martin_a

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by martin_a 6mo ago
> It's a country with a lot of guns. Police do regularly get shot at when raiding. Call me naive, but I think this could be solved by stricter gun laws. Yes, bad guys might have guns, but that's the case everywhere around the w
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by martin_a 8mo ago
> Overall German equivalent of model Y is at least 20000€ more expensive than Elon‘s car. What?!? VW id.4 has the same starting price as a Tesla Model Y if I look it up on their German websites. Don't see where the swasticar would b
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by martin_a 8mo ago
They did. This can be done online since August 2022.
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by martin_a 8mo ago
Not sure it's worth the time. ;-)
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by martin_a 8mo ago
This is possibly the greatest bullshit I've read today. Greetings from Germany!
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by martin_a 10mo ago
Besides all the daily stuff that happens with the current US government, I'm _really_ excited (not in the best way) to see how the citizens of the USA, Europe and the whole world will deal with the aftermaths of the current government.
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by martin_a 10mo ago
> how one dude is trying a year living together with his ex again Get us in, how is it going so far? :-D
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by martin_a 10mo ago
Not sure, probably depends on how resilient your company and staff is. :-D Marketing got very nervous though and wouldn't calm down, so I sent the receipt.
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by martin_a 10mo ago
The exact thing happened to us, too. Bought a font from a small foundry which then got acquired by Monotype two years down the road. They started questioning us and assumed we had pirated the font. Send them the old receipt and told them po
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by martin_a 10mo ago
My uncle got a Hilux for his gardening business. Seems to work well for driving around lawnmowers and other stuff, also for towing the large self-driving lawnmovers and other heavy equipment.
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by martin_a 10mo ago
That's what I thought at first, too, but that is the actual original and full headline. So either Bloomberg has HN in mind or that's just their style... :-D
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by martin_a 10mo ago
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker but that headline is terrible to read and process. Is it "good" English to write it that way? It's possibly the shortest way, yes, but that's everything I'd give
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by martin_a 10mo ago
> It's getting dangerous out there. You're all driving on the wrong side of the road, what are you even talking about? /s
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by martin_a 10mo ago
Needs a (2023) addition in the title
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by martin_a 11mo ago
I think the CYBER thing is a joke from the German part of the internet. Our government (and companies alike), liked to cyber-everything. Cyber as a word alone or prefix became a joke and that might be the origin. Have a look at this cybervi
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by martin_a 11mo ago
I find pairing my IKEA bulbs and switches and whatnot to my Conbee 2 stick sometimes hard to do. I'm thinking about buying a Dirigera hub instead, using that for the IKEA devices and using the Conbee stick only for non-IKEA products. D
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by martin_a 11mo ago
Don't forget to mention the inofficial units for fluid volumes being "Badewannen" and "Schubkarren".
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The Weird Rebellion of Polish Movie Posters [video](youtube.com)
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by martin_a 1y ago
Yes, but you could also just drive to one of the roughly 2.000 home and garden markets and just take one of the sets home with you in your car. Or get yourself cables and an inverter and buy the cheapest panels you can find, maybe even used
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by martin_a 1y ago
Panels etc. have become really cheap now: https://www.globus-baumarkt.de/p/schwaiger-balkonkraftwerk-8... That's 0,38 Euro/W of panel power, including inverter and cable. And there might be a solid price upti
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by martin_a 1y ago
More and more "Energiegenossenschaften" are also founded, I think. At least here in the South-West near Freiburg it feels like every second larger village or community has its own Energiegenossenschaft. They are working on getting
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by martin_a 1y ago
I think you should be better off. I did a small installation at my parents house with two panels at south-southwest-orientation with a 600 W inverter for around 800 Euro. Turns out those two panels have created over 1.1 MWh since the late s
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by martin_a 1y ago
Came here to comment that. I'm using a vibrator for exactly that purpose, too. Really helps with better surfaces on the parts I make for friends (and etsy).
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by martin_a 1y ago
Hetzner (in Germany) never did things like these to me. What were you trying to do with them?
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by martin_a 1y ago
Go for it! I had a bright red case for my phone for some time. Looked great, a nice little splash of color, also worked well with the company I was working for at that time (brand color was red, too). I've changed phones since then and
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by martin_a 1y ago
Is that an issue if you don't plan to "store" money in PayPal but only use it for payments?
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by martin_a 1y ago
70-400 or 80-400 are "common" ranges for super telephoto lenses. Great shots are possible with them, I was able to use one for a day, it was fun switching between "rather" wide and very narrow. Happy to read that some pe
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by martin_a 1y ago
I did this for a while in combination with a PiHole setup on a small vultr.com package. Utility in that was that the traffic of all devices was routed through a "PiHoled VPN", so very little advertisements came through...
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by martin_a 1y ago
That stance seems to be the problem and what lead us all to where we are now. Maybe we should consider paying for more things, not less.
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by martin_a 1y ago
Pretty much what somebody else said: AI takes over simple tasks, the "fluff" around the business logic, error handling, stuff like that, so I can focus on doing the harder stuff at the core.

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