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PJ_Maybe
29d ago
I saw one in Austria for the first time just a couple of weeks ago. It had Polish number plates, so presumably it is legal to buy and register one there, and to drive it in other EU countries.
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1y ago
MLModern [0] is a thicker version of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern and the Latin Modern project, in case you are interested. [0] https://ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern
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How is this Website so fast? [video]
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2y ago
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3y ago
One I like is the phrase "the tell-tale signs", which refers to a sailing boat's tell-tales. These are small strings attached to the sails to indicate if the sail needs to be trimmed for optimal performance.
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4y ago
Indeed, which is some kind of mechanical-quartz hybrid.
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4y ago
"For those of you who aren't into watches (consider yourself lucky), watches can either be mechanical or quartz." Not quite. There are other types of movement, for example the tuning fork movement first used in the Bulova Acc
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C-Span: A New Kind of Science (2003)
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5y ago
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5y ago
Yeah well these are the raw prices per kWh, there are also a lot of fees added by the state and the state run suppliers who provide the infrastructure. Pretty sure you can double whatever I have quoted for the actual per kWh prices.
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5y ago
In Austria, the price per kWh has quadrupled since May 2020, which is when I moved in to a new home. Unfortunately this [0] chart from my provider only goes back 12 months, but you can see even during this short time that the price increase
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5y ago
Try this: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome or https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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WhatsApp and Facebook to share users' data outside Europe and UK
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6y ago
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8y ago
Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).
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8y ago
dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/ In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via
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8y ago
Nice project - just one bit of feedback, on a German keyboard y and z are swapped and it makes playing pretty difficult. Maybe alter it so that y or z can be used for A. Edit: Also, the buttons are mapped the wrong way around. On a NES cont