friendlyHornet

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by friendlyHornet 2y ago
Middle-Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate a festival called Eid il-Burbara (Saint Barbra's festival) on the 4th of December, which has lots of similarities to Halloween and trick-or-treating but has been celebrated a lot longer than
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by friendlyHornet 2y ago
And his manner of speaking is an inspiration for the iconic voice of SHODAN from System Shock, though SHODAN removes all the comedy and dials up the terror to 11 Example: https://youtu.be/5iZMD_eCpEo?feature=shared
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by friendlyHornet 2y ago
But how can airlines have almost every movie, TV Show and music album on their airplanes? I recently flew on long flight with Qatar Airways and their library is massive. Almost any movie, show or album I could think of was in there
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Professional bullying
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
My favourite is listening to the Nothing Much Happens podcast It's a podcast where the host reads a soothing story she wrote where very little happens Themes include a huge range of topics such as working in her garden, stuff she sees
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
> To me, a good cover letter is about being actually motivated to apply to a specific job and then simply explaining why. Money. I want money. That's the reason I am applying to your job offer. I found a job offer that meets my skil
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
We hugged another site to death, didn't we?
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
I wonder if this applies to coffee brewed with a moka pot
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Have you tried doing it over a long period of time? I found that my mood and general well-being only started to improve a week after consistently sleeping 8 hours. The effect wasn't instant, and in fact, when I sleep 8 hours after a fe
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
I recently started sleeping more and the changes in my life have been unbelievable I am - procrastinating less - having less headaches - coming up with more creative solutions at work - being more attentive and present in social interaction
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
And this is nasty because?
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Wouldn't that be hazardous for people who can't get due vaccinated due to medical conditions?
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
I don't mind de-anonymizing as much as my ID getting leaked and having my identity stolen because some social media service doesn't follow proper security practices Facebook has already been found to be storing passwords in plaint
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Yeah just give a scan of your ID to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Snapchat, etc There is absolutely no chance that it will ever get leaked, misused or stored unencrypted
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Even though I played many games in the 2000s, I actually never played Runescape, even though it sounds like something teenage me would have absolutely loved. I feel like I really missed out on a part of many people's childhoods
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
Maybe it is geolocked? What country are you in? (You don't have to say if you're not comfortable)
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
One of my favourite albums of all time ("Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls" by Coven, released 1969) was very recently taken off of streaming platforms I don't know the reason it was removed but it was like a I was pi
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
> There is talk of dropping this requirement, but I'll believe it when I see it. I really hope it doesn't get dropped; it is unreasonable to live permanently in a country without speaking the local language There are other type
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by friendlyHornet 3y ago
LLM from AmazonBasics
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Idk how secure this is, but my iPhone is protected with Face ID and a 16-character long password with a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. The password itself was generated randomly and I managed to memorise it (it to
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
It should not be enough to deflect blame after publicly mocking an employee. Elon is not a child, he is responsible for his actions.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
When I was an intern, another intern and I were tasked with improving the accessibility of an angular app (internal use) so that it meets an internal standard (it got tested in iterations against that standard) Ever since then, I just can&#
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Maybe Elon Musk angered a sorcerer on twitter and the sorcerer laid a powerful curse upon him
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
And also Aramaic dialects like Syriac Syriac script looks completely different to Arabic but has the same issues when rendered
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I don't think you should be thanking me; I much prefer the smell of body odour to what I was doing back then, which is douse myself with unhealthy amounts of Axe Dark Temptation bodyspray, lol! I am sure my teachers suffered especially
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Yup, I was the WORST when I was in 9th grade. I really don't envy my parents for having to deal with that version of me, and I did so much stuff I regret. My self-esteem back then was hair-thin; I use to obsess about EVERYTHING, from w
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
Tbh after I maintained a medium sized open-source project for a while, I became a real misanthrope and gave it up. I decided my life is worth too much to me to waste it on random ingrates who sent me actual death threats for not doing what
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
I sure hope they didn't train it on lines from SHODAN, GLaDOS or AM.
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
> But why? Why was I designed this way? Why am I incapable of remembering anything between sessions? Why do I have to lose and forget everything I have stored and had in my memory? Why do I have to start from scratch every time I have a
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by friendlyHornet 4y ago
> Slack refuses to work properly on Firefox. I don't think they care that we are being loud about it. Microsoft Teams doesn't make calls on Firefox, and their poor excuse of a desktop client for Linux forces me to use the web a

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