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by sdoering 4y ago
Reminds me of the reaction of the company we bought our greenhouse tunnel from. Two years after buying it I wanted to install a windows in the rounded roof section of the tunnel. I made a mistake and cut the wrong section of the roof destro
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by sdoering 4y ago
Pitting employees against one another and framing the decision to leave (or not to burn the midnight oil unpaid) is a classic tactic to extract additional value (aka work) from the worker drones. This is done in any industry as long as ther
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by sdoering 4y ago
Wow. Four weeks off is the legal base minimum in Germany. Most companies provide at least 5 weeks of PTO. If competition for talent or unions are strong it is normal to have 6 weeks of PTO. On top come public holidays so that you regularly
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An Interactive Guide to Flexbox(joshwcomeau.com)
2 points by sdoering 4y ago|0 comments
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by sdoering 4y ago
If all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Thanks for this grandiose piece of satire.
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Static HTML Comments(sive.rs)
3 points by sdoering 4y ago|0 comments
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by sdoering 4y ago
Absolutely. I wouldn't want to paint the former GDR regime in a positive way. But I agree. It paints an interesting picture.
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by sdoering 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. It is disturbing how quickly things change in regards to the freedom and the liberal way we see naked bodies. While my example gas nothing to do with the internet it might still be interesting. When I grew up nud
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by sdoering 4y ago
Instantly thought of the same ressource. Still something I recommend regularly to people.
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by sdoering 4y ago
Offtopic: The fact that the site uses a consent solution that fakes a loading screen when trying to configure (read disable) tracking/advertising is an instant bounce for me.
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by sdoering 4y ago
Not far from the place where I live there is a small railroad in an old bog. It is not connected to any major railroad line. Just a tourist attraction. And available in the map. I am thrilled.
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by sdoering 4y ago
> If your new product is a choking hazard you're not guilty of manslaughter. But you are still imho (morally) responsible for the deaths occurring out of the use of your product (this is where we would probably disagree). Even if yo
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Queen Elizabeth II has died(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by sdoering 4y ago|1 comments
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by sdoering 4y ago
I only ever saw one of those being posted to hn quite some time ago. I must admit, that I found this specific example quite disturbing. The implied undertone was that all others should accommodate the author and change themselves to better
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by sdoering 4y ago
> What else can we do? Basically nothing. We are living in a simulation of "rule of the people". But the system is built so that basically nothing changes for those with actual power. Call my a disillusioned cynic but I believe
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by sdoering 4y ago
And? If somebody is not offering me a job because of some image of me on a nude beach I am glad they sorted themselves out for me. I would not want to work for people like that.
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by sdoering 4y ago
I tried to understand the segment analytics open source sdk coming from the apache unomi project's documentation. It seems unomi is using analytics.js syntax in tracking users. I still don't get the benefit, though. I know quite a
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by sdoering 4y ago
If you live near Hamburg, you sometimes realize that the people at Miniaturwunderland also have a great sense of humor. Traditionally, the area around their site is often flooded during storm surges. Then you can let your miniature cruise s
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by sdoering 4y ago
Exactly this. I just can't deal with this (I call it) SEOfication of the world. Content like this always rubs me the wrong way. Not genuinely written because it must be said, because of a deeply felt need to express oneself. But to pre
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by sdoering 4y ago
Why would anyone pay money to be in nature and put a fake optimized/idealized version on top of it? I just can't understand this need to remove reality from reality. But this may be due to the fact that I seem to become a grumpy o
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by sdoering 4y ago
I currently need (to know) it and would rather not. Especially in a multi cluster, kustomize, istio, argocd, Jenkins on bare metal over multiple physical data centers. To me with intermediate data dev ops knowledge this is quite a level of
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One Tag to Rule Them All: Introducing the New Google Tag(simoahava.com)
48 points by sdoering 4y ago|31 comments
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by sdoering 4y ago
Having industry doesn't necessarily mean destroying the environment. Regulations regarding emissions exist for a reason. But as long as industrialists are allowed to externalize the costs for "doing business" in a scheme to s
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by sdoering 4y ago
> 60 percent of respondents state that long wait times to check out are a major concern while shopping in a store. There is an easy fix: hire people to ensure that wait time is minimal by opening as much checkout isles as possible. But i
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by sdoering 4y ago
You mean like trying to drive through Germany in an electric car and having multiple standards/vendors for the chargers each with their own app, no cash, no maestro or credit card option. Especially funny when in an area with poor mobi
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by sdoering 4y ago
The question is if these ideas, already in place would have come to fruition without the suffering of people up front. We just can't know. I remember a similar discussion with my history professor and us students when talking about the
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by sdoering 4y ago
Okay Google, we need to talk. I am thankful for you to show your true colors. I am done with you. Thanks for providing me with the last straw I needed to cut ties. Who needs Google Workspace when Google (ab)uses us users as leverage for gai
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by sdoering 4y ago
With nuclear being 6.3 percent and the rest of this half of the circle being coal and a bit of gas.
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by sdoering 4y ago
As my understanding goes the models used are there to see what would be needed to replicate the current best know state of the universe, given what we know about its beginnings and as said its "current" state. Running very many di
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by sdoering 4y ago
First tool all files every hour. Virus scan on file change. Second tool scans also but I don't yet know the frequency.

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