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541.
by Tor3 2y ago
As far as I know the reason for cabover is much simpler: In Europe the total length of the vehicle is covered by regulations. As total truck length is restricted you choose a cabover design, to maximize the transport capacity. When it comes
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by Tor3 2y ago
In my studying (no, acquiring) Japanese I notice a huge difference when I can do 1.5 hours (or more) a day instead of 20-30 minutes. It's almost like the latter is useless. (Edit: The latter is more than enough to learn grammar etc.
543.
by Tor3 2y ago
"Skam" is a bit different because even though it's produced by NRK it got so popular elsewhere that NRK is licensing it to other countries. So they aren't free to just dump it freely worldwide.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Hm.. I feel no difference there between my native language and English. I use the latter every day, and everything I read (and I read a lot) is in English - I've only read two books in my native language the last thirty years or so. I
545.
by Tor3 2y ago
>"Presumably, like elsewhere in the world, not everything NRK is showing is licensed only for Norway." NRK doesn't buy world-wide licenses, even if the same show/program is available everywhere. They still can't
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by Tor3 2y ago
Vocabulary is of course super important, but what's even more important is how you learn the vocabulary. Memorizing single word translations is worse than useless, as words are not used in the same way in different languages. What I&
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by Tor3 2y ago
I've been watching NRK for years, in Japan, with a Chromecast plugged into the TV. No problems watching news. Can't watch BBC nature programs, for pretty obvious reasons, but some other locally produced material can be watched. An
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by Tor3 2y ago
The core samples do not show continuous grooves, that claim has been thoroughly debunked. With visuals.
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by Tor3 2y ago
And that's exactly how e.g. coffee is priced in various coffee shops in Europe: Two prices, One is served, the other is takeaway.
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by Tor3 2y ago
VAT varies across countries but not inside countries (except that there may be a different VAT for, say, foodstuff than other items, or services). For online shopping in EU you pay the VAT of the destination (W. You select your location an
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by Tor3 2y ago
Not really in this case. In the past it was not a law everywhere (in Europe) that pricing must include taxes, and you could often get the "added tax" surprise. This was then regulated to make it illegal. It's just that the US
552.
by Tor3 2y ago
Incorrect. In, say, Europe, the final price is on the label and that's what you pay, the receipt lists the individual parts (core price, value added tax etc). And in Japan too - I'm looking at a receipt right now.
553.
by Tor3 2y ago
Strangely (maybe), but Attack on Titan I can't stand, and I didn't care much for any of the Full metal Alchemist ones, but Frieren is one of the absolutely best shows I've ever watched.
554.
by Tor3 2y ago
Thanks. I'll try that. I have a Kindle, but in the past I downloaded the books to the PC when I wanted a backup, and used Calibre on that. I did this because the docu said that it could only un-DRM books in "PC" format, the K
555.
by Tor3 2y ago
There's a tiny amount of light, yes. I don't know why Amazon made it that way. It's not really visible.. not to me, at least. But it's probably one reason the battery is slowly drained, over weeks, even if not in use.
556.
by Tor3 2y ago
I'm the opposite - I read many times faster than audio, so I have big problems with using e.g. Youtube to get information. It feels agonizingly slow to get the information over. I feel like I could get that in two minutes of reading ve
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by Tor3 2y ago
I've done the DRM ripping in the past, but from what I've understood Calibre or other tools are unable to do that for the latest DRM variants Amazon is using. Is that correct? I would like to back up my entire Kindle collection as
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the "I read at least the first 50 pages of most of them". Did you somehow receive 6000 books in one huge batch and you're just checking them out, one by one? I mean, I've thousands of books
559.
by Tor3 2y ago
As far as I know (in the sense that I've never experienced anything like it in a decade of using a Kindle) that the book's getting revised from under me while I'm reading it. There's an occasional update for some books,
560.
by Tor3 2y ago
Well, yes and no.. I do use the backlight on my Kindle if it's dark, but this changes how it looks. I have a Paperwhite Kindle. With the backlight on it's more like reading on LCD, though not as bad. The Kindle looks much nicer if
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by Tor3 2y ago
The ability to select a font size I like is one of my main three reasons for using a Kindle.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I prefer PDFs for informative material (various documentation), though they're less useful if it's just a photocopied old manual (no OCR). It's when reading books (literature, not documentation) that the e-readers have someth
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by Tor3 2y ago
It's when something comes up and you remember that you read something relevant in the past. In most of those cases it's not about "Ah, this is something I may want to check again at a later time, so let's highlight it&
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by Tor3 2y ago
I prefer to read paper books, but there are three reasons I generally don't. a) Font size is getting too small for me. Years ago I changed to large hardcover (sometimes large but softcover) versions instead of the smaller-sized books I
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by Tor3 3y ago
I should check this - I still have some SD cards which I used with my T3 (I had two Tungsten T3 PDAs actually). But I think they were simply FAT-accessed, i.e. different from the internal storage. I'm unable to verify that at the mo
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by Tor3 3y ago
.. should not be thought of.. was what I meant to write. The memory is neither app memory nor storage, but both at once. The once-Windows based PDAs also used a combined memory setup, but there one section of the memory was for running a
567.
by Tor3 3y ago
I think only the latest Treo had 128MB - the last PDA (Lifedrive) had 64MB, the TX 32MB. (One should remember though that there wasn't mass storage+RAM as we typically think of it - the memory of the Palm devices was storage and active
568.
by Tor3 3y ago
USB floppy controllers are very different from "real" floppy controllers. USB controllers are doing the floppy formats in firmware, so the PC it connects to can only use it for formats the USB controller knows about, which is typi
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by Tor3 3y ago
And, in any case, Japan had tons of what should be considered early smartphones. I was astonished the first time I saw one (and this was obviously before the iPhone). For some reason the iPhone managed to kill off the local Japanese industr
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by Tor3 3y ago
That's fine, but you can't survive only on Sycamore figs - and that's the problem.

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