Kazumara

Haha there is no way that's accidental, typical nerd naming, I love it

Not saying you need to do this, especially if you do 4K, but my solution was just buying AMD GPUs. I'm on a Radeon RX 6800 now (RX 580 before) and things are just so nice and easy with my dual-boot.

Ah as an intermediary for TypeScript? Fair point.

The Chinese tanks stopped for the man in the photo!

What a line dude.

The military shot at the crowd and ran over people in the square the day before. Hundreds died. Stopping for this guy doesn't mean much.

being a registered business they purchase for prices without VAT

That's not true, sorry. A business pays stuff with VAT included too, but they can later claim back the VAT they paid against the VAT they raised from selling stuff, so they don't have to hand all of that over.

You probably mean the sales taxes, those look similar from a consumer point of view, but they work differently.

In a VAT system the taxes are collected all along the value addition chain. Each sale of intermediary products has the VAT cost on it, but companies can claim the VAT that they pay for their inputs against the one they collected on their outputs. In effect each company hands over the part of VAT that is raised on their part of the value addition. In the end it all comes from the consumer who buys the final product but doesn't sell anything onward so they can't claim their paid VAT against anything. This system determines the end consumer automatically.

In a sales tax system, only the sale to the final end customer is taxed, and intermediary products are not taxed. Intermediary companies must prove to their suppliers that they are not end customers, that they intend to sell things onward, and that they are therefore exempted from sales tax and the supplier does not have to collect sales tax. If that fails, then that means mistakenly a company has to pay sales tax, and then their customer has to pay it again.

Other than that I don't know enough to compare:

• What is more or less administrative overhead.
• What is more or less open to fraud.
• To what degree this is linked to the existence of a single national or many regional tax rates

Just to make sure you know: Basically everyone has a VAT, except the US. It's not some special EU thing.

We have it in Switzerland, Canada has it, Japan has it, China has it, India has it, Russia has it, Brazil has it, Indonesia has it, Australia has it, Ukraine has it, Mexico has it, South Africa has it... I'm stopping here, but every country I googled had it so far.

Das ist ganz schön alt. Das Ranking wurde doch noch korrigiert, weil sie versehentlich die Halbtax-Preise zugrunde gelegt haben. Eigentlich war die SBB viel zu teuer für Platz 2. Am Ende wars Platz 11.

Hier noch die ursprüngliche Analyseseite: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/rail-ranking

Und direkt die Detailsansicht, die oben embedded ist: https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/18870995/embed?auto=1

It starts using an entire core for UI work when I move my mouse (Roccat Cone Pure 2017), and becomes unresponsive. Had to get a different mouse just for this shit. At least I got my workplace to pay for it.

Support did not even try to replicate the issue, instead they wanted me to upgrade to the "New" Teams when I explicitly told them that I didn't have that option in my org.

Left to right: Shimakaze, Miyuki, Suzutsuki, Shigure, Asashio and Hamakaze from Kantai Collection

Hm even with DeepSeek being more efficient, wouldn't that just mean the rich corps throw the same amount of hardware at it to achieve a better result?

In the end I'm not convinced this would even reduce hardware demand. It's funny that this of all things deflates part of the bubble.

Hmm it's difficult to quantify. On workday I spend an average of probably 6-8 hours on a computer with job related tasks. Not really coding most of the time, since we're maintaining and building a network, so it's more configuration, planning, coordination, and documentation work. Some days we're out to actually deploy hardware, or run around and debug stuff, so it's hard to estimate the average screentime.

My free time involves a lot of computer time too, but it is split up into more smaller categories, either on the desktop computer or the smartphone computer. Manga, Games, Youtube, Movies, Anime Series, Lemmy, Pornography, News, Banking and Investments.

In the end I think my job is the biggest unified chunk of time, but that's kind of arbitrary, if I started subdividing it into different tasks maybe gaming would become the biggest chunk.