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by techcode 3y ago
AFAIK everyone in e-commerce tries to have consistent pricing throughout the whole flow - otherwise people notice difference between pages and drop off. Stuff that you explained can happen because initially IP-to-Country isn't 100% pre
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by techcode 3y ago
Actually Booking has been allowing reservations longer than 30 days for a few years now. Perhaps accommodations in your destinations that are on Booking don't have availability for the whole duration you're searching for?
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by techcode 3y ago
In The Netherlands normal savings (retirement/pension savings are taxed once you retire), stocks, crypto ...etc are all taxed to everyone except Dutch Royal Family.
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by techcode 3y ago
Was your last job a place with more focus on quarterly business cycle and less if any on longer term? It might even be that there's seemingly a lot of long term goals/objectives/focus. If it's mostly strategic level plan
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by techcode 3y ago
This! Both Amazon search and trying to workaround it's problems by using it's "categories" are frustrating experiences. It also extra annoying that sometimes you do get, and other times you don't get a link to categ
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by techcode 3y ago
And it's actually hard to find much that looks like original news articles I thought I read. This is close enough https://www.pcworld.com/article/448520/dutch-civil-society-g... Though in my fuzzy memory ther
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by techcode 3y ago
Ah yes 9 eyes - I was thinking there were 5 and then 7 eyes (and recalled NL wasn't in the first group). While trying to find years old news articles that mentioned some specific instances of Dutch doing "quid pro quo spying"
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by techcode 3y ago
That's actually very likely. Besides famous example where actual people get confused - like "half drie" is "half past two" or "two thirty" (so if Dutch person is telling me time or number in English, I dou
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by techcode 3y ago
What happened with previous way where countries (was it "Seven Eyes"?) would spy on each others citizens, as a way to workaround such "You shall not warantlessly mass-spy on your own citizens" limitations? From the top o
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by techcode 3y ago
Many countries changed from Julian to Gregorian calendar between 16th and 19th century. When they did the switch - they skipped about 13 days (depends on when exactly they did it, for some it was 12 days). And yes - the recorded monthly&#x2
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by techcode 3y ago
For those of you that use DDNS for essentially homelab (say to allow friends and family to watch media on your self hosted Plex Media Server) - just use TailScale. I would think about actual publicly know IP address (like it is for dynamic
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by techcode 3y ago
Sounds like USA centric POV? It was not until several years ago that software developers in Europe finally reached the mythical 100K per year compensation range, that's been common in USA for more than a decade before that. And that&#x
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by techcode 3y ago
Big companies mostly work on quarterly (so earnings call) cycle. Hence depending on general economic situation (and of course specific industry/company). And just like you might be getting sweet offers to change your insurance/ISP
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by techcode 3y ago
You really think that younger you would really understand that? Or say your child?
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by techcode 3y ago
Obviously for me too N = "too small of a sample size" to extrapolate on whole industry. What I've seen/heard - is that companies are not hiring (have fewer if any open positions for) seniors. And in my experience compani
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by techcode 3y ago
That's a US centric view, right? To be fair it probably depends on definition of how many years are "past few" years.
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by techcode 3y ago
Are you senior or higher role? And is it "general" software development (BE/FE/Full stack and even Mobile Apps included), sys/db admin or somewhat more buzzword things like ML/AI?
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by techcode 3y ago
Care to expand on that with more specifics? Since when I shared the link with my friend from Croatia - he commented: "Ha. Tamo pak povijest ne bi išao gledati" (Losely translated as "Lol. Yeah I wouldn't be reading about
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by techcode 3y ago
Serbian is typically in Cyrillic - but everyone knows/uses both Cyrillic and Latin. First year of elementary school you learn reading/writing in Cyrillic, second year it's Latin, and in third you get first foreign language (e
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by techcode 3y ago
I was 18-20 when I had appendix removed. And it was actually higher/closer to ribcage than on average. My parents knew about "you can't properly raise your right leg" home test. While ER folks - well first ones in the ev
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by techcode 3y ago
Having started with Linux using Gentoo - after some attempted excursions into Debian/Ubuntu, then at work CentOS and even few months of having to use Slackware on servers until I finally convinced my boss that his T50-something Thinkpa
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by techcode 4y ago
That sounds like any (semi)good car in the last 10-20 years. Like 5-6 years old Skoda Octavia (which are generally lasting so long YouTube nickname for them is "Good 'ol miles"). Until one evening you park it just fine in fro
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by techcode 4y ago
Unlike cost saving/outsourcing combinations like Renault cars or Grundig TVs being made in Turkey. Or other PR releases mentioning keywords like "synergy" (say Microchip/Atmel comes to mind). Well I don't know about
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by techcode 4y ago
After having various Bosch machines - 4 years ago we got Miele clothes washer and separate drier - with wifi et al. For all the good engineering put into them... I was at a loss at official way to stack two of them. Which is to buy official
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by techcode 4y ago
If we follow that project car metaphor - https://www.calculate-linux.org/ is project car where you can get all parts pre-machined (already compiled) and you can still customize bits and pieces, or even whole thing. That sai
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by techcode 4y ago
Indeed it terms of view/emotions from "real programmers" towards AMOS - it was like Visual Basic <= v6. And in practice I recall it was also slow for doing things like bigger scrolling things - like isometric RTS map, SimC
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by techcode 5y ago
I just got blocked for 24 hours as well. After opening https://pcr.euprava.gov.rs/validate.php?cqcode=1641591150Q!A... just fine -tried to see what happens when you change the digits to cqcode=1641591151... :) While I guess
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by techcode 5y ago
The point of co-working space combo with "WFH/Remote" is that you potentially get benefits of both WFH/Remote and Office. Being in co-working space/office gives you some social interaction, less chance teenage neigh
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Calculate Linux 22(forum.calculate-linux.org)
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This is on a tangent - TL;DR: I'm pretty convinced that the future of Gentoo is https://www.calculate-linux.org/ After one too many times Python breaking changes got me to a point of Gentoo system that can't be up

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