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yeah it was meant in this direction... I lived and worked in Minneapolis and Boston and I don't get all the discussions why this segregation for livability, walkability etc is so prominent and by choice in the US compared to the cities in europe. I mean here you also have an separation by income (as indicated by the linked provided), but even the low income areas are livable and walkable and you have everything for your daily needs.

this is a very US centric view and problem... in other countries lower income does not correlate with no access to local grocery shopping school etc... a german newspaper did a great income analysis of german cities [1]. You really see the differentiation in income, but if you overlay (at least for the cities I looked at) it with a map even in the low income neighborhood you get decent grocery shopping in walking distance (Lidl has also good organic produce/groceries) and schools and gyms etc...

[1] https://www.zeit.de/community/2023-02/einkommen-deutsche-sta...

Actually, I'm wondering why not more houses are build out of a metal-insulation sandwich contruction, one downside, no nails on the outside walls (but this can also be solved with a regular installation zone out of plywood, here is an example from one who built his own home out of a metal sandwich contruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brcGQZWbeLI according to him it was really cheap (don't know how it compares to wood framing with insulation)

wondering how prefacb metal sandwich construction compares to prefab wood framing (which is quite common here in germany)

in my case (also commuting within the city) a 14minute no traffic car drive is a 8minute (cycle expressways) ebike commute, it can also be the other way around :) heck, even with no traffic i'm often faster by bike nearly everywhere in the city

there are some great concepts (hopper mobility for example) but the infrastructure has to be planned accordingly, even in the us, there are some nice liveable "golf cart" communities. We also use our ebikes for everything in at least a 10km radius, in every weather... the car is only used for long distance trips :)

In most walkable cities in Europe I also think things like this: https://hopper-mobility.com/ and cargobikes are a viable alternative (I mean even in the US there are some "golf cart" communities and these communities look quite walkable/liveable) and have a bright future.

Since my wife and I own ebikes we go everywhere in a 10km radius by bike (in every weather, the bike expressways have snow plowing priority)

where do you live? At least here in germany there are some sites selling B- and I- Type (Bosch/Item) compatible aluminium profiles for ~15eur/m with custom lengths (the heavy duty B-Type 45x45) I personally build most of the stuff out of these profiles, easy, sturdy and reusable

with my gen11 i5 framework laptop I did run my mantiz venus enclosure with a gtx980 TI under WIN11 without problems (even hotplug worked) same now with a Radeon 6750XT and Fedora 36 in my gen11 framework (only hotplug does not work, I need to restart, besides of that no problems with wine etc...)

I'll skip a few intel generations and upgrade later then :), the only downside for framework is still the battery life, even with all the tweaking.

yeahh I see or just preload the washing machine and trigger it if the spupply is high .. but that means a lot of interconnected appliances.

I'm also planning to add one or two small 800Wp PV systems "Balkonsolar" to our flat (we have plenty of space on the south facing side) this will also involves pre planning for energy intensive stuff including a planned AC in the summer... let's see how this works out :)

are daily tiers and dynamic pricing really needed for consumers, shoudn't it even out on the long term? Until recently it worked quite well for a energy supplier to supply me with a fixed rate for a year and still making profit (when I take a look at their yearly earnings report, I think I also subsidized heavy users with my low usage :D). over a year the price should average out quite nicely when I look at the energy mix in germany and the cost. The only "problem" we currently have is the merit order principle and the pegging of the (haywire) gas price to the energy price which makes calculations for suppliers difficult (and the absence of building renewable, and the maintenance and shutoffs of nuclear :D). Aside from that consumption is quite foreseeable and production also, so daily rates should not matter that much? I think paying by the hour/daily makes things just more complicated, I actually don't really want to time my laundry cooking with future prices on an hour/daily base :D

just out of curiosity because I have no clue :D why is it regarded as complicated? For waste you already have a basic tarif + extra for every member in the household, and the "progression" is that you have to buy really expensive "waste bags" if you produce more waste

isn't it much "easier" to implement some kind of progressive price on energy? first 1000kw/h are "cheaper" than market (per person in household), next 500kw/h double the price, next 500kw/h doubles again etc... For things like heatpumps you usually have an extra meter with special day/night tarifs (in germany), the rest is metered as general consumption. I always wonder through how much energy my peers burn, we have a 2 person household with 2 e-bikes which are used regulary + both in home office (heating is gas) and "just" need 1200kw/h pA (and our appliances are not all A++)

as another poster already pointed out, most brands are certified by the UIAA

the stuff to look for: ropes (EN 892:+A1:2016) in Europe carabiners/express sets: EN 12275: 2013, UIAA 121: 2018 "schlingen" (don't know the english word) for express sets: EN 566: 2017 belay devices: DIN EN 15151-1 , DIN EN 15151-2 (UIAA standard)

if you're in europe and want to buy a bit cheaper try decathlon, they have decent stuff from their inhouse brand "simond" and everything is certified and safe.

Otherwise.. just by from a decent brand, the stuff is safety critical.. so I personally would not cut cost with the gear :)

second that... the climbing partner/belayer is very important

as for ropes.. just by from the "big" companies, beal, tendon, edelrid, mammut, pezel, they're all certified by the UIAA, just be careful and buy a "single rope" and not a half rope or a twin rope... oh.. and I recommend doing a course in your local climbing gym first for lead :)

I'm also interested in their train designs, the planned capsule trains from the austrian railways are quite interesting capacity wise (https://www.railtech.com/rolling-stock/2019/12/04/obb-will-i...), the default 4 bed compartment configuration but without sharing the compartment with 4 strangers. Let's see their pricing if they start rolling the stock this year.

Cool, together with the planned offerings of the austrian railway it seems the Europe wide night lines will finally be reality... I really hope they will also finally tackle the complicated mess of buying cross boarder train tickets within the EU... vienna -> paris, a day in paris, and then paris -> porto seems nice :)

Hi, most of them yes, but they are und er pressure to good people and in a lot of companies a generation change happens with new ideas. But you're right for every innovative company there are dozen quite old fashioned :(. The big ones usually get it, Daimler, trumpf to name a few...

From my personal experience a lot of companies in Switzerland are more conservative

The 35h workweek is quite common in companies with an "IG Metal Tarifvertrag" in place, most companies in the automotive industry and their supplying industries provide such contracts, but also a lot of medium size companies... Don't expect FANG salaries ;)

you're right, depending on the country/company there are some additional implications, in my case it helps that we have a subsidiary in most EU countries, so it can work via an "entsendung". I really hope that these things will change (social and tax wise) in the future within EU to make it easier for work setups like this.

The 20% rule only applies to Switzerland and the "Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen" with the neighbor countries or EU. This was the reason I quit my job in switzerland and moved back to germany (without taking a huge pay cut ;), more vacation days and only 35hour/week), now the 183day rule for social contributions and tax apply as long as I live in germany. So now I can work from portugal during winter :)

I second that... IG Metal companies have nice deals 35h/week is the norm, 30days paid vacation and a decent salary for germany...

It just used the confluence REST API, so they where indexed like regular edits

In my old (and soon current again) shop we used confluence extensively, to get the best from both worlds we usually kept the documentation next to the code in markdown or asciidoc files and synchronized them to confluence in a CI/CD pipeline (confluence was read only for these sections) maybe I can open source these helpers when I'm back... a two way merge was also in the making :). we could sync whole file trees with automatic link crosslink generation, asset management and versioning support in confluence

grewing up in germany I also remember that my parents/grandparents regularly went "on a cure" somewhere in germany (on top of vacation), often somewhere near the sea, which where prescribed and paid partially by health insurance ("parent-child-cures" where also quite common). that somehow changed a lot in my generation...

protip for the german people here... you can claim up to 10 days "bildungsurlaub" every 2 years (in some states paid/in some unpaid) and yoga retreats or similiar are also possible ;)

>Drugs can be the least of healing, and the idea that therapies must be something that you swallow or inject...

This quite resonates with the current zeitgeist, there's no patience and "we" want always instant relief. If I have a cold of fill ill I just rest and recover (which happens seldom luckily). I'm also lucky as my workplace understands this quite good, some days recovery and rest are always better than gonging to work, have a sub par performance and risk infecting others (in an office setting)

disclaimer: I work in switzerland, so I have theoretically plenty of paid sick leave