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by avh02 6y ago
I recently listened to one of the radio correspondents (Herbert Morrison) [1] that was observing the hindenberg coming in - and it amazed me the things he thinks of while he's talking about it (how the people waiting for the passengers
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by avh02 6y ago
Also anecdotal: needed some small items from there (because it matches what I've already got) and their click and collect in Berlin was super well done. You could order to pick up the next day. They had converted their entrance and exi
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by avh02 6y ago
I feel cheated if i don't impulse buy something. :p
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by avh02 6y ago
Oh I totally agree, for me this is a matter of an absolutely backwards industry. Very often I WANT to give my money but can't find where to buy a DRM-free track, preferably in flac. And registering for 8 different stores is not a valid
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by avh02 6y ago
Because going through all that just to listen to music is bonkers
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by avh02 6y ago
> Almost half of the world gold demand is for speculative/investment purposes fair (and I think gold as a "beautiful" metal is dumb), but the other half of the usage (on your claim) is for an array of productive things. I
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by avh02 6y ago
No No, I prefer the middle ramblings too. My reader should be thrown off track by irrelevant parts of what someone said. /s
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by avh02 6y ago
they then become high profile targets for takeovers, and can run amok for too long before being disabled.
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by avh02 6y ago
I used to be a blackberry developer, granted it was my first job, but nevertheless: I'm glad blackberry died it's slow, painful death. Developing for blackberry was a disaster, I can even say it was the single worst programming ex
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by avh02 6y ago
> Yet again, wayland is the protocol. if people on HN don't know or care on something like this (I didn't, and I don't), then good luck telling less HN-y people about wayland being the protocol and not the implementation.
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by avh02 6y ago
"HSBC" + "decent mobile banking app" made me laugh (though my experience with it is 2016/2017)
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by avh02 6y ago
It is your "god given" right in the ideal world (and i agree with you there), but reality is unfortunately different
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by avh02 6y ago
I have one of the crappiest passports in the world. It drives me insane to see people take for granted and abuse the things that (visit) visas on arrival offer them. When I want a visa to most countries (especially western countries) I have
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by avh02 6y ago
https://wolt.com/en/deu/berlin/article/berlin_deliveryarea definitely covers more than what you're stating, but granted, if you're in Charlottenburg you may not have noticed them.
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by avh02 6y ago
also that lieferando delivers a pathetic user experience (too many bugs and poor UX decisions to list here). I would love to see Wolt take over the Berlin/German market.
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by avh02 6y ago
I'd love to see the same, but I'd also think that the institutional knowledge and experience this would lose on (safe?) aircraft design and manufacturing would probably be many more steps backwards.
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by avh02 6y ago
I dunno, there's some jobs you see from the inside you think "wow, this is a disaster" but from the outside it looks fine because that's what the company projects. (Anecdotally, a friend of mine gets horror stories from
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by avh02 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking when i read that article years ago i went in to a huge rabbit hole about side-channel attacks. A lot of the information from that reading spree has stuck with me
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by avh02 6y ago
yeah, i basically use them for standing lamps - i don't like overheads/ceiling lamps so much but still like enough light not to feel I'm in the dark. Still happy to turn on the bright ceiling lights to find something/see
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by avh02 6y ago
I was surprised at how short the Ikea dimmable LEDs lasted (not the smart ones) - but it's surprisingly hard to find E14's that are bright enough (60w equivalent), dimmable, and warm. The Osram's i gave in and tried (albeit a
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by avh02 6y ago
lol i lived there for a few years - these bulbs are the least of their energy waste. outdoor air conditioning at bars was not as wild as you'd think (it wasn't _normal_ but it was common). Also, the flat rate on your power bill is
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by avh02 6y ago
Server side's actually okay, I think the android app has a number of bugs. For example I tried to set a folder with several thousand pieces of media and a few other files to auto upload and it'd keep triggering "nextcloud is
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by avh02 6y ago
I did the same some months ago - just a heads up that it's not without it's rough edges, but definitely does a near-enough-to-what-i-want job. I've noticed a few unsynced images and am currently struggling to get the android
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by avh02 6y ago
Understandable stance, but the damage he was capable of causing was probably millions of dollars worth. So yeah, a few thousand bucks as a thank you is reasonable.
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by avh02 6y ago
This is the case in telegram by default when messages aren't E2E encrypted so they (I assume) sit on a server somewhere.
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by avh02 6y ago
I've lived in several places and nobody really uses SMS unless it's for 1) someone you don't really know or 2) notifications of some sort... My impression is the US/Canada are one of the only places where SMS is still fr
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by avh02 6y ago
> I also had this habit of moving my cursor keys up/down/left/right in rapid/slow movements while I was thinking deeply on a problem. the human HDD activity light
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by avh02 6y ago
some waited, some didn't. I can't pretend to know why. My personal guess/opinion is that those governments who's only objective was to get people isolated on exposure would at least have leaned towards the apple/goo
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by avh02 6y ago
With enough responsible people and critical mass, exposure notification and contact tracing are ideally equivalent at their objective. Unfortunately though, people aren't responsible
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by avh02 6y ago
You underestimate how important it is to (most, competent) governments to keep their citizens alive and how unprepared they were caught in this. This solution (if used) was better than flying blind and cost these governments nothing. It&#x2

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