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by wink 3mo ago
Not the person you replied to but they mentioned DACH + customers. As someone from Bavaria... I have several stories of coworkers who speak and understand decent German but put them on a phone or a in a room with people who speak in a thick
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by wink 3mo ago
See, you went the extra mile. Like the person you replied to (I assume), I clicked on the home page, pondered why one would not describe the app's purpose on the home page, failed to scroll horizontally with a mouse and closed the page
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by wink 3mo ago
I'm not in the US but it's been years since I had a coworker with more than 2 kids (or they're so many departments apart I simply don't know). None of my closer friends has more than one kid (ok, that might be a bit of a
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by wink 3mo ago
You have your timeline slightly wrong because GW1 (if we take dev time into account) basically launched at the same time as WoW - and WoW wasn't the first subscription MMO. I suppose if this was a major reason, EverQuest would be the o
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by wink 3mo ago
I think we're in the minority here. Or at least we absolutely were in the minority until 2020 when everyone started working from home, many kept it that way, and a somewhat dedicated (even if temporary) spot had to be found. But I know
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by wink 3mo ago
It's really weird how smoke breaks are still more accepted than coffee breaks in some companies. And for all the terrible chemicals they blast in the air, I don't remember ever having enjoyable small talk with strangers except whe
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by wink 3mo ago
Which law though? Which country/state/region? Does it even apply? We're talking about an open source project that is not being sold, with contributors from all over the world.
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by wink 3mo ago
> Very common is the case of some person who sometimes uses linux on their machine telling a system administrator who has thousands of machines under his responsibility what's what. I'm not sure that's a good argument beca
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by wink 3mo ago
It traded one set of problems for another set of problems. The people who are happy now don't complain (or are too new to init systems) and the people you hear are the ones who now have more problems than before. I suppose the majority
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by wink 3mo ago
I'm wondering what the problems can be because I've not experienced that (or heard it first hand).
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by wink 3mo ago
Last I checked you can be a 1man GmbH and it's not even that rare. I would say it is actually the "default" company type, by volume (not the 1man, but of all companies - although maybe "single person company" are mo
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by wink 3mo ago
Ok, so first of all, the UG was only introduced in 2008 - which even for some of us middle-aged people is more "it's relatively new" than "GmbH has existed decades before I was born". Second, not that I claim to be
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by wink 3mo ago
Mini USB was clunky, but how was it flawed? Unless you count data transfer rates as physical. Never seen one break.
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by wink 3mo ago
Clueless people in the correct position for whom only Windows is THE secure OS.
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by wink 3mo ago
In theory. I did that for someone (after jumping through QUITE some hoops) and apparently the next days some popup made the person click the upgrade button anyway. So yeah, probably just dark pattern + non-technical user but still.
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by wink 4mo ago
That's the wrong way to look at it. They are pricing their product at whatever çost and people pay them that it works. Most people contact support if it doesn't work. Does not matter if it's 10 bucks or 1000.
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by wink 4mo ago
Nope, not common, except for prepaid mobile plans which are kinda ubiquitous. I have never had to prepay anything for Hetzner, not 20y ago for servers and not for the last 5-7 years for Cloud VPS. Maybe for recent-ish signups? Some hosters
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by wink 4mo ago
You are underestimating how countries and towns can drag their feet. I live in Germany, in an apartment, in a large city. There's hardly any public charging infra in a 1km radius (if I discount the supermarket parking lot with ~3 charg
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by wink 4mo ago
Unfortunately San Pellegrino is owned by Nestle, but yes, while usually not buying any bottled water (just using our excellent tap water), it's also my favourite.
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by wink 4mo ago
I think they don't make sense if you don't care about the screen size - but nothing in that size really existed around 2010 iirc. iPad? OK, if you don't want a laptop and can live with it. Android tablets? worse. 11" - 1
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by wink 4mo ago
I bought an old Intel 12" Macbook off of my employer for that reason. 10 bucks, 9y old, still good enough for anything where an Android phone sucks (people who like using phones may disagree, it's ok). This looks cool but I care a
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by wink 4mo ago
I've been using Linux for about 27 years now and yet there are still some things I begrudgingly use Windows for (can also rephrase: one machine that does certain things). I own more (and have them running right now) machines with linux
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by wink 4mo ago
Writing it down by hand and then doing OCR on a high quality photo is a completely different ball game than writing it down and... not having it in digital form though. I'm not disagreeing at all here, I tried live latexing my math cou
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by wink 4mo ago
I wouldn't put my IRC friends through some of the stuff I've seen in school. /s
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by wink 4mo ago
I highly doubt this is unique. Some teachers (at least when I was in school) said stuff, repeated it, no problem writing it verbatim. Some others put it on the board for you to copy it verbatim, and later in uni.. most people definitely did
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by wink 4mo ago
> Home ownership is definitely a lifestyle choice first and foremost more than a financial one. Kinda depends on the prices. Where I live you can be lucky to find anything resembling a living house for under 1m EUR. First you'd have
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by wink 4mo ago
I think it is. My hunch is that in most EU countries the labor laws are good enough that, in general, it just doesn't become a problem. I don't even remember (been a while since I did lots of interviews) if you're allowed or
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by wink 4mo ago
What about when they ask you to prepare something that is definitely worded as you should talk 5min about a random non-tech (so kinda explicitly non-work) topic (with some examples like poems and songs iirc) and then they are completely wei
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by wink 5mo ago
I've never had the sort of problems I[0] had with React when using Angular (1 or 2), despite the apps having more complexity. Maybe that's just anecdata, but I hated them a lot less. (I am mostly a Backend dev who also does Fronte
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by wink 5mo ago
Totally misleading. Without reading all of it: MAYBE it means: it is/will be enabled for 130m people. And even those of us who have activated it, have hardly used it for the most part, or hve concerns.

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