jaclaz

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by jaclaz 2mo ago
I have found a very usable phone (for what I do, which is not much) in low cost Chinese "mini rugged phones" namely I had (until I broke the screen and battery was not in very good condition) a "king kong mini" and then
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by jaclaz 4mo ago
>The fact that you had to find an article from three decades ago for an instance of killing with a keyboard is telling Yeah, is telling that modern keyboards weight a lot less nowadays, and nobody would use one as a weapon to hit someone
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by jaclaz 9mo ago
D@mn, I believed you were thinking that no one (not noone) could be more pedantic than you.
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by jaclaz 1y ago
Add to the list galalith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Not that they couldn't reserve on the ads screens a narrow (let's say 100-200 pixels tall) band at the bottom of the screen to show the path with the green and red lights like the (good) ol' system.
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Europe may be too wide a categorization, I am pretty sure that different countries have different ways to deal with the matter. My (thankfully very little) experience in Italy is for civil litigations at least (where it is rare that one of
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Well, not really, the episode that article is related to came out as being a couple of homeless people walking on the railway: https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2024/07/20/firenze-uomo-binari-t... The day befo
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Absorption refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator Einstein refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator The principle is still used in some refrig
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Well, I must post this (stronger than me): https://www.marriedtothesea.com/122607/pulled-over-in-canada...
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by jaclaz 2y ago
NT 4.0 was not for the masses, it was costly (the OS license) and needed higher specs than the almost contemporary Windows 95 (which was largely sold with license included with the new PC). As well, Windows 2000 was a "professional&quo
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by jaclaz 2y ago
Anyone remembers the character of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove") ? https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Raymond_Luxury-Yacht
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by jaclaz 2y ago
The best (IMHO) ode/obituary for floppy disks: A:las poor floppy, I knew you well.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Done: ""
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Everyone have their own favourite, for me it is: "Well, I've got good gnus and I've got bad gnus."
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I may add that there is an additional (lesser known) issue. The "typical" contract is 3 kW, due to air conditioners becoming more common, many people upgraded to 4.5 kW (it was also possible, cannot say if it still possible now, t
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I am ?abbergasted.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Doesn't the traditional Henry Wallace Mills method work for you? https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7471/7471-h/7471-h.htm#link2...
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Well, it has already been done (JFYI): https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/creating-a...
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Well, in that case you are a final customer, should you put on an online service allowing customers to book and pay for dinner in many different restaurants it would be different. In Italy it is a rather common occurrence in different field
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by jaclaz 3y ago
JFYI, you can call yourself lucky with engine starting, the new i20 (Hyunday, so from Corea as well) in order to start needs: 1) neutral 2) clutch depressed AND: 3) brake depressed (hand brake pulled doesn't count)
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by jaclaz 3y ago
That is FAQ #1 (at the bottom of the page): "You dodged the question; Was it worth it? Hell yes it was. The massive amount of nerd points alone is enough."
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by jaclaz 3y ago
You mean that reducing the risk of offending - maybe - a handful of oversensitive people[1] is not a great enough end? ;) [1] none with any actual interest in ornitology, BTW.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I propose to change "yak shaving" into "birds renaming".
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Seemingly clickbait/fake info. Another article says that the woman had been struck by a human driven vehicle and projected in front of the Cruise car that couldn't avoid her: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Maybe I am misinterpreting the point, but: >Merely having the title of a "security researcher" won't exempt you from the scrutiny of law enforcement agencies should your IP address or system fingerprint get caught up in as
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I have no idea about that being an advantage or even making only a difference. In an ordinary "service offered" the "workers" get some money from the "employers" in exchange for some work done. This money is th
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by jaclaz 3y ago
I am not sure where the app would fit. Besides renaming "workers" to "Creators" and "employers" to "Supporters", isn't it like "services offered" on a traditional newspaper classified a
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by jaclaz 3y ago
TLDR: We have no idea, but it is potentially dangerous.
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Yes, maybe I expressed myself improperly, mesothelioma (often originated from asbestos) is slow (like 20 to 40 years from exposure): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma the workers in the article are young and a
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by jaclaz 3y ago
Upvoted, hoping you get that dinner.

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