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by realityking 7mo ago
Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.
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by realityking 7mo ago
> Can you point me to said list? There’s no list per-se. The MacBook Pro (2021 and later) is listed as supported. The M3 Pro and M3 Max are not listed as only supporting 60Hz while the M3 and M1 Pro are.
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by realityking 7mo ago
I don’t think so. My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz but it only has Thunderbolt 4. Also the base M4 doesn’t habe Thunderbolt 5 and it support 120 hz.
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by realityking 7mo ago
It‘s also generational. My 18yo sister in law is now applying for colleges and the word “application” immediately made her look for an app. That the whole process happened on a (not mobile friendly) website was rather surprising to her. (En
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by realityking 7mo ago
> For someone like me who already uses a password manager for everything, passkeys seem to add no security while reducing usability and control. One advantage of passkeys is that they’re phishing resistant. They’re bound to the website t
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by realityking 7mo ago
> There was an APAC trade treaty called the TPP that Rodham-Clinton/Obama pulled out of which would have done exactly that. I think you got your timelines crossed - it was Trump who pulled out of TPP (though Clinton also opposed it
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by realityking 9mo ago
I can only speak about Germany. Here the technical safety and exhaust check are mandatory every two years. The exhaust check is relative to what the manufacturer specified when they first started selling the car. No one is getting their car
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by realityking 9mo ago
For clothes Zalando is a big one. Beyond that it gets fragmented into companies serving only a few markets. Alza, Cool Blue, and Media Markt are some that come to my mind.
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by realityking 9mo ago
> This one bit me recently when I bought a package of budget light fixtures (in Canada, from amazon.ca) and then my licensed electrician informed me that he wouldn't be able to install them as they didn't have a CE mark. The CE
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by realityking 10mo ago
EV certs also showed the legal name of the company that requested the certificate - that was an advantage.
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by realityking 10mo ago
Estate is a common law concept. There’s no direct equivalent in German law.
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by realityking 11mo ago
Interesting thought process. I always liked the “master” branch to a “master recording” since most branches are created off master.
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by realityking 11mo ago
Many (most) companies don’t even manage to split their application across multiple cloud regions with the same provider. Doing it across providers is an order of magnitude harder.
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by realityking 11mo ago
The $199/month/zone Business plan already offers this feature.
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by realityking 11mo ago
I regularly fly from Munich, indeed more often than from Berlin, and occasionally from Frankfurt. This doesn’t really help me understand what makes it “one of the worst in the EU”.
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by realityking 11mo ago
I just clicked through to some of the listed ships and it appears they were all flying a British flag in 1982 before being requisitioned. It’s not at all clear to me a government would have that power about a foreign flagged vessel, even if
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by realityking 11mo ago
> To an airport that is one of the worst in EU and almost a decade late. The delay is inexcusable but the resultant airport seems pretty good. Why do you consider it one of the worst in the EU?
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by realityking 11mo ago
> completely empty apartment without even lightbulbs This is such an interesting cultural divide. As a German moving abroad, I was shocked to find ugly light fixtures already on the ceiling. I’d wanna make the space my own and not live w
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by realityking 11mo ago
> Pragmatically what does the US gain from joining? From a US perspective it would just be ceding power no? It could have created momentum for other major powers to join (e.g. Russia) and given the ICC broad authority to prosecute the cr
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by realityking 11mo ago
Saying things like “first genocide since WWII” makes me not take you serious at all. Just as a single example, Rwanda genocide in 1994 saw between 500,000 and 800,000 people killed. And it’s by far not the only one in the last 80 years.
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by realityking 1y ago
BMW’s online catalogue indeed reaches back to the 60s: https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/services/spare-parts/bmw...
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by realityking 1y ago
It took Microsoft over 5 years to release Internet Explorer 7. That’s what allowed the web to ossify around it. For comparison, Internet Explorer 6 came 2.5 years after 5 and so did 8 after 7.
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by realityking 1y ago
> it is not actually clear there is an antitrust issue in that market Preempting a (potential) future competitor from entering a market is also an antitrust issue.
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by realityking 1y ago
I had missed the announcement that this is now available for npm: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-07-31-npm-trusted-publish... Guess I know what I’ll be doing this weekend.
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by realityking 1y ago
No speed limit in Germany. You’re welcome do drive 300kph on the Autobahn.
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by realityking 1y ago
Which domestic competitors do you see them favoring with this industrial policy? Sennheiser might be the only European headphone manufacturer of consequence and I doubt they have this kind of pull.
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by realityking 1y ago
As discussed in the GitHub thread, strategy two is fundamentally flawed because there’s no other way to make an XML document human readable in today’s browsers. (CSS is close but lacking some capabilities) So site operators who rely on this
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by realityking 1y ago
Absolutely. But if the new company pays them to just recreate the IP the developed in the previous company - now much faster because they‘ve done it before - that‘s an issue. And patents protect against that. That said, a patent whose prima
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by realityking 1y ago
If you’re a one person shop you rarely run a limited liability corporation. If you just run your business an individual without a corporate structure this tax is not applicable to you.
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by realityking 1y ago
Its purpose is to avoid business owners to move to a low-tax place 12 months before selling their business and then move back to Germany another 12 months later, thus avoiding any tax on the increase in value of the business.

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