I have like a dozen different german friends, and it's nothing like you say: everyone in the country curses the bureaucracy, every sunday is like "oh let's quickly get something from the shops oh no wait it's sunday uuuugh"
The taxes seem largely fine relative to the cost of living there, with people living in poorer regions at an advantage even due to the Freibetrag.
Considering the years, that X must mean we're skipping straight to ten! Gabe is a former MS employee, so of course counting problems are cropping up occasionally.
Thank you for putting in the time to produce this answer. Amazing and unorthodox way of using the user system, I haven't even considered that. I can see that being useful.
One of our customers has a daily automated restart for their servers. This is because the IT people have long lost track of what the system actually does, and feel they have no time to figure it out.
It is the bane of my existence when it comes to the predictability of uptime, not to mention long-term processes getting interrupted over the day boundary.
> about what getting a computer into a productive state means
Why would you do that? Is your OS not running stable? Do you not have tight control over the software that is running? Why are you unable to keep it in a productive state?
Greetings from a Computer that only restarts for updates every few days, next to an airgapped machine that has been running for years.
It took me so long to beat the following into my team:
Inheritance and instantiation by default is a no-no. Use instances when state would be useful to the process, and use Inheritance when you have a lot of overlap between two processes/concepts and want to simplify/unify the code base.
Application of inheritance is a reaction to the current state of the code, not a foundation you start with.
To be fair, you have to have a very high average IQ at a company to produce an OS nobody understands anymore. Or you know, things like the legendary five-state boolean.[1]
I do remember a dog sticker from my crib. I know this because when I was 10, I visited a faraway aunt and asked my dad about the sticker on their bathroom wall. "I have seen this one before! Where did I see it?" He said they both bought a sticker pack when I was just born, and she put it in her bathroom and he put it on my bed.
I remember an absurd amount of things from 3 onwards, like not liking it how I was occasionally the last one to be picked up from Kindergarten, or that there were two parallel glass tunnels connecting buildings in my kindergarten, and I always wondered how to get to the other one (it was just for staff).
I do remember the first time I got brought to kindergarten, and how later I wished to go on my own and my mother was against it.
I do remember being told by my dad that I will lose most of my memories of this age, and it made me sad: how can I just erase all these wonderful memories of my friends and all the toys and things we have here? I wished for my last birthday, as I was turning towards 6, be remembered by me like it is, for the rest of my life.
I remember the way to my kindergarten from the flat we lived in, I remember the layout of the place, I remember a lot of the toys, I remember a climbing rack, I remember the carpets and other floor covering, I remember every room, including the long table they set up for birthdays with you sitting on one end.
All rooms are empty of people. I don't remember a single face.
> since they have values more compatible with western democracy.
I'm mostly investing in China these days too. Remember that they have no soul and only do this as long as it is beneficial to them to appear that way (liberal, democratic). Same for the US. This is how the game is played.
the idea is that you don't have half of all companies all share the same liability of a single cloud provider who is half-arsing it because of their monopoly position.
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