Lev1a

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by Lev1a 5y ago
Nah, from what he told me the service pistol was an inaccurate POS, a pain to clean (which one would have to do often) and the G36 rifle is made in large parts (e.g. the stock) from polymer/plastic meaning they were forbidden from ever
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Here in Germany my older brother was once forced to show his ID at the local super market checkout to purchase (IIRC) a game/movie from the bargain bin (something with a restriction of >=12yo) while: - being a tall bald dude (19yo a
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since - the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1], - playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fu
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Difference being that in Firefox you can set the preferences to not show those things once and if you get on a new device just sign into Sync and you're off to the races. Contrast that to Microsofts constant badgering, reset preferen
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by Lev1a 5y ago
From what I've seen as an amateur that is yet fascinated by mechanical engineering: iteratively work up to the precision limits with your current methods then try to find/research a (slightly) better way of measuring and/or m
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Assuming they don't already given the rise in popularity of drones.
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> but according to some media reports the vehicles are equipped with autonomous weapons systems and other "high-tech surprises" that allow them to independently engage and repel attackers even if all human crew have been killed
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by Lev1a 5y ago
For me in addition to that nuisance you described it also has an autoplaying video, connects (or at least attempts to connect) to 56 (!) domains, with 38 blocked by default uBO. The bloat on that site is just enormous.
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by Lev1a 5y ago
In 2017 Germany I made net ~570€/month (~1€ more than minimum wage) working 15h weeks in a supermarket for around 3-4 months while studying. It was pretty mindless work (apart from always looking out for the use-/sell-by dates) an
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Why should the users be forced to do extra work in order for Github to do their commercialization "correctly"? This is something Github/Microsoft started, something that only really benefits Github/Microsoft and that the
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by Lev1a 5y ago
My bank makes me download or at least electronically acknowledge (through a button in the online banking) the bank statements it generates every few weeks. If those go unchecked for too long they're sent to me in the post, charging me
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Coal power plants are already on schedule to be phased out by 2038 [1] but even now the mix of imported energy+coal+gas+wind+solar+hydro+biomass and the last few nuclear power stations on the grid are sometimes not enough to meet the power
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> as long as you don't have more than a few hours in the game. Last I checked the limit was the minimum of "2 hours playtime" and "2 weeks after purchase" > Steam is quite generous about refunding games, eithe
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by Lev1a 5y ago
BaconReader in stark contrast to the official Reddit app also features a UI not plastered over and over with irrelevant shit (so-called "advertisements").
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by Lev1a 5y ago
From what I remember of a class on mobile development during Uni, Android has things called "Intent(s)" which can also capture opened links to open an app, a specific view in an app etc. Is that the same on iOS?
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by Lev1a 5y ago
You can see "Standardized features" and "In-progress proposals" in this table here: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> C++ is like nuclear power. Building from your metaphor, I would add: Python et al.: normal household batteries; everyone can use/operate them, not much power but can be used with little to no training and a screwup happening means
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by Lev1a 5y ago
German documentaries about the "Peking"s journey home to Germany from NYC [0] and then the restoration process itself [1] in Germany. Unfortunately for international viewers there are only auto-generated subtitles (and translation
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Or this talk about one of Denmarks neighbours (Germany) by an American, Jewish, (grand-)son of Holocaust survivors visiting a German prison with a bunch of other Americans ("60 Minutes" reporter, some Governor, a DA, a convicted m
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by Lev1a 5y ago
The most short and elegant example I could come up with that actually worked (since the example above really shouldn't work in Rust in the first place): fn main() { let mut v = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; let new_size =
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Motor movements are some of deepest knowledge we have. Don't know if it's is a real thing, but in some CSI type show years ago there was a witness with amnesia (couldn't remember their name etc.) whose identity they foun
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by Lev1a 5y ago
The change most immediately apparent to myself is that I actually wear a helmet while riding my bicycle now after having seen peoples heads pop like melons from even small accidents notwithstanding being run over by trucks (think of an open
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Those apps stay out of your way if you don't wanna use them and they barely use 0.1% of the internal storage. I'd hardly call that bloat given the "Samsung Experience" I once had on one of those GalaxyNote 10.1 tablets.
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> They don’t want hundreds of different versions out there. As much as people claim otherwise they will get bug reports from old versions. Anyone that’s ever supported users knows that’s going to happen. - Make it clear that only a certa
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> Motorola [...] bloatware What do you mean? I've had a couple Motorola phones from the G series (G1 and G4 and currently an AndroidOne) and AFAICT it's been pretty much stock Android apart from: - an app for support enquiries
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Why don't they just go to the logical next step and just make metric the standard, the Imperial System (foot etc.) are already defined by the Metric system? Humorous view on the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by Lev1a 5y ago
I could imagine two ways this could work: Slow down (if possible/necessary), stop the e-motors, feather the props, get the parachute out while attached to the back, sail down to the ground at a sufficiently low speed of impact to maybe
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> But isn't "cheating" the norm in real-world jobs too? It's rare that I or any of the developers I work with complete a task without looking something up or asking a question of someone more knowledgeable. One part o
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> but I have to manually update it each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism
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by Lev1a 5y ago
It would be nice first of all for them not to be tax dodging assholes, who like in the case of ActiBlizz not only didn't pay tax to the US but also manipulated the tax system to get tax credits to the tune of hundreds of millions of D

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