zenbit

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by zenbit 4y ago
Appreciate your feedback! I can totally see how you would read it that way. Maybe "servers should be farmed, not gardened" would be less ambiguous. Server farms have been a thing for a long time after all.
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by zenbit 4y ago
I like to say "farmed, not gardened" as a veggie alternative to "cattle, not pets". As in "containers are farmed, not gardened". No idea if that sounds right to a native speaker, though.
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by zenbit 4y ago
If you read German I highly recommend "Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare" by Clemens Setz.
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by zenbit 9y ago
NRW borders the Netherlands, a country with easy drug access as well. And yes, deaths per capita are much higher in Germany's city-states (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen). But please go ahead and compare numbers on a per-city basis (2016 numb
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by zenbit 9y ago
In 2016 there were 204 deaths due to substance abuse in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), with ~17m inhabitants Germany's most populous state. That same year there were 321 deaths in Bavaria. Bavaria has a population of only ~12m and in ge
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by zenbit 12y ago
MyTaxi targets commercial drivers that adhere to legislation whereas Uber targets non-professional drivers and does neither check nor care whether they follow regulations (proper license, permits, insurance, etc.)
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by zenbit 13y ago
The German site is definitely less misleading than the US site but I wouldn't say it's a nice example for how it should be done. I think the list in the VIP checkout column is missing information about the monthly charges (€39,95?
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by zenbit 13y ago
He is not using the same finger.
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by zenbit 13y ago
I have never used Sketch but judging from the article it seems that Inkscape is a comparable program.