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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Another time Why is there another time? I don't understand why someone would continue purchasing from a shop after the first experience.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Charitable donations because charities maximize every penny, and electronic contributions eat into that Charities in Europe very much want an electronic donation, since the cost is far less than handling either cash or cheques. More i
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by Symbiote 1y ago
If you purchase an item on credit, it's the bank that makes the purchase. You then pay them back, 30 or 60 (or more) days later. If there's a problem with the item, you can "return" it to the bank — after all, they own
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by Symbiote 1y ago
At least in Denmark, people are fine paying and shops are fine receiving 10DKK (cheap loaf of bread) or whatever on a card. I have paid 0.5DKK on a card when I've forgotten to ask beforehand for a plastic bag, and the shopkeeper cares
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Someone receiving cash from tourists (tourist city restaurant or attraction) would probably see $50 and $100 bills very often. Nowadays that's less common from tourists from Europe, but tourists from Asia are still likely to bring cash
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I've had young (ish, 25 say) Danes say they'd never seen the most recent design of 500DKK notes before. Many more hadn't seen the 1000DKK, though that's since been withdrawn from use. I believe them. Cash machines dispen
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I saw them every day when I worked in central London. The shop staff were no more discerning than with smaller notes. But when the bill is £45, there's no problem anyway.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
In Denmark someone will pay, and the others will use MobilePay to pay back their share. But you've reminded me of a case I still use cash: on business trips abroad with a mixed group of people from several countries, most people put mo
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Denmark would do all that with MobilePay. But I do see people paying with cash in supermarkets etc, and I don't judge them as criminals. Some people just prefer to manage their money that way.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I've once seen the cabin crew ask to see a passenger's boarding pass while they were paying. The novelty was more that this was the first time I'd seen anyone buy the expensive perfume, I don't remember any more.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
In a similar vein there's the Neon Museum in Warsaw. https://www.neonmuzeum.org/english
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by Symbiote 1y ago
My employer in the UK had a machine in around 2014, but it was only used for sales of their own products to employees. It put all the transaction risk onto the employer, and had a high fee per-use, but since they only had these 'stock
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think dolphin hunting is not a tradition. It was not possible until faster motor boats were available.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Laws are only enforceable in their own country, and possibly some friendly countries. If that means blocking foreign access, the problem is solved anyway.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Oh great /s In a month or two, I can be annoyed when I see some vibe-coded AI startup's script making five million requests a day to work's website with this. They'll have been ignoring the error responses: {"Al
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The instructions on and linked from https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server work fine — I downloaded the JAR file, installed OpenJDK 21 as above, and ran the given command. I'll accept installing and
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by Symbiote 1y ago
If you had read the article, you would see this is on-topic as it's described at the beginning.
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Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?(theguardian.com)
1 points by Symbiote 1y ago|2 comments
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Getting Java installed is always a bit of a headache apt install openjdk-21-jdk-headless Or equivalent, no?
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I'm more surprised that a data centre will apparently provide more power to a rack than is safe to use.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I understood that it's optional because they can walk down the road to the data center instead. They mention plugging monitors in several times. I think I've only done that once in the last couple of years, when a firmware upgrade
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by Symbiote 1y ago
You should be able to power cycle the servers from their management interfaces. (But I have the luxury of everything being bought new from HP, so the interfaces are similar.)
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by Symbiote 1y ago
It's really not necessary. I have four racks rather than ten, and less storage but more compute. All purchased new from HP with warranties. Ordering each year takes a couple of days work. Racking that takes one or two. Initial setup (s
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by Symbiote 1y ago
They offer replacing, yes, but normally expect you to order the new one. (Usually covered by a warranty, sent next business day.)
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Isn't the easy option to spread the computers out, i.e. not fill the rack, but only half of it? A GPU cluster next to my servers has done this, presumably they couldn't have 64A in one rack so they've got 32A in two. (230V 3p
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I have static, public IPs across 80 or so servers. It gets set approximately once when the server's automated Ubuntu installation runs, and I never think about it. > Where does the switch choice come into whether you DHCP? Perhaps f
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The source is this statement from the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office, who enforce data privacy rules, GDPR etc). https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The Liberal Democrats seem (from a quick read of just this article) to have thrown out a proposal to water down an existing trans rights policy. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0vvle9w7zo
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by Symbiote 1y ago
There is an impending water shortage in Britain — since the water companies were privatized, they stopped building additional reservoir capacity.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Denmark took it centuries ago, and that's how it should stay unless or until the Greenlandic people decide otherwise.

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