jhrozek

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by jhrozek 4y ago
For what it's worth this is quite similar to my experience here in Sweden except: - you speak to a nurse on the phone, not a non-medical receptionist (frankly, that sounds insane) - the Vårdcentral (equivalent to surgery) prioritizes c
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by jhrozek 4y ago
Even if people who took the low mortgage counted with a rate hike like yours they probably didn’t count with the energy prices hiking so much AND the food prices hiking so much AND all of this happening within ~9 months. It is truly bad for
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by jhrozek 5y ago
That sounds great, thanks I subscribed to it! Do you listen to any other similar podcasts you could recommend?
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by jhrozek 5y ago
This argument does not take into account the fact that the majority of Swedish population lives in cities. The Stockholm metro area has about 2M people out of 10M in Sweden. Then there’s Malmö and Göteborg.. Or if you turn it around, if Ger
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by jhrozek 5y ago
not OP, but yes, I backup both our Mac machines (TimeMachine) and my Linux machine (restic) to a Synology NAS that is in turn backed up to a cloud. I ended up using the Synology cloud because the setup was easy and they have a datacenter in
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by jhrozek 5y ago
I’m from CZ but live in Sweden. I don’t think there is any magic (no gene difference as someone here suggested..) Here’s the things I noticed that were clearly different between the two countries: 1. The rules were clear from the start and
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Sweden is producing its own domestic fighter jets to this day (Saab Gripen). It’s latest generation was unveiled in 2017. So they have the experience but my assumption is that developing a next gen fighter is just too expensive and wasteful
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by jhrozek 5y ago
I think it’s Finland. I’m in Sweden and I’m almost sure that my compensation is not public. What you can do IIRC is to request a credit check on someone which would contain the income and the tax paid but then the person is notified who req
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by jhrozek 5y ago
The factors you mention definitely don’t help but you’d be surprised how much of HBP is just genetics. I’m slim, run at least three times a week and ran a marathon two years ago, don’t eat much meat, rarely drink, non smoker and yet I have
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by jhrozek 5y ago
But isn’t it very common to account for the white coat syndrome? I was recently diagnosed with HBP and the process went like this: - doctor took the measurement, was very high - asked me to measure at home, call if it was still high (it wa
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by jhrozek 5y ago
What's a hiring day? A quick search found nothing.. Is it a LI initiative?
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Off topic but which Eastern European cheese did you find that you like? The only ones I even saw sold outside its are of origin were usually underwhelming. I’m originally from central/Eastern Europe and know very small and local produc
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Even worse: Unless you pay private insurance yourself, the quality of the free insurance (at your nearest vårdcentralen) is absolutely laughable. My family of 4 pays about 1800 SEK/month for private insurance to actually have a chance
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Not necessarily. I occasionally pair with someone, though it's not enforced or even suggested in any way, just a result of discussing a problem for long enough that one of us says "wanna pair on this?". We use either tmate (a
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Genuinely curious: What do you think would be the outcome of this reply? In my previous team, it would have been "yeah I'm sorry, but there is a fire, this customer is paying us XYZ and threating to take their bussiness elsewhere,
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Your comment reads as you don’t need a realtor as a buyer — and I agree to an extent. I always thought that the service was provided for the seller Things our agent did I would not have done or not done properly on top of the paperwork an
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by jhrozek 5y ago
I am Czech but I’ve been living in Sweden for the past 6 or so years. The biggest difference I see is consistency and trust between population and the agencies and government. Sweden did this: - we now have to do XYZ, this is the new norma
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by jhrozek 5y ago
Regarding 2. — are you sure the people with disposable income would buy a gaming console of all things? I mean it requires time to enjoy which is something a middle aged person trying to dance between family and work doesn’t have.. Also tho
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by jhrozek 5y ago
I think as usual when it comes to complex issues involving many people the truth will be somewhere in the middle. At the very least COVID has forced managers to get acquainted with managing remote teams — even if the team won’t be 100% remo
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by jhrozek 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat) Please pay attention to the previous submission about RH from this platform. The author seems to have an agenda and likes to stir controversy. Nothing in his post matches my experience.
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by jhrozek 6y ago
Yeah sorry if it sounded too entitled (otoh there is not much “entitlement” I paid for all this with my taxes several times over). I’m happy that you have he the chance to be with your kid more I just read your post as “it’s impossible for
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by jhrozek 6y ago
I also got back to fiction reading lately and I’m immensely enjoying it. But..do you really read two books A DAY?
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by jhrozek 6y ago
Congratulations! It’s funny to see your comment downvoted while just above a comment that says “dog” is not and gets a bunch of enthusiastic replies. HN demographics I guess?
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by jhrozek 6y ago
I’ll become a working western father soon and my paternity leave will be ~6 months regardless of pandemic. So I don’t buy the “no other time” argument.
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by jhrozek 6y ago
Nice list, that's pretty much what I've been doing. Especially limiting "news" (I would also emphasize their "quality" with quotes..) and social media. I feel so much better since I quit twitter, for some reaso
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by jhrozek 6y ago
But even if it's bad planning, as long as it's acknowledged and fixed, I get over it. The worst thing is IMO if the extra hours are required often and not reimbursed in some way. My previous team would consistently burn through pe
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by jhrozek 6y ago
According to a quick search, Thailand is #5 in road deaths per capita. So I don't think they fare very well. But your anecdote reminded me of what the instructors in my driving school used to tell us (20 years ago..I'm old..) - w
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by jhrozek 6y ago
Yeah, that's a really good point and I would actually love for my old stuff to be reused by /anyone/.
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by jhrozek 6y ago
I think your reply shows that you are already very skilled. Other comments mentioned replacing a diode -- I know what a diode is conceptually, but I have no idea how does it look in the appliance, where would I buy a new one or how to repla
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Microsoft Catalog Files and Digital Signatures Decoded(blog.cryptomilk.org)
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