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by junga 1y ago
Not exactly. Volkswagen headquarters are located in Wolfsburg which belongs to the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). NRW, or officially abbreviated NW, is the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Therefore it&#
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by junga 1y ago
Instant „Fremdscham“.
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by junga 1y ago
> But with a picture, I could relive it for a bit. I used to think the same. But in the end, this is not true for me personally. Having pictures of events or valuable moments does not add any (or much) value when remembering these situat
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by junga 1y ago
> Eggs, vegetables, meat and chicken, fish sometimes, dairy and bread. Thank you. I didn't realize until now that some cultures/regions distinguish between meat and chicken. Had to turn 41 for learning this.
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by junga 1y ago
That must have been CloneCD then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloneCD
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by junga 1y ago
> Advertising is cancer, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. That's the most "hacker" newsy thing to me. Whenever advertising critical articles come up, there's a large percentage of people commenting pro advertisin
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by junga 2y ago
> I recently bought a ThinkPad to use besides my MacBook. I'm on the same boat here. Something is driving me away from my MacBook M1(Pro? Don't even know). I have a gut feeling that it's macOS but can't really put a f
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by junga 2y ago
I „found“ a MacBook 12“ Retina from 2015 at home a few weeks ago. Size wise that's the sweet spot for me. Would totally buy such a device running on Apple silicon. In the end I sold it for 50 Euro after tinkering with Pop!_OS and ultim
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by junga 2y ago
You are right about the age of the Sachs Duomatic. This site says they were present already in 1965 (sorry, found nothing in English): https://scheunenfun.de/f+s_duomatic102.htm I had the same thoughts on the SRAM 'DNA
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by junga 2y ago
Regarding two gear internal hubs: these are amazing! I don’t know this specific hub from SRAM but Sturmey-Archer offers similar flip flop hubs as well that toggle gears by slightly pedaling backwards (S2 iirc). I've built three custom
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by junga 2y ago
> This really has to stop. "We", the totally homogeneous group of software professionals could make this stop. "We" don't.
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by junga 2y ago
In German there's also the word Stammtischparole (barroom cliché). It basically describes views and ideas so populist that no one dared to say outside the Stammtisch. Until recently…
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by junga 2y ago
I recently started using RTM C90 type I cassettes for recording mix tapes for my kids on my Denon deck. Quite like them. No need for Dolby C and +5 dB are easily possible. All the NOS tapes I have used sounded awful. I guess this is due to
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by junga 2y ago
Laws regarding this just changed (couple of days ago). Landlords can't just forbid this anymore. See https://www.heise.de/en/news/Balcony-power-plants-Federal-Co...
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by junga 2y ago
When I was in elementary school in Lower Saxony I „often" couldn't go home after school because there was some defusion of WW2 bombs in my area going on. „Often“ means something like 10 times in 4 years. Was quite used to this and
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by junga 2y ago
Not op nor do I disagree but if recycling plastic involves lots of energy and toxic chemicals, one should compare both of these two evils.
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by junga 2y ago
The obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1138
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by junga 2y ago
On the one hand I feel you here. I am rarely that proud of stuff I do. On the other hand you accomplished something that just works, so it’s obviously good enough. It will benefit others if you share the sources. No matter what the code loo
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by junga 2y ago
> I doubt this was a big request from the apple community. As a German I'm looking forward to this since iPhone market share isn't as big as it might be in America. In the end I might delete Signal and WhatsApp since media shar
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by junga 2y ago
But this does not happen to you because you are an exceptionally good driver.
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by junga 2y ago
Also do not use the same character repeated in a "long" sequence. I hate this with IBANs. Too often there's something like '000000' right in the middle of an IBAN and in case copy and paste is not possible I end up
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by junga 3y ago
And then came the switch from ISDN to DSL and the latency got worse again.
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by junga 3y ago
Yes, please. The horn should be as load from inside the car as it's from the outside.
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by junga 3y ago
You must either own an ID card or a passport. This means having an ID card is optional. Does the German passport have a unique identifier as well? (never owned one) The tax number otoh is assigned at birth.
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by junga 4y ago
Using an iPhone with continuity camera as webcam for work. Can't remember the exact reason why the iPhone can not receive network time in my setup but it effectively can only rely on its local circuits to meassure time. Time is ten min
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by junga 4y ago
I understood that washing eggs also removes a protective skin from the eggs that would otherwise stop bacteria from passing the shell. Maybe it's a chicken and egg problem then.
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by junga 4y ago
I think this is meant to be funny but it upsets me a little bit to be honest. Learning at least some basics of the country's language is travelling 101 to me. Going abroad and expecting the locals to speak my language is a very rude th
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by junga 4y ago
Ads are often (if not always) shown to users who are actively trying to do something else. Like watching a video or reading an article. Why should this be different?
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by junga 4y ago
I don’t get this. Is it a phone number? A phone number starting with a capital letter O, like in OOP or ORM?
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by junga 4y ago
> There was an article a few years ago about people that buy products that fail. It was on HN too four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820168

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