flak48

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by flak48 1y ago
Nepal maybe
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by flak48 2y ago
You're right - I apologize. Sycophancy is indeed a better word to describe my behaviour. Would like me to rewrite the article and replace the usage of flattery with sycophancy?
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by flak48 2y ago
it's science for school and history for college
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by flak48 2y ago
The commenter asks if the game is well known in Britain / Ireland itself. I don't see the commenter expressing displeasure but rather only curiosity
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by flak48 2y ago
A similar but more recent career trajectory: Elliot Hill, the incoming Nike CEO started at Nike as a store sales intern and was already head of Nike EMEA retail by around age 34 (in the year 2000)
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by flak48 2y ago
Do any of the alternatives you've listed expose GPIO pins ?
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by flak48 2y ago
I’ve seen both. Last night from London the most I could see with my naked eye was diffuse patches of faint pink and green - sometimes highlighted by marginally brighter white-pink streaks that cut across the patches. The camera however pick
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by flak48 2y ago
Cliff House at Land's End in San Francisco had legendary popovers - too bad they closed down
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by flak48 3y ago
wait when did you order it and when did it arrive oO. Your comment reads as if you ordered it one hour ago and it arrived within minutes lol
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by flak48 3y ago
Reminds me of the time I ordered a $5 nano drone from AliExpress, and after 2 months Indian customs sent me a very threatening ‘show cause’ notice demanding I pay $50 as a fine and appear before the customs officer or whoever to explain why
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by flak48 3y ago
Maybe I clearly do :)
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by flak48 3y ago
NANGA
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by flak48 3y ago
Holidays homes exists because owners are speculating that tourists will pay a premium that compensates for the time that the rooms stay unoccupied and that overall it will be more profitable than renting it out for ‘100% occupancy’ to a loc
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by flak48 3y ago
Plus every bugfix that eventually gets discovered now requires an update to be shipped to end users. Atleast with websites, devs can ship a fix on the server immediately. So the impact of different browsers behaving differently is much grea
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by flak48 3y ago
London meanwhile, continues to ban personally owned e-scooters - allowing only rental e-scooters!
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by flak48 4y ago
In London, Citymapper shows the cost of each trip which can be very useful as there are often many routes that might take a similar amount of time but cost different (eg. sometimes you can take skip zone 1 for a few extra minutes or underst
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by flak48 4y ago
Not sure how Tesla or even Twitter is exposed to India for Musk wanting to please the Indian government. As big as India is, it keeps being considered as the ‘next billion’ revenue generators for tech companies - but not sure when that day
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by flak48 4y ago
> little chili equivalent to the ones used in Thai food Birds-eye chillies, you mean?
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by flak48 4y ago
This made my Google the etymology of 'ham-fisted' and I was disappointed that it had nothing to do with ham operators with carpal tunnel syndrome.
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by flak48 4y ago
The reply by the Chromium engineer (from Google? - I'm not sure) to a long thread of people from several companies quantifying the benefits of JPEG XL and requesting that it be supported is just sad: > Thank you everyone for your co
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by flak48 4y ago
> Does it get warm? > Brian S (Creator): Nope not at all. LED's do not emit much heat and the Titanium body of the eye offers great heat shielding from any heat emitted. [ https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/v
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by flak48 4y ago
M1 = "the 1st gen MacBook Air with the M1 chip"
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by flak48 4y ago
From what I understood, the former Google employee being interviewed here is discussing the problem of not being allowed to discuss 'caste discrimination in India', eg. during Uttar Pradesh elections - and in companies like Cisco.
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by flak48 4y ago
This the first I've heard of this and I assumed there must be more to it. After some Googling I'm shocked that someone can be sentenced in the UK for a mildly offensive tweet (IMO) that went viral before it was deleted in 20 minut
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by flak48 4y ago
Not correct, OP entered into an agreement with Stripe where Stripe would process payments received for the sale of cell phones (and not automobiles).
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by flak48 4y ago
Yep, FWIW I hope OP gets their money if not their account
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by flak48 4y ago
I'd guess that a manual review for the automatically detected out-of-policy transaction wouldn't be prioritized if it's been flagged as a transaction outside the seller's line of business that they mentioned in their agr
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by flak48 4y ago
Why should Stripe take on the cost of investigating / handling a potential chargeback, even though it might be likely to be resolved in the business (and Stripe's) favor? When it comes to chargebacks it's not just customer ex
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by flak48 4y ago
The headline is trying to imply it is some sort of illegal operation that was outed. The article mentions that the location of the (legal) medical marijuana factory was 'previously undisclosed' - but nothing to back up the headlin
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by flak48 4y ago
My weirdest Amazon recruiter experience has been receiving an email in the middle of an onsite Amazon interview asking if I would be interested in interviewing at Amazon. The recruiter who emailed me was the same one that had setup this int

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