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by jjcob 2y ago
2x35€ = 70€
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by jjcob 2y ago
We have unions in Austria, and we don't have battery powered stoves. If unions were the problem, you'd see a lot of individual contractors.
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by jjcob 2y ago
> $6750 for an induction stove with a battery What a crazy world we live in. Instead of finally upgrading your electrical system to something that can handle the 5kW needed for a high end induction stove, you buy a device with a battery
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by jjcob 2y ago
Snow Leopard introduced GCD, which was a HUGE new feature. It completely changed how we wrote async code. It just wasn't a huge user facing feature. Snow Leopard also introduced the Mac App Store (in a point release), which was a user
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by jjcob 2y ago
Isn't that the issue with basically any medium? If you read a non-fiction book on any topic, you can probably assume that half of the information in it is just extrapolated from the authors experience. Even scientific articles are full
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by jjcob 2y ago
I thought it was interesting when I looked up US gyms that they require a belay test. In Austria, the gyms I went to you just had to sign a form that you know how to climb top-rope, lead, and how to belay.
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by jjcob 2y ago
If you followed the Apple Security scene for a bit, you'll notice that a lot of exploits make use of special permissions granted to Apples own apps and services. If you find a way to run your code in Quicktime Player, or to control Qui
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by jjcob 2y ago
The worst part is when I ask Siri to call or text my partner, and then the phone goes ahead and calls a different person with a vaguely similar sounding name that I have had no contact with in a decade. Why Siri? Or when I ask for direction
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by jjcob 2y ago
I know the struggle -- We have an espresso machine at home and would love to be a able to do both single & double shots, but I have never managed to find a setting that works for both, so it's dialled in to single shots. I figured
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by jjcob 2y ago
At least in Austria, this seems to be a recent phenomenon, and limited to "fancy" coffee places. I was surprised the first time I saw the barista throw away half the coffee when I ordered an espresso. I don't have statistics,
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by jjcob 2y ago
People buy them and might still hate the touch screen. I know I hate my car's touch screen. Just because people buy something doesn't mean they love every aspect of it.
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by jjcob 2y ago
At a non-profit that I contribute to we recently switched everything to Microsoft because it was the easiest way for ~10 people with varying backgrounds to collaborate, when you have only a part time technical person who has limited time to
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by jjcob 2y ago
Because they are the ones who have Office, which 90% of non-tech businesses and governments run on. Word, Excel and Powerpoint are the standard tools everyone uses to get their job done.
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by jjcob 2y ago
Another example of history repeating itself... 80 years ago, McCarthy and the HUAC were going after alleged communist supporters, now the Trump admin is going after alleged Hamas supporters. Maybe we should all study more of history, with a
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by jjcob 2y ago
The rack mount Mac Pro doesn't really make sense for a data center. It's 5U high, which is much too big for a data center. It doesn't have standard server features like redundant power supplies. The only use case I can think
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by jjcob 2y ago
i used an android phone for a year with a 90 fps display. When I switched back to an iphone, it felt slow to me. i couldn't tell what the problem was, the brand new phone just felt sluggish. a year later when using my partners iphone p
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by jjcob 2y ago
It makes it impossible, because your modem/router no longer has a public IP that you can connect to from the internet.
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by jjcob 2y ago
It's not bad, just limited. I think it's getting usable, but just barely so. They are working on it, and making it better every year. I've started using it for small projects and it's pretty neat how fast you can work wi
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by jjcob 2y ago
Swift 6 is not the problem. It's backward compatible. The problem is SwiftUI. It's very new, still barely usable on the Mac, but they are adding lots of new features every macOS release. If you want to support older versions of ma
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by jjcob 2y ago
I wish avoiding a hangover was as easy as drinking water. I get really bad hangover from some wines and beers, and no hangover at all from others. Haven't been able to figure out what the difference is. Wish I could just drink water to
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by jjcob 2y ago
Try signing in in any Google app without allowing data sharing with Safari. It's not possible. They don't let you. It's kind of weird that Apple introduced this big fat tracking consent popup, but they don't really do an
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by jjcob 2y ago
I think OP was talking about professional portraits made by a photographer in a studio in a roughly hour long session. Photo shoots like that typically cost 100-200€ and the resulting portraits are not at all comparable to a 10€ passport ph
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by jjcob 2y ago
> Teslas are unique enough 5 years ago maybe. But no-one believes the self-driving promises any more, every car has screens instead of buttons now, and wireless updates are not something that people care about at all, especially if those
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by jjcob 2y ago
I think it's mostly about BMW electrifying their lineup. People have options now if they want a premium EV.
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by jjcob 2y ago
Then we just have to fund research by giving grants to universities and research teams. Oh wait a sec: That's already what pretty much every government in the world is doing anyway!
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by jjcob 2y ago
Airbnb is mostly commercial listings that are basically unlicensed hotel rooms / appartments. I don't think people renting out their personal living spaces is a big part of their income. It's just a story they use to get arou
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by jjcob 2y ago
Salaries and rent, probably.
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by jjcob 2y ago
The nice thing about VAT is that everyone has to pay it, whether they pay income tax or not. Lots of people get their money income tax free (undeclared jobs, income from abroad, inheritance, etc). With VAT everyone has to pay.
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by jjcob 2y ago
ChatGPT does a surprisingly good job of estimating calories from a picture of your plate. Especially if you add details that are hard to tell from the picture.
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by jjcob 2y ago
Some foods I know, eg. oil 9kcal/g, but mostly I just check the label. Every food in the EU has the calories/100g or calories/100ml on the label. If it's not packaged, I look it up it FDDB [1]. [1]: https://fd

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