TomK32

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by TomK32 4y ago
Nobody wants to read a full article anymore...
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by TomK32 4y ago
> How safe is it, though, for you and others? Distraction (phones mainly), drunkenes, drugs, speeding, running lights, reckless driving, fatigue are the most common reason for accidents. It's the drivers, not the cars.
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by TomK32 4y ago
The Mississippi must have been gigantic in summers when some of the glacier ice did melt.
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by TomK32 4y ago
yup, and that snow is still on the tarp and the tarp needs to be clean of snow on the underside or the snow might melt and the whole tarp might get frozen to the ground it protects.
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by TomK32 4y ago
Why wait for warmer weather when you could simply move closer to the equator where you have more warm weather to begin with?
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by TomK32 4y ago
A few years ago I was tasked with migrating a database from one AWS org to another and thanks to IAM we were able to allow this without me accessing anything else in the other org and migrate the database without any more support from the o
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by TomK32 4y ago
Wonder if those strength numbers are pre-war. The Ukrainians claim to have downed over 250 Ruzzian helicopers, half their fleet.
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by TomK32 4y ago
It's an old piece and maybe not of of the famous lenses, but all I could afford in the late oughts: A Konica Autoreflex T4 with the 50mm/1.8 pancake and I did some great photos with it. Nowadays I often use it on a modern 4/3
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by TomK32 4y ago
'Goodhart's Law' – That every measure which becomes a target becomes a bad measure. -- Keith Hoskins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by TomK32 4y ago
Sounds like you are the breadwinner, have you thought about the financial feasibility of taking an afternoon off, at least until the kids are at school and a lot more independent? One hobby I picked up when my kid was about three was croche
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by TomK32 4y ago
Yes, as a German I did expect something very different when reading the word "euthanasia".
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by TomK32 4y ago
What a splendid piece of entertainment! Thank you for sharing it with us, my dear fellow.
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by TomK32 4y ago
cutting boards...
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by TomK32 4y ago
That makes me wonder Ruby is the language I'll be stuck with for another 20 years and just be content with a balance between performance of servers and my productivity...
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by TomK32 4y ago
Bigger problems in Germany are the lack of big power lines between the North and South and of course the reluctance to build more wind energy. Especially Bavaria has been shooting its own feet several times, even built a gas power station a
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by TomK32 4y ago
The self driving car of next year arrives just in time for the Iranian atomic bomb :-D which is ready in two years for about as long as I'm around. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/0
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by TomK32 4y ago
I faced a website like this recently when booking a slot at my own German embassy, went a different route around the embassy instead. What I don't like about the slot system: You won't get a convenient time slot anyways so why do
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by TomK32 4y ago
Can't roll back those HN comments though...
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by TomK32 4y ago
- what do I get my mom for Christmas?
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by TomK32 4y ago
As a German it took me quite some practice to get over this nicety and stick to German when talking with a foreigner who's bad at German but knows decent English.
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by TomK32 4y ago
which means it could be even worse.
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by TomK32 4y ago
The best targets are those emitting strong signals.
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by TomK32 5y ago
That was my first thought as well, but, when you are able to deploy this transmitter, you are most likely also able to deploy a huge generator and some big generator trucks can deliver a thousand times more energy than this wireless thing.
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by TomK32 5y ago
I skipped spotify alltogether, my digial collection is vast enough to last me for months, including December. Regarding streaming, I did love last.fm's radio, it helped me to discover a LOT of music, artists and styles. The 3 Euro (Pou
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by TomK32 5y ago
You mean because a large chunk for R&D in medicine is done in the USA? Maybe that is because in the USA pharma companies can go mental about pricing their products, who wouldn't want such a lucrative market that's easy to expl
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by TomK32 5y ago
It does, but not very efficiently: https://www.uclahealth.org/u-magazine/u-s-ranks-near-bottom-...
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by TomK32 5y ago
He just could move to Canada or Europe and avoid insane hospital bills. Just saying.
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by TomK32 5y ago
The running series of Death in Paradise (it is rather mundane but a welcome caribbean distraction for us northerners in those dark winter months) featured such a murder in episode four and I shall not spoil it, only say that I didn't e
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by TomK32 5y ago
The Japanese tried firebombing the West Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
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by TomK32 5y ago
Samuel Beckett on the question who or what is Godot answered "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." [1] [1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/r...

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