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5y ago
still a nicer airport than the dump that was SXF (TXL did have a special place in my heart though) That said, flying budget airlines remains a ridiculous experience at all european airports.
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as big as a fiasco as BER was/is - it turns out it's (attempted) infrastructure expansion. That and stuff like U5 extension, etc (is it a tourist line? sure, but it's work being done). Trialing/using Electric buses is an
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Cash-strapped Lebanese army sells helicopter rides
(bbc.co.uk)
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5y ago
i tried another contact sensor (sonoff) before trying out the aqara/xiaomi sensors - holy crap what a world of difference in build quality and response time. I have one in our postbox flap to detect when we get mail - the sonoff needed
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5y ago
I don't think you will, but just to be safe: don't come off as crazy paranoid grandpa please!
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5y ago
I honestly don't remember, but i definitely remember the checklist became more formal as we made a lot of errors like this. I left soon afterwards but the stack was also a transition-to-AWS stack so was later moved to something more su
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5y ago
When i was working for one of the biggest regional websites: We had blue/green deployments using AWS Elastic Beanstalk - our actual deployment process was still manual and we had an informal (i.e: not written down but everybody knew) c
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5y ago
you can also add *.sony.* to that "one more" list. pretty sure there'd be no law against that - wonder if they'd appreciate it though.
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5y ago
Yeah our cat's big meal is in the morning , I randomly change around when in my morning routine I feed them so they don't assume that just cos I'm up and about they'll be getting fed. It helped with them making noises at
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5y ago
I found pipenv to be far too opinionated (e.g: explicitly not supporting sections other than `dev`, because you're doing it wrong if there are any other sections). I also found it's insistence on doing certain things reduced my fl
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5y ago
what i've found/heard in germany is this: you may struggle/it may take long to find certain things to get a diagnosis, but once you do, it's a ball that gets rolling insanely fast. 2 anecdotal examples: colleague's
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5y ago
I think and hope you dug further than just a name match, names aren't necessarily unique!
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5y ago
Or responding to "I'm not interested" with a canned "great! Find a slot on my calendar to talk about the role!"
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5y ago
How does DoH help you avoid ads?
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5y ago
Sounds like something you can solve with a labelmaker unless it's over the "do not cover" portions.
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5y ago
I can ask the same about knowing and pronouncing numbers. regardless, this is an article about a UK company's product being used by UK emergency services. An injured foreigner who can't speak English is going to have trouble with
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5y ago
yeah, was thinking about rebuilding it as OSS just now. the biggest problem is that a security-minded org is going to want control over the server storing their secret messages (otherwise, you're literally giving away which org you are
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5y ago
for the longest time we had issues with people pasting passwords in slack to share them within the org. one hackathon later we had a one time secret sharing slash command (which you can only reveal the message once and is then lost/del
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5y ago
have you ever tried providing a phone number/account number/id number over the phone? how easily/correctly was it transferred? Now add in hypothermia, noise, weather, or bodily harm to that equation. The only improvement woul
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5y ago
mostly the latter - plus a need for more highly skilled workers in certain shortage occupations.
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5y ago
one thing that stood out to me when i was in Southampton in the UK was that every passenger on the bus would say some form of "thank you" on their way off the bus. So, sometimes, yeah.
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5y ago
haven't listened to radiolab in a while so can't remember off the top of my head what speed i'd put it at - but i think the difficulty there with speeding it up is how much they intersperse and cut things in to each other. I
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5y ago
I think of backwards compatibility in production as a responsibility (to an extent!)
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5y ago
personally, i listen to mostly informational podcasts (darknet diaries, select episodes of freakonomics, selfhosted, etc) - even if there's a story setup to it, it's not really what i'm there for - i'm not a genius or an
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5y ago
waaaaay too slow talking to be at 1x speed. I don't listen to podcasts that fast, but darknet diaries definitely needs a speed bump. I like the episodes I've listened to though (so far only 5-10 of them)
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5y ago
You can justify anything with that logic: Guns are just an improvement on skull bashing, and there's rocks readily available everywhere! The low cost, simplicity, network ubiquity, and availability of these devices is different. Nobody
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5y ago
you know people don't only go home. they have affairs, they may be undercover agents, or they may be doing something they're not proud of (legal or not).
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5y ago
so it's nice that it notifies me there's an airtag on me but only when i get home - however if someone's nefariously tracking me, at that point it's too late. If i have an Android i wouldn't even know that.
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5y ago
This is the route i went (though admittedly mostly by accident), unfortunately do have a "smart AV receiver/amp" but the functionality there's too convenient for me to kill all networking. If i had to buy a TV now I'
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5y ago
Yeah but wifi's not only used for the internet - would've exactly want everybody accessing everybody's stuff (printers, webcams, NAS, etc) Obviously there are solutions to that but a layperson won't manage it
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