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I kind of don't imagine a workaholic having online gaming scandal about paying someone to run a game for them and then doubling down on that, but well, I was already told before I …

I don't think this fits anyone's definition of work: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/docum...

I would be very happy with Windows 7 on manufacturing side - lots of CNCs that are still in use and supported by manufacturers are still on Windows 98.

I like chess, so mine is: "Isolani structure occurs in two main subtypes: 1. black has e6 pawn, 2. black has c6 pawn. What is the main difference between them? Skip things that the…

There was a bunch, a lot of them (most?) due to noyb: https://noyb.eu/en

Hungary probably due to Orban, while Slovakia has ultra-nationalistic party in coalition. I would evade Germany, Austria and also Italy in general, due to common racism against sla…

I don't know where you are from, but at least in Slovenia if you see someone running for EU parliament you know he is basically retiring from politics. EU parliament has no actual …

For comparision with Tesla, with my little 15 year old clio it's like this: 1. There is mandatory service with technical exam yearly. Few days before it I call my mechanic, drive c…

Cyprus and Peru use , for decimal point for non-currency amounts and . for decimal point with currency amount. So it's not even consisent inside some languages. See https://en.wiki…

Similiar to Slovenian - we have 400 dialects, grouped in 7 larger groups based on similarity. Given that there is only like 2 million speakers that may feel like a large number, bu…

Spare parts for clios are there practically free, since it's so common - also mechanics like them, since older models are very simple to service. Largest parts I had to replace so …

Here I believe we disagree a bit about what engineer means.

The best math book for a software engineer imho is Concrete mathematics by Knuth (of TAOCP fame). Problems in it are a bit tough to chew through though.

Linear algebra doesn't have many preconditions - so being used to math texts is much more important for it than having some pre-knowledge. Easiest to start will be either Linear Al…

I really appreciate this one from 4.18: Certain menus were not being properly translated when switching languages in the app. You know what they say about menus — they’re most help…

Bought a 10 years old clio with 80k km, which needed like 500€ service when bought. Now at 15 years and 200k km still running strong, with less than 300€ service costs yearly.

Note that this is only for when buying new cars - used models can still be sold and bought without these "niceties". The next car I am going to buy is probably going to be older th…

That's a 4-base number system. Next in progression is WorseChunkRecord, then you have BadWorseChunkRecord and so on to WorseWorseWorseChunkRecord, when you finally get to HorribleC…

I think they define emergency a bit more widely than we are used to with other providers. For urgent change of router I was notified almost 2 months in advance. For "real" unplaned…

Hetzner is good to me, but I am EU based. Loving that German logic that even emergency maintenace has 2-week notification.

https://lichess.org is an excellent open source chess server with plenty of learning resources for pure beginners. As you progress learning resources sadly get more and more expens…

Another very good guide to IQP is it's chapter in Chess structures: A grandmaster guide by Mauricio Flores Ríos. IQP is, if you ask me, bread and butter of chess and should be intr…

It's pretty clear there that half of the problem was caused by liberalization of student work, while other half (urban rents) was mostly consequence of horrendously irresponsible w…

When I worked my first job (physical work in water service) we had 2 sayings: "minimum wage, minimum effort" and "you cannot lower my salary more than I can lower my effort".

Of course, and liberalization of student work let them get that. At the "small" cost of worsening a large part of job pool and custumer experience.