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by wink 2y ago
Not so fun fact: Corporate Germany also uses week numbers and some paper pushers and some project managers have adapted, most nerds (incl. me) will never come to terms with it and have to look it up once a month. Also what do you mean by &q
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by wink 2y ago
I'm not trying to be confrontational, but even "business logic" inside a project is often clearly separated between "library" and "glue, aka controllers or whatever" - and that's kinda the point where
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by wink 2y ago
"If things were different for a lot of people, it would be easy". So it's not easy.
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by wink 2y ago
If everyone supported it, IPv6 wouldn't be hard. Working with IPv6 if you are not entitled to switch out every vendor, every piece of hardware, every piece of software that is lacking.. that's the hard part. In short: reality is h
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by wink 2y ago
I'd used nginx for work stuff for close to 10 years and still didn't trust myself writing configs from scratch without comparing with known-good ones. I never had that problem with Apache, so take from that what you want. I'm
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by wink 2y ago
That screen was localized, so German windows had it translated. I think it was at HAL 2001 where I bought a black hoodie with the German version of the orange text "You can now safely throw away your computer" from the CCC merch s
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by wink 2y ago
I don't even want to guess the percentage of couples where one partner pays for (both, maybe three) phones/landlines, and that's ignoring all children, underage or not.
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by wink 2y ago
Non-native speaker here and I learned the word gaol from some fantasy literature only a couple years back.
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by wink 2y ago
I don't get how or why it seems to have gotten worse in the last 20-25 years. I was a very online teenager at the end of the 90s and I have formed friendships that last to this day. Or at least staying in touch. And it's not just
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by wink 2y ago
counterpoint: I've been running my own mail server for 20 years and until a while ago it was: Install Ubuntu LTS, install the needed packages, don't touch the machine except for security upgrades until LTS runs out and I would (af
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by wink 2y ago
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). Probably because I have WebGL disabled in this browser. Not exactly sure what they're doing with it on the landing page, maybe
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by wink 2y ago
I am sorry if I misinterpreted this - I guess it's subjective. I'm not going to dig through old mails now but I'll take your word for it.
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by wink 2y ago
Pinboard: Settings -> Backup -> "HTML (legacy Netscape format almost everyone can read)" Linkding: Settings -> General -> Import "Import bookmarks and tags in the Netscape HTML format. This will execute a sync whe
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by wink 2y ago
Not the one you replied to, but I can check later if I don't forget, but I happily switched to linkding (without importing) and I don't miss anything.
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by wink 2y ago
I think I got a couple sternly worded emails that sounded like "I can't make you pay, but you should pay now".
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by wink 2y ago
I think in this case it's about a beta of unreleased software (or right about launch), so that doesn't even apply. But I think the main factor is that it's not-business software by a relatively popular (and well-liked) "
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by wink 2y ago
To be fair I have 2 mechanical keyboards that work with Windows and Linux but not with Macs. cf https://deskthority.net/wiki/Noppoo_Choc_Mini#Compatibility
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by wink 2y ago
I don't use this, but as an example: I like to use a US Intl keyboard layout for programming but as I am German I need äöüß a lot - so I've used a custom keymap for caps-aous for years (and a couple other things). Yes, you can get
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by wink 2y ago
not sure psycho counts, as it works in every language that uses the greek? latin? base. Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.
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by wink 2y ago
Depends on the jurisdiction, for example Germany is pretty strict. If A marries B, then either both keep their names, both will be A or both will be B or one or both will be A-B or B-A. No other outcomes are possible, and if one of them was
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by wink 2y ago
I faintly remember when the kernel config asked you if you wanted both `a.out` and `ELF` support. No one says that single binaries compiled in the last 10 years might be usable without a VM in another 10 or 20 years. And no, 20 years for th
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by wink 2y ago
By "go out of your way" you mean "trying to copy the contents of any "system" folder in your HOME to a new machine? :)
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by wink 2y ago
I don't remember, but if it can do ESC-. (which IntelliJ's can't and which I try to use multiple times per week, I'm not learning) it's less bananas than that one, for me.
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by wink 2y ago
That has nothing to do with newer folks, more with interest in certain topics.
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by wink 2y ago
Why does it matter if they are publicly traded? Outing myself as European here, but we've had a lot better results with privately owned businesses that are not 100% beholden to grow for their shareholders. No unicorns, but sustainable
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by wink 2y ago
The common opinion though is that if T-Systems runs it then no way of external knowledge will fix anything.
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by wink 2y ago
I reread that part of the post and this makes me disagree even more (not with you): > The more that build software, the more who will appreciate using great software. Cooking at home makes you appreciate going out to eat. Like.. no, I do
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by wink 2y ago
I think the cooking metaphor is actively wrong. Cooking (manually) takes skill (let's say that's a one-time thing you need to have acquired in the past) and then it needs time (repeatedly). The outcome (food) is a temporary benefi
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by wink 2y ago
Never heard "Oggs" so ymmv. Fully agreed on the hw support though. I had an mp3 player discman knock off, later cheap mp3 players and none of them played Ogg Vorbis, I want to say one of my Nokia dumbphones in the mid 00s could do
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by wink 2y ago
Only guessing but my first thought was about how you have addition and multiplication and they both work for different types of numbers. But not in the generics/C++ template sense, more like working on Sets and Rings and other algebrai

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