mxab

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by mxab 6y ago
Couple of things: * Crawl apartment listings and get notified a lot faster than the official notification channels take. * Monitor the inventory/promotions of some vendors, e.g. for bikes, that are currently out of stock * Get notified
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by mxab 6y ago
Someone is building an FOSS, selfhosted Roam-Clone here: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
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by mxab 6y ago
Purely anecdotal, but a lot of people also invested in hair cutting machines and realized that doing their hair themselves isn't too difficult, especially when buzzing the hair quite short. I can imagine that a lot of them will continu
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by mxab 6y ago
You're forgetting that there are some businesses that have a special strategic importance for a country, for example airlines or defence-related stuff. The rules of capitalism don't really apply to those kind of businesses, becaus
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by mxab 7y ago
That sounds pretty standard for jobs in Germany, though. I get 30 days of vacation a year (!= sick days) that I'm required to take, otherwise my boss sends me angry mails.
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by mxab 7y ago
I once interviewed at a major German elevator manufacturer in the department that works on those traffic algorithms and from what I can tell, it is quite a complex problem for larger office buildings where you have a lot of traffic that mos
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by mxab 7y ago
Check out uberspace.de. They are great and use qmail.
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by mxab 7y ago
How do you run huginn? I've been thinking about setting it up on a raspberry pi 4 but I'm not sure whether that's a good fit performance-wise.
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by mxab 7y ago
Maybe also checkout beancount. It's a more opinionated and slightly simpler (h)ledger alternative, but it features an excellent web interface called fava.
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Ask HN: How to help someone learn to code?
6 points by mxab 7y ago|5 comments
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by mxab 8y ago
> EU means the 28 EU countries [...] as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. It's in the next paragraph.