programmable via scripts, a simple macro functionality is usually enough. I mapped arrow keys and Home/End to Fn+WASD/QE and code navigation is so much fas
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by foepys 4y ago
It seems like it's a potential "profit" of 44,000 € before taxes for that sale. 44,000 € is not even 20% of a guaranteed loss of 250,000 €, which is definitely outside "shouldn't bother" them.
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by foepys 4y ago
Only 6.8%? Unless I'm living paycheck to paycheck, 6.8% is an absolute bargain for 5 hours of more free time each week, assuming a 30min commute. 5h/week are equivalent to at least 4 weeks of PTO in a year. Plus, vehicle maintenan
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by foepys 4y ago
The average of what? Only full time (30h+/week, ~40h/week) or all workforce including part time (<30h/week)?
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by foepys 4y ago
It seems like that there have been problems for quite a while. There is a sticky thread in the linked subreddit titled "Workarounds for errors when registering new domains with freenom", created 2 years ago . https://w
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by foepys 4y ago
And then you are on vacation and some asshole in legal sues you because you didn't respond in time when a dev had a small problem they could've solved by looking in the source code for 5 minutes but wanted support instead. Way too
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by foepys 4y ago
I personally have multiple 3m (~10ft) USB-C cables. There are also 4m (~13ft) and more cables available but they might not support the latest Power Delivery standard.
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by foepys 4y ago
If I'm out at night I want to see if my friends text me. Fixed hours for silent notification are stupid and only work for people that don't have a social life. In the early days of Android there was an app which was able to set my
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by foepys 4y ago
The noise has become ridiculous, even for expected things. Luckily smartphone OSes have good notification handling nowadays. I for one stopped using email push ony smartphone when my hosting provider started sending out invoices at 1am. Who
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by foepys 4y ago
That's easy: they don't have >30% profit margins in hardware plus service upsells resulting in billions of USD in profit each quarter.
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by foepys 4y ago
I have myself witnessed a child being hit by a car and a few years back one died in my city. Both in school zones where cars sped through illegally. I'm in Germany with only 1/4 of the US car fatality rate per person.

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