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by halper 13d ago
Very few men lactate, that is absolutely true. However, in our family it is the mother who has the drive and career ambitions, which is why the child has fallen asleep on the father instead, including when said child was but a few months ol
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by halper 1mo ago
The "Länder" in Bundesländer is plural of Land, which is the same land as in "land of the free" and would be translated to "nation", "land", "country" or "state" depending on conte
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by halper 2mo ago
For me, it has degraded to the point where I simply presume that no significant promises are going to be kept after the election anyway. The respective parties will promise what they think they need to get the votes, and will then target wh
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by halper 2mo ago
My favourite feature was using TTS to learn how to read very very long numbers …
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by halper 3mo ago
Can it not just be that what happens in stuffy meeting rooms is boring? Opening the windows changes the temperature, the noise levels, perhaps the light levels ≈ adds some novelty, which makes you feel a bit more awake.
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by halper 3mo ago
Yes, you are correct. As the SI brochure states: "Compound prefix symbols, i.e. prefix symbols formed by the juxtaposition of two or more prefix symbols, are not permitted." Unfortunately, almost no one uses SI units and/or p
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by halper 4mo ago
Last time I resigned, I got to keep the laptop and got to promise I had deleted everything work-related.
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by halper 5mo ago
Is it not just the same as when people suddenly started having "an ask"? It is some kind of in-group speak that it is important that you adopt just to show that you are with the times.
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by halper 5mo ago
It is a good point and I also struggled with that bit somewhat. It is different in so many ways, have different symptoms, does not respond (as well) to the same medication, and affect different parts of the brain. The jump from there to &qu
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by halper 5mo ago
Sometimes I have been in situations in life where I think I must be insane, because everyone else sees something I do not. I got a bit of that feeling reading this article.
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by halper 6mo ago
During the most expensive month in recent years, the price has (on average) been <150 öre/kWh. Like prices of dinosaur soup at the pump, the majority of the cost for an individual end consumer is not the electricity itself. On top o
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by halper 6mo ago
I am also quite interested in psychology, but at least in my realm it would take something like 5–7 years of studies etc to become a licensed psychologist, if you want to work directly with humans. That is quite the investment and I am not
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by halper 7mo ago
Through luck and happenstance, I have rarely needed to look for a job before; I have always come across new opportunities through my network. Usually it has been a recommendation/referral + one or two interviews and then I have receive
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by halper 7mo ago
I cannot be alone in feeling that titles (within "tech" in particular) are almost completely arbitrary? What constitutes a "senior", "lead", "principal" and "staff" X, respectively, has so m
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by halper 7mo ago
Wonderfully written. If I have had too much caffeine I also look forward to the time when it burns off: "finally the tension on the harp strings eases, and one returns to the relaxed, meandering, simple-minded and cryptogamous life of
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by halper 7mo ago
It is probably even a hyphen-minus, so called because on most early keyboards one character had to do to represent both a hyphen and a minus. In Unicode, there is a separate code point for an unambiguous hyphen. There is also a non-breaking
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by halper 7mo ago
Vodka that expires must be the epitome of enshittification!
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by halper 9mo ago
I always thought it was because it is more obvious how to pronounce "postgres" than "PostgreSQL".
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by halper 10mo ago
Well, methamphetamine is very rarely (never?) prescribed for ADHD. Ritalin is methylphenidate.
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by halper 10mo ago
It is a proper noun, in contrast to the other internets. If there is a guy called Guy you would not call him guy.
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by halper 10mo ago
I am not so sure that the schools necessarily should make it their problem. Sure, compulsory primary schools should try pretty damn hard to drag pupils along. However, once one gets to the tertiary level of education, one should (1) have th
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by halper 10mo ago
Is that not because there is not much to do, and therefore people use .unwrap() — because crashing is actually quite sane? Correctness trumps ergonomics, and the default should definitely be poisoning/panicking unless handled. There co
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by halper 10mo ago
If we are talking about BNW, which was written in 1931, then that book predates benzodiazepines by 25 years or so. Perhaps you are thinking about barbiturates?
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by halper 11mo ago
I travelled on that train for a bit somewhat later, in 2018. The immigration officials remained, but very few of the refugees.
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by halper 11mo ago
Between phases, it is 400 V; between phase and neutral, 230 V. There are five "lines": three phases, one neutral and one ground.
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by halper 11mo ago
Ah, sweet memories. Grumpy German border guards boarding to loudly demand papers, but if you were slow to pull the ID card out they just kept walking. Semi-open border policy ;)
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by halper 11mo ago
Have been sketching on what sounds like some of your concepts: recipes as trees with actions done to ingredients with timing and so on. I will sign up as a beta tester! :)
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by halper 11mo ago
How is that hard? They put 90% of their estimated revenue as net revenue (post-McK tax) in the budget? Seems about as hard as the underlying problem, which is guessing ("forecasting") the revenue.
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by halper 1y ago
I liked how you phrased that: "promises of future … you can't compete with". That happens so often, and strangely the argument that those promises have never become real the previous 26 times never works. The glorious future
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by halper 1y ago
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