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by ketzu 1y ago
> Not sure what your definition of "privatized" is Maybe this is a language barrier issue. Companies organized as AG, GmbH etc. under private law, in opposition to branches of the government or special institutions of public la
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by ketzu 1y ago
No not necessarily. But it might be more cost effective to get the deutschland ticket if you can still get one for this month. (You don't have to get it from DB, some allow cancellation much later.) Ticket sales are generally quite str
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by ketzu 1y ago
> Having said this I do not agree with the depiction of the restitution process [...] and use the DB Navigator app Iirc they only started this possibility in june 2021. So anyone, especially foreigners, that experiences this system befor
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by ketzu 1y ago
After reunification there were two railway companies, and they got reorganized into an AG. At least later, when they restructured the company into a holding and subsidaries, they planned to privatize them completely and disolve the parent c
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by ketzu 1y ago
> more a result of crappy publicly funded tendered software development. I would be more willing to buy that, if their support response would be different, and if it hadn't been an issue for years, including fighting legal battles t
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by ketzu 1y ago
> "transparent and nothing hidden" That's the response I got on from quite a few people on german speeaking reddit, also calling me an idiot :)
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by ketzu 1y ago
It is privatized, but it is fully state owned. The country of germany owns 100% of the stock. > Sie [DB AG] befindet sich zu 100 Prozent im Eigentum des Bundes https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/S
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by ketzu 1y ago
Sorry, I have a hard time holding back my sarcasm when writing while being annoyed, I thought the link to the 1.2 trust pilot rating gave it away. As this was mostly written as anger management, the writing is pretty poor. :)
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Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn(ketzu.net)
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by ketzu 1y ago
Thanks a lot, I wasn't really sure if reporting here or on github would be faster, I'll try to report on github in the future!
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by ketzu 1y ago
I wanted to give it a try, unfortuantely I fail already at the first screen. Selection a location the backend fails at creating the timeline: "error": "opening database: pinging database file: invalid uri authority: D%5
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by ketzu 1y ago
Yes I am. I prefer the window placer thingy in win11. As I use an ultra wide monitor, having the menu centered works better for me, too. Win11 seems more performant and snappier to me, but that might be an illusion. Other things I amnot sur
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by ketzu 1y ago
> people still use and even prefer their non-cloud products at home and enterprise. You can still buy office as single-purchase standalone versions. I think the most recent version is 2024. I worked on a project migrating away from offic
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by ketzu 1y ago
The choice of windows 8 as comparisson seems deceptively disingenious to me. It is well known as an unpopular OS, that has been skipped by many. Windows 7 is much more in the position of windows 10. Taking [1] as a source, win 7 in 2025 has
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by ketzu 1y ago
> don't use proprietary services just because they are trendy. Prefer always open standards! So if you use an open standard, but not self hosted, and your provider tells you "pay 250k or lose all your data in 2 days", I&#x
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by ketzu 1y ago
> the EU should have forced browser vendors to solve. Only the user's browser can choose not to send back cookies This is only an option if you limit tracking to using cookies. But neither tracking technologies, nor the current EU l
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by ketzu 1y ago
I did. :) (And I am aware of the irony in failing to communicate when mentioning that studying writing is important to be good at communication.) Maybe I should have also cited this part: > writing as a proxy for what actually matters, w
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by ketzu 2y ago
> The writing is irrelevant. In my opinion this is not true. Writing is a form of communicating ideas. Structuring and communicating ideas with others is really important, not just in written contexts, and it needs to be trained. Maybe t
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by ketzu 2y ago
> One account is that the US has too many medical facilities in urban areas. In other words, there might be five hospitals each with its own radiology equipment. That equipment is idle some of the time, so you could close some of the ima
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by ketzu 2y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Yes, on-site/hybrid yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: typescript, c++, python, rust, postgres/sqlite, docker, git Résumé/CV: ketzu.net/CV Email: hn@ketzu.net Hey, I&#x
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by ketzu 2y ago
Are the links working for other people? Most of the linked resources do not exist for me.
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by ketzu 2y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Yes/Optional Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Typescript, Javascript, C++, Rust, Java, Docker, Git and more. Résumé/CV: https://ketzu.net/CV Email: hn@ketzu.net
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by ketzu 2y ago
In my experience, "deprecated" is often taken as "we can still use that, it is not removed yet", which I find somewhat disheartening sometimes.
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by ketzu 2y ago
Based on the results from an earlier paper of the author [1] the spread within the groups is very high. So there is no shortage of miserable people in the high income bracket. [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073&#x2F
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by ketzu 2y ago
Oh it's Matthew Killingsworth, who was the first author of the one paper [1] about happiness I actually read! [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
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by ketzu 2y ago
Based on the words actually written, you could as well argue the opposite. The original comment might as well be about successful people being over rewarded by a non-meritocratic system, because their actual merit is lower. They might also
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by ketzu 2y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Yes/Optional Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Typescript, Javascript, C++, Rust, Java, Docker, Git and more. Résumé/CV: https://ketzu.net/CV Email: hn@ketzu.net
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by ketzu 2y ago
> none of these companies offer monthly subscriptions Adobe does offer monthly subcriptions, but for individuals only.
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by ketzu 2y ago
I assume quite a few people think of one way of "lying" about employment history, that they have very strong feelings about how it should be handled. Like * Omitting (or denying) that you have done a certain activity (eg., union f
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by ketzu 2y ago
> Careful, in C++ `abs(x) = y` is equally likely to put y into abs(x). I know, if it returned something it could write into, it would. .__. https://godbolt.org/z/7h6YMqbEW > Jokes about C++ aside, many DSPs with

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