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by Tor3 2y ago
The app covers all the various taxi companies around here. It's not international.
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by Tor3 2y ago
For what it's worth, around here you call an ordinary taxi exactly the same way: Press a button, get a ride. Been like that for a long time.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I was replying to the claim that Abraham's DNA (if he existed) could be traced in today's Jewish population. And that _is_ impossible. In any case, it's not like you identify Ashkanazi Jews from DNA, instead it's that wh
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by Tor3 2y ago
.. except that there isn't really a thing such as Jewish DNA. Other than that, yes we're mostly all a mixture of people travelling and migrating and settling down and moving, and they came from all over over the centuries and mil
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by Tor3 2y ago
Even if Abraham _did_ exist, at this point in time it's like trying to distinguish a drop of water from the ocean it's now living in. That's how little would have remained of Abraham's DNA so much later.
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by Tor3 2y ago
A problem these days is that the scissors are sculpted.. they fit a right hand. But there are supposedly-left-handed scissors.. except that 99.9% of them are still crossing the blades the same way! My father bought one like that, as he was
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by Tor3 2y ago
As a (mostly) rightie, I use the mouse with my right, except if I feel shoulder pain. Then I take a week on the left hand. And my shoulder avoids developing a chronic issue.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm the same, just mirrored.. I'm technically right-handed, but my left hand works as well as the right one for stuff that I haven't exclusively trained my right hand to do (or the left one, for that matter, as far as the rig
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by Tor3 2y ago
Correct, it's a criminal offence in Japan, and you're even notified about that on the form you fill in (either online in advance, or on paper in flight) when you go there. Which is possibly one of the reasons it's close to im
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by Tor3 2y ago
It would lose power suddenly, and restart. Battery was fine (replaceable), so it looked like a glitch somewhere in the electronics. But I used it for many years until then (had to give it up this spring).
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's not really the point. The 2FA I use isn't via SMS, and never was.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I actually have the opposite opinion. I like their UI, with the drag-down feature to select options, etc etc. Though I liked the very early Sailfish version on my old Jolla phone even better (it was upgraded on the Jolla phone as well, but
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by Tor3 2y ago
Europe is not one single country, and for me that statement is 100% untrue.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm as old as a dinosaur and I haven't used a cheque in my life, not even back when bank accounts were managed through this little paper book with numbers and stamps.
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by Tor3 2y ago
My N900 with Maemo was fantastic. It's still working Just Fine, mechanically as good as when new (the Mercedes-door feeling sliding keyboard, for example), the only reason I'm not still using it is because it only supports up to 3
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm using an Xperia 10 III w/Sailfish now, but honestly I liked the Jolla phone I had previously much better. Unfortunately the latter eventually developed an electrical glitch which made it useless and I had to replace it. The Xp
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by Tor3 2y ago
And how is that relevant to the alleged complexity of building an AM radio vs an FM one? The point was that the latter is easy, not complicated. The FM transmitter is so easy to make that you can make one by accident - if there's a non
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by Tor3 2y ago
Did I understand the article correctly in that they simply managed to reach 500 meters with wi-fi? If so, I don't see what they have actually achieved. In the early days of 802.11b I regularly connected my wifi-enabled (via dongle) Pal
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by Tor3 2y ago
Norway still have local FM radios. It's just the big public and commercial stations which were forced to move to DAB. When that's said, I believe there are fewer and fewer local stations available.
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by Tor3 2y ago
In my anecdotal experience I have to agree (though I dislike digital radio for completely different reasons). The reception is perfect everywhere around here, while FM was very different, from the exact same transmitter point. The same goes
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by Tor3 2y ago
FM radios aren't complicated at all. And FM transmitters, in particular, are extremely simple. When I was a student we had a tiny one we made in an afternoon (this was decades ago), we connected it to our 8-hour reel tape deck and had
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by Tor3 2y ago
That's exactly what his father said. They had thought it was just playing a game (he used the word 'competition' when he spoke about it). EditAdd: And it's not strange. First, Mats had his own apartment, it wasn't l
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by Tor3 2y ago
They were aware, but hadn't got the correct understanding. They had thought all the time that WoW was a competition, beating the machine.. like the video games they grew up with (and, er, I did), i.e. car racing games and the like. I
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by Tor3 2y ago
At that funeral where he held that speech, a group of Mats' online friends were present, having arrived earlier and met the father. The leader of Mats' group in WoW also talked at the funeral. What Robert (the father) actually sa
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by Tor3 2y ago
I have a Seiko thermal printer, from years back. With at least one roll of paper. I think they still make them, or something which looks very similar.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I've seen dot matrix printers used in backrooms of airlines (which I have visited for reporting lost luggage, sometimes). This would mostly be smaller airlines (as the now defunct Berlin Air)
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by Tor3 2y ago
Even though they typically came with Centronics ports, you could often add an additional interface. The Epson-compatible OKI printer I have can use an additional interface board (of which I have one) and have both a serial and parallel inte
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by Tor3 2y ago
I have kind of scratched my head a bit as to why our local VM provider has all these scheduled downtimes.. while the servers we run in-house have those maybe once or twice a year, at most. Hm..
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by Tor3 2y ago
Devuan, which is basically Debian without systemd.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Yep. The Octanes and the Challenge servers we used at work didn't have hardware raid, and, contrary to grandparent we did have regular issues on SGI with XFS (loss of data after power cycling, always), while we never had that on Linu

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