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by retired 7mo ago
They only do this if communication with the debtor is impossible. If this happens to you, you can contact the government, schedule a payment plan for your debt and then they give you a passport with a 12 to 24 month validity.
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by retired 7mo ago
Had to look it up, it is 2.3% for 2026 which is a bit below the Euribor 1 year rate. Between 2017 and 2022 it was 0%. Loan forgiveness happens after 35 years so for most academics that is about 10 years before retirement. Forgiveness also h
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by retired 7mo ago
People in The Netherlands have done this. They go to S/E Asian countries to skip out on a €30,000 debt. After a while your passport becomes invalid which makes travel very difficult. And with the outstanding debt you are not able to ge
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by retired 7mo ago
You have a gateway / platform for that. You aren’t exposing those services to the internet.
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by retired 7mo ago
Somewhat retired last year. Looking for something new to do. Basic Java micro service with Spring Boot ands it is three hours of coding to write and read from a database and expose over REST interface. Two hours for a tests. Rest of the tim
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by retired 7mo ago
A new micro-service in two days is easy with an IDE and autocomplete. But now with AI the PM will likely push to have it in production in a day. Which is possible, but quality will be questionable.
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by retired 7mo ago
PMs now expect that you can create a Java micro service that does basic REST/CRUD from a database and get it into production in a total of two days. That is hard if you are working in Notepad and have to write your own class import sta
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by retired 7mo ago
The problem is that since AI employers now expect developers to write code faster. Similar to when IDEs and autocomplete became common.
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by retired 7mo ago
I have decided that I will only write artisanal code. I’m even thinking of creating a consultancy agency where people can hire me to replace AI generated code.
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by retired 7mo ago
In the town where I grew up in they banned cars and now you are only allowed to ride a horse. So your analogy is actually happening in real life.
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by retired 7mo ago
Isn’t Dex similar to connecting a monitor to an M-powered iPad? Perhaps that will one day come to iPhone.
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by retired 7mo ago
I had Apple Care on my 2006 MacBook. It covered around €3000 in repairs. Especially the logic board replacements added up fast. Couple of palm rests as well though that was also covered by extended warranty. I paid $50 for that Apple Care t
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by retired 7mo ago
I always thought that website was a daughter company from Apple for liability reasons. Never knew it was a third party. TIL.
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by retired 7mo ago
If you account for the taper, the Neo has about 50% more volume than the 12” I sometimes travel with backpack only (cheap European airlines) and that is a big difference.
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by retired 7mo ago
Android market share in Europe is dropping, hasn’t been 70% in a while and it’s closing in on 60%.
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by retired 7mo ago
Europeans have checks as well, so that doesn’t really makes sense.
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by retired 7mo ago
An app on your phone can be more secure as you are using the device itself as a hardware token.
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by retired 7mo ago
> rectal probe electroejaculation Rectal is your butthole.
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by retired 7mo ago
Imagine being brain-dead after a serious accident, lying in a hospital bed on life support. And your family gives the go-ahead for the doctors to zap your butthole to collect your semen so they can reproduce you. How did this ever pass an e
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by retired 7mo ago
15 years ago I couldn’t file my taxes on a Mac. That is the type of applications I am talking about. For games I have a console.
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by retired 7mo ago
A Mac isn’t really a walled garden though. You don’t even need an Apple account to use one. Unlike Windows.
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by retired 7mo ago
15 years ago this comment would have been a troll. Nowadays it’s solid advice. The current Mac line-up is a step ahead of the competition. App compatibility is hardly an issue anymore with the exception of some very niche software.
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by retired 7mo ago
Fork it to Slobian and let the clankers go to town creating, approving and merging pull requests by themselves. Look at the install base to see what people prefer.
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by retired 8mo ago
When I was a broke student I would buy MacBooks with broken palm rests for a discounted price, drop them off at Apple for a free repair (under extended warranty) and flip them for a profit. Three hours of my time turned into €100 profit. Mi
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by retired 8mo ago
From all those long sessions playing Call of Duty and Quake 4!
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by retired 8mo ago
Unscrewing the bottom on the generations after this gave you access to nearly everything. Which was vastly superior for most repairs. Getting to the logic board or AirPort card on the polycarbonate MacBook took significantly longer. For the
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by retired 8mo ago
Just buy it on credit and then delete the app.
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by retired 8mo ago
The 2008 MacBook Air was 1.5x lighter than the other 13" MacBooks in the line-up. Nowadays they are all about the same weight.
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by retired 8mo ago
Perfectly cloning someones handwriting so that it is indistinguishable in all circumstances is generally considered not fully possible
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by retired 8mo ago
You can verify it by checking the authors handwriting, the color of their ink and how the tip of the pen has indented the paper. That is difficult to spoof with AI.

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