DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Some people prefer a device that has real, physical buttons and is not permanently at risk of shattering after being dropped (the use case being to listen to music while on the go...)
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> And by African, I mean the blackface depiction with the white lips that is reminiscent of old Al Jolson films. Not trying to excuse anything, but I wonder how much this kind of depiction was an artefact of animation/video producti
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
As someone who only ever bought what you would describe as "trash" cars of up to 2000 Euros, let me give you some data. Looking through my car repair/TCO excel file, I average to about 60 Euros per month in maintenance and re
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I am fairly sure I saw live, in-courtroom coverage of both the Rittenhouse (as a prominent criminal case) as well as the Depp/Heart (a prominent civil) case.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Add an AI judge, and we have machines essentially ruining everyone's life in order to find the equilibrium on Justitia's scales.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Don't hold your breath. This has happened before. The thing will be vacated within a week, once the police rolls in with a small army to get them out, if necessary by violence. The "activists" will then claim police violence
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I am still looking for a text markup system that gives me good PDFs with DTP-grade text setting and and is plain-text, so I can work with standard version control programs. Right now, only TeX/LaTeX comes close. AsciiDoctor is not doin
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
There is! https://museumoffailure.com A visit at one of their pop-up shows is highly recommended.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Oh, just wait until you read ISO 2848, which defines a "metric foot", which is exactly 30 cm, and which is an international norm...
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It's a bad thing because as it turns out, feet are all kinds of sizes, vary over time both in individuals and in groups, and may have different sizes or averages in different geographical areas. Even the unit foot is different between
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Have a look at Europe, where we have such money-redistribution organisations.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> The obvious response is that you stole the author's income, by obtaining a copy of their work without compensating them for it. Given that I (as an European) pay extra fees for copyright management companies for each photography-e
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
How about a system that - when the author / rights holder "abandons" a work by no longer actively publishing it, it automatically falls into public domain after 5 years? 70+ years after the author's death is literally a
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
> Basic safety check. If I'm on RWY 31 at PAO, then my compass better read 310. Actually, it's more like "310ish". Both 305 and 314 are acceptable readings for a runway 31.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I travel some 600 km one-way to the HQ per train every month. The correct answer is to not book second class tickets, ever, always book "first class quiet zone", and inform offending co-travellers about societally unacceptable beh
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Some people say that already has happened, and the crime ring is called "the government".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Also, EDDF/FRA, in which one runway got renamed to C when they opened a smaller one in the 2010s. Then you have airports like ORD which have more than three parallel runways - but pretend some of them are ten degrees off to get more na
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Oh, sure, they will allow standard Qi charging - but they will also offer an Apple-branded charger that is incompatible with other devices and will charge a lot faster. Never underestimate the capacity for malicious compliance, especially w
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
The solution to that is simple: Enforce an exact reconstruction to be paid by the owner in case of destruction of the original for protected-status buildings. That's usually more expensive than keeping the old building viable.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Well, let's hope then that all the DNA they take is from random droppings, not coerced and/or under threat. But that's not how government works, is it?
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In my time, we called them "allrounders".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Just cutting some hair won't do it. Given that DNA is in the follicle, you would have to extract a hair, e.g. pull it out. Doing so without consent or demanding it is a violation of medical ethics and/or assault.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
It is a wise idea to not visit countries where rule of law does not exist.
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Incidentally, those are often the Navies who lose ships due to getting rammed by a cruise ship [1], allied vessels [2] and shipping boats [3]. Might may make right, but can be expensive. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Oh boy, do you have an opportunity here. I suggest starting with "Understanding History and Other Essays".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Welcome to the developed world (in my case: Germany), where recycling is enforced by ordinances and/or contracts with your waste removal organisation, which will check if you did so properly, and refuse to take your refuse away if they
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
I keep reading, but all I understand is "never hire anyone who associates their education/work experience with this organisation".
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
In fact, one of the reasons Wesley got such a bad rep back in the day was because fans considered him to be a genderswapped Mary Sue, introduced to appeal to the younger audience. Ten years later, people would probably have considered him t
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and oft
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by DocTomoe 4y ago
Given that the police is mostly a hassle and pretty useless otherwise, especially when you are part of the uberrich, I am not surprised. Why spend valuable time at the precinct trying to make a high-school-dropout in uniform understand what

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