Lev1a

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by Lev1a 5y ago
For me the light/bright colors are really straining my eyes since they're very sensitive to glare/bright lights as a consequence of cataracts. Also the switching of the FG and BG colors was just an example I could think of in
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Wow, that is certainly one way of making a website color scheme (and alienating potential readers). Either searing the reader's eyes with that gaudy yellow OR making the reader wave around their mouse as a "flashlight" instea
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> according to their own postwar records Please actually read the article before making such indiscriminate accusations. Pertinent part from the article in GP: "Im letzten Kriegsjahr kehrte Schlör nach Göttingen zurück und wurde hie
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> first examples I am aware of are 2003: Deus-ex Invisible War and 2004: Thief - Deadly Shadows, where the PC port is deliberately gimped due to being developed for console IIRC the first "Watch Dogs" game had deliberately down
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> you can't pass the 27% (still pay payment processing) savings on to customers Well yeah... whether you sell your game on Steam or via Steam codes on your website, the soft-, hardware and business infrastructure in the background h
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by Lev1a 5y ago
I had cataract surgery when I was 15/16 and since I was underage I was fully knocked out for the procedure (thankfully) but what I find to be a funny aspect about that whole thing is that wheeling me in a bed (having already taken some
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by Lev1a 5y ago
IIRC correctly Steam has a (yearly?) hardware survey which their users have the option to take part in, collecting information about parts in the computer and about connected periphery devices, i.e. model names, no. of monitors, resolution,
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Investors Spent Millions on `Evolved Apes´ NFTs. ~~Then~~ They Got Scammed. What the title should be because let's not pretend NFTs are anything other than a thinly disguised vehicle for scams, speculation and ultimately simply wa
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Is it illegal to name a child Adolf Hitler in Germany? Not necessarily (from https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorname_(Deutschland)#Rechtlic... , roughly translated into English): The law on giving names in Germany i
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by Lev1a 5y ago
From a quick search on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Environmental_issues : > Environmental issues > The manufacturing processes of lithium, including the solvent and mining waste, presents sig
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by Lev1a 5y ago
- water filtration/desalination - Maybe in the future they could use fusion reactors for power, synthesizing Deuterium and/or Tritium to enhance their endurance (maybe indefinitely?) - make the carrier (with minimal crew) and the
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by Lev1a 5y ago
And if so, could it be replaced by orgnano-catalysts which were in the news recently? I only had chemistry in school but maybe it's even as simple as using parts from the chemistry involved in photosynthesis?
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Hamburg for example Even in another much smaller German city of only ~50k inhabitants, my school commute for years was ~40-50 minutes (dependent on season etc.; EDIT: 40-50 minutes per direction, also on mondays and another weekday my
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Truth is... the game was rigged from the start...
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Ethically scalping feels wrong, but I think ethics aside, scalping does provide a service to the market. Yeah fuck ethics, there's profit to be made. /s
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by Lev1a 5y ago
My mother told me about some new anti-scalper scheme she encountered recently when she was looking at ordering concert tickets for herself and my father. It went something like this: - basket size limited to IIRC a maximum of five tickets f
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by Lev1a 5y ago
A Jimquisition video from today about how microtransactions in video games etc. can also be understood as specifically preying on those with ADHD and other conditions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2SjNeYq8k
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by Lev1a 5y ago
That usecase could just as easily be solved through this novel concept called "manual override".
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by Lev1a 5y ago
It's not just forums, recently I looked around for information on an incremental game only to be told that there is no wiki or anything like that but to "join the discord". WHY?! would I ever use a chat software to look up st
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by Lev1a 5y ago
The only "Grand Design" I've ever seen and liked was Clarkson's "Grand Design Citroen" during their "Self-built Campervan Challenge": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7g08nwEmyY
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by Lev1a 5y ago
From my recollection of a documentary I watched a few years ago: You can cut power to the burning building if the fire hasn't already destroyed the circuit(s) itself, solar panels though are not bound to the utilities thus can't b
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Nice overview(s) for Germany and most other countries with comparisons where appropriate. Forgot to insert the following link after the above sentence and can't edit anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> It could be different in Germany. Nice overview(s) for Germany and most other countries with comparisons where appropriate. Regarding the AG in Germany and required regular external auditing, in my university course where I learned abo
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Or as Bill Burr said [0]: > (imitating a woman defending ridiculous divorce settlements): "That's what the law says!" > (himself): "A hundred years ago I could beat you with a mop handle, that's what the law s
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> need to see that you use it for an average of 4 hours per night or whatever That could just as easily be achieved by the method of locally recording on the SD card GP mentioned above without uploading who-knows-what about the device, y
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> quotas [...] at your big name ISP it's actually costing them more than you pay for the service Apart from one-off costs for building the line and associated repeaters and curb boxes, the only real running costs should be occasiona
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Pretty sure Firefox did no such thing, instead IIRC the developer (gorhill) of both addons (uMatrix and uBO) realized that uMatrix was pretty much redundant given the options available in uBO and thus archived uMatrix.
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> If 3000 soldiers can keep a whole country from going Taliban Probably more like the expectation that in response to any substantial Taliban coup and thus danger to NATO soldiers, (tens of) thousands more soldiers with vehicles, tanks,
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by Lev1a 5y ago
AFAIK you already don't have to use that addon anymore since at least 78 or even earlier. Eg. my only addon in Thunderbird is "Provider for Google Calendar" so that I can sync my calendar with my Android phone other than that
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Can't you use Message Filters for that usecase? "Move to" and "Copy to" are available actions there or do you just explicitly want an "Archive" option for the filters?

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