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by dinkblam 14d ago
thats assuming the plastic bag is used once, but i've always reused them, sometimes had the same bags for 10 years however i have never re-used a paper bag because they are awfully loud and cannot be compressed. it is the worst kind of
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by dinkblam 28d ago
> Moving money naively is a commodity; > banks did it for centuries at rock-bottom margins must have misspelt "ridiculous margins"
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by dinkblam 1mo ago
overselling the safety is very euphemistic many years ago we made a list of malware apps on the Mac App Store: https://www.corecode.io/_malware_on_the_macappstore.html (yes, the list was made after being disgruntled because
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by dinkblam 1mo ago
been on Kagi 2 years, super happy - haven't googled at all for like a year.
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
Barely legal
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
all of the text implies the opposite of the headline?
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
flickering lights are not "modern decor" but a broken (and possibly dangerous) appliance
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
Colors are a a continuous spectrum, yet we put them in a bunch of categories.
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
on the other hand 14 years of usage of a ~100$ device sounds ok. these days you need to be happy if things last more than a few months…
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by dinkblam 2mo ago
transportation is NOT "passenger cars"
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
> while their children suffer and (if there are too many of them) the rest of society
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
Most likely he will also help you if you file a Tech Support Incident with Apple.
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
> cars are the leading source of carbon emissions. WTF? cars are less than 7% and even including trucks we are barely around 11%. when you look at greenhouse effect instead of "just carbon", the percentages are even tinier. If
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
Many things are confused here. Why would you want to "own" media, physical or otherwise? What you actually want is a.) to be able to use the media however you wish. no ownership is required, just download it b.) to give back to th
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
All of the problems (high hood, bad visibility downwards) are fixed by sports cars and especially mid-engined and rear-engined sports cars. Plus, the brake distance is much lower.
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by dinkblam 3mo ago
No.
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by dinkblam 6mo ago
what is the evidence that being able to play games equates to AGI?
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by dinkblam 6mo ago
it seems if you want the same on macOS, this is the place to contribute: https://github.com/Alien4042x/Wine-NTsync-Userspace-macOS-ba...
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by dinkblam 6mo ago
everything in germany's economy is going downhill, the troubles in their car industry is just one symptom (but not the cause)
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by dinkblam 7mo ago
I have fond memories of porting Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube to the Mac back in the day. Given what i've seen from Wouter back in the day i am not surprised he is still on it full steam…
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by dinkblam 7mo ago
great article but the 44 tonne limit is not "physics", it is regulation. if an electric truck would be allowed to weigh 5 tonnes more all these calculations would be different.
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by dinkblam 7mo ago
trying to click on the link i got a "security verification" screen. i aborted after 5 seconds of waiting.
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
> that Bitcoin is a stable source of value no sane person could have ever held that notion - there is no underlying value.
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
Spain basically does not do the required maintenance: https://www.reuters.com/world/spains-deadly-rail-accidents-p...
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
on around 300 days per year i see a "severe weather alarm" on the iPhone Weather app, although nothing at all is happening, completely ridiculous.
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
does it include the breaths you take during coding? best if you can specify your lung volume and breaths per minute!
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
good explanation and i also wondered why many of the CGI effects today are so unbelievably bad - and worse than decades ago. it still doesn't explain why it is done: • why do directors and producers sign off effects that are just eye-b
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
> meaning you could order from a good seller but get counterfeit products sent in by a shady one why allow shady sellers in the first place?
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by dinkblam 8mo ago
it irks me more that they are super tiny low resolution. where are the originals?
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by dinkblam 9mo ago
no year goes by without Italy imposing random >100m€ fines for 2-3 american tech companies. whenever they need money, they just hit another one without care whether actual laws were violated. the amount they take has no correlation to wh

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