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by tjansen 2y ago
You do. It's about 15% of the first 5775 EUR of your monthly salary. Officially it's split between employer and employee, so on your payslip you see only 8% if you are not self-employed. Co-payments are very low though. Dental is
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by tjansen 2y ago
I also live in a city, Duesseldorf, that's a semi-hotspot. Very crowded during trade fairs, Christmas markets and events like the Euro Cup; not so much in between. Visitors are definitely the reason why there are a thousand bars and st
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by tjansen 2y ago
The thing that most of tourism protestors don't see is that tourists are what makes their city attractive. They want an attractive city without all the crowds, but that won't work since without the tourists all the money is gone.
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by tjansen 2y ago
I believe the Zoe's successor is the Renault 5 e (the A290 seems to be a performance version of the 5e). The Renault 5 has advanced ADAS, since it's required for all new cars, and is, according to Renault, "packed with electr
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by tjansen 2y ago
The Citroen Ami is technically not a passenger car, but a 'quadricycle'. That's why it gets away with less tech. The Renault Zoe has been discontinued, replaced by the Renault 5 e, which has ADAS and lots of other electric fe
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by tjansen 2y ago
I guess that's why the Zoe has been discontinued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe Twizy and Ami are not regular passenger vehicles. I am sure there are less requirements for them.
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by tjansen 2y ago
Not sure about other regions, but in the EU, low tech cars are not allowed. Required safety systems include emergency breaking, emergency lane-keeping, intelligent speed assistance (car must use cameras or GPS to determine current speed lim
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by tjansen 2y ago
Ousting him had similar impact. I used to like Mozilla, but ever after that incident using Mozilla feels wrong. And I am not even a fan of Eich.
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by tjansen 2y ago
I think that article is just wrong. There are literally thousands of founders trying to find out what users want every day. It's just not that easy to find out what users want. There's more software available than ever before - an
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by tjansen 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for. My employer pays for the phone that the 2FA app runs on. So I am the proud 'owner' of a 2016 iPhone SE. (I don't use it for anything else but auth, of course)
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by tjansen 3y ago
At the very least, it knows solved problems and repeat the solution. That's better than pretty much all humans, since humans can't know all known solutions.
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by tjansen 3y ago
I found Andrew Ngs original machine learning course on Coursera really useful. Not sure whether it is still available. It actually forced you to work with machine learning algorithms, and you couldn't easily pass without having an unde
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by tjansen 3y ago
Wow, yes. I first read it 25-30 years ago, and had no idea who he was. But it's one of the few books that really changed my life.
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by tjansen 3y ago
"it has always been jarring to come home to the US, often from much poorer countries — in this case Bulgaria — to find that our infrastructure is infinitely worse" In a way, the infrastructure is poorer because the US are richer.
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by tjansen 3y ago
Everybody has a different idea of AI safety. There is the Skynet-scenario (don't let AI take over, by hacking or influencing humans). And there is the thought police (ask ChatGPT to say something nice about Donald Trump vs something ni
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by tjansen 3y ago
I think an underrated aspect of inflation is the need (or opportunity) of corporations to increase margins. Interest rates are going up, so the stock market expects corporations to increase earnings per share and dividends as well. Also, a
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by tjansen 3y ago
The scariest thing is that this happened a quarter of a century ago. Wow, I feel old! It was such a big deal back then, when everybody questioned Linux' viability.
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by tjansen 3y ago
See also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415786
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by tjansen 3y ago
Maybe. Side effects are quite likely. But the bigger the original problem is, the less likely side effects are worse.
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by tjansen 3y ago
We are not going down. At least it is very unlikely (I wouldn't trust climate models enough to completely rule it out). Once things are getting too uncomfortable in industrial countries, they will reduce temperatures using geo-engineer
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by tjansen 3y ago
Why is OOP different in that regard? Functional programs can also be spread over many files. The difference between FP/OOP and AOP is that with FP/OOP you know where to look. References outside the file you are currently looking a
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by tjansen 3y ago
I am happy that AOP never really caught on. The idea of modifying the behaviour of a class in a completely different place of the source tree has always horrified me. Makes it pretty much impossible to understand code by just looking at a s
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by tjansen 3y ago
NRW: one of my daughters has 2 hours per week, grade 1-4. But they changed it a while ago, and kids will now have English only in grades 3-4, but the number of hours is supposed to double.
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by tjansen 3y ago
> I'm sought after as an individual contributor, but I will never be in management unless I manage to kick my German use up a couple of levels. In international companies, especially US ones, this shouldn't be an issue. It may
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by tjansen 3y ago
I have found ChatGPT to give bad answers for more complicated questions. For example, the other day I encountered some TypeScript code that surprised me. Basically it was: class A { @SomeDecorator() x: string } const value: A = {x: "fo
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by tjansen 4y ago
I know what I am about to write sounds completely crazy, but I believe that after my Covid infection my reaction time improved a lot. Like, I accidentally drop something, and then I'm able to catch it in-flight. Or, I am occasionally p
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by tjansen 4y ago
That's from October '21. Vaccines were new back then. They worked well initially, but over time the protection vanishes.
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by tjansen 4y ago
Working for a non-tech company can feel different though, because they are less developer-centric. Especially in the early days I remember many weird conversions I never had before: why do you need this weird software on your computer, or e
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by tjansen 4y ago
I wonder whether the author has used the "dark mode".
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by tjansen 4y ago
Doesn't that also depend on the age? As a European visiting the US, I always found it amazing that so many mostly older random stranger just start conversations everywhere. Something almost no one would do in my home country. But I als

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