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 Discussion on answer by Johnnyjanko: …

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O. R. Mapper
Nov 22, 2024 21:47
@Johnnyjanko: FWIW, in my experience (South-Western Germany), the term "Girokarte" is not commonly used. Somewhat old-fashioned people do indeed say "EC-Karte", while anyone else calls it "Bankkarte". If you want to get technical, it is sometimes called "Debitkarte", usually to contrast with "Kreditkarte". And here we come back to card-friendliness, which has indeed increased during Covid, but if I'm not mistaken, mainly toward debit cards, not necessarily toward credit cards.
 

 Discussion on question by Ima: My ins…

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O. R. Mapper
Oct 6, 2024 21:03
@MisterMiyagi: "Why do you consider it relevant that the articles are independent?" - not sure whether the OP meant it this way, but I read it as the OP's emphasis on the fact that each of those four articles were individual articles in their own right, rather than e.g. a "series of consecutive articles" (so-to-speak one large article split into four parts). Hadn't the OP mentioned the articles were "independent" of one another, I might have asked exactly for this clarification in the comments, suspecting that the institution's counting rule might not be as clear cut as it appears at first.
 

 Discussion on answer by bobobobo: Wha…

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O. R. Mapper
Jun 23, 2024 08:31
... about a software engineer's output, or the quality thereof.
O. R. Mapper
Jun 23, 2024 08:31
@bobobobo: No doubt searching the number of posts by a user is easy in most discussion boards. My point was that you seem to be rewarding bad behaviour (explaining certain facts various times in discussion board conversations) over good behaviour (writing the explanation just once, in a wiki article, an then pointing to that article in at most a single message per discussion). I was not even thinking of anyone intentionally gaming the system, I just see that already the simple suggestions from your answer have dozens of pitfalls where the metric is inaccurate or even actively misleading ...
O. R. Mapper
Jun 23, 2024 08:31
Concerning your metrics: 1) I have yet to come across a bug/user story/feature whose "atomicity" was not subject to interpretation. On top of that, you may be giving an incentive for people to create one-time solutions (= many separate tickets) rather than generic, reusable ones (= one ticket that covers multiple cases that boil down to the same idea/issue). "since features take longer than typical bugs" [citation needed] 2) So, is it actually better if I spend my time explaining 10 people the same thing rather than writing a wiki article and sharing the link?
 

 Discussion on answer by haxor789: Com…

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O. R. Mapper
Apr 24, 2024 20:30
... Aspekt, der nach meiner Wahrnehmung im (eher bürokratisch anmutenden) "national" eben gerade völlig fehlt. Aber es ist interessant zu sehen, dass manche hier die Trennung nicht so klar wahrnehmen. Und ich nehme durchaus einen Unterschied zwischen "Nationalpark" und "nationaler Park" wahr, nur dass ich eben keines von beiden auch nur entfernt mit "nationalistisch" in Verbindung bringen würde.
O. R. Mapper
Apr 24, 2024 20:30
@haxor789: Habe ich gelesen, aber genau diese Verwechslungsgefahr sehe ich überhaupt nicht. Vielleicht habe ich einfach nicht dieselbe Assoziation beim Wort "national", denn bereits bei "nationale Dinge tun" habe ich umgehend die Verwaltungssituation im Kopf (und denke daher an Tätigkeiten wie einen Friedensvertrag oder ein Handelsabkommen unterzeichnen, oder einen Haushaltsplan auf (in Deutschland) Bundesebene überprüfen) und würde das nicht intuitiv mit "Aufmärschen" in Verbindung bringen. Kurz gesagt - der Unterschied zu "nationalistisch" liegt für mich genau in dem ideologischen ...
O. R. Mapper
Apr 24, 2024 20:30
... Deutschland geben muss. Und so, wie "nationale Aufsichtsbehörden" eben diverse Aufsichtsbehörden auf staatlicher Ebene, eine "nationale Klimaschutzinitiative" eine Initiative zum Klimaschutz, die auf nationaler Ebene (!) koordiniert wird, und eine "nationale Impfkonferenz" ein Kongress, der vorrangig Experten aus einem ganzen Land zusammenbringen möchte, sind, kann man sich unter einem "nationalen Park" einen Park vorstellen, der entweder direkt im Auftrag einer Staatsregierung bewirtschaftet wird, oder der möglicherweise sogar ein ganzes Land um-/überspannt.
O. R. Mapper
Apr 24, 2024 20:30
@haxor789: "Aber wie verhält sich das bei z.B. 'nationaler Park' (...) im Deutschen gibts das Konzept so nicht weshalb die assoziation in Richtung Nationalismus (...) geht, oder?" - ich verstehe die Argumentation nicht ganz. Nur, weil es in Deutschland keine "national parks" im Sinn der USA gibt, heißt das doch nicht, dass man nicht auf Deutsch über die Nationalparks der USA sprechen könnte. Ich sehe auch bei anderen Verwendungen von "national" keine Assoziation in Richtung Nationalismus, wenn man sich ins Gedächtnis ruft, dass es die beschriebenen nationalen Dinge nicht unbedingt in ...
 

 Discussion on question by Nepene Nep:…

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O. R. Mapper
Apr 23, 2024 09:06
@Elerium115: Getting less work done is something quite different from working less. Especially as the OP mentions they are in an open plan office, it is totally possible they are working the same amount of time, and even, as far as that can be "measured", put in the same amount of "effort", and yet get a lot less work done, both due to unspecific (background noise, general added stress level from knowing lots of people will perceive virtually anything you do) and specific (people come to ask questions because you're there) disturbances.
O. R. Mapper
Apr 23, 2024 09:06
@Elerium115: The OP does not intend to "work less", they just intend to work not any more than they already to (and presumably contractually agreed to).
 

 Discussion on answer by Leon Black: C…

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O. R. Mapper
Aug 3, 2023 21:54
... example to be a strawman, compared to the spot-on other examples.
O. R. Mapper
Aug 3, 2023 21:54
@JochenGlueck: My impression is that you first have to sift through and understand the forms and tax rules. Only once you have mastered that hurdle, you will ever get as far as writing any number. And even then, filling out the forms mostly just means copying numbers verbatim from one place (bill/receipt/readily formatted summary) to another (the correct form field in the tax forms). The major part of the arithmetics, if any, is to know beforehand how much money you'll have to pay or how much you'll get back - nice to know for you, but ultimately optional. Hence why I considered the ...
O. R. Mapper
Aug 3, 2023 21:54
@Servaes: While I agree with your other points, "They are unable to do their own taxes" feels a bit like a strawman to me. Wouldn't that be nice if the difficulty in doing one's taxes were mere arithmetics, rather than figuring out what components of bill X need to be declared starting at which minimum sum, according to the more recent among a set of deviating court decisions on the topic, and whether row Y on form Z is really the right place to do this.
 

 Discussion on question by Catiger3331…

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O. R. Mapper
Jun 3, 2023 09:36
@spuck: 'but "online" doesn't mean "available to chat right now" in my organization' - along the same lines, "online" can mean exactly that, and nothing beyond: When I'm "online", it means "I'm here, ping me if you need anything." It does not mean that I'm currently working, or counting the time as work. I might just be at the computer, watching something on Netflix, but willing to interrupt that if a co-worker needs my support. The gist is the same as in your message - the interpretation of "online" by the OP may well be mistaken.
 

 Discussion on question by user354948:…

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O. R. Mapper
Mar 28, 2023 07:00
... good and edit in the citation for all those of us to see to whom the article is behind a paywal ... and only then came to realize that the question had apparently been edited so the link now points to an (of course not paywalled) archive site that everyone could already visit, anyway, rather than the original, paywalled link by the OP. Sorry again if you dislike the edit, please just undo it in that case.)
O. R. Mapper
Mar 28, 2023 07:00
@Hypnosifl and OP: I have taken the liberty to edit in a brief citation of the relevant passage from the linked article. OP, please undo my edit if you absolutely dislike it, but I'd argue it is a definitive improvement of the question to see the level of detail in terms of information that is provided in the article, without searching for the relevant mentions through the entire text. (Ok, the actual reason I did the edit was that I read in the comments the article was paywalled, clicked the link, saw that it's somehow not paywalled for me, thought I'd use that advantage to do some ...
 

 Discussion on answer by Fizz: Why is …

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O. R. Mapper
Feb 8, 2023 04:03
@Fizz: In some languages, 'ü' would be perceived as a 'u' with a diaresis, which is visually indistinguishable from a u-umlaut.
 

 Discussion on question by walkar: Tec…

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O. R. Mapper
Dec 8, 2022 05:21
@DavidRicherby: Ok - I don't find those so bad (or maybe I'm just used to worse ;-) ).
O. R. Mapper
Dec 8, 2022 05:21
"... a dry cloth ...", I meant of course. So won't let me edit my comment any more now to correct that confusing typo.
O. R. Mapper
Dec 8, 2022 05:21
In my opinion, the biggest (if not the only) problem apparent in the photo is that you removed the previous contents of the blackboard with a try cloth or hand. Don't do that. Always use water, if you can (and if there's one of those rubber things to remove the water right after again). You can hold both objects - the wet one, and the dry one - in two hands and clean (really clean, not like the background in the photo) even a wide blackboard in virtually no time.
 

 Discussion on question by The Bluffs:…

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O. R. Mapper
Sep 24, 2022 21:49
I think it is not explicitly mentioned here, but it seems this is not training (just) for new employees, but something that mostly long-time employees will also have to take in regular intervals. If so, I'd consider your training to be successful, as everyone can now quickly give the right answers.
 

 Discussion on answer by thelawnet: Is…

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O. R. Mapper
Jul 8, 2022 01:46
@AzorAhai-him-: I was a bit surprised by that claim, as well. A "typical" constellation I am familiar with is that in a "family", "mom" often drives the large car that will routinely be used to transport kids and groceries, whereas "dad" often drives the small car that's just used for the daily commute to work. That constellation, as far as it is actually prevalent, is probably evened out by other contexts than "family", though.
 

 Discussion on question by Someone: Is…

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O. R. Mapper
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@WoJ: Apparently, sign 215 must not appear without sign 205 (maybe as sign 205 cannot be overlooked as easily, as it follows the colour scheme of a warning sign?), so they (should) always appear in combination. Once inside the roundabout, there are no further signs indicating your right of way, so the roundabout sign has an effect there.
O. R. Mapper
Jul 3, 2022 16:52
@WoJ: "In Europe, each entry of a roundabout is a road crossing and therefore by default the ones entering have right of way. Except that in 90% of the roundabouts you would have yield signs at the entrance of the roundabout." - maybe that's nitpicky, but at least in German driving schools, we are indeed taught that the vehicles in the roundabout always have the right of way. Whereas a circular road whose entrances are not marked with signs 215 + 205 (roundabout + yield) just looks like a roundabout, but actually isn't a true roundabout.
 

 Discussion on question by Beveled: Ho…

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O. R. Mapper
Mar 25, 2022 23:41
@Esther: No danger of tripping over cables? No danger of accidentally cutting through powered cables if they happen to lie between the blades of scissors that someone happens to close?
 

 Discussion on answer by Hugo: Alterna…

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O. R. Mapper
Feb 11, 2022 19:26
@tkruse: I concede I wrote my comment when I had just read yours and thought it was just an almost-too-absurd-to-believe one-off claim, before I read more and realized there are seriously quite some people who make that connection. I'm not sure how to deal with that yet, given that I feel it requires quite some convoluted thinking to think of skin colours (let alone statements about them) when reading terms like "blacklist" or "whitelist", making vocabulary feel a bit like a minefield. Thank you for mentioning the "inclusive language" keyword, maybe reading up on that will give me some hints.
O. R. Mapper
Feb 11, 2022 19:26
@tkruse: Wait, how did you get from "black==bad" (where black is an abstract colour) to the skin colour? That connection sounds quite far-fetched.
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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O. R. Mapper
Jan 4, 2022 15:49
@WeatherVane: "which one is it?" - the one that it says it is? When image-googling for photos of glasses, I see various glasses where the measure is accompanied by the CE logo. Where's the problem of printing several measures, each accompanied by the logo for the standard they are based upon right next to the measure?
 

 Discussion on question by fles: What …

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O. R. Mapper
Oct 4, 2021 14:55
... from some 5 years of studying was irrevocably lost.
O. R. Mapper
Oct 4, 2021 14:55
@Ben: I'm not sure storing e-mails for years for a person now unaffiliated with the institution would be a valid tactic in the face of privacy laws that restrict the storage of personal information. In any case, university e-mail accounts are occasionally deleted - when I switched from being a student to working at my university, my student e-mail account was gone from one day to the other without prior warning, and when I inquired about it, admin staff just told me that's the standard procedure for when someone stops being a student. All my correspondence from that student account ...
 

 Discussion on question by user78397: …

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O. R. Mapper
Aug 19, 2021 02:06
@CaptainEmacs: While all of that is true, it should be noted that it is also quite a "standard legal convention" in Germany to establish one's identity in the form "<name>, born on <date of birth> in <place of birth>" (in official documents, etc.), not as a means of authentication, but of disambiguation toward other people with the same name. I see the possible clash with GDPR and it will be interesting to see whether and how this will be resolved in the years to come.
 

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O. R. Mapper
Feb 1, 2021 20:54
@äüö: Du magst mit deiner Aufzählung richtig liegen, dennoch fällt auf, dass sämtliche von dir genannten Begriffe für einen "Außenstehenden" bereits inhaltlich keine Rolle spielen, während das Deployment einer Software durchaus auch für Personen ohne technischen Hintergrund inhaltlich relevant sein kann.
O. R. Mapper
Feb 1, 2021 20:54
@userunknown: "Seine spezifische Bedeutung ist eine Illusion." - es ist nicht das originale englische Wort, welches eine spezifische Bedeutung hat, sondern das Lehnwort. Im Deutschen haben wir somit dank des Lehnworts einen spezifischen, prägnanten Begriff, auch wenn es diesen so in der Quellsprache des Lehnwortes gar nicht gibt. Dieses Phänomen lässt sich auch an anderen Lehnwörtern beobachten (spontan fällt mir z.B. "Show" im Fernsehkontext ein).
 

 Discussion on answer by Paul Frost: "…

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O. R. Mapper
Dec 16, 2020 11:10
Maybe a word of caution: "But using ['lackiert'] as an attribute of a person, it colloquially means somebody who was fooled or betrayed." and "But ['Anstreicher'] is also associated to a certain type of politician who self-confidently and pompously makes promises and raises unrealizable expectations amongst his supporters." may both be correct explanations, but do not expect these terms to be commonly used in colloquial language or even understood nowadays.
 

 Discussion on question by I Like to C…

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O. R. Mapper
Sep 8, 2020 15:24
@Bilkokuya: May I point out that there is a big difference between "no classes/fixed appointments/events with physical presence on campus on weekends" and "no studying-related workload on weekends" (scheduled at the student's own discretion). After all, students are also not at school in the evening (and, depending on the country, typically finish school in the afternoon earlier than university classes might finish), so at some point, time that could be spent with one's children will have to be partially reserved for university things, anyway.
 

 Discussion on answer by Daniel: An em…

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O. R. Mapper
Aug 16, 2020 20:36
This answer could be drastically improved if it also explained what to do if one has not read any such "general" books. As an example: During the very first years of my software development career (actually, in the years before I could say my "career" as such started), I bought many books - virtually all of them were of the "C# for Dummies" type, with the added caveat that in those days, it wasn't "C#", but rather something like "Delphi 3.0".
 

 Discussion on question by O. R. Mappe…

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O. R. Mapper
Aug 14, 2020 09:30
@AlanDev: Which episode exactly? Please name concrete examples. I couldn't find a single one in the transcripts on Chakoteya. The typical phrasing on TNG is "You have the bridge." In contrast, there are plenty of examples where someone is said or told to take the conn, whereupon they sit down at the flight control station while someone else is in the command chair and in charge. The usage of "conn" described by Austin appears to be restricted to TOS.
O. R. Mapper
Aug 14, 2020 09:30
@AustinHemmelgarn: In the context of Star Trek, you're wrong. cf. e.g. Memory Alpha: "The flight control officer, also known as conn officer, or simply conn/helm, was the crewmember on a Federation starship assigned the duty of piloting the vessel. This position combined the roles of the navigator and helmsman used previously. The term 'conn' was also used to refer to the flight control station itself."
O. R. Mapper
Aug 14, 2020 09:30
... technical details of the ship's operations (power routing, engine systems in general, operating a transporter and flying shuttlecraft, handling and sometimes even reconfiguring various handheld tools, getting along with various alien computer interfaces, etc.). Remember that every now and then, courses on apparently quite specialized and advanced subjects such as subspace physics are mentioned as having been taught at the academy. And that's only the technical side. Squeezing all of that into 4 years doesn't leave much room for practicing maneuvers with different ship classes.
O. R. Mapper
Aug 14, 2020 09:30
@PaulD.Waite: I kind of disagree. Typical vocational education for many professions nowadays is in the range of 3 or 4 years. Studying to a general-purpose degree (Bachelor/Master) typically takes about 3 to 5 years, as well. In all of these cases, you graduate with the basic training for your particular job (and little else). Contrast that with Starfleet personnel, who seem to be not only trained for their particular job (e.g. security officers -> control a starship's weapons, defeat adversaries with phasers and double-fist punches), but also appear to have a general grasp of plenty of ...
 

 Discussion on answer by Hubert Schöln…

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O. R. Mapper
Jul 14, 2020 16:20
@CorneliusBrand: Das ist nun zwar nur anekdotisch, aber mir hatte (vor ca. 10 Jahren) ein (damals kurz vor dem Ruhestand stehender) Arbeitskollege erzählt, er habe seiner (jugendlichen/erwachsenen) Enkeltochter in Bezug auf ihren (seiner Meinung nach mangelhaften) Ordnungssinn immer wieder gesagt: "Mensch, bist du 'ne Schlampe." Die Enkeltochter war über die Ausdrucksweise extrem empört, während der Kollege daran nichts Außergewöhnliches finden konnte, jedoch erahnte, dass das Wort nach "seiner Zeit" einen Bedeutungswandel erfahren haben muss.
 

 Discussion on answer by Machavity: Wh…

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O. R. Mapper
Jun 22, 2020 15:18
@Luaan: It was your claim that communicators "work through the central computer". I took that to mean that according to your opinion, they are pretty much useless without access to the central computer, unlike cellphones, which can be used for various tasks (even before the smartphone era) without having access to a network. Concerning the name "cellphone": You're right, and I wasn't aware that's the origin of the word (in my native language, the word for "cellphone" isn't related to the tech), though I wonder whether the term will stick even if the underlying technology changes some day.
O. R. Mapper
Jun 22, 2020 15:18
@Luaan: "Both communicators and PADDs work through the central computer; they're walkie-talkies, not cell phones/Wi-fi." - I think we have seen occasions were communicators were working even though the ship was unreachable. Thus, they do function without access to any central computer.
 

 Discussion on answer by Maarten Buis:…

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O. R. Mapper
Jun 7, 2020 00:08
As before, suggestions to counter abuse and unfair bias are welcome, but so far, I strongly disagree with the idea that criteria that are very relevant for identifying the best candidate are ignored on the basis that they are observer-dependent. If that is a problem, add more (also passive) observers, if you can somehow manage the logistics (i do not have any practical ideas that would span a period of years, but maybe you have some).
O. R. Mapper
Jun 7, 2020 00:03
... And lastly, as I've noted before, it becomes downright unethical if those giving the money (e.g. taxpayers) or those relying on the results of the candidate's work in the new position (indirectly, again taxpayers, among others) are told the position is filled with the best available candidate rather than admitting they just picked someone with good marks who may or may not be a good choice for this particular position.
O. R. Mapper
Jun 6, 2020 23:59
... In my opinion, such a process would be disrespectful toward candidates who want to be individuals that become a specific part of a specific organization rather than just being someone stuck into some slot and fulfilling their duties, irrespective of where it is. It throws overboard any consideration that humans are not machines that can simply be assigned based on a set of parameters, without ever thinking that there are real people who have to work together. ...
O. R. Mapper
Jun 6, 2020 23:55
... Like this, it seems the selection of a candidate would be absolutely fair to the candidates in the sense that all of them are evaluated exclusively based on previously announced context-independent criteria. But I think it is simply dishonest to claim that this process was still aimed at filling positions with the best-suited candidate. ...
O. R. Mapper
Jun 6, 2020 23:55
... Simply pick the one with the highest combined grade. The hiring institution would not need to have any say in who they are about to hire. No sample lectures, no interview, no contact between the candidate and the hiring institution at all before the contract is signed. ...
O. R. Mapper
Jun 6, 2020 23:54
... We could certainly somehow come to a point where candidates are exclusively selected based upon context-independent criteria, such as the marks from their graduation and previous work certificates etc. (all of which could certainly be more standardized for this purpose). The logical consequence would be that the actual selection of a candidate among all candidates who announced their interest in a given position could be a completely automated process. ...