jankor

My experience is different. Sensitive camera with a fast lens feels sort of like a night vision. In my case sony a7iii + 1.4 24mm lens can see so much more stars in Berlin. And that's on relatively fast shutter speed (hand handled) with no processing. Yes longer shutter speeds, contrast boosting, stacking etc then multiple this effect to another level.

The regulation gives absolutely insane incentives. In my case (old contract in hip mitte area), it was easier to keep it and for my gf to rent another apartment on the outskirt where her work is as she can deduct the full rent from tax. Effective price for renting two apartments is lower than one in between the center and suburb.

The situation was quite bizarre in Berlin last month as well. There was a march in Neukolln (hip/leftist neighbourhood with strong middle eastern immigrant population). Muslims and leftists openly screaming extremist anti-jewish slogans, claiming to fight the racial oppression.

While AFD (the right wing anti-immigration party labeled as fascist) opportunistically warned of raising antisemitism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPkY61xdzY

I used to argue with Iyad on Minekey (a place to have a twitter like arguments before twitter) 10+ years ago. We disagreed frequently. I always learnt something from his arguments so I befriended him on fb. Never would have I imagined how quickly can his innocent activism escalate to have an actual hit team dispatched to have him silenced.

I was the same, the only difference is my passport and government I criticize. Yet I live a normal life, never felt threatened or in danger. It made me realize how important and fragile are those values.

The big inconvenience of encrypted netflix content is that I cannot run it through madvr for better upscale 1080p->4k, the paradox is that a free torrent content might in the end take less size and look better. And let's not forget about some phones (poco f1) where netflix only allows lq because of missing Widevine L1.

Moved to Berlin 4 years ago as a software developer under similar conditions like yours.

Things I like: - Berlin is nice city to live in, cheap to transport (bike, shared bikes/cars, nice public transport)

- very cheap and good quality basic groceries - meat, dairies, pastry is really cheap with great basic quality and you can always go for organic and more expensive variants, cheap restaurants and bars, relatively inexpensive housing

- Berlin has decent flight connections around Europe + easily reachable Amsterdam, Prague, Copenhagen by car

- No crazy workaholic culture (nothing compared to the US), lot of holidays and taking a sick leave is easy and covered by law, 8 hours of work per day

- Nice engineering meetups and community

Things I dislike: - getting a decent apartment might be really difficult now days, even more difficult than getting a job

- Berlin is not so visually pleasing

- sometimes it's difficult if you dont speak german well

- winter is not so cold but very dark and grey

There is no fanatism involved. The no deal scenario is optimal for the EU while not so much for the UK. WTO forbids cherry picked tariffs on other WTO members and the EU export to the UK consists mostly of capital goods and final goods (machinery, cars, foods). The UK exports services which Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam lobby to get a slice of. Cross-border financial services are easier to restrict.

Juncker was a leader of the party that won European Parliament elections. The rest of the commission is appointed by the elected Parliament as well. Let's compare this to let's say House of Lords.

Germany was the main opponent of lowering the interest rate to 0 and launching QE, they obviously failed, no Germany is not suddenly in control of the Euro.

I am myself not a big proponent of the EU, but let's keep criticism where it's due and don't raise conspiracies about sudden german control of the Euro.

Well you can check your Galactic Tick birthdays http://jankor.github.io/galacticbday/

If you feel too Sun-centric.

Well, yes it is possible and there are development stacks that support it (Este). You will not be able to reuse visual components as native renderers to native components and react to html, but you can go around it by abstracting your UI and implementing two UI libraries (native, web) with the same API. Then you will be able to reuse most of your code.

Technically I think it is possible to achieve a decent amount of code reuse, but I feel product requirements usually require different functionalities that might make code reuse more difficult, ie. user input touch/swipe vs click.

One more please?

The full study is much more interesting: "We devised a machine-learning algorithm that integrates blood parameters, dietary habits, anthropometrics, physical activity, and gut microbiota measured in this cohort and showed that it accurately predicts personalized postprandial glycemic response to real-life meals."

http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)01481-6.pdf