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by aivisol 6y ago
Select some summer month and they will appear.
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by aivisol 6y ago
My favorite was UI of a smartphone where a Hangup button when pressed will end a call and will display a contact screen of the other party with a Call button exactly at the position where the Hangup button was. So when you are about to end
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by aivisol 6y ago
Whenever I use self service checkout, it always takes much longer time for me to get through. I guess I am not so good at quickly juggling and locating bar codes at each item as the staff working at checkout are. So I leave it to profession
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by aivisol 6y ago
Then my kid is also atypical
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by aivisol 6y ago
This [1] was my first programmable calculator and what this Wikipedia article writes about games and "errorology" was really true. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_B3-34
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by aivisol 6y ago
> anonymous SIM cards Are anonymous SIM cards illegal in Germany? There are definitely some EU countries where you can buy a prepaid SIM card in a newspaper stand without presenting any ID and it is 100% legal.
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by aivisol 6y ago
Wikiloc [1] has pretty large database of user submitted hikes: [1] https://www.wikiloc.com/
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by aivisol 6y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a register of those who are vaccinated instead of those who refused it? I think the former one could be more less justifiable and have some (potentially) beneficial uses, but the latter one has more
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by aivisol 6y ago
Please help me with maths in the first video. The motor is 10 HP which is approx 7.5 kW powered by 18 x 320 W = 5760 W solar panels. Inverter and cable loss are not even accounted. How its gonna run on a cloudy day?
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by aivisol 6y ago
The island of El Hierro in Spanish Canary Islands "hopes to become the first island in the world to be self-sufficient for electrical energy" [1]. They plan to use wind as primary and pump water up in the mountains to use as the e
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by aivisol 6y ago
Somehow putting Sweden into same bucket with Italy and Spain does not seem right. Sweden was widely criticized for not imposing any lockdown measures while Italy and Spain has seen one of the most aggressive and longest lockdown restriction
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by aivisol 6y ago
Because once you learn them, you will never unlearn. I took a cube in my hands after some 30+ years break and my hands just instantly knew the sequences...
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by aivisol 6y ago
Yeah, I have done that as well, but so far could find a way to live stream it
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by aivisol 6y ago
Interesting. I am no way an expert in video encoding, but is there a way to get it streamed to the browser? I have a bunch of hikvisions but so far I am using it either through their Android app, or an ancient Firefox plugin.
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by aivisol 6y ago
Hikvision cameras are good, however they encode video in their own proprietary format (at least when I last checked) so you will have difficulties streaming them to anything that is not their make.
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by aivisol 6y ago
I admit I did not do research before posting, my bad. Was not aware they are made from aluminum. But it is still nonsense to create packaging for every 5 grams of product made.
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by aivisol 6y ago
I would vote for not creating plastic waste in the first time. This is not life saving essential product you cannot live without which you need to produce in mega quantities. What percentage of the capsules is recycled and what percentage e
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by aivisol 6y ago
It's electrically assisted, it says.
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by aivisol 6y ago
Well, they did have refrigerators, but they indeed were less widespread. I remember visiting relatives in my childhood and they didn't have a refrigerator sometime in late 1970s. Consumer goods were in short supply, that is true, and t
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by aivisol 6y ago
Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor 120 film camera, I believe from 1930s, works like a charm, the only problem is lazy user to use it more frequently
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by aivisol 6y ago
> The audio stream is interleaved at the end of the blocks. If I remember correctly, audio was transmitted on a subcarrier some 6 or so MHz higher? Edit: Later in the article it is actually stated: "A normal SECAM signal uses FM on
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by aivisol 6y ago
The colors seem a bit exaggerated - these pictures were for sure originally mostly black and white, and whoever digitized them, added a lot of bright colors. In reality it was greyish as in the last picture from Chernobyl. I worked in a Sov
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by aivisol 6y ago
Still using Hetzner for some of the services. They had some reliability issues in early days with servers randomly stopping or rebooting but not anymore. Cheaper than AWS definitely if you compare apples to apples.
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by aivisol 6y ago
> but I think we’ve really screwed up. We’ve caused pollution, we’ve allowed the world’s population to increase threefold in my lifetime, we’ve caused the problems of global warming and now we’ve left your generation with a real mess in
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by aivisol 6y ago
I wish the order was reverse: first create public transport and car parks outside and then remove cars from city centers.
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by aivisol 6y ago
The danger here, as usually is concentration of too much power in one hands. That is why we have replaced monarchies with democracies mostly. Ultra wealthy individuals are basically able to circumvent democratic political process to reach d
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by aivisol 6y ago
> prevents the opposition from being able to take part in the government This is definitely not specific to Poland, and unfortunately very typical across entire political spectrum and countries. I cannot quickly recall any European count
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by aivisol 6y ago
Does Poland implement surveillance of their citizens in any excessive way? Just asking, as I do not know. The fact that the government is right-wing alone does not automatically mean it is going down the path of totalitarianism.
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by aivisol 6y ago
I share your pain, having similar background. It is probably not technical means, they always existed, the telephones could be listened to, and letters could be always opened. Forgetting the history and not learning from it. The West has li
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by aivisol 6y ago
Yep, can confirm, such system existed in other large Soviet cites as well. I also graduated from one such maths and physics oriented school. Compared to regular public schools the education level was much higher, and not only in those subje

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