nicbou

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by nicbou 11mo ago
It's a German airline promoting German culture. Hence the slow internet.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
This article reads like a LinkedIn post. This writing style is so grating.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
It's a thing I had to get over, because in the end, people were quite content with what I released and no one minded if I shipped an extra 25kb to the browser or did not have consistently rounded corners. I learned that lesson again wi
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by nicbou 11mo ago
My Roborock S5 or 6. I bought it from a stranger, put it on the floor and pressed the power button.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
This was pretty common in Central Asia, and I don't object. It keeps things affordable for locals and available for visitors. I don't mind paying for free museums in other countries, since I'm not subsidising them with my tax
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Klaus is a new classic for me. Love Actually is the best Christmas romance by far. Die Hard har har Christmas Vacation because my whole family knows it by heart. Home Alone is the same for a large swathe of central Europe.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
My water heater is dead so I only get room temperature water from the building’s boiler. Showering is dreadful. I am thankful that for the last 30-odd years I could always get hot, drinkable water just by opening a tap. I never even questio
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by nicbou 11mo ago
You would love Pask Makes.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I kind of disagree. The more I learn about manufacturing and crafts, the more I appreciate made objects. I used to skip old furniture in museums and now I look as close as I am allowed to. Same with art, cars, typewriters and most machines.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I found the whole thing so depressing from an environmental perspective. A completely pointless and manufactured hype cycle to push something with no utility whatsoever. Now some factories in China are pumping out labubu clones that will en
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I know it’s over because I have already seen Labubu clones sold in convenience stores next to sunglasses and other crap.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Use the subscriptions page for the channels you follow. I use Unhooked to make it my home page.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
They're not noticeable in that sense. There is just a homeless population where there was not before, and the existing hotspots have spread from a small street to a block or an area. There just seems to be more homeless people. The off
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I'm building my own, as a long-term investment. I paid €10 per month for Wachete but it did not quite do the job. At some point one website was rate-limiting it, so I lost access to a lot of my watched pages. Above all, configuring thi
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by nicbou 11mo ago
I visited my Canadian home towns for the first time in 3 years. I lived in Germany for 10 years. Both have a population of roughly 60,000 people. For the first time, both have a visible, noticeable homeless population. There are homeless e
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Page monitoring tools. I use them to watch for changes in German laws and other changes that affect my work. I wish there was a better, faster way to catch changes to a specific part of a page. The tools are expensive, clunky and not all th
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by nicbou 11mo ago
Substack has already started enshittifying.
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by nicbou 11mo ago
> this kind of power is illusory. If you ever use it, you lose it. But the threat of using it can tie up a significant amount of your adversaries' resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
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by nicbou 1y ago
The math I was taught had a lot of practical applications. Fractions for cooking, calculating tips, finance, taxes, etc. Not even that was justified to us, let alone the more advanced stuff.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Me telling you that I don't want to be tracked, no matter what your argument is, is as informed as it gets. You just don't like the answer so you feel entitled to ask again.
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by nicbou 1y ago
To be fair no one ever takes a moment to show you what the math is useful for. You're just expected to learn it because it's said to be important.
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by nicbou 1y ago
What makes reading archaic? Has short-form video content completely replaced reading functionally? Are there no ideas that 30 second videos can't communicate? What about the other half of reading, writing? Surely you will also need to
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by nicbou 1y ago
But then don't I need to find the specialist?
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by nicbou 1y ago
It is for me too, but in the end, practice made it so much easier. It took years and some guidance from a therapist, but it worked. “I want to meet more people” was one of those problems that took me year to properly work on. I think that t
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by nicbou 1y ago
Writing that comment got me to try Zalando, instead of slowly mapping out and visiting every store in my city. Maybe I wasn’t trying correctly. My friend also taught me to slowly gather an inspiration folder with things I like. I have one f
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by nicbou 1y ago
Great post! I find that this happens when I want to do something The Right Way, but don’t have a clear path, nor the energy to figure one out. For example I want a nice winter wardrobe, but first I have to figure out what I like, what is tr
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by nicbou 1y ago
I moved to Germany at the start of my career. Did Germany make me rich, or was it the country where I was born, raised and educated? Immigration makes you feel weird about those things. My presence here was very transactional for the first
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by nicbou 1y ago
My discounter supermarket has a vegan meat/cheese section a few meters wide. No one will bat an eye if you buy from it. It's pretty normalised. Germany is very vegetarian-friendly.
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by nicbou 1y ago
> The violation of AI policy is regretted. That's a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.
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by nicbou 1y ago
This one is hilarious

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