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Well you're always limited to what the distributors have selected for a certain region.
However you can get around this sometimes with so called "grey" import. That's when you buy something meant for one region in another region, which happens a lot in Europe because the differences don't really matter. For example something made for Germany is perfectly fine in the countries around Germany, they all use the same plugs, same regulations, the manual is often in every language anyways (plus who reads the manuals). But it can cause trouble when you need warranty as the manufacturer doesn't like this, so they will refuse service. The EU has gotten on the ass of manufacturers to tell them to just service the customer, but it can be a hassle sometimes. In this case the reason for the different SKU has nothing to do with anything physical to the product, but instead the market it's meant for. In some countries people are a bit richer and thus prices are higher, but smart people know you can just buy the German product from a shop in Germany and even with a bit more shipping it can still be cheaper. So sometimes it's worth the effort.
This is also done for certain shops (for example Saturn/MediaMarkt in Europe) who get special SKUs just for them. These are often just the exact same SKU as available for the general market, but with a different number. They do this because a lot of countries have sites to compare prices at different shops. MediaMarkt had this strategy where they would heavily discount one model and market the shit out of that. This gave the public the idea MediaMarkt always had great deals. While in fact most models they sold were much more expensive than elsewhere. But nerds figured this out and created websites to compare prices between shops. So it would be obvious when the price was good at MediaMarkt and they would all buy that one, but when the price was higher they would know and not buy it. This destroyed the MediaMarkt strategy, so they made a deal with manufacturers to create different SKUs especially for them. This made it harder for the nerds to compare prices, as they used the SKUs to differentiate between different models.
For the different SKUs available in a region there are often shops available that sell them. Some shops select a certain amount of SKUs to a have a good selection from different manufacturers and have a simple selection for the customers. However other shops just sell everything the distributors have to offer. These often employ systems to automatically enrich and publish products as soon as the distributors lists them. With drop-shipping directly from the distributors, this gets even simpler. So you can recognize these shops as they have a lot of products and often don't have great filter and search options.
Another excellent place is for example sites like Ebay, where you can find all sorts of products from all different regions. And they even have shops on there that buy stuff the distributor meant to sell, but for some reason (for example delays in shipping) couldn't sell. Parties just buy up the entire stock and sell it through places like Ebay.
But in some cases, the manufacturer had some very weird SKUs that they could technically made, but nobody wanted them, so they never got made. This can lead to hobbyists to having easy modification options. For example a feature could be completely available on the PCB and even in the software, but the parts not populated because that SKUs didn't include that feature. In that case it's easy to just populate the parts and get the feature up and running.
In case you want something like 500 - 1000 parts (depending on the manufacturer and what kind of device it is, could be at least 5000 - 10000) you can often get the manufacturer to create a SKU especially for you. When this is one of the SKUs they initially planned but hadn't selected, the costs isn't even that high most of the times. But they can even make completely custom products as long as you are willing to buy enough volume.
The number advertised is not actually the name of the product, but the vendor code or manufacturer SKU.
I've had some experience in how these SKUs come to be for large brands. In a lot of cases the people developing the new models have like a whole list of monitors they could create. Out of these a selection is made for which they will create, which capabilities are good etc. This is done per region and even if the capabilities are exactly the same, it will get a different SKU for the different region. This is important because the labeling could be different, often different plugs and manuals are included. Sometimes different paperwork needs to be filed, so it's important the SKU matches the region. From this list of product SKUs the manufacturer can create for a region local distributors choose which ones they think are good for their market. This can often be hard and different distributors can choose different SKUs (depending on the manufacturer). Out of this list of available SKUs in the channel the shops can select which ones they want to carry. Some shops just carry them all (especially when dropshipping), other shops carefully select which ones they like.
This leads the shops to have seemingly random SKUs and nonsense numbers. But that's because those SKUs were figured out all the way back in step one. Those lists can be huge and all the numbers need to be unique. Normally there is some sort of internal structure used to generate the SKUs. But the end result is just a confusing mess of numbers.
When looking at for example distributor level at what they carry or what is offered, the numbers make a little more sense.
So it isn't ideal, but there is reason to the madness.
I think the March 24 jump was directly caused by stuff Trump said about Tesla and the protesters being terrorists.
I had a TV capture card in my computer and a little program that could in a sense decode the signal. However it wasn't very good at it. It had hotkeys to fiddle with the parameters, because a lot of them weren't constant in the encoding, but varied over time. This meant readjusting them all the time, otherwise it would lose tracking and get messed up. The colors would also invert every 30 secs or so, so you would need to hit a hot key to toggle that. Also there was no sound, the encoded TV stations used a digital sound track instead of the regular analog one, and nobody had figured out how to decode that. And because computers weren't that fast back then (I had a Celeron 300A running at 500mhz), the resolution was only half what the signal was. The signal was 480i, which got turned into a 240p image. Which at double the pixel size was still a very small image.
But it was kinda neat it could at least decode some of it and boobs could definitely be seen :) Funny how that's 25 years ago, it feels like it wasn't that long at all.
In my experience, all the Gen X people I've ever met were smart and kind people. It's often the Boomers who are total assholes.
Eat less sugar. What you are experiencing isn't true energy, it's the immediate boost sugar gives you. It's a high your body has become addicted to.
If you cut back on the amount of sugar, your body will adapt to the lower energy levels coming from burning fats. It's lower overall, but it's much more constant without the high highs and low lows. You'll feel much much better.
I would recommend looking into the cycles your body goes through. When you kick your body into a sugar burning cycle, it's rough to transition back to fat burning. It feels like you have no energy and are hungry for snacks. It's better to stay in the fat burning cycle for a longer time.
This is why I've personally had good success with intermittent fasting or something like one meal a day. I eat normally in the evening and can even have a snack after. During the night my body goes from burning sugar to burning fat, then the next day it's burning fat all day. A zero sugars diet wasn't for me, but other people have had good luck with it.
Just do some research and figure out what works for you, everybody is unique.
Well my first modem was. It was very slow and you used it by dialing the phone yourself and placing the receiver on the modem. This is called an acoustic coupler.
Later modems changed this by connecting directly to the outlet. This allowed for digital signals to be sent directly over the copper wires. This allows for much more bandwidth compared to just bleeping and blooping using audio. There were also in between variants which still used pure audio signals, but still connected directly to the outlet to improve signal quality.
My computer back then also had a tape deck and I would record data using the tape deck. This was also a pure audio based signal. So in theory you could use a regular old tape deck with regular old tapes. However I had a specialized tape deck, specifically made for the computer and special "data" tapes. Not sure if they actually worked better, but I had them so I used them.
Yes both my back and knees hurt.
That's still a 4xx situation.
Doesn't matter, the client ignores the error anyways.
Alright I'm gonna need you to buy an older ThinkPad and then install Arch Linux on it. Then I need you to set some anime background, preferably uncomfortable close to hentai if possible. Then I'm going to need you to get some thigh high socks and put those on. Put your legs up on the desk and take a picture. Make sure something like neofetch is running, so people know you use Arch BTW.
Once you have done that, head on over to /c/[email protected] and make a post.
If you could do that, that would be great
For 1 year, up 45.59% (this is fucking crazy!) For 5 years, up 625.30%
This is not normal for any stock, even if the company was doing good. But the company isn't doing good.
Their market share is small and hasn't grown in ways promised. The Cybertruck was a disaster, with almost no customers, only legal in some parts of the world (parts without proper regulations) and a bunch of delays and technical issues. Demand has been decreasing, even before Musks latest public Nazi shit. Revenue is down. There appears to have been fraud in the numbers they did report and those weren't good to start with. The whole promised future of self driving cars has turned out to be total BS and only the very strict anti-sue terms has saved them on this point. Other companies in the same space are doing better on all fronts.
Yet somehow the stock is worth more than the rest of the market they are in? It makes zero sense and you can bet your ass illegal shit has been done to get it to this point.
Musk has been begging people to please hold on to their stock. And if I know one thing, if the big shareholders start saying shit like that, sell immediately! It's a sign they are going to sell and you need to get out before all the money is gone.
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This is often an exercise for beginning programmers, it's a very simple task that's easy to understand, but leaves enough room in the implementation to make it a good exercise.
Sometimes it's used as a test on job applications, which is total bullshit, it isn't a good test of someones actual skills as a software developer. Because of this it's become a bit of a joke on the internet.
Also programmers: Hmmm do I really need this $1500 Herman Miller chair? Yes I absolutely do!
On the other hand, if you say you are going to the bathroom, nobody expects you to take a shit in the bathtub
Have you seen the price of chocolate lately? You'd be happy to get 1 M&M for 50 cents.
You haven't truly shit until you've had your ass cleaned by Poseidon