almostnormal

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by almostnormal 10mo ago
From which country are you connecting?
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by almostnormal 11mo ago
Centralized only became mainstream when everything started to be offered "for free". When it was buy or pay recurrently more often the choice was to buy.
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by almostnormal 1y ago
Also the last one where important features were not reserved for enterprise volume licenses but available in the Pro version.
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by almostnormal 1y ago
The repository uses it to abbreviate "Model Context Protocol".
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by almostnormal 1y ago
Times are given as "c.t.", cum tempore.
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by almostnormal 1y ago
> Meanwhile jet fuel for private jets is (and remains) not taxed at all, even in the EU. Not correct. Fuel for private aviation is taxed, including jet fuel and avgas. However, there are very few "private" jets, most are operat
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by almostnormal 1y ago
"if your application requires a non-standard custom solution, then you should use the WebTransport API" That's a pretty convincing use-case. Why use something standard if it can be non-standard custom instead!
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by almostnormal 1y ago
Calling it "oldest" instead of "first known" would have avoided most of the confusion.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Full scale is unlikely. Russia could not, but they might send 250k/year to die in Estonia. EU and Nato (with or without US) would defend. But I doubt they would go all the way through Russia to force them to stop. Nuclear option is not
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Even if the EU doesn't collapse there's a non-zero risk of war though, after Russia is done with Ukraine.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Light pens are old, too, and with touch screens we are going back to that, without the light of the pen needed.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Drop tanks, well, drop batteries, to get rid of the excessive mass.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
How about not actively providing false information, but being allowed to respond with wrong information?
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Starting from the second note the brain switches to reative mode (at least a brain that got some relative recognition trained before) and no AP pitch will be memorized.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Looks like primer used for aircraft, as if they forgot to paint their builings.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
In some parts of the world a will must be written by hand or needs an attesting notary.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Notepad is attempting to fix spelling without asking.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
If you get bitten by flying bug, that's it. No escape. I would love to live a carbon-neutral live, but giving up on flying - no way. An easy choice compared to those at war. Bader willingly reentered the airforce, putting his life at r
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Ads are doing worse, not better. The purpose of an ad isn't to be clicked but to increase revenue. In the end of the year data will show clicks have gone up but other more important metrics haven't. Who is guilty for tracking user
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Huge difference between EU and US: In the EU, the seller always pays VAT to the government. In case of B2B, the buyer can claim it back from the government. As proof, store the invoice and data about the payment (and that the goods/ser
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by almostnormal 2y ago
2024/1257 [0], for checking fleet compliance, not the individual vehicle, anonymously. How a car is supposed to connect to a cell tower anonymously isn't explained though. "6. The OBM systems installed by the manufacturer in
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by almostnormal 2y ago
By "subscription" do you only mean subscription? Don't notifications need to be enabled in addition (bell button)? I'm using the RSS feeds, so I'm not sure...
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Not yet. But soon, when cars are required to transmit data about emissions.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
Those windows are not just pieces of art to look at. They do also tint the sunlight, and with that the inside of the cathedral. The proposed new ones each use different colors, which is probably going to cause different parts to be tinted d
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> [...] I remember this one dev who was super obsessed about code coverage [...] Oh, you are lucky. Where I work that's the person who defines how to test and which tools to use. Look at the code, create tests to paint everything gr
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by almostnormal 2y ago
I use a second plate, upside down.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
They do have different prices, too. And the supermarkets try to nudge people to buy the higher priced variants for greater revenue. The underlying problem that makes it tempting to promote cheap music is the flat rate.
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone [...] I write a mail (usually subject only) to myself. Actually, to noone, because my mobile devices Bcc myself. The notes are accessible from any device I can acces
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by almostnormal 2y ago
> While I concede that most people think of perfect pitch as something that is instilled in some way in early childhood rather than achievable through practice, I guess I would ask those commenters... why do you think the latter is funda

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