cue_the_strings

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by cue_the_strings 3mo ago
I've had a very detailed memory of the surroundings of my childhood home, which changed when I was 3-4 (major construction in the neighborhood, rerouting a street). We never had any family pics showing any of the stuff that I remembere
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by cue_the_strings 3mo ago
> There's also the phenomenon of having a memory of a memory. At age 10, I had a very solid recollection of my life at ages 5 to 6 (not so much of age 4). Now all I remember is that I used to remember a lot more than I do know. I ha
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by cue_the_strings 5mo ago
It is a damn shame bordering conspiracy that metamizole ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole , known as Analgin in eastern Europe and the Balkans, apparently also India) is not more widely available in the west. It
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by cue_the_strings 6mo ago
All of these studies are always performed by Finns (or SE / DK / NO + maybe Russia). I'd love to see this (and other sauna studies) replicated by someone somewhere to the south or hotter climates in general (southern Europe,
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by cue_the_strings 6mo ago
It's inverted, 100 == 0, 75 == 25
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by cue_the_strings 6mo ago
Yeah, a way where they hand you all their personal info for profiling, cyberbullying and threats?
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by cue_the_strings 6mo ago
I've worked in the automotive industry, as an embedded dev, some years ago. The software used by the automotive industry, mostly German-written, is absolutely terrible. Funnily enough, I've worked with some Chinese mobility startu
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
I was not expecting it to be this ugly.
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
You're missing the preparation for WW3.
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
Probably war.
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
Don't attribute to ideals what is simple self-preservation. No sane person wants to become a legitimate military target. They want to sleep in their own beds, at home, without risking their families lives. Just like the rest of us.
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
Only Matrix.
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
As I've said before, Matrix really is the only viable open source solution for in-company communication. Every other solution (Zulip / Mattermost / whatever) is too risky, they could easily bait-and-switch you like Gitlab did
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by cue_the_strings 7mo ago
This cannot be overstated. It used to be a pile of trash, now it's quite decent (but with lots of room for improvement).
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by cue_the_strings 8mo ago
Yeah, a lot of people who went to the US illegaly now own businesses. A highschool buddy went to drive trucks in like 2014, now has his own trucking company, several trucks, bunch of employees (Montenegrin and otherwise). When I say semi-le
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by cue_the_strings 8mo ago
I think it's strictly for financial reasons. A different profile of people from Serbia comes to the US. I'm from Montenegro, but also lived in Serbia for a sizeable portion of my life and have family there. Many people from said c
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by cue_the_strings 9mo ago
This has certainly happened to someone if not the OP. I did wait in a single spot for almost 10h, my 5-6h journey became a 15h one, in Serbia in the late 2000s. IIRC, a large part of the railway was down that day, couple hundred km, electri
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by cue_the_strings 9mo ago
IME it "just works" on Android: https://docs.element.io/latest/element-server-suite-classic/...
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by cue_the_strings 9mo ago
I thoroughly investigated every open-source (mostly open-core) self-hostable Slack alternative, and the conclusion was clear: only a self-hosted Matrix is a viable option. There are no arbitrary limits for 'community editions', no
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by cue_the_strings 9mo ago
There's a very common line of thinking that goes like this: From the end of WWII until the fall of communism, the public in the West (as opposed to the elites) enjoyed much better treatment, and prospered more than ever before or since
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by cue_the_strings 11mo ago
Is there a device you can recommend for printing (sticky) labels occasionally? I have a little Brother printer for those narrow little labels, one with a rubber keyboard, but would love something with sticky labels AND Linux connectivity. S
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by cue_the_strings 11mo ago
I agree. But on the other hand, let's not kid ourselves, array out of bounds, use after free, resource leaks and bad type system, all of this isn't even close to an exhaustive list of C downsides. Beyond its direct limitations, C
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
When you hear him saying it, it's funny. When you hear this reiterated by employees, who actually believe it, then it's sad. Obviously not in this situation, but I've actually heard this from people. Some of them were even pr
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Woodworers make 70% - 200% of dev wages in Slovenia, especially if you're decent at it. It's of course quite dull, kitchens, cabinets, ... Mostly tailored to living spaces of upper middle class and rich people of varying taste, so
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
I'd say "suitable for treating post-surgery pain for US patients", because the rest of us get metamizole for that a lot of the time.
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
I always wondered is it her direct influence, or is it just that those characteristics naturally "go together".
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
I feel like I'm witnessing something that Adam Curtis would cover in the last part of The Century of Self, in real time.
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
When I was a kid in the 90s and early 00s in Serbia, later Montenegro, I knew 2-3 kids that had leukemia at some point, and if my memory serves me well, all of them survived. One neighbor kid had it really rough (was in therapy for years, l
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
"ziherica" or "zihernaldla" from german sicherheitsnadel. We also have a direct translation of 'safety pin'.
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by cue_the_strings 1y ago
Nope. For a lot of them I'm assuming I was intoxicated, I was like that. I kind of hated high school overall, some parts (that I do remember) were alright.

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