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by mlang23 5y ago
Where I live, people are apparently not a chicken as where you live... Most of my coworkers are happy to go back to the office. I guess we have about 10% which would like to have full WHF. OTOH, I also dont care what the majority wants.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I cant wait until I can go back to the office 100%. WFH, while convenient, is something I never wanted. I didnt want it 20 years ago when I started to work, and I dont want it full time today either, even with the covid experience. Human
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by mlang23 5y ago
To answer the headline: I'd actually pay extra for a human driver. This stuff is giving me the creeps. Not even as a passenger, must more as a blind pedestrian.
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by mlang23 5y ago
A clear instance of NIH-Syndrome. Besides, admins want something to admin... Moving to a new home and loosing your status as the guy who is allowed to set the rules isn't very atractive to most... And I even understand that. There
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by mlang23 5y ago
This is sci-fi. AVs are not there yet. And they will not be there for some time to come. Since Google started their damn AV-car-project back around 2014 (or was it even earlier) mainstream media is full of sci-fi. I had to explain to ma
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by mlang23 5y ago
Wow, seriously weird. These "microdosing reports" feel a bit like BitCoin propaganda. I mean, like if someone was trying to establish a market that wouldn't exist by simple demand. So demand is being created by telling peo
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by mlang23 5y ago
Its not that easy to get rid of sticky activists. And it is also not easy to explain "You are not representing my views" without being attacked as either stupid or uninformed. I totally understand that after a few of those exper
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by mlang23 5y ago
Before the CORBA->DBus rewrite, the AT-SPI and related projects (read: the GNOME Accessibility infrastructure) was really looking promising. The Sun Accessibility office did great work to make GNOME a useable platform for people with di
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by mlang23 5y ago
I had almost no connection to my mother, so you might like to call it traumatic. However, I was not telling my whole story. The reality is, I have a disability since childhood, so I always had "more complicated" problems then de
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by mlang23 5y ago
Disk encryption is only really practical when you never need to reboot. Found that out the hard way, like most others did at some point :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
My generation was taught: "Once you have physical access, the game is over." I believe this is still true. Pretending otherwise feels like snake oil.
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by mlang23 5y ago
> Are we saying someone who had a loved one die before their time? I hope not. Death is something you have to learn to cope with at some point. If we call that already a trauma, I think we have a rather big problem. And I am saying th
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by mlang23 5y ago
When I finished school, I had two opportunities to work freelance in IT. Both were coding jobs. One for the gambling industry, and one for a very shady PR person. I am glad I stumbled across these very suspicious clients, because it made
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by mlang23 5y ago
Yeah, apparently it is natural that languages do that. I think german does too much of that, we're basically too lazy to figure out how to phrase things properly in german, so we just stick in a few english words. That feels differen
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by mlang23 5y ago
Yeah yeah. And I get downvoted for saying the glaringly obvious. Oh well, I can take that and laugh :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
"This article has been sponsored by Elon Musk". Its not even clear how we are supposed to produce the necessary amounts of electricity if a significant amount of cars are EVs. This feels like it has been written for the upper clas
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by mlang23 5y ago
I know. Its sad. And it happens with other things too. That is the price we (the rest of the west) pay for never having emanicpated ourselves. This "the US defines what west is" thing pretty much goes on my nerves since I real
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by mlang23 5y ago
I find it funny that english sometimes uses german words. But "exfreund" actually implies a sexual relationship, just saying.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Not being able to cope with nudity seems to be a USA specific phenomenon. I female friend of mine was almost arrested in the US for dancing too suggestively, and she was far from being nude. Seems to be a puritanism thing.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Comparing heroin, cocaine and nicotine as if they were similar pretty much shows that your experience only comes from reading about them :-)
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by mlang23 5y ago
I think there is a vast difference how individuals deal with addictions. Some are better at it, and some are pretty hopeless. I have been smoking nicotine on-and-off since more then 20 years. But I still have no craving when I stop. Las
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by mlang23 5y ago
Treating grown ups like children usually does backfire... Or at least not work.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Actually, where I live, people working with monitors have 10 min break every hour, by law. Most people dont use that. And no, I have never heard a case where a non-smoker was bullied for taking a 15 minute break. Never. I guess I should
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by mlang23 5y ago
I find people that envy smokers for their breaks pretty pathetic. All it really implies is that these envious people dont know how to manage their own time. If I want a break, I take a break. If I dont need a break, I go on. But that do
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by mlang23 5y ago
Yes, they do. But people are not programs. Wondering why people behave irrational is a bit like wondering why rain is wet.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Because it is strictly unfair to volunteers. Volunteers do most of the important work, and usually get no pay at all. So why should managers get paid and everyone should look away and just call it an inefficientcy?
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by mlang23 5y ago
"necessarily inefficiency"? what sort of legitimation is this? Besides, I dont own a car.
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by mlang23 5y ago
Democracy is a lie which was constructed to pacify the people. If you think you have some control, you feel more free and superior to others.
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by mlang23 5y ago
I spent a lot of my childhood in hospitals. After a few years of fighting, my situation almost stabilized. Until a high ranking doctor decided to do an experiment on me, which eventually cost me all of my eye-sight. From my side, nurses
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by mlang23 5y ago
I get the Edge-hate. I have my own experiences with lack of accessibility support in earlier versions. But, philosophically speaking, there is no difference between using Edge and Chrome. There are things which simply shouldnt be control

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