Lev1a

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by Lev1a 3y ago
> Firefox, beyond being slower, also keeps constantly displaying ads One tab with an ad opening when the browser has updated every few weeks or so is not what I would call "keeps constantly displaying ads".
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> I think versioning like 13.07.23 is better. > You automatically get: > - Minor version upgrade every day. > - Major version upgrade every month. 1. Isn't the order normally <major>.<minor>.<patch> ? 2. F
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by Lev1a 3y ago
A while ago I read that here in Germany you can also do the house wiring yourself, it's just that it has to be inspected and certified by a master electrician or you'll be really hosed if something happens since insurance won&#x27
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by Lev1a 3y ago
A few years ago the EU introduced a change/addendum to the A2 class restriction barring holders of that license class from driving bikes that were too limited in order to get their vehicle certification: Motorcycles of a power not ex
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> The British driving exam and driving code says a distance of 6 car lengths is appropriate for ~50km/h (30mph), in dry weather. Anything faster, wetter or at night needs more distance. In Germany, the rule of thumb (based on reacti
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> Not sure how you’d get out though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery... , also known as "Skyhook" and pretty well demonstrated in "The Dark Knight".
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by Lev1a 3y ago
> You are paying for prints, not ink > I never have to buy ink You are buying ink, since you're not just sending documents/images/etc. off for some company to print on their hardware with their ink and their paper, yo
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by Lev1a 3y ago
Problem with that is, politicians promise all kinds of things for their election campaigns, then do whatever TF they want anyway once they're elected and sitting pretty effectively untouchable by the peasantry that elected them, gettin
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by Lev1a 3y ago
AFAIK Ahoy has been pretty famous for his high production values using well-done research, slick graphics and nice animations for a number of years.
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by Lev1a 3y ago
My guess as a layman would be that AFAIK the reaction of alkali ("group 1") metals with water is more violent the further down it's situated in that column in the periodic table. Since Na is one down from Li it should react m
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by Lev1a 4y ago
A true classic.
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> Free market economics means that if absurd profits are being had, then new people coming to the game will offer slightly cheaper prices. Supermarkets are expensive but still not expensive enough for someone to bootstrap an operation to
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Which does nothing [1] for the streamers you actually watch, only for Twitch itself. "Paying" the streamer for the ad(s) being not shown due to Turbo, i.e. fractions of a cent. If you're mainly watching 1-2 streamers subscrib
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by Lev1a 4y ago
I imagine the answer to that would be one word: Schadenfreude
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by Lev1a 4y ago
IIRC I heard years ago that Turbo "pays" the streamer for the non-watched ads which have been removed for the Turbo user, i.e. fractions of a cent, i.e. nothing. All it does is paying Twitch for doing fuck-all.
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Obligatory "not all emulated games/software are pirated".
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> Oculus is the best selling VR headset available, it sold way more than the Index Release date of Valve Index: 2019-06-28 Release date of first Oculus¹: 2016-03-28 There were about three years of tech adoption by consumers between the
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Here in Germany, all kinds of unexploded crap from WW2 is quite routinely found, and not just during building/renovations. I heard in one documentary following the defusing/safe detonation of one of these that the "KBD"
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> Keeping up with inflation > AAA video games have been $59.99 for like fifteen years Be warned, the author/presenter of the following linked video is quite a character, but they do actually make sense: https://www.you
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> People arguing that "you can not ever write safe C" might also come to the conclusion that one "unsafe" somewhere in your Rust code potentially means that the whole code base is immediately at the same level of impl
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Civil (asset) forfeiture is literally license for the executive branch to rob people for practically anything they can think of with almost no recourse [0] and pad their department/agency's pockets. [0]: "the accused is/
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> Nope, obviously snipped Holy fucking wall of text!
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Continued harassment and stalker-like behavior over years with obviously no intention of stopping his behavior. It seems to me issuing a public warning about this persons "paper trail" is probably the only real option to shut down
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Weather and weather events are a consequence of a number of factors, a big one of which is climate and change in the latter therefore also drives change in the former. Example: in my home city the winters have been getting warmer on average
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by Lev1a 4y ago
I've seen it a bunch of times on TV when my father watched Tour de France, Giro, etc.
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Sure, you could also do it that way. I just based my suggestion off the following passage from the original comment above: > For wilderness canoeists In that case I would still suggest going with the laminated maps over the ziploc bag si
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by Lev1a 4y ago
> But going into the wilderness with maps that aren't waterproof would be tantamount to suicide. Couldn't you laminate the maps yourself, when you're already going through the trouble to print your own?
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by Lev1a 4y ago
Would you like ketchup or mustard on this Very Important Boot? On a more serious note, AFAIK (IANAL) Elon and other celebs are public persons who don't necessarily have the same kind of expectation of privacy since they've chosen
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by Lev1a 4y ago
No, the link title was something containing "gorhill" a few hours ago.
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by Lev1a 4y ago
For the system crashing issue, do you happen to have the different monitors connected via different connector/protocol types, like one HDMI and one DP? I had a similar issue with my previous GPU, an RX560, where my system would sometim

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