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Not exactly. Volkswagen headquarters are located in Wolfsburg which belongs to the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). NRW, or officially abbreviated NW, is the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Therefore it's Lower Saxony that owns some parts of Volkswagen.

Instant „Fremdscham“.

> But with a picture, I could relive it for a bit.

I used to think the same. But in the end, this is not true for me personally. Having pictures of events or valuable moments does not add any (or much) value when remembering these situations. This of course may differ from person to person - but I guess we use to have this assumption from your quote as a given default. Overall I get the most "value" from focusing on situations when they are there, instead of wasting it by capturing them.

> Eggs, vegetables, meat and chicken, fish sometimes, dairy and bread.

Thank you. I didn't realize until now that some cultures/regions distinguish between meat and chicken. Had to turn 41 for learning this.

That must have been CloneCD then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloneCD

> Advertising is cancer, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

That's the most "hacker" newsy thing to me. Whenever advertising critical articles come up, there's a large percentage of people commenting pro advertising. Yeah, I get it, you don't bite the hand that feeds you but come on. Does working in ad tech somehow influence your brains like the ones you are targeting?

> I recently bought a ThinkPad to use besides my MacBook.

I'm on the same boat here. Something is driving me away from my MacBook M1(Pro? Don't even know). I have a gut feeling that it's macOS but can't really put a finger on it yet.

Bought a heavily used ThinkPad T480s (from 2018) and replaced almost every replaceable part of it, including the screen. Being able to replace many parts easily is a nice touch since I am using MacBooks since 2007 exclusively. Guess that's why I somehow overdid it here. Slammed Pop!_OS 22.04 on it and I'm very pleased with the result. The first Linux desktop I actually enjoy since trying SuSE 5-something. Pain points are teams (running in browser), bad audio quality with AirPods when using the microphone and cpu speed and heat. I guess one has to stop using Apple silicon in laptops to realize how amazing these processors are.

I „found“ a MacBook 12“ Retina from 2015 at home a few weeks ago. Size wise that's the sweet spot for me. Would totally buy such a device running on Apple silicon. In the end I sold it for 50 Euro after tinkering with Pop!_OS and ultimately realizing that the processor is way too slow for Java development nowadays.

You are right about the age of the Sachs Duomatic. This site says they were present already in 1965 (sorry, found nothing in English): https://scheunenfun.de/f+s_duomatic102.htm

I had the same thoughts on the SRAM 'DNA' as well. They bought Fichtel & Sachs in 1997.

Regarding two gear internal hubs: these are amazing! I don’t know this specific hub from SRAM but Sturmey-Archer offers similar flip flop hubs as well that toggle gears by slightly pedaling backwards (S2 iirc). I've built three custom bikes so far with those and since you need no cables for them on your frame you can build very 'clean' looking and mechanically robust bikes. I think Fichtel & Sachs first came up with this idea in the 1970s - nice to see that SRAM is picking it up again.

Edit for clarification: the Sturmey-Archer hubs are built to be used with only one chain of course.

> This really has to stop.

"We", the totally homogeneous group of software professionals could make this stop. "We" don't.

In German there's also the word Stammtischparole (barroom cliché). It basically describes views and ideas so populist that no one dared to say outside the Stammtisch. Until recently…

I recently started using RTM C90 type I cassettes for recording mix tapes for my kids on my Denon deck. Quite like them. No need for Dolby C and +5 dB are easily possible. All the NOS tapes I have used sounded awful. I guess this is due to chemical degradation over time (IANAC)

Laws regarding this just changed (couple of days ago). Landlords can't just forbid this anymore. See https://www.heise.de/en/news/Balcony-power-plants-Federal-Co...

When I was in elementary school in Lower Saxony I „often" couldn't go home after school because there was some defusion of WW2 bombs in my area going on. „Often“ means something like 10 times in 4 years. Was quite used to this and didn't think much about it back then. Now that I have kids myself I would be glad to know that they won't have to deal with the fails of my generation. But the older I get, the less confident I am.

Not op nor do I disagree but if recycling plastic involves lots of energy and toxic chemicals, one should compare both of these two evils.

The obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1138

On the one hand I feel you here. I am rarely that proud of stuff I do. On the other hand you accomplished something that just works, so it’s obviously good enough. It will benefit others if you share the sources. No matter what the code looks like.

> I doubt this was a big request from the apple community.

As a German I'm looking forward to this since iPhone market share isn't as big as it might be in America. In the end I might delete Signal and WhatsApp since media sharing is the only reason for me to use these apps.

But this does not happen to you because you are an exceptionally good driver.

Also do not use the same character repeated in a "long" sequence. I hate this with IBANs. Too often there's something like '000000' right in the middle of an IBAN and in case copy and paste is not possible I end up counting the number of zeroes at least thrice. Groups of four characters separated by spaces would help in this case but that's another topic.

And then came the switch from ISDN to DSL and the latency got worse again.

Yes, please. The horn should be as load from inside the car as it's from the outside.

You must either own an ID card or a passport. This means having an ID card is optional. Does the German passport have a unique identifier as well? (never owned one) The tax number otoh is assigned at birth.

Using an iPhone with continuity camera as webcam for work. Can't remember the exact reason why the iPhone can not receive network time in my setup but it effectively can only rely on its local circuits to meassure time. Time is ten minutes off just after a few weeks. It really blew my mind when I first saw this.

I understood that washing eggs also removes a protective skin from the eggs that would otherwise stop bacteria from passing the shell. Maybe it's a chicken and egg problem then.

I think this is meant to be funny but it upsets me a little bit to be honest. Learning at least some basics of the country's language is travelling 101 to me. Going abroad and expecting the locals to speak my language is a very rude thing and a display of disrespect in my opinion.

Ads are often (if not always) shown to users who are actively trying to do something else. Like watching a video or reading an article. Why should this be different?

I don’t get this. Is it a phone number? A phone number starting with a capital letter O, like in OOP or ORM?

> There was an article a few years ago about people that buy products that fail.

It was on HN too four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820168