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by wjnc 3y ago
(The Netherlands) Pension contributions + employer taxes + office space. First two add up to about 70% on top of gross wages paid. Office space I’d estimate at € 2k per office worker. But indeed, laptops and MS software is cheap in comparis
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My wife and kids have educated me that skins in games are like dresses on Barbies and great fun. At great length my friends talk about motor cycle handholds, exhaust and other things I know nothing about. I liked the interior LED themes in
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I think this is a pretty drastic take. Shitty products are not the problem of marketplaces, fakes are. Fakes seem hardly a problem in the market for digitally sold games. Steam solves that problem quite well (Amazon as a counterpoint). I do
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Yes, multiple levels of governance were unaware of these actions, including the prime minister (a covert action that could count as a casus belli might be something to mention to the PM) and the committee where the leading representatives a
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I will send you an email next week! Thanks a lot for reaching out and your enthusiasm. The part about making EMs responsible for the financial investment or at least some inkling of the cost/benefit part of change budget has been one w
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Exactly the discussions I have in my firm as the financially responsible. We spend loads on run, change, manage the profolio agile (not even snarking on that, I’m pretty amazed at the delivery and how much of the delivery is adequately esti
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There is a book called “Seven checkmarks” in Dutch that argues that succes in the Netherlands is strongly correlated to seven checkmarks to have: male, highly educated parents, white, certain type of elite high school, university educated a
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It is pretty much how it works with controllers, accountants, lawyers, professor, actuaries and notaries. The local varieties and rules may differ, but most of them have entry requirements and a professional organization that is allowed to
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You're recycling the playbook of one of those crypto schemes. That's ancient history. Modernity asks for several LLM (Mistral, Llama 2, ChatGPT5) deciding which output is best and following that course. Typing parrots all the way
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Even Google had the courtesy to refund everything Stadia!
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Not to downplay, but when we peak, we’re long past peak per capita, so there’s hope that combined with peak population we would be on a path of increasing decrease. Half life of 120 years of athmosperic CO2 doesn’t make it an easy century.
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Lognormality of data is killing for the methods of social scientists. If I were to hypothesize the underlying mechanism then it would be that raw skill is lognormally distributed for those taking tests at all (at least participating in thes
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As a long time Dropbox client I can only cry at this level of folly. This company is asking 50x the price of Backblaze for a Linux client that just works, a Windows client that is even more crazy than Windows itself, a sync and a crazy amou
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Great tip! Thanks. Crazy that I put at least some thought in my backups and other security and stepped over this one.
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One of the bigger things I've ever built was a massive set of tooling based upon Excel + VBA + proprietary API. The old days ('00s). The best thing of developing in VBA was that the API was properly documented. Any function had do
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In my opinion IT people are often great at communicating clearly and with what in other parts of business would be called vision. They think ahead and see connections between processes and systems that non-technical management (even the pro
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/s - it’s pretty much a meme that BMW drivers don’t use signal lights and mirrors
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No not conflating storage with RAM. It’s the same underlying effect. Apple can any day drop an update of an OS which increases the lowest usable line of RAM/storage above that what they have sold in the past. So as with anything Apple
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At the end of the day Apple killed of the usability of the 32GB iPad with iPadOS 17. So future release expectations should be taken into account dealing with Apple. The economics are different if a stroke of Apple can diminish the life expe
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You get downvoted but are describing a nice trend. In the old days all you had were stores and poachers. Who was who was easy to tell and the poachers had to suffer a loss. In the modern days, where say novelty sneakers can be bought via in
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I can say I’ve worked through four of his books from front to cover. You’re right. The learnings are on top of (some) math. In my case actually quite a lot of math post-high school. But I think a 14 year old could finish the books as well,
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There’s two types of people in the world: those that build models and those that complain about the models than have been built. Seriously though, Allen is an instructor. These are educational pieces to bring a spark of understanding and cr
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If your high school math would only consist of working through the various books of Allen Downey you would get a very rigorous, basic introduction to: programming, computer science, statistics, computational and Bayesian thinking and a lot
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What is new is that 80% of current gamers is playing on a GPU on par the with the highest end model of about 7 years ago. Moore’s law might not be dead, but at least is economically forgotten. So older games might have gotten over the perfo
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Colored pencils might help? Plus a practice of manually copying last days open To Do’s to start fresh. I’ve done that for a while and if you finish most but not all of your daily tasks it can help get you into a groove. Getting things done
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The person also picked up a coffee. A coffee that was obviously $ 30 in order to get to that tip. Nice luxury coffee shop though!
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Thank you! I was hoping for a reply like this. The naming is actually (in big corp) a non-problem. I even think many finance workers dislike these models as well, so this isn’t even a bad chore. The models we run have tops a few hundred inp
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Haha, I hail from that part of the country. So I know Limburg is not just Maastricht. It’s the other way around I guess. Most parts of Limburg are proud not being cocky Maastricht. So yeah I see your distinction. I made it myself too. Solo
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Uh, if you’re bikeshaming, please be specific. I’d go so far as to say that the non urban, non western region of the Netherlands is more bike friendly than the urban western part. Noord-Brabant is pretty much one big bikepath, as is Limburg
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I wish someone built a tool to extract any model from Excel and help annotation and conversion to code with clean separation of input, logic, output. The amount of creepy legacy Excel is killing my organization.

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