vander_elst

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by vander_elst 9mo ago
Germany is incredibly under developed in the digitalization plus the amount of red tape to do even basic things is also very large as well. Getting rid of these things takes a lot of will power and at the moment there is very little.
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
Well from my experience on a Mac or in iOS you either adapt to their workflow or you leave the platform, I don't think there's a middle ground there. From my experience Linux is actually on the total opposite side, which might be
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
> Any other operation will be written on paper in a step by step well phrased manner. Same exact experience, I cannot get my parents to think about what they are doing, they just follow the steps; if an icon changes or if the button is i
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
Probably yes at least to a certain level. At the moment to many countries are relying too heavily on a single point of failure, there should be independent alternatives so that is possible to have more and better competition and in case the
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
I had a couple of Pis that I wanted to use as a Media center, I always had some small issues that created a suboptimal experience. Went for a regular 2nd hand amd64 with a small form factor and never looked back, much better userspace supp
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
Why cannot cloudlflare just apply a filter to the incoming requests and if the IP is belongs to am Italian AS they just drop it?
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
If I could I'd retire tomorrow, I have so many projects I would like to take on, I have the feeling I could fill 3 lives with them: gardening, learning math, system programming, wine tasting, carpentry, sport, traveling etc... There ar
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by vander_elst 9mo ago
In general the S-Bahn in Munich is a massive s*t show I can report more info about this if needed. However, in the S1 going to the airport (the train you took) it is quite well described that the train splits and it's both on German an
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by vander_elst 10mo ago
IANAL, but it seems it's a technicality on how the conditions of the contract changed? IIUC they forcibly changed the contract without notice. If they would have sent a notice first and then let the consumers decide whether to get out
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by vander_elst 10mo ago
The car was not really idle, it was driving and fast. It's more like it crashed into the garage and burned it. Btw iirc, even IRL a basic insurance policy does not cover the case where the car in the garage starts a fire and burns down
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by vander_elst 11mo ago
How I can imagine it works: Amazon only provides the packaged software, the infra and the ops are officially driven by a 100% European company. AWS probably provides support, but they don't have the encryption keys not any access to t
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by vander_elst 11mo ago
I understood what's going on in this article only after reading the paper. It's might be good to define things s bit better in the article or say that the paper is a prerequisite for reading the article
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I wonder if for issues 1 and 2 a small amount of unsafe code could just solve them. At least for 1 this would seem quite achievable.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I think that also macs suffer of the repairability disease, keyboards issues are relatively common and to change the keyboard they whole thing needs to be torn apart. Additionally, even the best component are also not immune to gravity and
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Honest question, how is it possible that Macs are so much better in terms of hardware? Context: I use a MacBook at work and a Lenovo with Linux at home and now I might need to change my personal laptop, but I struggle to find (hardware) rea
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Nice idea, awesome implementation, but please no. I now need to learn a new UI and UX, I have to to organize windows inside my windows. I want websites to be more like a block of text rather than a super fancy interface.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Always initializing with a default and no algebraic types is an always loaded foot gun. I wonder if the people behind golang took inspiration from this.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I like the approach! I'd be interested in reading more. I might not fully adopt it but I m on a similar wavelength about stability. I don't want things to change unexpectedly, I just want my tools to just work consistently without
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Set up a VM on AWS/azure/gcp/... in the desired cell, install a VPN server and done. Once you have automation in place it takes ~2 minutes to start, you can run it on demand so you can pay per minute.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I find it pretty sad that for some banks the CSV export is behind a paywall.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
It might sound absurd, but on paper this should be the best way to approach the problem. My understanding is that PDFs are intended to produce an output that is consumed by humans and not by computers, the format seems to be focused on how
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Where do German pensions come from?
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I also think that the keystrokes are strictly less and the loop feedback is faster and more robust, but I'm curious to read different points of view.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
Maybe a sidetrack, but I find it difficult to see the productivity boost in asking an LLM to move some files rather than just do it myself. Is this a common use case?
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I've been using JJ as my daily driver for ~6 months. It is so nice to be able to immediately rebase everything on top of everything, undo last command, restore a previous state, ignore and postpone conflict resolution. It is such a boo
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I think the workflow in JJ is a bit different in this case, you can try to have a base commit `jj new -m 'base'`, then create an anonymous commit on top `jj new`, then make some changes in the anonymous commit and when you are rea
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by vander_elst 1y ago
I think the article makes sense for me. IMO, a 10x decrease in mental load at an affordable price would be the key. Examples: * You can bring and pick up the kids at the daycare/babysitter every day of the week, every time of the day.
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by vander_elst 1y ago
> parsing of strings that do not remotely resemble actual dates. But this is somehow my point, what were the reasons that lead to parse those strings as dates. I guess the answer is usually legacy, but in that "legacy" why did
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by vander_elst 1y ago
One thing I wonder is how could this have happened. It seems that this what a herd of absolute beginners would come up with: strong inconsistency and a bunch of heuristic that are not composable. But I imagine this was not the result of a b
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by vander_elst 1y ago
It might be nice on paper, but I think that in the Munich implementation there are quite some issues given that there is only a single track connecting Pasing (basically Munich West) to Munich East. In the last years almost every weekend

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