Lev1a

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by Lev1a 5y ago
They've already made more money than they or their descendants (probably for generations) will ever need and are very likely also getting capital gains on that wealth through one way or another. The $1 salary is just posturing.
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by Lev1a 5y ago
Oh nooooo, your new top-of-the-line processor has a lower TDP than average-good processors from a few years ago! How absolutely horrible. /s, in case that wasn't blatantly obvious.
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> a guest said they love the food however seeing the fish sandwich I prepared for the crew asked if they could just eat the same things they saw me serving the crew I've eaten fish in multiple restaurants of varying quality over the
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by Lev1a 5y ago
> I suppose it'd be nice if that employer (I no longer work there) provided a device to generate the two factor codes, but I can understand why they don't. I mean... aren't there quite literally devices whose sole purpose
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by Lev1a 5y ago
The place where I did my internship used electronic keys that one would have to activate when coming into work each day (at least one of those little wall mounted stations (not much bigger than a fire alarm trigger) for that purpose on each
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> I geek out about things like this Same. Though I "blame" my father ("Schiffbauingenieur" ^= "ship/naval engineer") for my interest in engineering in general, my late grandfather for my interest in ele
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Can't the user just ignore this cryptocurrency BS if they (like myself) have no intention of using it?
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Yeah, German TV in general is just pathetically bad, however the documentaries produced by NDR ("die nordreportage") and some others of the "Dritte"/"Spartensender" [0] are really quite good most of the ti
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Huh, that's interesting, I'd only ever heard of it in German from my family members. TIL.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
I mean... people are already dumb and security-blind enough to willingly implant surveillance bugs into their homes (Alexa, Google Home, un-neutered smart TVs etc.). Just because these are manufactured and controlled by the private sector d
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by Lev1a 6y ago
It's always either "Think of the children!" or "X will only be used to investigate the most serious of crimes like terrorism, rape and murder" which shortly afterwards is then (quietly) forgotten about when somethin
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by Lev1a 6y ago
GA being used doesn't even remotely mean it's anything good.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> Ubiquiti starts ~~serving ads in~~ smearing fermented feces all over their management interface FTFY
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by Lev1a 6y ago
When the first thing I see after opening a website is some sort of "Give us your email just for some useless newsletter honest " popup I just close the site as fast as I can. How ITF can such a disgustingly annoying UX element s
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by Lev1a 6y ago
IIRC it goes further than that. Previous stable (0) compiles current source (1) into a temporary new stable (2), then (2) is used to compile (1) into the actual release version (3). Could be wrong though, it has been a long time since I stu
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> honour in a valiant fight to the end Having recently witnessed my grandfather's slow decay into ultimately death from up close (living next door), I can say with conviction that there's no "honour" in "fighting
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Probably so that Indians cashing out can't get as much real money for their digital bucks.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
I personally don't have the kind of time to visit all of /S.*ia/, I'll have to make to do with just /S\w+ia/. Shame, really...
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Sure, on the front PASSENGER seat and not permanently. Screwing around with software control etc. of airbags and other security features is (I hope) very much illegal and a reason for taking away the operating license of that particular car
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> (for example the airbag is malfunctioning) Then the car/vehicle is no longer road-worthy/road-safe and has to be repaired before going on public roads again. If the airbag isn't e.g. discovered in a repair shop, during a
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> cheese consumption is through the roof As an aside, cheese consumption doesn't have to be bad since there are really delicious cheeses which have almost no fat but plenty of protein like the whole branch of "Harzer" chee
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> At extremely low frequencies (that's the technical term...) radio waves can reach submarines that are submerged below a few m depths. > VLF [...] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Creek_Naval_Radio_Station
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Or if you subscribe to your local/regional weekly newspaper and it includes a few brochures of local supermarkets (with selection of discount offers for the week). Makes the planning for the (bi-)weekly shopping for cheap necessities e
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by Lev1a 6y ago
FYI, AdBlock Plus is made by a garbage company who allow companies to buy their way around the blocker in return for fulfilling some token guidelines about ad formatting etc. Eww.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
IIRC, it was >3GB or >4GB either in a single file or as a combined download.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
Adding to the sibling comment, MEGA download of large files apparently only works if you use a Chromium-based browser since those quasi-standardised a feature that IIRC allows websites direct access to local storage. W.T.A.F.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
That's what I meant by code generation, that maybe NumPy at runtime add/removes/substitutes some code to optimize dynamically, although I don't know if that's a thing in Python/NumPy.
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by Lev1a 6y ago
I haven't seriously used Python for quite a while so I don't know if this is possible/usual, maybe there's some kind of code generation happening at runtime that would throw off line numbers or added/removed/su
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by Lev1a 6y ago
> I live in Europe and in my experience a stone in a wedding ring is very uncommon. My parents married in the GDR during early-mid 80s, for them big diamond rings were definitely out (since one wouldn't have been able to get one any

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