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by wirrbel 5y ago
interesting, I just discovered a Touch Bar daemon process consuming > 4 GB of memory on my 8GB MacBook, a clear leak.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
When I visited the streets were fairly dark at night. Albeit beautifully renovated houses. My cousin who lived there said that everyone rented Appartments that would not face the street because there were much more appartments available tha
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Emacs' user base is probably larger than any time before. Granted, market share dropped because many people are never exposed to Emacs (or vim), directly start with PyCharm, VSCode, etc. The question is: Can emacs increase its market s
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by wirrbel 5y ago
so what do you suggest, that the person you were replying to just stop the pandemic?
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by wirrbel 5y ago
If I found time at work for 3-4h of concentrated, uninterrupted programming I would be happy.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Stop bullshitting. As a parent the dynamics are totally different especially with Covid measures still in place. My child has not been to pre school for 4 weeks due to sickness and daycare group being closed because of Covid incident. And t
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Reduced inhibition does not support the thesis of increased agression, unless you define aggression to refer to "aggression shown". But I'd overall turn the 'cultural' aspect a little further even. I think I have ob
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I grew up in Germany in a household that never used nasal decongestants, probably out of some fear that they might be dangerous. When in Canada a doctor told me to buy some pseudoephedrine pills to treat a clotted ear and I found the experi
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by wirrbel 5y ago
If your meeting conduct depends on seeing a talking head, something is off. I can recognize who is talking in an instant because I know the voices of people Interviews, granted, getting to know a person it’s good to see a face. For most mee
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by wirrbel 5y ago
You seem to equate a 'report' button with a terror regime. So, is the federal republic of Germany which allows you to report something to the police for investigation also 'like the GDR'?
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Have you lived in the GDR? How can you draw this comparison?
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I think it really gets interesting to look at this topic from a cross-cultural comparison angle, because really its the only perspective that allows you to gauge a certain variance, and what might be expected for a society in a liberal demo
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by wirrbel 5y ago
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Where is this 'microservices is not the answer to everything' club? I want to sign up.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
The Poisson distribution was first described discussing the incidence of suicide in children in Prussia, if I recall correctly. On the main matter: Societies need to cater more and better for the interest of children. All too often all othe
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by wirrbel 5y ago
This is so strange. I have 40 hrs /week (registered, if I work over time I can take days off to compensate for) and 30 days of vacation per year (on doctor's note sick days are not taken from the vacation-days account). It's
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by wirrbel 5y ago
-kunde is the German equivalent to greek "-sophy" and corresponds to 'knowledge'. Geography is Erdkunde (as a school subject). Nowadays mostly used in pedagogic context (schools) or it can also sound old-fashioned.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
If I meet with people over a jira ticket, the notes will go in a comment on that ticket, etc. this is not a contradiction. Also, I don't think that most meeting notes will or should be read in the far future, but I think they are inval
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I am also confused. Roughly speaking there have been for decades now recommendations to go for unsaturated fats and oils, attributing saturated fats for coronary heart disease. The stop-eat-seed-oils crowd kind of says that maybe that advic
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by wirrbel 5y ago
It helps to screen share your notes so everyone is on the same page of what is written down which keeps everyone from "exaggerating" in the meeting and being later on surprised about that what they said is in your shared notes.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I, too, am not excited to take over maintenance of someone else's pet project, whose quality I am not capable assessing (and the "fun of starting" gone). Coworker: We'll use Docker, Minikube dev setup,@#$%@.io and Unicor
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by wirrbel 5y ago
A while ago there were reports that they try to restore papyri-turned-charcoal from Pompeyi. The problem with books buried in Rome is, that Rome isn't exactly a desert with natural conditions to preserve books.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I think the most present danger for books and preservation efforts today is of course deletion of digital records, but for books we have more printed copies everywhere than ever. But, the danger is really high that they will be all thrown o
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by wirrbel 5y ago
that's why I send around meeting notes regularly. THEY hate it.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
If they would get a German work contract in their German office, this would have been borderline illegal.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
In Germany you can also go to court and certain phrasing needs to be dropped according to the courts. The valuable piece of information in an Arbeitszeugnis that it will tell you is, if the person "verlässt die Firma auf eigenen Wunsch
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Fizz-Buzz (or equivalent tasks) are just a quick way to tell whether the minimal basics are met. I don't ask Fizz Buzz but give problems that are only slightly more complex. I'd consider it to be a "handshake". If the ba
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by wirrbel 5y ago
> In one of them, I demoed a personal project and showed bits of its code. I think it would've been quite condescending of them to have me do a fizzbuzz after I've shown them 10k lines of working code and its credibly your own
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by wirrbel 5y ago
> Is it not legal to verify references for a permanent position, in Germany? Not a lawyer, but I think you cannot call up a former employer. IIRC there are several legal reasons that make it almost impossible and too much of a hassle for
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Someone I hire as an employee I want to have a good understanding of their capabilities, because - let's face it - letting someone go is not a good option esp. culturally in Germany (it would still be possible within first half year &q

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