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by lwkl 10mo ago
> They're also fiercly opposed to not having an open border, both for people and goods, with their EU neighbours. Switzerland is part of schengen and has open borders. The same goes for a lot of goods but even between EU members the
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by lwkl 10mo ago
Most of them were only in the lower scale maps and one of them is still there. Swisstopo even wrote an article [1] about them and gives some background and names the cartographers that added them. So our bureaucratic machine seems to have a
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by lwkl 11mo ago
I'm thirty and my sisters and my partner are in their twenties and we will probably all pass on books to our children if we have them. Kids still interact with physical books. School libraries are a part of education here and the schoo
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by lwkl 11mo ago
Yes you are right this was for Australis I.
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by lwkl 11mo ago
The current supercomputer was AUD 50m [1] and HP seems to have won a few expansion and other contracts for another AUD 50 - 70 million for the next few years. Which are all reasonable. But it seems like the budget for the software was anyth
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by lwkl 11mo ago
Wow thank you. That's really expensive if it's just for the website displaying the processed data. I just looked up the cost of the recent redesign of the weather service in my small country of Switzerland. And I don't think
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by lwkl 11mo ago
So according to this article [1] the hundred million is for the renewal of the whole infrastructure including the supercomputer calculating the weather model. If this is true the supercomputer alone costs at least $10 - 20 million. This wou
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by lwkl 11mo ago
I have seen multiple USB-C ports break on Lenovo and HP laptops. About 1 in every 50 laptops over the span of 2-3 years. I don't know if it was the users fault or a manufacturing issue. But the manufacturers fixed these under the exten
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by lwkl 11mo ago
Before CarPlay and Android Auto we had TomTom for $130 and map updates costing about $40. The map updates from car manufacturers were always sold at a premium. I bet Google Maps pays for itself through ads alone. In addition Google Maps gai
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by lwkl 1y ago
They probably would have to get the permission of the engineer to name them publicly. With how the gaming community behaves on social media I wouldn't be surprised if the engineer doesn't want that. Because that could mean death t
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by lwkl 1y ago
I just tried it. The gesture you mentioned now opens the spotlight application search and there is no delay.
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by lwkl 1y ago
Thank you I think I will use that the next time I had a really filling meal.
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by lwkl 1y ago
Phones of the past also died when exposed to a little bit of water. Back then it was common to hear someone say their phone died because of water damage but it has been years since I‘ve heard that about a smartphone.
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by lwkl 2y ago
I read part of a reddit AMA with a cofounder of Honey who no longer works there. According to him honey and services like it increase the likelihood that people will complete a instead of going to a competitor. Lknk to the AMA: https:&#x2F
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by lwkl 2y ago
Is Canva bad? I know a lot of non technical and non design people that use it and are really happy with it.
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by lwkl 2y ago
> There's significant governmental and private assistance to young women not available to young men (educational scholarships, grants, support groups, etc.). Any field in which men continue to do well is considered a problem, wherea
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by lwkl 2y ago
Monopsony is the correct term here it means that there is only one buyer. A monopoly means that there is only one seller.
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by lwkl 2y ago
If I remember correctly there is an option in Synology DSM to not let clients create .DS_Store files in network shares.
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by lwkl 2y ago
That‘s not true DMP can be disabled on M2 chips and probably also on the M1 chips. This was found by Hector Martin (@marcan) and will probably supported in Asahi Linux.
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by lwkl 3y ago
We have a direct comparison on the desktop be it Windows or macOS and it is definitely harder to sell software there. The App Store and Play Store buying software a lot easier and increased the size of the market. Similar to Steam for PC ga
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by lwkl 3y ago
It's a German of Schleswig-Holstein which is like the state of California or the state of Kentucky in the US doing a change like this. And it's only the state government and not the municipalities in the state.
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by lwkl 3y ago
The reason why WhatsApp is dominant here is that iOS never gained the market share it had in the US. The iPhone was exclusive to the US until the iPhone 3G was released and as far as I remember even the 3G wasn't released globally. Al
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by lwkl 3y ago
Most people don't even read or understand that pop-up. My girlfriend for example used Bing and Edge for a few years without realising it. She only learned about different browsers and search engines when she started a trainee program i
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by lwkl 3y ago
> Let's not pretend that Mac OS is immune to a bit of the old upsell too. Of course but Microsoft is way more obnoxious about it. In macOS (and iOS) the upsell is a small icon in your system settings. On Windows it's big notifi
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by lwkl 3y ago
> doesn't gracefully fall back to just talking to the backend if driver features are unavailable. Why should it? Apple only supports their own hardware so the software should never run into this problem.
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by lwkl 3y ago
> That's right in the middle of the "boring windows enterprise" segment, and it sells a ton of hardware. The devices that are sold in this market are as expensive as MacBooks or sometimes even more expensive. So I don&#x27
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by lwkl 3y ago
And the M3 MBP will support this with an update as well: https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/04/14-inch-m3-macbook-pro-multi-...
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by lwkl 3y ago
You prompted me to look at their site and I definitely get your point. The site was definitely more focused on what you described back in the days. The site tells me that their business might have shifted to offer more consultation services
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by lwkl 3y ago
To support the development of Wine and for ease of use? Without CodeWeavers Wine wouldn’t be where it is today. They are the ones building your free and open solution. If it’s an important program for you, you should probably pay them.
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by lwkl 3y ago
As someone who did the opposite switch I was surprised how easy it is to make your own shortcuts on macOS. I also thought the built-in help on macOs pretty amazing. With Microsoft (except in Office) you basically have to Google and hope tha

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