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by hesk 7y ago
Ah, personal finance tracking. One of the first programs I wrote as a teenager was to track my expenses. It was written in Turbo Pascal and only had room for 10 entries per month. Then I found GnuCash and even later ledger-cli. Unfortunatel
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by hesk 8y ago
Yeah, that was a brain fart. Not sure, who I was thinking of in the moment.
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by hesk 8y ago
That's too simplistic. Retiring nuclear power plants has been the long term goal of the German anti-nuclear movement since the 70s. They were an important faction in the founding of the Green Party. When the Green party came into power
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by hesk 8y ago
Let's address these one by one. Data portability is kinda useless if all your contacts are on a single network. What we really need are federated social networks. If Facebook loves the GDPR so much why did they move all non-EU users ou
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by hesk 8y ago
I find the divisions quite entertaining. At least they don't run the risk of pressing the wrong button when voting.
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by hesk 8y ago
NATO was founded to keep the external peace, i.e., keep out the Russians. The EU and its predecessors was founded to keep the internal peace, i.e., stop the Germans and the French from going to war. The EC&SC was political from the begi
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by hesk 8y ago
I hope this never, ever happens. I love that I can basically listen to any music I like on Spotify. (I know there are exclusivity deals in music streaming but so far it hasn't affected me.) Compare that to the fragmented video streamin
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by hesk 8y ago
You can turn retweets off for the people you follow. I follow maybe 100 people who post regularly but only allow retweets from a handful of them. Since I've done so, the quality of my feed has improved dramatically. Usually, when I fol
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by hesk 8y ago
Ignoring a red light as a pedestrian carries a 5 € fine in Germany [1]. 10 € if it causes an accident. Jaywalking (crossing the street where you're not supposed to) also carries a 10 € fine. [1] https://www.bussgeldkatalog.o
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by hesk 8y ago
I find that straining after a while. Also double tap to press the button and third tap to release has the advantage that you can lift your finger from the trackpad while moving. That is very convenient.
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by hesk 8y ago
Danke!
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by hesk 8y ago
Maybe you just need a better trackpad implementation. On macOS: - Right click: tap with two fingers. - Move pointer while button is pressed: quickly tap twice to press button, move finger on trackpad, press a third time to release. (Althoug
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by hesk 8y ago
It's not your name that takes the reputation hit because you use a stolen identity.
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Belgium faces winter blackouts amid nuclear reactor shutdowns(theguardian.com)
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by hesk 8y ago
The fact that the vast majority don't use a feature does not make it less important for the people who do. That's the same logic as saying, I don't know, that face recognition only has a false positive rate of 1/1000. If
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by hesk 8y ago
It's not really obscured. Actual costs and taxes are stated separately on every receipt or invoice. It's just that the advertised price has to include taxes.
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by hesk 8y ago
What surprised me the most on that list was the the Unix epoch is December 31, 1969 in Los Angeles.
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by hesk 8y ago
You need to show ID when entering the event that matches the ticket. This is how a popular music festival does it in Germany to prevent scalping. There is no way to transfer tickets to other persons. Instead you can refund tickets up to a w
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by hesk 8y ago
Devil's advocate: Have you been to Amsterdam? They have dedicated bike lanes and parking garages for bikes near the train stations. Of course, I would say that this is an excellent use of public space as opposed to infrastructure dedic
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by hesk 8y ago
Unless there's ice on the road, I ride my bike year-round in Berlin.
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by hesk 8y ago
How will voting help when property rights are concerned? Are you advocating for eminent domain? FYI, rising rents are a hotly debated topic in Berlin, and have been for years. Sadly, the previous government was asleep at the wheel in the la
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by hesk 8y ago
The order of clauses in a SQL statement should have no relation on the order of execution because SQL is a declarative query language. The query specifies what the user wants and not how the system should compute the answer. This declarativ
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by hesk 8y ago
Aren't all observations subjective, hence not universal?
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by hesk 8y ago
At least there's some movement but this upgrade still falls far short of what I'm hoping for. The 13" model is still limited to 16 GB. And the model without touch bar only has 2 USB-C ports. Why, Apple, why?!
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by hesk 8y ago
"Oops. Sorry, we can't seem to find what the problem is." I guess I should stop procrastinating by finding out why I'm procrastinating and go back to work.
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by hesk 8y ago
The law was basically made at the publisher’s behest to get Google to pay them. So far, it has spectularly backfired. In Germany, Google started to delist news sites from their index. After traffic dropped, the publishers gave Google a lice
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by hesk 8y ago
Github offers an enterprise version and I know of at least one big company which hosts their code there.
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by hesk 8y ago
The problem with verbosity is that not how fast you can write but how easily you can read the language. Verbosity with no information gain is distracting.
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by hesk 8y ago
I quoted the original number from a newspaper article which didn't go into details. But I was curious myself, so I contacted the author of the article and did some of my own research. The German federal statistics office publishes a re
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by hesk 8y ago
I disagree with the premise of the article that you only use one application at time on a laptop. I almost always use a split screen setup where I have my notes on the right side and another application on the left. In my view, wider is bet

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