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by DocTomoe 1y ago
There was a time that was said about nukes. They didn't really make sense. We were only able to make minuscule amounts of U-235 / Plutonium at very high cost... and had we wanted evil bombs, we had a thousand ways already to make
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Gotta love the small details the engineers thought virtually no-one would likely ever see (like the character etched on the chip). That was craftsmanship and love for your trade. Not writing endless CRUD applications for some suits.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
That does follow psychological marketing logic. Guitars are - essentially - a luxury item, brand guitars especially so. If you are a 'prestigious' manufacturer, and you raise the price only on the imported stuff, not the all-Ameri
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
As I watch it right now (18:38 CEST), it's about twice as much intimacy than war, so I guess it takes active war zones into account. Make love, not war.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
See ... that' nice and everything, and I applaud those who invest their time in building something they clearly love. But the time for me to fiddle with my DE, which essentially is a supporting technology, meant to make other, more
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I'm not talking about theming, but the general feel of the UI. It did not try and win innovation trophies back in the day, it was a platform that gave you the feeling it was ready for serious work to be done on, relatively stable, simi
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
KDE lost me when they moved from the relatively stable (and - let's face it - pretty Windows 9x-style) KDE 3.5 to KDE 4. It was promised as a quantum leap, but Plasma came over as unstable, unfinished, and lacking a lot of the function
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Yeah, I vividly remember writing whole essays in school with only two sentences like that (sometimes over several pages of relative and temporal sentences and adjective chains), just as a raised middle finger to my German teacher who sleigh
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
No, I'm with you. this clearly is just another sneaky move by one of the big guys. Browsers should be impartial. And, - personally - I think CA management should be OS-level, not browser-level, though that only moves the problem to a
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
You could say that about any large browser vendor, and I seem to remember there having been a 'free' CA (OpenCA? FreeCA?) in the late 2000s, early 2010s which lost Firefox support over something small as well. The truth is - the w
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
That saying comes from the "Sturm & Drang" age, the age of Goethe and Schiller, of the German Studentenschaft (basically 18th and 19th century patriotic fraternities). Yes, it is about partying. No, the women were not seen as
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
chances are: checks it against a database of addresses it has seen before (e.g. because they were used to register stuff elsewhere). No such entry, or entries all younger than n days -> 'freshly registered'. Sucks for people wh
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Of course, when you fail, you'll be 'that guy who bricked Voyager I' forevermore. Just imagine the pressure before sending that commit.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> French of course also have many original grammatical torture instruments. For me it was when I had to realize that for the French, every number larger than what they can count with their fingers becomes a small algebra problem. quatre-
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> "wegen den Regen" means something slightly different (more like: "because of _multiple_ rainfalls") That's your natural feel of language, and you are deriving from casual use of Dativ plural ... but in these si
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I'd expect a lot of moaning about how something is written and how it is spelled to appear to come from two different planets.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Consider that the text is, in fact, from the 19th century. Also, 'Weib' is not rude in every context. "Wein, Weib und Gesang" is not diminutive towards women, but in fact appreciative (as in 'necessary for having
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
As a native German speaker: Everything Twain rants about here we attribute to French.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Berlin and Hamburg, both in Germany, would like a word. These concepts have been popping up in the last few years all over the world. The Shanghai example is special because it uses actual busses, and actual stops. Now, demand calculation i
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
And yet, several of my friends located the general Sheffield area agree that while the video was a bit over the top, generally, Robins tended to do that. That Sheffield is a surprisingly hilly city with sometimes hard turns meaning you have
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
See also: Reliant Robin. Obligatory Top Gear link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Pedals directly on the front wheel means no shifting the chain, which means you better have not skipped leg day if there is even the slightest hill on your route while you are fully loaded.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
With Pascal being my first "adult" language, not used in 20 years ... it is surprising how readable that code is. Makes me wish for such simpler times.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
See, here's the thing: Archives do not have pedestals - they use archival storage. This may come in different forms, but to the uninitiated eye, it often looks a lot like narrow pathways between storage shelves, with labeled cardboard
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> To extend that to games, it doesn't matter if you're playing the MS-DOS version of X-COM or OpenXcom. Oh boy, are you mistaken. The 1990s version of XCOM was a mess. If it wasn't enough that it was hard as a nail, it als
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
You may not have experienced gaming in the 1980s and 1990s. Games back then were more than just a stream of bits. They had physical maps (sometimes on cloth, not paper). They had actual manuals (and many of them were art in itself). Disks w
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Ah, schemamonks. If you are even a little interested in obscure mystical traditions, you really should look into this.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
They've had 2000 years to perfect the show, of course they know how to make one.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Hm, I'm not sold yet. From a website owner's point of view, I see LLMs mostly as competition at best, thieves of my researched content at worst. From a User's point of view, I am using LLM's extensively and conversationa
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
My question was honest: What urtext - to someone who moved from org-mode to Obsidian - seems to do is * chain you to a proprietary text editor that does some python interpreting. I wonder which use cases would want me to have my document ch

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