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by jq-r 4y ago
Good to know, thanks. It is kind of buried and something which is difficult to find in a hurry.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I have absolutely no idea why PD doesn't have a big button which stops all PD notifications the moment you press it. There are very few events in life more stressful then dealing with an incident, people on the call and having your pho
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by jq-r 4y ago
I find this mildly funny. My wife goes with a purse or that tiny backpack everywhere and sometimes I give her my stuff to carry. Mobile phones are getting too goddamn big.
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by jq-r 4y ago
You have to do the same in Croatia too. So no wonder nobody protests. Hell, I had to apply for a same permit to organize a very small LAN party in one of the college's classrooms.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I can also echo this. The prices of groceries that I'm buying doubled in price in the last year. Some even tripled. I'm not sure where are they pulling low double digits in my country, but that's just not my experience.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Even on the pages you've linked, Software or Computer Engineering is still Engineering. You might say that it just doesn't fit the definition (from the same exact page), but then you can either take the argument with the Wikipedia
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by jq-r 4y ago
I think your definition of engineering is a curious mix of "No true Scotsman" fallacy and a bit of circular reasoning. My parents were very respected traffic engineers. One was concerned with traffic inside cities, another with ro
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by jq-r 4y ago
Because that's GP's attempt to differentiate it as it cannot be done any other way ;)
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by jq-r 4y ago
> Talk with anyone that has built a house and they'll have horror stories of months of delays. This can easily be explained in the part of the world I live in. Small/medium construction companies prefer to work on bigger projec
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by jq-r 4y ago
I would say that both you and the parent are right. Software engineering is both new, and non-standard. So we get worst of both worlds, on one hand there are no good truly standard practices, and on the other the technology is very complex
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by jq-r 4y ago
Yeah, that's fair. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Or if instead of Nigeria you want more “civilized” examples, look no further than Eastern European governments. Here in Croatia some years ago a statistic came out that we have 4 times more government employees than Germany. Just for compar
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by jq-r 4y ago
Is it silly? It's already being banned from US and European government devices. It is just one more sentence away from being banned for general population in those huge regions.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. USA and Croatia have extradition treaty. Also Croatia’s government has good relations with their masters across the pond. The guy is already arrested, and I’m sure he’ll be on a flight west soon.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Not sure if that's the case anymore. Had various Apple laptops in the last 15 years and palm rejection worked great. Not so with the 16in M1 MBP. It has trouble with it especially when I wear sleeves. The trackpad might be just a bit t
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by jq-r 4y ago
It's still a thing. A lot of people in Croatia still buy specific food products in supermarkets like Lidl and Muller because they carry the same products as in Germany or Austria. So of much better quality of course. The price at the t
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by jq-r 4y ago
I come from an engineering family, and "engineers" here are one big legally recognized tribe, or pretty much a social class. In reality that just means that they've finished a specific college where they get "engineer wi
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by jq-r 4y ago
Took me years to find out how they're scamming me on the conversion charges/exchange rate. Say you want to buy product in USD, and you come from non-USA country. Paypal would "helpfully" convert USD to your local currenc
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by jq-r 4y ago
This looks like a mixture of a building in a war zone and a house-sized prison. Looks very repulsive to me and I like brutalism.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Those alien objects are actually objects from a Zelda game.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I would even suggest to skip the gym (as in body building kind of gym) and go straight to group fitness classes (say Zumba or something similar). Those are choke full of women and positive energy, and finding someone is very easy. I would e
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by jq-r 4y ago
Certainly. At the same time, completely true over here.
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by jq-r 4y ago
I guess in theory that would be true, but in practice ( at least where I live ), there is no accountability. So yes, doctors, lawyers, architects/engineers etc, get all the prestige and social status, without the downsides. There was a
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by jq-r 4y ago
Slightly sarcastic a bit, but isn't the point of all that engineering schooling, certification, titles, social prestige etc some kind of assurance that those people don't make mistakes? Or if they do, very slight ones? In a sense
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by jq-r 4y ago
I like your analogy. I got a shed myself and I like working on my bikes. Got loads of tools and it is so relaxing and satisfactory finding the tools you need at exactly the same place you left them. When my brother and me were living togeth
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by jq-r 4y ago
Moreover, people would be up in arms if a perfectly good car, with a perfectly good engine starts consuming say 30% more fuel than an "update" ago.
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by jq-r 4y ago
Funnily enough, it pretty much broke apart our weekend riding group. That was a mountain bike group, and in my city there were about 20 of us on those rides depending on a season. It didn't matter who was the fastest uphill or downhill
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by jq-r 4y ago
Agreed. Any sufficiently complex tool needs a good explanation of it's workflow. I was using Photoshop occasionally for years, but when I saw how people use it in real life (the photoshop guys episodes were great) a lot of stuff clicke
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by jq-r 4y ago
Is it cheap for Spaniards though?
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by jq-r 4y ago
Hmm, that does look habitable to me. Moreover, it looks quite nice compared to a lot of places people live in. Mars, Moon, and some places on Earth defnitely are not habitable (unless very supported), but calling most of the Canada "un

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