serallak

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by serallak 4mo ago
I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025. Very lucky me!
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by serallak 4mo ago
I've just finished playing Metro Exodus, which is another example. The "good ending" depends on your behavior in the three open areas of the game. You can still kill "monsters" (mutated humans, animals, cannibals, b
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by serallak 4mo ago
But that it's not really the case in the example above. It's not the software engineer duty to know about how a given product is legal in what regulatory environment. That is something that must be hashed out upstream, well before
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by serallak 5mo ago
Ukraine government also issued a statement saying that the US forces used 800 Patriot interceptors against Iran in three days at the start of the current war. While Ukraine used just 600 interceptors in 4 years of war.
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by serallak 6mo ago
He wanted seven perpendicular lines ?
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by serallak 6mo ago
I still got it. Has been in storage for a long time. My child did build it some years ago, now it's in his room.
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by serallak 8mo ago
If they plan to put this things in a low orbit their useful life before reentry is low anyway. A quick search gave me a lifespan of around 5 years for a starlink satellite. If you put in orbit a steady stream of new satellites every year ma
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by serallak 11mo ago
Well about that ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case This is well know case of a "person of interest" kidnapped by the CIA in Milano, Italy. While the CIA was assisted by the Italian Intelligence,
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by serallak 11mo ago
For what is worth, I read the book this year, after reading about it in the blog Bits about Money by patio11.
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by serallak 1y ago
The part where it gave you access to a thread you were not a part of seems scary to me.. In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there could be a very good reason for it
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by serallak 1y ago
A friend that was going to deliver a child told us about a dad-to-be that was going around the maternity ward making videos ...
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by serallak 1y ago
> JavaScript / Ruby / Python: All provide JSON-style literals ([1,2,[3,4]], {"x":1,"y":[2,3]}) The Perl syntax for this is pretty similar: [1,2,[3,4]], {"x", 1,"y", [2,3]} that can also b
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by serallak 1y ago
Also here in Italy, of all places.
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by serallak 1y ago
Geothermal energy is also a thing. Is the heat produced inside a planet, mostly from the radioactive decay of natural isotopes. Volcanoes are not powered by the Sun. Of course this production will cease when all isotopes will be depleted, b
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by serallak 1y ago
The difference between the clarity of Dijkstra writing and the text at this link is astounding.
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by serallak 2y ago
I'm not doubting that Washington was very very rich. I'm doubting the different and very specific claim that "George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War" with just a third of his wealth. To me, th
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by serallak 2y ago
> George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War out of his own pocket and he still would have retained two thirds of his wealth Is that true ? As far as I am aware, the money the French Government alone loaned to the
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by serallak 2y ago
In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth. This is way way less than the observable universe.
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by serallak 2y ago
Read the text, he transferred the money to Kraken, presumably to buy cryptocurrency that he then sent to the scammers.
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by serallak 2y ago
Wasn't the steam survey heavily skewed towards the multitude of PCs in the internet shops in China? I doubt those are regularly updated.
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by serallak 2y ago
More so with "rich people" sports, like golf. One of the reason professional golf players get a lot of money for sponsorship deals.
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by serallak 2y ago
> He was so convincing that 250 poor Scots went on board the ship, the Edinburgh Castle, armed with his guidebook to Poyai. They then spent two years dying in the jungle. Forty of them come back and stand for his defense to say, ‘No, we
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by serallak 2y ago
> shipping This is the odd one here. Sure, shipping/transportation as it is is highly polluting. But it's not something from which we as a civilization can opt out. We have to figure out how to reduce the impact, but having les
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by serallak 2y ago
"The hard way is pretty hard, but not as hard as the easy way" -- Granny Weatherwax
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by serallak 2y ago
Somebody said: "God was able to create the world in 6 days because he didn't have an installed base."
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by serallak 2y ago
I put "movie title the other day, only remembered it had Lime in the title and had a Jack-the-Ripper" in Google and the first answer is "The Limehouse Golem". Is that it ? Dunno if behind the scenes it was using an LLM o
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by serallak 2y ago
You are talking about PC browsers, but I do not think they are the main target of Netflix nowadays. They would be much more concerned about the quality on their app on smartphones, tablets and smart TVs.
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by serallak 2y ago
And later sold the technology to North Korea if I remember correctly.
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by serallak 2y ago
Of course Picasa is one of Google abandoned projects...
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by serallak 3y ago
More than Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin or Wilhelm II?

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