No fees in Germany, neither for sending nor for receiving and the funds get transferred within seconds.
Another comment mentioned ACH, but that is not the same as a wire transfer.
Thanks for clarifying that. I just thought they used a technical term I was unaware of.
If you accidentally wire the funds to the wrong account, there is no recourse.
Well, duh. That’s not what I’d call insecure. If you only accept a system as “secure” if it is resistant to any user error, then I propose you keep away from knives, cars, electricity, staircases, and basically everything.
You also didn’t provide any rationale for the “costs money” part of your statement.
[Edit: It does not and it is not. What the fuck are you talking about? Why do you think it’s insecure and what costs are associated with it?]
From my quick internet search it seems that these “bank-issued” debit cards are all either a rebranded MasterCard or rebranded Visa. Both American companies. Given how unpredictable their government behaves recently, and how recklessly the banking sector has behaving for decades now, I would rather not rely on them for something as essential as my bank account.
You prompted me to read up on these things. It turns out that Germany has been cooking their own debit card scheme (Girocard) for the last 20 years, and it’s incompatible with the rest of the world. But banks seem to be transitioning towards Visa or Mastercard.
Github doesn’t accept Girocards.
TBH, I’m not a fan of yet another entanglement with US-based companies for something as simple as moving money.
My preferred payment method is wire transfer. I instruct my bank to move x monies from my bank account to someone else’s bank account. No need for a third party.
Bankeinzug
is Direct debit.
The built-in lib is fine for basic stuff unless you do some crazy shit like expecting "2" to parse as a valid date.
I have access to none of these options, except SEPA iff Bottles accepts it.
I have a feeling that fundraisers would get a lot more funding if they weren’t so US-centric. I’m German. I don’t need a goddamn credit card. I have money. And I don’t want some private company snooping through my accounts.
You don’t need to use TS to avoid common issues. If you add an empty object to an empty array and expect a meaningful result, the problem sits in front of the keyboard.
Unfortunately, people do.
I am a frontend dev. JavaScript (well, TypeScript) is my bread and butter. Even knowing its quirks I never would have thought how inconsistent Date actually is. I encourage everyone to try this quiz.
This is what JavaScript haters should bring forth, not 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3!
it has come in clutch a few times
Massive disrespect for not learning a thing.
That image you linked requires authentication to download.
I think the homeowners are right regardless. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that even a moderately higher population density increases transportation demand. Even doubling the density could affect traffic considerably.
Now before the haters come out: I’m not saying that the transportation demand must be addressed by more or bigger roads.
Look at the last table in my original post. It contains 26 columns (A–Z), some of which are not shown, and 27 rows (blank–Z). There are 27 rows and 26 columns, regardless of the contents of the table. If the top-left cell (A, blank) were a 1 and (B, blank) were a 2, then (Z, blank) would contain a 26, and ZZ would contain a 702. Nothing about the layout of that table changes.
To summarize: The table will always be lopsided, if you start counting at 0 or at 1.
The argument stays the same. Only every index gets incremented.
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦
I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries
Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.
That’s absolutely possible. Whenever I’m researching how to move moneys, I find that there’s a bit of a language barrier. When I say “wire transfer”, I’m trying to communicate a scheme by which I instruct my local bank to reduce the number of Euros in my bank account and somehow instruct the recipient’s bank to increase the number of Euros in the recipient’s bank account by the same amount. Specifically, I’m trying to communicate that there is no credit involved here. No end-of-moth balancing of a credit account, no sending money I don’t actually have.
I think what I mean is the “SEPA Instant Credit Transfer” as Wikipedia describes it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area#SEPA_Instant_Credit_Transfer). I am aware that this cannot possibly work with banks outside of SEPA. And these are also free-of-charge, as I said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer#European_Union