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alliao
2y ago
umami sensor on the plane hits different, must be due to altitude/pressure etc I usually love a sip of tomato juice/bloody mary on the plane but never hit the same once I'm on the ground
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alliao
2y ago
I've visited Lloyd's Building on a building tour once, and seeing the scale and sheer floors of actuaries with PhDs in god knows what domain made me a firm believer in the real life prowess of the insurance industry. I honestly do
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alliao
2y ago
get a Chinese feng-shui expert; cheaper than pros and reap benefit of thousands of years of real estate wisdom. /s but not really /s lol there are some methods in it's vast amount of madness
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alliao
2y ago
productivity wise 70's and 80's peaked with those thin terminals with every action carried out by keyboard... workers tapped at light speed due to muscle memory, didn't look fancy, but it got the job done. GUI is sexy but lik
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alliao
2y ago
switch was ancient tech, but still predates usb-c enough that they're rolling their own power protocols.. hence deluge of broken switch on ebay with fried usb-c ports...
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alliao
2y ago
I was in such a company, do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go.
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alliao
2y ago
Japanese called it Sony Timer...some call it urban legend but this seems like yet another independently verified data point
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alliao
2y ago
totally reminded me of the days with Windows Blind(?) some crazy dock... you could customise widgets showing bandwidth/disk io/ram/cpu the usual. man those were FUN. but possibly quite power hungry so wouldn't fly nowada
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alliao
2y ago
but this thing doesn't die, and why should it imitate our young?
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alliao
2y ago
I used to use O&O defrag and recently found out they're still going at it old school styles https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 and this free tool took care a lot of painful things in windows
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alliao
2y ago
Stallman for all his faults at least got this fundamental message right.. these software ain't free. When I was logging into my work the other day, using MS Teams it suddenly dawned on me that my younger self is very disappointed. Ther
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alliao
2y ago
we all need to visit Portugal to relearn what is food...apparently less than 2% of their caloric intake comes from processed food, insanity. how is it possible.
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alliao
2y ago
palm oil is just too damn cheap... and ferrero got to the game early and probably funded the whole RSPO and convinced the world big tabbaco style that maybe THESE palm oil aren't so bad after all.
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alliao
2y ago
do your own maintenance, Toyota/Honda late 2000s should serve you well for another 20yrs..
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alliao
2y ago
paint's always going to be expensive... so wipe that bird poop off the car stat!
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alliao
2y ago
that's good to hear! it's the only weak spot on that engine M44, and that particular plastic cooling pipe is in a nightmarish place right up against the firewall. Need tiny hands if you want to replace it while the engine's i
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alliao
2y ago
I agree, never entered my mind the Toyota Hybrids. Are they popular in Europe? Somehow when I read this article I'm reminded of high pressure direct fuel injection and biodegradable/sustainable/recycled material... things tha
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alliao
2y ago
I think it's a lot to do with how it's designed too.. I kept an old hatchback bmw made in 2000 and that thing already have bit of plastic parts in the engine bay (coolant pipes no less) which are just time bombs. parts and labour
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alliao
2y ago
can't get anything for free these days.. an emphasis on efficiency seems to drive up efficiency to the point where they're disposable after 5yrs
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alliao
2y ago
PE will literally keep going till society start revolting
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2y ago
I still am puzzled about the logistics of it, at the very end of the video there's a sharp pointy end towards the user... do the user shove their private parts between the two shafts...
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alliao
3y ago
stick with quality animal fat/locally produced cold pressed olive oil you'll be fine no reason to consume much else which may/may not harm you. modern produce is mostly less nutritious and more inflammation inducing due to fa
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alliao
3y ago
good save. The impairment is quite apparent from what I've observed and I suspect this is even harder to accept in work context; no one wants to admit they're impaired if you work in knowledge economy where IQ is seen as somewhat
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alliao
3y ago
just like the texas electric grid right? poster child of free market infrastructure
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3y ago
They're just going to keep try and obsolete net neutrality every couple of years aren't they?
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3y ago
I've stopped worrying about it, I now use the heat with a packet of bio-enzyme to help dissolve any random bits of lard blocking up the waste drains, this is one of those unintended consequences scenario. I recall reading about Califor
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alliao
3y ago
https://twitter.com/rrichcord reminds me of this guy
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3y ago
What people fail to grasp is how subsidised Chinese EVs are. Let us all put our hands together and say "xie xie" to the Chinese tax payers and their entrepreneurs who are bravely following their government directives in massively
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alliao
3y ago
I'm gonna steal this one, instead of third world we're now third party nations
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alliao
3y ago
oh that is cool what country is that? I'd like to check them out. Honestly sounds really good.
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