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Living in central europe I rarely see Temperatures lower than -5°C. But when it's colder than that, I just put up my ski goggles and they are great for that. Also a full face mask will be added at -8 and lower.

Without goggles at those temperatures my eyes would start hurting after around 30 minutes of cycling. Might not be healthy to get the eyes freezing either.

I had one good experience with a Chatbot recently when I needed Telco support by Deutsche Telekom. For some reason I lost my internet connection one day and when it came back up it was only half the bandwidth that DSL would sync up to usually. Also after rebooting my Edge Device.

The Bot offered to restart my DSL from their end and I assume the profile gets updated along the way there as well. So after a few minutes Internet was running at the desired speed again.

But I agree. Most of the Chatbots and Phone robots are useless to the point of directing you to the right department - asking for your authentication verification data for on-call support and then forwarding you to a Support Guy after 30 Minutes of waiting in the Queue. And even then in most cases you need to proof the same Auth data to the Support Guy again...

Some of the favorites of Bill Gates this year.

What were the books and courses that are your favorites this year?

I think it's not just black and white.

My office is a 20 (tarmac) - 25 (forest) minutes bike ride. I don't have any problem working from home but if the weather isn't too bad I go to the office regulary - even if I sit there in the same remote meetings all day as I do at home. For me the change of the scenery and the "off" time by doing the commute are worth it.

Going to move out of range of an office for this company in a year. Thinking about joining a coworking space then for it.

The solution at the end almost looks like the manual setup of terragrunt which we are using to manage lots of base infra in many different accounts.

What would be interesting here would be to see how they actually reference the outputs from one layer onto the next layer. That is something that is not even solved nicely in terragrunt and one of the major annoyances for me there. Using dependencies and the mock_output option is creating lots of noise in the plan outputs as the dependencies are only completely resolved when terragrund applies all the modules.

But it seems I also missed a few additions to terraform - so probably there are better ways to take outputs from one terraform run into another one.

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I think the game changer of this ticket is to replace the second or third family car. The few occasions that you actually needed more than one car you could now just do with public transport without a lot of hassle.

Question is if the 600€/annum is cheap enough for people to opt for this. But at least many companies are looking into giving the 49€ ticket at a discount - and that is actually desired from the state as the state also gives the company a discount if they do so.

Well, you could of course use some tickets from other operators in the same region. In NRW there is the handy eezy NRW[0] ticket system where you just pay the kilometers travelled "how the bird flies". So even the connections that would be expensive otherwise could be cheap.

I use it sometimes for the last bit of my long distance travel if I visit my parents (not directly in VRR region but in Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RMV)). It states that it works for all stops within NRW - which is annoying as one of the busses I could take actually goes to Osnabrück (Niedersachsen) and I cannot use - even though it's actually operated by the NRW regional transit provider.

Overall public transit is / was a mess in germany and 9€ Ticket really was an eye opener on how easy it could be to hop on and off of everything that's moving however you like.

[0] https://www.vrr.de/de/fahrplan-mobilitaet/eezy-vrr/

I did my bachelors and masters degree in cooperation with different companys in germany. Over here it is quite normal that companys have open positions for cooperative degrees.

For most it comes down to some evening courses or courses crapted together on a few days so that the other days are available for part time working.

At my university we had it a little different. For Bachelors it was:

- 1. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 2. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 3. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 4. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 5. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 6. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 7. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits (3 mo) + 3 months bachelors degree (most of the time based on the stuff you worked on before)

The Semester breaks we needed to work full time but also needed to take our 30 days of vacation in that time.

So I think we got the best of both worlds. Hands on experience on the work and full time studying on campus.

In the companys I joined since then I'm heavily opting to get some cooperative students. Usually by the time of the 4th semester they are up to speed and help a lot in the 8 months they are there.

Interesting. For me the amazon-linux-extras part was the most annoying part. Using automation tooling (Terraform for instance deployment and Ansible in User Data of instances) it was so annoying to work with. Fallback to the shell executor in Ansible to get something installed is a pita.

Also good that they finally get out of a python2 default Amazon Linux - only 2.5 years after it's EOL.

You won't need a Swap partition. You might as well create a Swapfile and use it for Swap without the need to repartition the disk.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/swap#Swap_file

If you are going to hit a cyclist because the cyclist dodged a pothole then you are not leaving enough safety distance.

In my country you need to pass cyclists with minimum 1.5m distance to the side within city/village (usually 50 kph speed limits) or 2m outside of the city/village.

That minimum distance is there especially for such situations where the cyclist needs to dodge Potholes, Glass, ...

That minimum distance is also required if the cyclist is riding on the shoulder. Some paint on between you and the cyclist doesn't keep anyone of you safe on it's own.

As a cyclist I sometimes run red lights if it is safe. Why? Bacause I cannot get from A to B with a bicycle with the current infrastructure.

In my city of 30k people there are several traffic lights equipped with road sensors. So they only ever go green if something heavy enough or with enough metal / magnetic mass in it rolls over it. Especially for left-turn signals it's impossible to get them triggered as a cyclist here.

One will remember waiting in the middle of the road for a few minutes. So I decided I'll come to a stop if needed and see that it's safe to run the red light. I'd even do it if police is seeing it.

This topic has also been raised to the city council and local administration but I guess my tax money will not be spent on cycle friendly infrastructure.

> You cant just hop on a bicycle use infrastructure others are paying for and expect to be treated like equals without paying into the system your fair share.

There are a few studies that show that cycling saves cost while driving cars is subsidized by the government. That's taking taxes, fees into acount. Even the heavy petrol taxes in Europe.

Probably it helps to keep that in mind if one is again annoyed by cyclists (read people) using the road.

What people like you don't get is that 90+% of the roads are open for all kinds of traffic.

Do you have the same problems when you need to stay behind a digger or horse drawn carriages? All of this is traffic in the sense of getting from A to point B and are totally valid to use the streets payed by their tax dollars.

But you don't see people complaining about such traffic. It's always only the cycling specific traffic that is the "wrong vehicle for the road".

And it would also be the very same people who would complain about a cycle path beside the road as it's a waste of tax dollars in their mind if it's not used by thousands of cyclists a day.

I don't get it. If you just hate people that power their transportation themselves say it, but don't use such excuses.