I love this site! Certainly helps to find and travel the beautiful routes like Sarajevo-Mostar or Bar-Belgrad.
Readit NewsSome context for Germany:
Before the probation period ends (usually 6 months), a company can fire you without any reason on 2 weeks notice.
After that, it's very hard to fire someone for being sick.
Now to your question: 30 days is the norm for knowledge workers. Days off, including: when you are sick, when your kid is sick so you have to take care of them, special occasions such as death of a close relative, marriage, relocation) don't get counted on these 30 days at all.
Sounds similar to Finnish system, for the sake of further comparison across countries.
marsvin commented on Show HN: Satori – Convert HTML and CSS to SVG github.com/vercel/satori... · Posted by u/steventey
Alright, I like this, almost a lot!
In the 90's there was a vector graphics editor called Satori. It was something beyond the understanding of us neighbourhood kids. Something beyond the Paint (and Paintshop Pro). Now let's get back from the nostalgia trip...
marsvin commented on Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf] fahrplan.events.ccc.de/co... · Posted by u/Tomte
This presentation was originally given in August 2007 for Hackers on a Plane.
It inspired many, including me, to open a hackerspace and to this day is the document I refer people to when they want to start one.
What is amazing is that even after almost 15 years, these design patterns still matches how my hackerspace runs. This isn't because we follow them religiously, just that they are natural and very effective.
I would encourage anyone wanting to create a hackerspace, or any other social space for that matter, read these over.
It is also important to know that these are patterns and guidelines, not rules. If something doesn't fit with your community, your community should be empowered to change things that fit them better.
These inspired also us to open a hackerspace (or hacklab as we call them here). It has been interesting to see patterns happens in real life. Especially the Sine Wave pattern comes and goes by the time.
Also I recommend people to read through these.
marsvin commented on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) bbc.com/news/magazine-227... · Posted by u/Hooke
>We got like 100 condoms after birth, which would mean years of sex given the stress and discomfort after birth.
Are you speaking from experience or is this just your expectation? My wife and I were back to normal pretty much as soon as everything healed up (4-6 weeks or so)
No matter how fast you'll use those rubbers, it's also good for hygienic reasons. Would be very annoying to get UTI or such when there is a new humanbeing to be taken care of.
marsvin commented on The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate massivesci.com/articles/v... · Posted by u/allthebest
Having recently had a child, I learned about APGAR and marveled how the emotional "is my baby ok" was put into a super easy process. The chart from the article can be followed by absolutely anyone and babies can be sent to specialists as needed - or not. As the article mentions, it may not get everything 100% right, but it's useful enough - and more importantly easy enough - to save a lot of lives.
I can highly recommend anyone to read about the process of medical emergency triage in general. It drastically reduces the knowledge needed to solve complex situations and gives you something to hold on to when things get hot. Seeing these stressful problems reduced to if-else flows was very inspirational for me for designing ways to tackle urgent issues in other areas of life, e.g. tech support, service requests or HR.
It was great to hear him being 8/10 and soon up to 9/10. So comforting and removing all that unnecessary fear. Days and hours right before that moment were so exhausting that simple number was easy to process.
marsvin commented on Ask HN: What was your favorite website from the 1990s? · Posted by u/Red_Tarsius
Astalavista and other "sibling" sites on its parent domain were my favorites. I used to be a silly borderline criminal kid.
As a person with diagnosed fibromyalgia this is sadly a quite common thought for me, too. Fibromyalgia is usually invisible for other people. On outside it looks the person is tired or grumpy or in some kind of brainfog. It just sucks a lot of energy during the flareups. On good days, I'm okay with it, we are on same ride until there are better treatments available.
Glad he stocked some sweet potatoes, too. At least a tiny change in flavour compared to common potatoes.
I have to admit I'd rather stick with normal diet. Just recude the intake or increase the consumption.
This page[1] calls these co-living spaces hackbases, and lists a few in Europe.
[1] https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackbase