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What do you mean it performs poorly as a watch? Smartwatches sync time, change time zone as you travel, automatically apply DST. It's actually better watch than classic watch.

Not really. Old concrete cannopy collapsed. It was minimally modified as part of station reconstruction by adding some glass panels, but cannopy itself and its suspension beams were not rebuilt. It's not clear at this point whether this modification was responsible for collapse, but what is clear is that old cannopy and beams were not even inspected during this renovation. That's a major blunder which lead to loss of 15 lives, and main reason for that is systematic corruption where minimal work is performed while full price is billed by private companies close to rulling party.

Booking.com is great in discovery phase, when you want to find out what's available at certain date at certain location. After that you can book directly if you want, but surprisingly it can be even more expensive that way in some cases. Or terms can be worse, for example for cancelation or whether you have to prepay.

It was a blessing for a defensive war. Serbians didn't "go" anywhere to attack Austrians. It was the other way around. But I guess you already know that. Why did you choose to write "to go kill" when they didn't go anywhere?

Faulty iron in another room fried my LaserJet. UPS isn't just for loss of power, it should also protect from power spikes. Btw. printer was connected to a (cheap) surge protector strip which didn't help. On positive side nothing else was fried and laser was fixed for 40 euros.

Don't come to Serbia, as we still allow smoking inside in bars, clubs and even restaurants!

Which other assumption would be reasonable, considering Croatia's ethnic structure? You have to take local circumstances into account.

> so what's special about croatia

To add relevant context Croatia is at the edge of the Schengen zone. On the other side of the border are Serbia and Bosnia with less strict border controls and visa rules, so this is one of the roads for illegal immigrants to reach rich western countries. This and Hungarian borders are what's between them and their goals. Connect that with the fact that Croatia doesn't have non-white minorities, there were probably zero cases before this of black person wondering down the roads who was not an illegal migrant.

Well I care and I would rather use model where my subsbcription gets distributed only to musicians I listen to. As a side effect, all these ghost/fake frauds for milking money would cease to exist.

It's not very risky to leave expensive items in the car, but in the trunk, not on the backseat! Also, never put these expensive items or really any kind of bag in the trunk after you park. Always do it before the ride. Or at least make very sure that no one is watching you.

This is a basic safety drill. And it doesn't apply to expensive things only. You don't want your window broken for a sport bag with a sweaty t-shirt used in a gym like it happened to my friend. Any kind of bag left visible in a car is a risk.

For those not upto date with modern Serbian political scene, we're living in soft dictatorship, all nation level media is under government control, pumping propaganda 24/7. They also control hooligan groups and are not shy of physical violence.

Things are really heating up in last few weeks. On November 1st a huge concrete canopy on Novi Sad railroad station collapsed, killing 15. Main problem was that station was reconstructed recently, politicians took a lot of pictures, used it for self promotion, but after this happened, they started hiding things, denying that canopy was touched at all during reconstruction, etc. Not to mention that reconstruction cost was around 65m euros, while it's suspected that majority of that money was stolen.

This created a lot of rage in public, there were protests, blocking traffic for 15 minutes at the exact time those people died... Government reacted to that by sending goons to provoke and fight with protestants. Some of protestants were beaten up, some arrested. This only increased resistance and now students started protesting, blocked Universities, asking for full documentation about station renovation, asking for release of arrested protestants, and arrest of goons who attacked and beat them.

Last time students created this kind of large protest it was a beginning of Milošević's fall. That's why Vučić fears students that much - they're not corrupted, they don't have dirty laundry that can be shown on media, they're not aligned to any political option, except they hate Vučić, they're just asking that institutions do their job without influence from the top (which is not the case for many years).

My old Nokia 6310i from 2003 was in use until a year or two ago with my mother in law. And with the original battery lasting for days! Then finally on/off button broke. While nowadays phones not only have a glass in the front, which is understandable, but in the back too. So fragile. What would grandpa Nokia say to his ancestors?

Gilmour also played bass on Animals.

What's the quality of color prints on current lasers? Last time I checked it was quite below inkjets. Not that I would recommend inkjet to anyone, they're unusable in home setting where you have long periods of time without printing.

It's not like that. They buy mcnichol.com on your behalf, when you request it. They're not registering it in advance and then blackmailing you to rent it through them. Domain is yours, you can move it elsewhere (they explicitly mention that).

It's same as any other domain registrar, except that have small markup (couple of dolars per year) but they provide additional service, i.e. customer doesn't have to deal with DNS.

I don't think you understand what foliohd does. They're not squatting on hundreds of domains in advance. This is how it works, based on 1 minute glance of their site:

- you create portfolio, but it's by default served as a subdomain

- then you decide that you really want to use "mchichol.com". You register through them instead of buying it yourself.

That's it. It's customer's domain, not theirs. They also specify that domain is yours if you ever want to move your site elsewhere.

Why is this rent seeking? It seems like a reasonable service for their target audience, an easy way to create online portfolio. Reselling domains to be used with a portfolio is just an additional service which makes perfect sense in this case.

It's just a first one, there are more books in Bobiverse series.

Well, until today I didn't even know capacitor can have orientation! So more productive Wednesday than yours. In entry level electronics class I had decades ago it was always treated as a component that works the same way no matter in which direction the current flows.

As I remember from that time, all C64 users also had tiny screwdriver for adjusting head azimuth. Could be related to pirated tapes in ex Yugoslavia, copied on who knows what kind of equipment.

With Commodore-64 you also had to buy their tape recorder (same thing as with Atari 800XL), while Spectrum worked with any existing recorder, which every house already had at the time.

My father went to West Germany on a business trip with instructions to purchase Spectrum. Sadly, he returned with Atari 800 XL. I say sadly because any software was very hard to find in ex Yugoslavia while stuff for Spectrum was widely spread (all pirated, of course), even transmitted on FM radio.

Although I didn't move to Canada, it lead to the similar outcome of a good IT career. In essence, cheap home computers opened our eyes as to what oportunities exist, and that we are not bounded by borders where we were born in. I'm sure there are many success stories from East Europe which started with Spectrum, C64, or even Atari 800XL.

It's crazy how fast things moved back then. Home computing went from Spectrum/C64 to Amiga/Atari ST in a few short years, and the advance was gigantic. Nowadays, I lament that my 2012 PC will lose support when Windows 10 reaches end of life next year - there's not anything especially different or exciting in this year's PC. Yes, it's faster for some use cases, but for 90% stuff it's the same thing.

With the exception of cash flow. With B2C you sell something, you get the money. With B2B you MIGHT get money in 30 days, but then sometimes you have to chase invoices for months.

There is 2checkout in Europe. It was Avangate, now it's Verifone, it's not owned by private equity, so maybe not technically a EU company? Although your contract will be with Avangate BV, Amsterdam. And for all intents they do fine job with handling EU (and non EU) taxes.

Also, there was German based ShareIt, which was purchased by Digital River. Sadly, it's now in lot of problems, have problems paying venders, and is not to be recommended anymore.

I see a lot of people here misunderstood the article. It's not an attack on Gitlab in any way. Or taking the side for Github or Microsoft. It talks about business decision, not ideological one.

If anything, it's attack on French bureaucratic processes that make it hard for employees to ask for something to be purchased. Or it's a cultural thing, once you're employed you're a fixed cost and your hourly rate is not analyzed anymore in purchasing decisions.

The results are the same. It's easier to spend 10 hours on a free thing than to get approved a purchase for something that costs one hour. Numbers are just an example, don't know how they hit this specific case.

Therefore, when considering market for your software, it's not only about demand and usage, you have to take into account whether that demand comes from those who are willing to spend money. The fact that 50% of developers in France use Gitlab, doesn't mean much if they're not willing to pay. If above the average (compared to other countries) 50% of usage is specifically because of the free self-hosting option, it preselects those who will spend time instead of money.

Anecdotally, sales of my software in France, or for that matter in Spain or Italy, are 10x smaller than sales in Netherlands, or Sweden, much smaller countries. maybe it's a language thing, as some countries are know for excellent levels of English, and some not? But since my software is for developers and IT people English shouldn't be a barrier for them, so I suspect cultural and bureaucratic reasons are the main culprit.

"Nobody gets sent to Afghanistan as part of conscription".

You should be more careful with such statements as that's more exception than rule. If you're country goes to war, and it's not just some peace keeping mission, you can bet that whoever is at the time in army could be sent to the frontline.

In this case, based on comments there, new server is not licensed anymore and not activated after the upgrade. Making this problem much worse, as options are either purchasing new licenses or reinstalling everything.

Edit: it's not clear to me how much responsibility lies with 3rd party update management tool and how much with Microsoft. This update doesn't seem to automatically run by itself, but it might be misclassified so that these tools think it's a security update and just deploy like any other patch.

I'm no stranger for persevering through dificult music if I have strong recommendations it will be worth it. I'll give a chance to all of that. Thanks!

Hey, I'm 51, music is a big part of my life and I love hearing new things. Among other concerts, I visit few jazz festivals every year so I'm exposed to a lot of different music.

But let me tell you, I could easily write similar review for some (most?) jazz sax musicians I heard. It seems that sax encourages players to visit musical areas I don't understand and enjoy. Therefore, if I read a review like this, I would most likely totally believed it!