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Comment · 4 months ago
You don't have an offered number of sick days in Germany. If you're sick, your sick. At some points (after 6 weeks) the employer stops paying for it, and the payment switches to the health insurance and drops down to 70% of your usual gross salary (with some more specifics).
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
ChatGpt is finished training and doesn't update itself in any way. The current conversation is fed each time as additional context back when you ask additional questions.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can use XSLT to XSL-FO if you want that. I haven't found it very nice to use.
Comment · 4 years ago
The python code also prints the resulting list in the same order. It's a completely different problem to solve. In python I would throw the list in a set and return the size of it / print that.
Comment · 4 years ago
An use case that comes up quite often is building a List / Map / Set implementation. You want to have it to enforce to (typesafe) take only objects of the same type, and when taking it out again, get the object in the same type back. And you want the compiler to complain, when to try to put a String in a List<int> (a list of strings), or try to asign the object you get out of the list to a boolean.

And obviously you don't want to write a specific List implementation for every Type, like a StringList, DoubleList, IntList,... especially as every method in it would basically work the same.

Comment · 4 years ago
What happens if you upload copyright protected data in cleartext on a blockchain without having the distribution rights?
Comment · 5 years ago
In MS SQL Server, with ANSI_NULLS set to OFF, it will select all rows having a NULL value for col. AFAIK not used that often.
Comment · 5 years ago
Doesn't the Netflix app already do that? Or was that the Prime Video one?
Comment · 5 years ago
They are great! My bachelor thesis was implementing an algorithm to generate minimal petri nets based from an infinite partial language, described in something like a basic Regex.
Comment · 6 years ago
All of that is automated at my company using SAP. Could be a nicer interface, but at least everything is online in the portal.
Comment · 11 years ago
Which one are you the most proud of?
Comment · 11 years ago
That's why I love Monkey Island so much. You can't do anything wrong so that it becomes impossible to finish the game, and you can't (really) die. Although it is possible to "die" and get the "credits" or a "load old save" screen, you come back to live through some miracle (like the rubber tree).
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think gcc or clang can reorder structs, or do they?
Comment · 11 years ago
We normally use "normal" white flour for many things like cakes and pasta and stuff. But we have maybe more "real" bread which is not made of white flour?

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