Lev1a

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by Lev1a 2mo ago
Combining them is even more "fun", see also: "Nuclear Fracking: Repeatedly Nuking Yourself for Commercial Reasons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsu0lHkOIFg
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by Lev1a 2mo ago
I'm German and in the rare instance I eat out in an actual restaurant, I still do that "rounding up" if I've been happy with the service. Cash or card is not really an important factor for that scenario. Let's say t
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by Lev1a 5mo ago
Simple: NOOOOOOO! How is this even a question?
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by Lev1a 1y ago
Since the title on here is "Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee [...]" I assumed that there would be more to it the simple outright subscription plan(s), making me scroll down to the FAQ of the linked page where you can find the fo
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by Lev1a 1y ago
Got a recall notice about my few-months-old 20.000mAh Anker power bank from Amazon, went through Anker's verification process and found out that the S/N of mine isn't in the range of affected devices. Dodged a bullet there, a
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by Lev1a 1y ago
Not an expert on the topic by any means, but IIRC: - Those designs have been in parallel R&D for decades - Tokamaks are conceptually simpler, thus might be easier/faster/cheaper to make into viable installations - Stellarators
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by Lev1a 1y ago
AFAIK some automakers also cut down on the number of sensors by doing stuff like reading the already implemented sensor(s) for the ABS to provide the tire pressure warning function.
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by Lev1a 1y ago
Obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by Lev1a 2y ago
When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gift bag containing a variety of little food and drink ite
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by Lev1a 2y ago
That's why my go-to way of closing that editor has become Ctrl+W+Q (add more W if more than one tab is open in the editor).
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by Lev1a 2y ago
Over the last few years here in Germany many, many food products have gained a little note next to the "MHD" (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum, [1]) which says something like "oft länger gut" ("often viable for longer"
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by Lev1a 2y ago
Ah, found the reason [1]: > No more books. At one point I was selling the BOFH 'books' on Amazon, but it got to be a royal pain. Every month or so I'd get some warning about the book quality from Amazon that I'd have
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by Lev1a 2y ago
The problem is those "games" are still praying on people with addiction issues even if they have no payout.
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by Lev1a 2y ago
Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually lose him mo
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by Lev1a 2y ago
> In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support functions, and it grows to more and m
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by Lev1a 2y ago
Even if you have tarnished silver things, like silver(-plated) cutlery etc. the "un-tarnishing" is stupid easy and cheap to do: - take some container and put warm/hot water and a large helping of (table) salt into it - put so
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by Lev1a 3y ago
As someone who had cataracts and even after the corrective operations still has the significant sensitivity to glare, dark mode is not just a nice-to-have, but an absolute necessity for me. I.e. it's an accessibility issue to some peop
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by Lev1a 3y ago
Oh no , the horror of the cost of doing business when you can't get away with a get-rich-quick-scheme fast enough to cash out and disappear.
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> if there is a button you have to push every five minutes for the plane not to explode Instantly reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifa
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by Lev1a 3y ago
Title: > Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air I bet they do and the FAA should rightly tell them to fuck off if they're not willing to go through the formal procedure to get their proven-dangerou
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by Lev1a 3y ago
Rule of thumb I once heard as a German: "Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".
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by Lev1a 3y ago
Same thing in the German supermarket I'm working at. Sending "feedback"(?) about the deliveries (e.g. about missing/broken/etc. wares) back to the chain's warehouses/depots is also done by fax through one
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> Wall Street isn't happy that employees will have more freedom in their choice of employer "In other news, water continues to be wet."
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the point of Containers at all, being useful only fo
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by Lev1a 3y ago
The problem with this kind of mass-layoffs to maximize earnings is that it's a very short-term gain prioritized over long-term growth, a symptom of the cancer that is the mentality "shareholders expect infinite growth forever&quot
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> to represent his life's work So it's gonna be a monument to "Over-promise and under-deliver"?
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by Lev1a 3y ago
AFAIK not Mozilla but one of their employees created Rust and later on Mozilla sponsored development and used the language for projects.
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by Lev1a 3y ago
As James Stephanie Sterling likes to say: "Corporations don't want some [of your] money, they want ALL [of your] money." Also, ads are (except for very, very rare exceptions) useless wastes of time AND if I'm already pay
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> like COVID would last forever COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those infectio
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> ~~adblock~~ origin FTFY: uBlock Origin

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