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> RAM maxing out at 32 GB This part is just not accurate. I'm running their dedicated server with 256 GiB RAM right now.
For their dedicated servers you can have at least 712GB RAM. But for their cloud offering the maximum is only 128GB RAM. See https://www.hetzner.com/cloud and click on "dedicated vCPU". btw: do not confuse "dedicated vCPU" with dedicated server.
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I don't have any insider information, but it doesn't seem crazy to think that those discount stickers aren't in fact the same. At the very least they have the actual discounted price encoded them, it wouldn't be a big leap for the label printer to register a new SKU for "Semi-skimmed Milk, discounted to £0.30" so they can still track that item's stock.
I have just checked the barcodes, and all stickers are identical. Same barcode. Same text. Same everything. They are preprinted, not printed by a machine in the shop too.
The important information is "We did too much of this cheese sandwich today" and correlate that with stuff like store location, the weather, public holidays, travel, etc. That's the valuable data. Then when double-discounted there's a further scan "We really did too many cheese sandwiches today".
I'm not sure where the value-add in projecting future demand is with a mass of low-value-add information. Not giving it a unique SKU seems like a saving to me. If anything, doing random sampling might be worth it, but in measuring flow of what comes in and what goes out, it's going out on discount or trash in the end. The goal is to not overproduce, not waste time tracking overproduced/allocated stuff.
But I'm not a supermarket expert.
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> Salaries are off the charts (it would make senior software engineers in SV look pale). I have a hard time believing this, given that senior engineers at places like Google or Facebook are making 300k+.
According to https://www.comparably.com/companies/lidl/salaries/software-... and glassdoor senior software engineers are around 150k to 200k and directors are around 200k to 300k. So they are largely comparable to SV salaries at Google/Facebook. Which means since Google/Facebook pay more than average, they are above average for SV. And that's at places like Berlin which are cheaper to live than SV.
This is true even for the senior engineers, at around half the compensation or so; for the principal engineers and directors, working somewhere like Google or FB gets you 3-5x what's quoted for Lidl.
> So they are largely comparable to SV salaries at Google/Facebook
This is completely wrong. Compensation for senior engineers at Google/FB is around 350k USD: https://www.levels.fyi/#
> And that's at places like Berlin which are cheaper to live than SV.
Agreed. Nevertheless, the salaries aren't going to make any senior engineers in SV "pale", when they're half as much.
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Amazon said (to Congress, no less) that it does not let it's own team responsible to deciding on which products to buy & sell access confidential sales reports of third party sellers that use their platform. And then it was revealed that they regularly do get access to these information. There's no reasonable expectation that Amazon will not use any data it can easily access to make decisions. I don't find that your…
>It's very hard to build e.g. CPUs that will contain very advanced backdoors that are totally hidden but can easily be targeted remotely to gather information Wasn't IME a thing for years but people still don't have a great understanding of how it works?
By the looks of it they want to start with a managed K8s and database services.
If you look at the job offers, you can see that they are using OpenStack[1] for some parts of there platfrom
[0] https://stackit.de/en/cloud/ [1] https://schwarz.jobs.schwarz/job/Neckarsulm-&-Umgebung-Cloud...
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> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…
I'm French Canadian and that sounds insane. In France, there's a soft tendency to use the plural you ("vous") a lot more because of the more rigid French class system. In Quebec it's seen as a snobby thing to do due to the more working ass culture. That said, in neither country would anyone ever get a monetary fine for using one over the other. That's crazytown
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> Salaries are off the charts Just to add another data point, Lidl is also the retailer that pays the best market salaries in the Eastern-European country where I live in (they actually included that in several of their hiring ads), and I'm talking about shop people like cashiers and the people that put things on the shelves. > They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well. In here they've also ope…
> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…
Fun offtopic fact: The default register in English is actually more formal than most people realise. English had "thou" as the informal second person, and "you" as the more formal variant, but "thou" died out, leaving only the formal register. Curiously enough, Brazilian Portuguese underwent the exact same phenomenon, so they use "você" informally, whereas European Portuguese uses it as the formal second person.
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Ever been to any Rewe or Penny at Saturdays? They usually have the bright yellow "action price/Sonderangebot" signs on the shelves which are valid only from the following Monday. It's a real nuisance.
It used to be even worse in Britain before the invasion of Aldi and Lidl really had an impact. They had lots of 'buy 5, pay 3' and similar nonsense deals. Often, the software in the register would "mysteriously" not have the deal, and you pay more. And, of course, a 50% reduction usually meant that they just doubled the price in the week before. Things got much better in the last ten years or so. That's roughly when…
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> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…
Howcome the German Apple store are using “du” all over the place? Are they not well advised by their localization partners?
Such brands rather risk being mistaken for a family member than for an insurance salesman.
This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020? Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly cop…
Then that gets picked up by intermediary news sites like this *.co.uk domain. Then it gets floated to social media, where it gets popular and noticed by the big guns (NYT, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, etc) and then they just post the same stuff. Then suddenly what was once a rumor becomes true.