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by majewsky 4y ago
In fact, I've already seen some employers list charging-at-work as a perk on their job offers.
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by majewsky 4y ago
> You get like an entire month paid vacation. More like 1.5 months realistically. Four weeks is literally the legal minimum.
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by majewsky 4y ago
That's just how Apple does their announcements: in big piles at few dates. The alternative would be to dribble them out slowly. As someone who is not particularly interested in Apple news either, I actually prefer this. Better get it o
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by majewsky 4y ago
There is a much easier explanation: Disgruntled customers are always more vocal than happy ones.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I've seen this series-hybrid system also used in buses in my town. I'm not a mechanical or electrical engineer, but as far as I understand, the advantage in this scenario is that the motor can run nearly continuously at lower RPM
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by majewsky 4y ago
> I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw something on mainstream media that had any impact on my life whatsoever. I'm in Germany. Just this week, the news have been full about new policies that went into effect on June
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by majewsky 4y ago
Despite what is often implied, there are in fact multiple people with different opinions posting on this site.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Then don't give your business to them. Let them very clearly know "we will not purchase your services until you support SSO at a reasonable price". Otherwise they'll never learn.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I'll try that reasoning with my PCI/DSS auditors next time. Let's see what they think about that. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, I'm not. Our org has recently gone through a PCI/DSS audit, and there was a l
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by majewsky 4y ago
> The average employee likely has 10-20 (hopefully) different sets of credentials that they must maintain and update as necessary That's your red flag right there. All identities that are tied to individual people should be connecte
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by majewsky 4y ago
In my opinion, the main benefit of Kubernetes for large companies is that it allows for a cleaner separation of roles. It's easier to have a network team that's fully separate from a storage team that's fully separate from a
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by majewsky 4y ago
They were clearly in the service industry, though.
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by majewsky 4y ago
> If you're designing a car, are you not ever going to go down to the production line to see how your design worked out? Somewhere along the line, goalposts were shifted. At the beginning, the concern was about Elon saying "eve
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by majewsky 4y ago
In case you don't know yet, Worldbuilding SX [1] is a good place to discuss stuff like this. [1] https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
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by majewsky 4y ago
> The one in Dresden not so much. I live in Dresden. Could you elaborate on what you find unclean or unsafe about Dresden Hbf? I travel from there quite often, and don't recall any experiences that would make me feel unsafe or uncom
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by majewsky 4y ago
Nitpick, on such a long train ride, you will usually have multiple ticket checks because the crew will have a shift change inbetween. Train staff, unlike airplane staff, usually return home after every shift. After having been on the train
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by majewsky 4y ago
Looks like Berlin-Paris (or rather, Frankfurt-Paris) is really a missing link here (pun not intended). Good to see ÖBB pick up the slack when DB won't. When the NightJet line opens next year, that sounds like a good opportunity to visi
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by majewsky 4y ago
In this particular case, it works because there are other long-distance services on the same line that do the extra stops. The EuroCity towards Prague stops in Büchen, Ludwigslust and Wittenberge, which (funnily enough) maps precisely onto
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by majewsky 4y ago
> every 2 hours there is a train that stops at Wittenberge (population 8k) and Ludwiglust (population 12k) That's a Milchmädchenrechnung if I've ever seen one. When a long-distance train coming from Berlin stops in Ludwigslust,
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by majewsky 4y ago
Once an argument has been laid out in detail, providing a poignant summary in one sentence leaves a more lasting impression on the reader.
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by majewsky 4y ago
This perfectly illustrates the cultural difference between Rust and Go: Rust wants to be "correct", Go wants to be "good enough".
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by majewsky 4y ago
Or even with words. "yes" and "no" are much easier to distinguish at a glance than thumbs-up-emoji and thumbs-down-emoji.
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by majewsky 4y ago
> semantics over the meaning of simple Thankfully there are two different words with very separate meanings that people nonetheless tend to conflate [1]. "Simple" means "not many features", and "easy" means
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by majewsky 4y ago
What makes you think that you got the same top result as the original commenter?
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by majewsky 4y ago
> how completely bonkers it would be to ride on a steadily-degrading spaceship For a moment I thought there was going to be a twist at the end where you describe the people who stayed on Earth.
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by majewsky 4y ago
You cannot delete once someone has replied. And by editing away your opinion (thereby breaking the context of the replies) instead of owning up to it, you will be earning many more downvotes.
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by majewsky 4y ago
The front page of the book directly links to https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI... , which makes it abundantly clear that this is the author of the book. > They clearly made a
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by majewsky 4y ago
These sumtypes don't mesh well with JSON/YAML/etc. serialization though. If you have type MySumType interface { sealed() } like in the code example for go-sumtype, serialization is easy enough: type MySumType
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by majewsky 4y ago
Because a significant number of managers seem to fall into the same trap, and it only takes one such manager in the chain above you for it to be painful.
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by majewsky 4y ago
TIL Stockholm Syndrome also exists for terrible UX.

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