schlowmo

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by schlowmo 1y ago
At least we also have LLMs to generate our status updates during outages of our SaaS products while groping around in the dark.
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by schlowmo 2y ago
I know it's mainly a joke but... If I stop working at my desk to go out for some drinks and return to my desk afterwards, this hopefully also means that I stopped thinking about desk-problems for a while. I found solutions to problems
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by schlowmo 3y ago
Thanks, today I learned about "ersetzendes Scannen". I just checked and it's exactly a decade (2013) since it's allowed which coincidetally is the year when I started working as a freelancer (and I have to care about suc
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> Definitely, Germany strongly believes that a document that hasn't been a physical piece of paper at least once can't be real. I'm sorry to tell you that is a an oversimplification and especially for documenting expenses
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by schlowmo 3y ago
TIL bedbug sniffing dogs are a thing. I would never dare to train one, spilling the training material at the wrong place would be a very unpleasant experience. After reading just the bedbug headline I couldn't imagine any non-shady use
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Garbage In, Toxics Out(theintercept.com)
49 points by schlowmo 3y ago|23 comments
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> Don’t use flowery prose. I find this advice kind of ironic. The most people I know don't use flowery prose in their cover letters because they consider themselves some kind of overachieving artists, but because it appears to be ex
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by schlowmo 3y ago
There is also the temporal_tables extension [0], which was already discussed in HN. [1] [0] https://github.com/arkhipov/temporal_tables [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748096
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> “The city teams only know how to use Excel, just make it like Excel.” > “Why can you see the formulas?” > “You said to make it just like Excel.” I can't keep up with the espionage story that followed but I had this conversat
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by schlowmo 3y ago
PDF is such a weird format. Not so long ago I had to write some Java code for manipulating PDFs: find a string, remove it and place an image at the former string position. I should have known better as I thought "Well, how hard can tha
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by schlowmo 3y ago
I'm not quite sure what happened in my brain when I read the title (probably some kind of lost in translation, translating between my mother tongue and back again), but I didn't expect a spinning device. But when I saw the first
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> Normal English: “Commuting to work” > Death Metal English: “TRANSPORTATION OF THE WAGEBOUND UNTO THE NEXUS OF PERPETUAL QUOTIDIAN ENSLAVEMENT” I can see that one play out very well in a job interview after realising that the job isn
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> What’s also important is not trusting a chiropractor While I totally agree I would extend this recommendation to not trust anyone who does spinal manipulation without proper knowledge, since practioners of quackery use a lot of job tit
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by schlowmo 3y ago
This is no powerplant-level story, but sometimes there are high startup currents were you didn't expect them: On one of my first IT jobs at a big manufacturing company my team was tasked to find out why there are regular power outages
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by schlowmo 3y ago
I guess that people who never hit a deer think you're just joking, but I know what you mean. It's not just that they blend so well in their surrounding, but if they're moving very fast they can jump quite some distances. I hi
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by schlowmo 3y ago
Not so long ago I had to deal with the Austrian version of a Social Security Number and it turns out that using birthdates inside such a number isn't a good idea, since * Some people doesn't have a birthdate with which the Austria
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> OAuth is a standard protocol. Right? And there are client libraries for OAuth 2.0 available in basically every programming language you can imagine. Here lies another pain point of integrating OAuth flows: In my experience those client
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by schlowmo 3y ago
Well that "arrangement" isn't a marriage of convenience. It can end anytime if we drift apart. We all acknowledge that we are different people then we were before. So is the world. I'm grateful being around people who kn
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by schlowmo 3y ago
One aspect of this which I find myself often think about is that it takes some deliberation with whom you want to spend your time when you get older if you're not living the usual family life. I'm in my thirties now and sometimes
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by schlowmo 3y ago
The district court of Hamburg is so notorious that when I read "a German court ruled in favour of $some_type_of_copyright holder" I instantly assume that it was Hamburg.
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by schlowmo 3y ago
> Someone edits a factoid into a Wikipedia entry or posts it on a forum somewhere. [...] Then maybe the mainstream media cites it. That kind of thing happened to the former German minister of defence Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, whose ful
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by schlowmo 4y ago
(Disclaimer regarding traffic rules: I live and got my driver's license in Germany) > "[...] road safety would be improved for all if more motorists also cycled" While this statement seems quite trivial I think there'
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by schlowmo 4y ago
I really know what you mean. It almost seems like the first epiphany never gets it right one hundred percent. But oftentimes epiphany number two is a step back and the right one after that is just number one with a small twist.
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by schlowmo 4y ago
> A background processing phase, this requires a sense of almost boredom. I can relate very well to the phases of probleming solving you described. But for me it's forgetting about the problem even for a short period of time inste
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by schlowmo 4y ago
I've done this too, mainly because of the limited RAM upgrade options in the ThinkPad T series (only one free slot and one soldered). But one must be aware that tuxedo doesn't "make" laptops in the narrower sense. They&#
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by schlowmo 4y ago
> Do normal humans publish "waking hours"? Not typically. I believe I just fell in love with that idea. If this would become a social norm people would maybe stop trying to reach me in the morning. And I would know if it's
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by schlowmo 4y ago
What the english version of this wikipedia article doesn't mention (the german version does) is that the usage of this tunnel shifted a lot in recent years. Today it's a very important bike route for people living south of the riv
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by schlowmo 4y ago
Maybe I'm just rationalising my own hoarding tendency but I think society needs some hoarders to enable others to live there Kondō lifestyle. Sometimes friends who know my habit try (often successfully) to offload their stuff to me. Ju
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by schlowmo 4y ago
> If there's any silver lining to COVID, it's QR codes being normalized I'm not sure if I would call this a "silver lining". In parts of Europe (I noticed it especially in Germany and Austria) they were normalize
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by schlowmo 4y ago
You're right and I agree with your proposed solution. Having no (useless) dailies at all is even better than having them midday. But I'm fighting an uphill battle here, especially as freelancer. I'm always a bit amused when P

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