Eine Frage an Deutschsprachige: Welche einfachen Bücher könnte ich lesen?

Ich reise in drei Monaten nach Deutschland und Österreich und möchte mehr verstehen.

Redundant array, with monitoring and backups.

Maintenance, sure, but adding or replacing disk every year or two is not a big deal, and in twenty years or running my private streaming server I have had zero data loss.

I've often used Lent as an excuse to eat Indian or Ethiopian.

Eight years ago today my beard was being complimented by Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory.

A great day for facial hair.

It's worth noting that his last job also had him overseeing a short story magazine (Assemble Artifacts) so this isn't out of left field.

Always a bit stressful when several institutions within a beloved genre changed hands, but so far doesn't seem to be anything like PE trying to wring them dry.

From the LinkedIn it appears he left his position at the production company, so screen adaptation isn't necessary a component of the new venture. On the other hand, it may well be that they plan on making that a component of the new venture. I imagine that is something that might interest authors.

F&SF Goes Quarterly In the newly released Summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, publisher Gordon van Gelder explains that “Ongoing production problems have led us to skip the Spring…

Oh, and if the report they're buying "Fantasy & Science Fiction" as well, sounds like a life line.

They were supposed to be switching from a bimonthly schedule to quarterly but only published two issues last year and none this year.

locusmag.com/2024/09/fsf-...

I'm provisionally willing to entertain that the new company is a passion project.

Subject to revision, of course, should my optimism be misplaced.

Literary agent for almost a decade, then President of a production company.

No pharma.

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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine also lists 1 Paragraph, Inc. as the owner, which suggests they bought Dell Magazines in its entirety from Penny Publications.

"Very expensive tech support on my brain" may be the most accurate description of how therapy feels I've ever read.

This is not to disparage therapy in general; I know many for whom it seems invaluable.

My last experience with therapy set me back considerably. Still recovering.

That just means we'll get five times more AI.

Randy Newman - Short People (Official Video) YouTube video by Randy Newman

Don't say you weren't warned.

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I'm guessing they're focusing on US sales for the time being. There were 43,762 Prologues produced through November, which doesn't leave a lot after the 33,017 sold through Q4 and the ~ 6k in dealer inventories this side of the border.

They're still producing, but at a rate of ~ 5k/mo.

A decade of market dominance doesn't evaporate overnight, of course, but they do seem to be struggling to even maintain sales in spite of market growth. They fell to fourth in iZEV rebate claims in October, behind GM, Hyundai and Toyota.

This coming year promises to be a wild ride.

Ah, yeah, no idea what Honda sales are like in Canada. They don't appear to publish monthly numbers like they do for the US.

Sales of the Equinox EV are crazy on that side of the border though. If the estimates I've seen of Tesla sales are correct, GM has dethroned the Model Y for the #1 EV crown.

Eh? Honda has been incredibly aggressive with their Prologue sales. There was a promotion over labor day where you could get one cheaper than a Civic.

The Prologue sales last quarter (18,838) only slightly outpaced the Equinox EV (18,089) in the United States, and the Equinox EV sold another 10,207 units in Canada.

Merits of CP/AA aside, GM is having little trouble moving inventory.

Starting my year with a (not COVID) respiratory infection. Yay.

They have to drive home so they can hop on the treadmill and meet their step goal.

That is unironically awesome.

Screenshot of the commercial for "Log" from the "Ren & Stimpy Show".

It's better than bad.

A diabetic life before and after the insulin era - Diabetologia Diabetologia -

Or we knew, but were helpless to treat it. Like with diabetes.

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You just need to exclusively befriend the blind so you can paste them the alt-text instead.

Or blind your existing friends if you can't bear to leave them behind.

A picture of St. Nicholas captioned "I came to give presents to kids and to punch heretics. And I just ran out of presents."

Happy St. Nicholas Day

For context, the announcement from Anthem BCBS:

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And the CMS site that has the fee schedules:

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Humanity continues to disappoint me, whether carried by birds or butterflies.

This reminds me pleasantly of some of the "get to know me" memes that would circulate around LiveJournal.

I'm not an artist so ignore that block of questions, but if you want to ask me preferences about programming (or anything else) in a comment, feel free.

Oh, I missed that. The original post might have implied it by specifying "good gas mileage" but some of the follow-up posts seem to imply a non-Tesla BEV was potentially an option.

My office mate just got into a Santa Fe PHEV and seems happy with it, but I think the OP said no to Hyundai too.

While over in Europe sales of the Model Y and Model 3 have both fallen off precipitously (by 18% and 29% YoY respectively) allowing the Skoda Enyaq to take the top-selling model crown from the Model Y after 20 months as the market leader. They've also slipped to third largest auto group, behind BMW.