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At least we also have LLMs to generate our status updates during outages of our SaaS products while groping around in the dark.

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 de…

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 …

> 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 oversimplificatio…

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 t…

> 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 ov…

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=267…

> “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 espionag…

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…

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 ex…

> 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 we…

> 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 know…

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 …

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 …

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 peop…

> 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 …

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.…

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 …

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.

> 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 …

(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 stateme…

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 af…

> 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…

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 "mak…