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Billion USD grocery chains operate on 2-3% margins just fine...

Are you using the Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal winget install --id Microso…

Russia is currently placing Russian citizens in the occupied parts of Ukraine exactly for this reason. If there will ever be a vote whether the Donbas Oblast or the Luhansk Oblast …

Same in Germany, although the employer can forbid this but needs to do this explicitly. Most employers don't forbid personal data on work machines or using your work email for pers…

It also has something to do with the so called "Hackerparagraph" [1] under which whitehat hacking is basically impossible in Germany. Even writing a program that could potentially …

It does. You can also do it by hand via the right-click on tab menu

Not illegal per se in Germany but you won't find a legal job that doesn't require you to have a bank account. Benefits will also only be paid electronically (exceptions for some as…

A study last year concluded that while AI coding feels faster it actually isn't. At least in mid 2025. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Not only that but vibrations play a big part as well, especially on ICE vehicles.

Since .NET 10 still doesn't support Type Libraries quite a few new Windows projects must be written in .NET Framework. Microsoft sadly doesn't prioritize this so this might still b…

That's not correct. You don't have to give your credit card details or even be logged in but you are still required to have any Visual Studio license. For hobbyists and startups th…

But they also have over a billion cash at hand. I imagine at that scale and customers being private, the amount is pretty stable and Starbucks can just do whatever with this since …

This is typical CDU conservative talk from Merz. He is on a war path with anything Angela Merkel did because she saw him as politically inexperienced and shunned him. So he had to …

I don't know what you are doing but I have my Arch Linux running since about 2013. I needed to intervene a few times, I think 4 times in total but the base installation in from 201…

Sometimes it's not about doing nothing but only being allowed to do the same stuff over and over again to do because there is "no budget" to rewrite the codebase to automate the pr…

Google will require you to authenticate with your real name and/or government ID which is something a lot of FLOSS developers don't want to do.

OpenWISP states in its docs that you should be running at least 20 devices to make it worth it. [1] So it's not supposed to be a easy way to manage a few devices for home users. > …

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936992

Try replacing "social media" with "fast food" and think about how hard that would be for parents to control.

Are you driving fast(er than with a ICE vehicle) in corners? Since EVs have a very low center of mass, drivers tend to take corners a lot faster than they would in ICE vehicles whi…

True for heating but warm water is in demand all the time.

Using heatpumps you only need a little electricity to heat quite a few homes with district heating. But there probably is no nearby district to be heated.

Because it would have catastrophic consequences on the world order. Normalizing nuking your opponent will invite Russia to nuke Ukraine, China Taiwan, and North Korea South Korea. …

I have a VAG ICE vehicle and had a problem with the navigation system not working. When I brought it in to get it fixed, they apparently put a completely new version of the softwar…