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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
I was browsing the Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (a big newspaper in Germany) when I was struck by a head line which seemed to be made for All Fools' Day:
"Abgabe von 5 Prozent :
Deutsche-Bank-Stratege fordert Steuer auf Homeoffice"
A "strategist" of the Deutsche Bank suggests a tax on home office. If you work from home, you have less costs, so you ought to pay an extra tax.Or let me put it in other words: some office spaces will stay empty (he says that himself) and hence the owning companies will have reduced income, and Deutsche Bank owns too many shares of those companies, or has given too many credits to office space owners, or ...
And thus he fears some income risks for the Deutsche Bank, and consequently his bonus.The biggest cost of working at home structurally, which most people don't even consider as such, is that you have to live in a larger house. At least, if you don't want your man cave to also be your home office.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
I was browsing the Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (a big newspaper in Germany) when I was struck by a head line which seemed to be made for All Fools' Day:
"Abgabe von 5 Prozent :
Deutsche-Bank-Stratege fordert Steuer auf Homeoffice"
A "strategist" of the Deutsche Bank suggests a tax on home office. If you work from home, you have less costs, so you ought to pay an extra tax.Or let me put it in other words: some office spaces will stay empty (he says that himself) and hence the owning companies will have reduced income, and Deutsche Bank owns too many shares of those companies, or has given too many credits to office space owners, or ...
And thus he fears some income risks for the Deutsche Bank, and consequently his bonus.The biggest cost of working at home structurally, which most people don't even consider as such, is that you have to live in a larger house. At least, if you don't want your man cave to also be your home office.
No problem for me: I do not have family, and my apartment is rather large (100 square meters or a 1000 squared feet for left-pondians). But also in a different place before with only half the current size, I had no problems. After work, I take the work notebook out of the docking station and store it on a shelf, and replace it with my own computer.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Or let me put it in other words: some office spaces will stay empty (he says that himself) and hence the owning companies will have reduced income, and Deutsche Bank owns too many shares of those companies, or has given too many credits to office space owners, or ...
And thus he fears some income risks for the Deutsche Bank, and consequently his bonus.That's pretty much the very definition of “rent seeking” and the structural changes that the pandemic has accelerated are massive risks for anyone investing in commercial property. Which is too bad; structural changes are basically impossible to fight as they're what you get when the whole world basically changes at once.
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I guess @Polygeekery was a member of the development team...
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I've being tempted to get into python.
*edit
How us C still no 1? Listings for C developers are so few and far between. Then again I'm in finance or publishing so
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
How us C still no 1?
When your search algorithm mixes up C, C++ and C#, it's very easy to become number 1…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
When your search algorithm mixes up C, C++ and C#, it's very easy to become number 1…
Idea: Create a programming language named ".*". Immediate #1.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Idea: Create a programming language named ".*". Immediate #1.
Any recommended file extension to use for the source files?
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@Zecc I recommend
.any
.
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Python swallows Java
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Idea: Create a programming language named ".*". Immediate #1.
Any recommended file extension to use for the source files?
Just use the same name as the language, makes it easy to remember.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Zecc I recommend
.any
.Nah, it's gotta be
.*
. (Damn shell scripts, how many backslashes do I need???)
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Idea: Create a programming language named ".*". Immediate #1.
Any recommended file extension to use for the source files?
They'll be prefixed with
.code.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Zecc I recommend
.any
.Nah, it's gotta be
.*
. (Damn shell scripts, how many backslashes do I need???)Exactly. The compiler is going to be called the same thing, so the whole command line can be something like
$ '.*' *..\* [other options]
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Hope @error's is fine. God bless him for being a beta tester for when I buy one in five years.
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This attack is quite relevant
No its fucking not. Unless you have access to the data centre and if you can predict what machine is doing what when then you have a better way to make money and the owner of the data center has bigger problems.
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This one might have legs. Expect 32 cent in the post four years from now.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Expect
32 cent in the posta token for a 32 cent discount on your next $15 purchase on the Play Sore four years from now.E: s/Play Sore/Play Store/. I’ll leave it as is.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This one might have legs.
Depends what it's for. There's a bunch of background services for things like location finding.
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This reminds me of alcoholics at a party where they hate everyone. "What am I suppose to do?" Stop using that function you nitwit.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This one might have legs.
Depends what it's for. There's a bunch of background services for things like location finding.
From the article:
data transfers to further its advertising business, sending "tokens" that identify users for targeted advertising and preload ads
I think it also sends scanned WiFi hotspots and their locations. I save a lot of power by turning WiFi-scanning off.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Hope @error's is fine. God bless him for being a beta tester for when I buy one in five years.
Sounds like the problem is with the Spiderman Remastered game, which I'm not planning to play (I don't actually care about Marvel at all), so I should be safe.
But, as I mentioned, the performance of Demon's Souls is noticeably degraded after waking up from sleep mode. As such, I've already started closing the game before putting the console to sleep. It's probably an issue with the console firmware, and hopefully it gets patched quickly.
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"Work the frames"... uh-uh.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Well, they might also have considered "Worse Than Failure" but had the good sense not to use it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Suspended game corrupting filesystem? What joke of an operating system is it based on?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Guess I better avoid it - mines a mid-2012 model!
You're safe anyway as the oldest Macbook Pro that's supported is Late 2013.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Suspended game corrupting filesystem? What joke of an operating system is it based on?
Probably Linux
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I misread that headline as "Policeman Took Sex Toy for a Test Drive" for an added level of .
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@Bulb FreeBSD. We'll have to wait until December and the Console Hacking track in the Chaos Communications Conference to see if they did the same stupid shit they did with the PS4.
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@boomzilla
That's Oklahoma (FL), right?
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@error said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I misread that headline as "Policeman Took Sex Toy for a Test Drive" for an added level of .
I read that headline thinking the person had been arrested for distracted driving.
(Then I read the subtext.)
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Brillant criminal:
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A publisher i worked for had a textbox in jira to make sure we remembered to not automatically publish obituaries when we were running scripts.
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TBF: for it projects this should be considered a roaring success.
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El Reg said:
the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)
The top right of the second link in their article said:
Now that’s just irresponsible
disregard for pendantsjournalism.
(INB4 “what isn’t?”)
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Spotted @fbmac in the wild.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
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You don’t listen to me anyway. How many times now have I tried to tell you that making water travel any part of an escape plan is almost certain to end in failure? Well … many, that’s how many. For example:
[List of posts about failed water escapes. He now has one more for his list.]
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The best part though:
The local residents who created the trail will have to foot the bill for the intervention by the emergency services.
Did they have to report it to all the emergency services in the neighborhood or what?
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