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by napoleongl 3y ago
The one feature of an HP Elitebook that could perhaps be called ”Elite” is that they come with smart card readers built in. USB-readers also exist.
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by napoleongl 3y ago
Not quite, but the liners are some 20 years. Changed and washed twice a year in 90 degrees and still fresh. Save for the buttons that fell victim to our stone mangle, the covers of the same age are as new as well. That said, none of them a
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by napoleongl 3y ago
I guess I’ve been lucky in which duvets and liners I have met in my life. Only time I’ve met opposition is with flannel covers, but those are just horrible in all other ways except for starting fires.
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by napoleongl 3y ago
” Imagine replacing your duvet cover in minutes” When i was 18 and begun my career I hospitality, we’d change a twin bed completely in like 3-4 minutes. How do you spend minutes with just one duvet (excluding disabilities but that’s quite o
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by napoleongl 3y ago
Tbh I was just too lazy to find its place in the rankings. It sure is a big business anyway
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by napoleongl 3y ago
One of the largest food store chains in Sweden had their entire card payment go down because someone forgot to handle leap years!
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by napoleongl 3y ago
It still annoys me that they had to invent another pipe instead of just recreate Magrittr’s in C to gain the speed it apparently lacks. And then missing out on one of the nicer functions of magrittr… I agree with the post that such an opera
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by napoleongl 3y ago
These days the locks are online so that you can block a lost keycard from the front desk. Previously you had to open the lock with a never keycard than the lost one to make the lost one inoperable. That works kinda fine in a small hotel bu
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by napoleongl 3y ago
We are using ShareASpace for some things at work and they claim to use HATEOAS. Not sure where to link to prove it though… https://docs.shareaspace.com/v1-8/developer/external-extensi...
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by napoleongl 3y ago
Dang you beat me to it :-) Found the book last week when packing for a move, that can’t be a coincidence!
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by napoleongl 4y ago
Without having studied the Norwegian grid, the Swedish one that it is connected to also experience negative prices som nights when there’s a lot of wind and we generate some 10 GW of wind power. Coupled with the nuclear plants in Sweden tha
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by napoleongl 4y ago
I once made the opposite journey and I miss the front desk daily. I have even considered finding a nice hotel where I could do the occasional weekend shift just to do something more mentally rewarding than architecting solutions, detailing
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by napoleongl 4y ago
Health care is paid through taxes in Sweden and your access to it is not dependent on your employment. You can have a private insurance (and I assume a company like Spotify does) but it’s mostly for getting access to some private doctors o
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by napoleongl 4y ago
The entire concept of an Influencer is just a front for product placement. The difference nowadays is that people are actively looking for the commercials and ignoring the movie.
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by napoleongl 4y ago
Probably depends on your location. They are still sold here in Sweden for instance, but otoh almost nobody has a gas stove since electricity used to be dirt cheap here.
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by napoleongl 4y ago
But thats the problem they are looking to solve… there are quite a couple of cold months in Finland and I think a large portion of their heating is electric/distict anyway so they might as well store heat rather than energy. This proba
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by napoleongl 4y ago
Both the Dutch and Swedes (and I guess it goes for Norway and Denmark as well) generally speak English. So much so that my colleagues from other countries find it a problem in that they get very few opportunities to learn Swedish; because e