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by lucumo 3y ago
I think most Dutch people nowadays think of that as two letters: i-j. It's called a "long ij", as a counterpart to the "short ei" (same pronunciation), which definitely is considered two letters. The only place wher
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by lucumo 3y ago
It's way to simple to look at a number and say "oligopsony". You'd need to look at how the market functions and how actors on it act. In this particular market: players make razor-thin margins (low single digits as menti
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by lucumo 3y ago
That's a good point in general, but it is not true of the largest Dutch supermarket chains. The four largest chains (Albert Heijn, Jumbo, Aldi, Lidl) are all independent of each other. A bunch of smaller chains have bundled their buyin
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by lucumo 3y ago
> monopsony This really doesn't pass the smell test. There are multiple very large supermarket chains here. They aren't monopsonies, by the simple fact that there are multiple. They are also large and very good at negotiating a
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I agree. The right hand side also makes it very easy to zoom in on the problem details. If the pizza is not properly boxed, I don't want to worry about whether the salami was sliced the right way. I can skip over that, and immediately
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by lucumo 3y ago
Were there any downsides? Because this sounds kind of awesome.
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It takes about two or three replacement cycles before you recognize it as the tell-tale signs of smoke detector. I had only one the first time I had to deal with it. But since these bullshit things beep once and then go silent, it takes for
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by lucumo 3y ago
That's actually not how Nest Protects work. Well, it's how they ALSO work. They trigger independently and full-force at the same smoke level as the other types. That's a standardized and regulated level. It also sends notific
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by lucumo 3y ago
Yes, I mean those ones! The ones that end up in a closet somewhere because nobody replaces batteries in the middle of the night and the next morning you can't find the right batteries anyway. Those ones. Bad UI kills.
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Are those the shitty ones that indicate an empty battery by beeping a single beep once every five minutes? I think I took a baseball bat to the last one I had. Those things drive me nuts. It's always a single beep, which isn't eno
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by lucumo 3y ago
> - paying a team of day labour workers It's illegal to pay minimum wage in cash, due to employers abusing and underpaying vulnerable people. (Any amount over the minimum wage can be paid cash, but there has to be a bank payment mad
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by lucumo 3y ago
It sounds like the team actually agreed with the decision, so that part is fine. Top-down isn't necessarily always bad. It's the result that counts. Top-down decision making has different trade-offs from bottom-up, so sometimes it
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by lucumo 3y ago
If your tool for finding pages incentivizes people to destroy some pages so others can be found, then something went horribly wrong.
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by lucumo 3y ago
You're mixing a few things up. Euro coins are also legal tender, but minting and designing them is a national competence. The ECB decides on the volume though, and there are limits to the designs of the coins. Interestingly, member sta
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by lucumo 3y ago
This looks like a pretty new neighborhood. Those get build as mass projects. The entire neighborhood is tendered to a single contractor (usually a consortium of multiple companies). It gets a common design, with everything made to fit toget
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Errands? I guess you could get by without a car. But then, you could get by without leaving the house for the most part, with groceries and other stuff delivered to your door. Still, the average number of cars per household is more than 1 i
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Nonsense. This is only true if you live in an inner city bubble. Cars are pretty popular ways of getting about in the suburbs and rural areas.
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> > no one writes software for metadata > They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job. Whenever I'm leaving a job, I keep a look-out for opportunities to change lines that rarely chang
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by lucumo 3y ago
The tradeoff between the cost of many tests and the benefits of them is why I usually use a lower coverage requirement. Something like 80% or sometimes 60% seems to give most of the benefits with less of the cost.
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I just added that in my experience A doesn't really exist. I have seen plenty of companies that pretend they have an A-policy, but none that actually do. Believing companies when they say you get a promotion when you perform at the ne
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by lucumo 3y ago
Well, yes. That was my point. When companies say they want you to perform at the next level before promoting you, it's just something to say that's semi-friendly and still means no. Believe the no, don't believe the reason.
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by lucumo 3y ago
As a medior, I've led a team of seniors on a mission critical project for several years, after which my manager said "maybe we should consider promoting you in another year or so". It's not scope and impact either.
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I've found that that's mostly a fig leaf. It was the primary reason I left places. When I asked how to get the promotion and got that response, I got the promotion by moving to another company. And of course I performed well in th
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by lucumo 3y ago
I had to write with a fountain pen as a kid. It felt normal then, but looking back it seems silly. Those things blot. Not just while writing, but also when handling the paper afterwards. So you'd have to use blotting paper, and/or
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by lucumo 3y ago
I generally look at https://caniuse.com/ . If support in the major browsers was green for a few years, I assume it's okay to use without further thought.
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by lucumo 3y ago
Is this US-only? I would love to see something similar for jobs near me.
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> The structural oppression of children I hardly think having to wait half an hour to eat some candy counts as "oppression" of any kind.
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by lucumo 3y ago
> How about when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow? A rarity. Happens for a few hours a year, which can easily be passed with short-term storage. > With too much supply renewables make no money and other producers
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by lucumo 3y ago
The 0% VAT is just a way to get rid of some administrative overhead. Repeatedly selling something (like electricity) makes you a VAT-liable entity. You must charge VAT on what you sell, but you can deduct the VAT others charge you. That can
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by lucumo 3y ago
> Well it's good, and very happy, but seriously, what is going to power Northern Europe in winter? Wind, onshore and offshore. The North Sea is currently filled up with offshore wind parks. North Sea countries Hydropower is popular

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