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Electricity price in Germany for industries was ~16,7ct/kWh in 2026, special ones pay 11-12ct today and will pay a capped 5ct soon.

The less complex your train network, the easier it is to ensure trains are on time. France, Italy and Germany possibly have larger networks than Switzerland.

I recently spoke with the head of a local police station in Schleswig-Holstein. This was an informal conversation, so feedback was quite unfiltered.

We mainly talked about the state's transition to open source. I tried to show him the outside perspective, how much international attention the move is getting and why many see it as a bold step toward digital sovereignty, how much positive (side) effects it has.

His reaction was not that enthusiastic: He described his everyday frustrations, which anecdotally align with the points made at the end of the article.

Especially at the leadership level their workflows are heavily email-driven, with the mail client acting as a universal everyday tool for e.g. team scheduling.

Migration from Outlook to Open-Xchange felt rushed, with seemingly limited upfront analysis of how officers actually use these tools and ensuring use cases were adequately covered. The idea of User Interviews was new to him or - if conducted - didn't reach anyone in his circles.

I have a degree in Fine Arts and am mostly doing painting nowadays.

Developing your very own attitude towards things and being able to defend it helped me in many ways outside art.

No sorry, this is not a misunderstanding. I don't agree with your statement. Redefining life as work doesn't change that either.

> [...] A tiny slice of us are now able to work with passion, on what we want to do. Like artists working on a song or a painting or a book, they do not draw a clear line between work and play. They're always working and always playing. [...]

Yes and this lifestyle is simply unhealthy. Life should be your top priority, not work. Even artists sometimes need a break and care about different things then art itself.

Erik Spiekermann has so much more important things to say.

Checkout out any of his interviews or i.e. this documentary with him and lots of other people from the field: https://vimeo.com/118682283

I personally know lots of people here in Germany living off 20k/year and less. More would be better, but it's doable.

You should definitely limit the sizes that can be generated otherwise with URLs like http://host/WIDTH/HEIGHT/MODE/path/to/image it's pretty easy to mildly DDOS you.

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It used to be possible to enable CSS variables support via chrome://flags' #enable-experimental-web-platform-features in previous Chrome builds. Support has since gone again. Hoping for a reappearance soon.

CSS Variables in combination with an additional build step[1] is actually quite usable right now.

[1] https://github.com/segmentio/myth

Edit: The introduction of the new notation as mentioned by heycam, explains Chrome's behavior a bit.

If you want to keep bash completion on working when having git aliased to g, try to add this line to your .bashrc:

  # Complete aliased git, too.
  complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g

Happened to me, too. With the exception I have FileVault enabled. Contacted Apple Support and looking forward to resolve this issue. Otherwise I'm stuck with Mountain Lion. Can anybody confirm this has something to do with FileVault, actually?

Here's a site I've built for an artist who did "Episodes of Starlite" http://stopthebus.org/starlite.

That's not entirely true from what I see. Look at http://hbk-bs.de/en/studium/studienbewerbung/bachelor-studie... which should be representative of other art schools in Germany. There are no very special requirements which would keep you from applying as a Non-EU citizen.

I went to art school in Germany and paid a €200 fee per semester. That's about it. Education at art schools here is still very good and free - as in free thinking. When I read articles like this I'm just super happy that our education system hasn't yet been privatized. In order to learn, you'll need time to study. You'll need time without monetary pressure. My advice is to go to art school and challenge yourself, once in your life you shouldn't really care about money but about making the best work possible.

This does the trick on OSX:

  open http://google.com