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by wink 3y ago
How is it different than if you give your address as 1234 York Street or 1234 Miller Street and they will not assume you live in York or work for the brewery making Miller Lite... It's been 40 years, people could have wisened up how
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by wink 3y ago
That sounds cool but I'm not sure how realistic that would be for most people, esp. international. There are about 2-3 hotel chains I can think about here in Europe where I have had more than one stay, i.e. where I used the same chain
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by wink 3y ago
Now I'm curious, what countries were those hotels in? Never happened to me in Europe (from the top of my head: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Scotland, Czech Republic, Croatia) - just over 50 bookings/diffe
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by wink 3y ago
I guess this will never satisfy everyone, because my experience is the opposite. I've been using booking.com for about 10 years and the only things that kinda went wrong were when I didn't. So yeah, I've not had to test their
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by wink 3y ago
Also not sure how people who usually don't work there would create a vibrant environment, probably just as awkward to them as to the new people unless they were there for ages before WFH
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by wink 3y ago
Yeah that went from "WTF" to "yeah, well" pretty soon. I've heard about these regulations with local content quotes (doesn't France also have these?) and I can imagine no scenario where this $10M figure would h
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by wink 3y ago
We have this problem as well, but realistically - how often do you need or even look at the digital originals of photo books? Yes, the work invested would be lost but we let those print once and still have the original photos . As long as
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by wink 3y ago
German here. If it's digital, be extra critical, especially if the government is involved ;)
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by wink 3y ago
Would be interesting to have some hard data with comparison for other cities like Hamburg, Stuttgart, etc. (probably not Berlin, as it's too much of an outlier). How many hotels, how many beds, in comparison to how many people.
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by wink 3y ago
I don't disagree with most of what you said but (and I might be misremembering) but the "grew way to quickly" doesn't hold up. When I was in school I learned the number "1.3m people" and that was the early&#x2F
611.
by wink 3y ago
My problem is that not all cheap socks wear out quickly and not all expensive socks stay nice. It's a bit of luck and who actually counts? But that's basically the real problem. I want to believe decades ago there was more of a re
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by wink 3y ago
cycling on cobblestone sucks though, so not sure how that really works out :P (Let's assume there's no dedicated cycle path next to the cobblestone road, guess it depends)
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by wink 3y ago
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense to me. I'm 90% a bike person and still I am against a blanket 30kph speed limit in my city. I'm not against making all smaller residential streets a 30 zone, but the ring roads and the radial ones
614.
by wink 3y ago
EU resident here, just got the mail 3h ago. I don't remember changing anything in my profile for years and after logging in it looked like this: [ ] Full public profile [x] Community profile So apparently not enabled by default. Whil
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by wink 3y ago
We'd been using erlang and it was perfectly fine. Then we needed a REST API and I looked at how much work it would need to make it nice and chose Phoenix. For some reasons I still wrote a lib that I'm calling in erlang and because
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by wink 3y ago
I sat in one when it started burning on the highway, because of the carburetor :D I think it was a Renault 11 and I'm not exactly sure how old I was, probably a bit before I got my license, so late 90s.
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by wink 3y ago
bonus fact: multicast was still being done via broadcast in some switches ~10y ago, also extremely dumb :P
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by wink 3y ago
SnapStart for Java 17 was only released very recently, so if you are a bit early in the cycle it doesn't help. Don't even want to guess when it will be available for Java 21.
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by wink 3y ago
Not a fan of Electron or native-ified apps in general but I usually have a very easy decision matrix: If it's one of my main productivity drivers (IDE, Browser, E-Mail, Messenger, Note-taking app, whatever) it can be massive and I am w
620.
by wink 3y ago
Yes and no. I personally don't see a lot of difference in pairing remotely over sitting next to each other, as someone with a non-standard keyboard and layout I actually find it a lot easier, because I can watch and do some doc reading
621.
by wink 3y ago
Serious question: Are you a partner or owner of the office or just a cog in the wheel like most of us? I mean, if it was my company of course I would like the office I built to my standards.
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by wink 3y ago
On the risk of sounding ridiculously entitled, I'm not sure that helps. As someone kinda sensitive to being disturbed by people talking, the only solution would be an office with a door for every person, or maybe 2 people. Four is too
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by wink 3y ago
Isn't that what the cone of shame is for? And I think my arms are relatively longer than the feline ones...
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by wink 3y ago
Hm, I've never got a strong recommendation to replace bike tires after X years, unless you're going very fast on a road bike the failure penalty is not very harsh, bike tires don't just explode. I suppose they are durable i
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by wink 3y ago
Yeah this had me so confused. I can somewhat go with punctures (some people just seem unlucky) but I'm trying to think hard and the amount of tubes I've had to replace in the last 10 years is... not a lot (and it's over sever
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by wink 3y ago
The 2012 car I'm usually driving (if I am driving) has zero "modern" amenities - I consider electric window lifters to be state of the art! (and playing CDs, or plugging in via AUX) ;) Not even unlocking via remote. The trick
627.
by wink 3y ago
All the people I know don't have collars on their indoor cats... that's the part where I was left scratching my head :P
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by wink 3y ago
Because the cost/benefit analysis makes it perfectly viable or even cheap. Even as someone living in a non-US city with supposedly good public transport, the cost of a cheap car + gas is ridiculous compared to the benefits.
629.
by wink 3y ago
As a non-native speaker I wonder if this could still be of use because it's maybe better than using a dictionary. I think getting medical terms right is one of the hardest things to do in a hurry (like when visiting a doctor on vacatio
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by wink 3y ago
Please enlighten me. I'd accept "taking away people who would write extensions for FLOSS editors", I'd accept "taking people away who would buy an editor" but I really don't see how me using VS Code for a

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