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by pimeys 5mo ago
But in EU you don't usually get credit... The cards are often debit only. Yes, credit cards do exist but they are not like the american cards, and things like chargebacks are not super simple. I for example haven't had a credit ca
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Yep. The new thing is that you can pay your groceries with it in the supermarket early next year. What I was reading, you're supposed to be able to send money to people with it this summer, pay in internet shops late this year and supe
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by pimeys 5mo ago
It's called SEPA direct debit. For some reason people don't want to use their web bank to pay for things, so what you usually do is you do a SEPA direct debit contract and the company takes the money from your account every month.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
In Germany we have free instant SEPA transfers. What Wero solves is that you can send money without giving your IBAN number, which at least in Germany can be used to take money from your account. So you get standardized payment system where
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by pimeys 5mo ago
There's still the SEPA direct debit payments in Germany, so you basically give your bank details and the company takes the money out of your account once a month. These don't exist in Scandinavia, but are very much still the norm
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by pimeys 5mo ago
I think the biggest reason is sovereignty: we cannot risk US cutting our payment system if they for example don't give Greenland for them. I think this is the biggest reason to ensure you can pay with a local system in shops and restau
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by pimeys 5mo ago
In EU we have multiple national systems, but now they are trying to unify them to the IBAN system, so you can pay in the same way by opening your bank app and scanning a QR code: https://wero-wallet.eu/ My bank (N26) should
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Or in Berghain
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Here's a good report on a completely unspoiled playthrough which was an interesting read. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/c/wc...
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Play as you like. Just saying I did read spoilers as a kid when I played it and I feel I did not lose anything. I learned a lot of English and after all these years Nethack is still the most memorable game I played.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Or do what I did when I played this as a child: read the spoilers. Then start with Valkyrie, get the Mjollnir, wand of wishing, and a dragon scale mail as fast as possible. And a bag of holding and you get pretty far. It's a fantastic
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by pimeys 5mo ago
I don't know... I played Nethack 30 years ago a lot and always felt all the graphical updates were not worth it. There's something when you can easily see the whole map in one screen. And that scary pink h appears suddenly... Edit
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by pimeys 5mo ago
We pay per token in our company. It is not hard to spend $100 for one morning coding session. So thousands per month per programmer. The company finds it valuable enough to pay for, but if I ever paid these from my own pocket I'd look
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Interesting. GPT-5.5 implementation was simpler with Python and a QML code.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
It's huge in Berlin. First sunny and warm day this year and techno parties everywhere.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
I feel like this is so lazy bothering maintainers for it is not great.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
It's 1st of May here, so probably not doing it today. Looking into it a bit more when I get back from the parties. but it's basically just three files: QML for the UI, some python code to parse /proc data and a metadata file.
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Cool. Just want to chime in that I wanted to see how quickly GPT-5.5 can turn this into a KDE Plasma 6 Plasmoid. Took about 10 minutes and two dollars, and now I have a nice QML app showing the same information in my taskbar. Just wanted to
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by pimeys 5mo ago
Getting a job across the border is easier with LinkedIn...
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by pimeys 6mo ago
We just use GHA as a simple caller, and everything is coded in nix scripts. The best part of this is how you can call the CI run directly from your own machine and it works the same.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
I'm also surprised. I'm user 34967 and I was pretty far from Silicon Valley when I joined in late 2008.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
Yes Nalu. Me and my American partner still miss that place...
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by pimeys 6mo ago
I remember asking Gemini about that one famous 9/11 joke from late Norm MacDonald and it got really iffy about answering. Told it that hey I'm not american and in our culture it's not such a taboo. But yes, they do have simil
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by pimeys 6mo ago
Pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon... Biscuits and gravy... We had a place like that in Berlin about ten tears ago. Free coffee refills, free tap water on every table. That place sadly did not survive.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
I was born in Finland and 100% agree. Diners are something else. In Germany we have "American diners" where you pay for each cup of coffee. It's not the same.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
Last summer I was visiting Helsinki and they showed Prince's Sign O’ The Times live from 35mm film in that theater. They have these public votes every now and then where you can vote to see some movie from their archives. I never saw t
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by pimeys 6mo ago
The Baron in the Trees is mentioned so rarely always, but it was one of the most influential books of my youth. A fantastic read.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
I don't understand this. I've been running Linux for decades, and FreeBSD for decades. Love both systems.
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by pimeys 6mo ago
"I see the tests failing, but none of our changes caused this breakage so I will push my changes and ask the user to inform their team on failing tests."
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by pimeys 6mo ago
I would say booze rather than liquor. Liquor sounds too fancy.

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