nisse72

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by nisse72 1y ago
Doesn't even need to be metal: they make sure you aren't touching skin-to-skin anywhere while you are in the machine (for example, don't put your hands together) in order to avoid induced current loop burns. https:/&#x2
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by nisse72 1y ago
I guessed 2021 for one photo which turned out to be Joe Biden's inauguration fireworks. It tells me I was 20 years off?
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by nisse72 1y ago
I like the idea but there were several examples where I found a word but it was not the word the game wanted, and I was told "invalid word". Examples: I found "STONE" but the correct word was "NOTES", or "
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by nisse72 2y ago
Through completely dumb luck, I guessed only the names of fruit, the answer was a fruit, and got it in 6!
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by nisse72 2y ago
You probably also saw the arrows on the road itself as a reminder of the correct direction of travel. Those are always near any places tourists are likely to stop, since after a break it's common to forget which side to be on.
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by nisse72 2y ago
or on a hike with a UE Boom
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by nisse72 2y ago
Along the same lines, if the father was still alive, could he not vouch for his son at some point?
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by nisse72 3y ago
I was surprised by this too! I tried (briefly) to find a source, but it seems to be an urban legend: https://www.answers.com/Q/How_did_Canada_geese_get_their_nam...
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by nisse72 3y ago
I'm in the same boat, lost my BankID and with it everything it unlocks. I live 20000km from Sweden and can't easily make that trip, especially during the covid travel restrictions. Letters with notarised copies of ID were quickly
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by nisse72 3y ago
You can add "DisablePocket": true (and many other things) to your policies.json file. In my case that file is a symlink to a single master copy I maintain outside of the FF installation folder. See https://mozil
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by nisse72 3y ago
They do, and it's jarring! Even though I find memcpy and friends to be perfectly logical using the assignment analogy suggested by thwarted, I often need to re-read english sentences written that way.
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by nisse72 3y ago
TIL: Obama is a hippopotamus
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by nisse72 4y ago
I seem to recall they used to serve Scan meatballs (well known Swedish brand) but outsourced to someone else a few years ago as a cost saving measure. Or maybe that was just in Sweden, no idea really. I used to occasionally visit the IKEA n
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by nisse72 4y ago
Earlier today I watched a video where someone reported that his medium term youtube income averaged about 15 GBP per 10000 views (based on a couple of million views over a year). That's just about $20 US, or double what the sibling has
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by nisse72 5y ago
It's been done: http://n-gate.com/
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by nisse72 5y ago
Known as diagonal billing: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiagonalBilling Goes back to at least 1941, according to that page
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by nisse72 5y ago
Several years ago I worked in a small office with a coke machine, and we would put the empty cans into a bin next to it that the cleaners would (presumably) take away from time to time. At some point we noticed that the office was becoming
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by nisse72 5y ago
ingen nämnd, ingen glömd
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by nisse72 5y ago
There is a Swedish expression: nobody is named, and nobody is forgotten. Usually you hear it in a workplace setting when people (often, a subset of the correct group) are being acknowleged for an acheivement of some kind. As soon as you try
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by nisse72 5y ago
Here are providers that offer spot pricing to consumers: https://www.flickelectric.co.nz/pricing-and-plans https://www.pauatothepeople.co.nz/cheap-as.html Aside from this, peak / off-peak pricing is no
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by nisse72 5y ago
I apologize, 2.2 million doses have been administered. Source: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/... At any rate, my point was not how many are , but how many remain to be vaccinated.
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by nisse72 5y ago
April 19: Quarantine free travel opens between NZ and Australia, as both countries are "covid free". Everyone looks forward to holidays and some limited return to travel normality. May-June-July: NZ pauses quarantine free travel t
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by nisse72 5y ago
Last I checked, Ikea pencils are those stupidly short ones. Now you can take two or three and use this tool to make a full size one!
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by nisse72 6y ago
Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent. (in fact, the girls name actually sounds like the greek lett
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by nisse72 6y ago
Here's a similar video, where the same robot plays table tennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8
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by nisse72 6y ago
A commenter to the wikipedia page I posted about the vancouver 9 o'clock gun makes a compelling point: it was all about providing a time signal for ships in port to set their onboard clocks.
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by nisse72 6y ago
There's one in Vancouver as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_O%27Clock_Gun with its own twitter account: https://twitter.com/the9oclockgun
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by nisse72 6y ago
From the company webpage: https://theseedcompany.ca/products/onion-walla-walla-sweet
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by nisse72 6y ago
Brilliant! I'll give this a try, thanks.
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by nisse72 6y ago
> trying to (illegally) get a MacOS VM running, but gave up. I've tried this myself and failed. But I genuinely wonder, why you think this is illegal . I mean, do you think that Apple's T&C are laws ? I can't think

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