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Sounds good enough for my boss to me

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At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

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Maemo and Meego were so good

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I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS

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And 16 year olds the british army: jobs.army.mod.uk/how-to-join/can-i-apply/age/#

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I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great… if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

As a matter of fact I don’t believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don’t ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn’t have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn’t have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn’t use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

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Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

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Because currently Gaza is still officially occupied territory and Israel is reponsible

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Let me guess… US? I can never understand why people dont lobby for higher minimum days off there

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All the religious groups that emigrated to the US? This take has so many issues, but pilgrims, quakers and mormons are probably somewhere on the cult spectrum

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Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

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Commonly they dont recommend embryotoxic medication in woman of childbearing age, as unecpected pregnancies happen and the chance for severe birth defects increase. Sometimes these can only be detected late into a pregnancy, so if the person might want to keep a pregnancy it would be not to take it.

alcasa ,

Not sure how it works in NL but in most countries your health insurance takes over at some point

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I’ll start with the German system. Here you are either automatically insured in one of the public insurances (there are many), which marginally differ in their cost (think single digit euro differences) and have to cover basically the same procedures. If one reaches a certain income level, being privately insured is possible.

If you are publicly insured, you wont see most costs, as these are directly handled between your insurer and the doctor/hospital. For some medications and procedures there are co-pays that are flat fees (5 Eur for Medications, …).

Access to specialists mostly need a referral from your family doctor.

In private insurance, often you yourself will be billed and you will need to hand this to your insurance company.

The good side is that in most common situations I have never needed to worry about cost in public insurance, wait times for referrals can be very long and understanding what you need to get certain care can be very difficult. Private insurance often has better payment schemes for providers and less artificial limits on number of patients or which doctor is able to provide services, so access to most care is faster and more widely available.

alcasa ,

TIL what FDP means in french…

alcasa ,

Some foss games I can recommend are Battle for Wesnoth and Endless Sky.

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I think even similar trends in men, look at images of strong men 100 years ago. Professional bodybuilding has really shifted perceptions

How many ingredients does it take to call it a salad?

My significant other ate cucumbers and onion with some ranch. I called it a cucumber onion salad. She says there aren’t enough ingredients to call it a salad, because “it takes multiple ingredients”. I pointed out she had three and asked what the minimum is. She refuses to answer so I ask Lemmy.

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Can’t imagine potato salad with either vinegar or mayo tasting good hot

alcasa ,

They probably don’t want to get into any arguments regarding cost with a patient.

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California returning to Mexico would be a good thing for the US

Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair (www.404media.co)

The organization that represents Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s works has petitioned the U.S. government to restrict the right to repair a religious artifact called an E-Meter. This device is core to Scientology practices but the group argues exemptions allowing device hacking should not apply to equipment restricted to...

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If this passes, smartphone manufacturers are going to register their devices as religious artifacts

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Excellent at being below average

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Well, there necessarily need to also exist below average Harvard students. Its probably more of a shock to have the one thing you might have been proud of, being rather smart, be taken away once you get there and realize you are probably at most average and have to find a new identity

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Most likely most of us would be in the yellow zone

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For most linux users I’d say less security is a necessary evil. Security hardening is a tradeoff and I’d guess most people dont want their systems to be as locked down as ios or android. Or even modern MacOS, there are quite a lot of modifications that will require you to turn of System Integrity Protection, which blocks modifications of system files in normal use.

Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. (www.businessinsider.in)

Numerous Tesla owners say they’ve been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.::Numerous Tesla owners say they have been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.Teslas come with manual door releases, but they can be hard to find

alcasa ,

Whats what we get for buying cars from a software company.

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Profit motives may have been a driver for reddits decisions, but we don’t need to pretend that foss doesn’t have its own share of unpopular or controversial decisions.

It’s about choice and foss makes it much easier to reject and do your own thing.

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

alcasa ,

I wouldn’t trust my country to competently run anything internet related

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Open source is not sufficient, you also need to be sure that the version you install is the version you inspected. In Appstore or Playstore for mobile this is not straightforward. Hell, even linux packages sometimes contain tons of maintainer patches that are not upstreamed

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Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

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Any messaging app is vastly superior to SMS

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All companies seem to be doing their best lately to cure us of our social media addiction.

alcasa ,

I feel like the fediverse would be better off without a lot of current X users

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And people in the comments discussing how Lemmy users should talk less about reddit.

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Art auctions are a scam, just some more so than others.

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Well there was a similar incident a few years ago on Mt Everest involving a western climber who also died: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/David_Sharp_(mountaineer)

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I think us just being fine being addicts even with a free knockoff says a lot

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Imagine joining a church since they got the cheapest Netflix and Amazon Prime package

Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)

Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.

alcasa ,

People have been hailing WFH after COVID as a lasting change. But it has always been clear that non fundamentally remote companies will never accept this as a permanent solution.

Hybrid is a really bad in between, the advantages seem marginal (more flexible remote days, less needed office space) to the disadvantages (people will still be mostly remote in meetings, commute times still a factor, work environments need to be duplicated between home and office).

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I never knew I needed API fanfiction

alcasa ,

Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!

alcasa ,

tbf Ted would have had a bigger impact if he had oppenheimers bomb

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If they can talk they can pay rent

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I would like to let you know that this is state of the art watch tower design

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The Libertarian Institute is closely affiliated with the US libertarian party. They are anti war with russia. www.lp.org/no-war-with-russia

Just FYI that this source is not neutral

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Even russia would be fair from a ukrainian perspective. It’s not like russia has been holding back in this regard

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