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by cyxxon 8y ago
In a way yes, but isn't one of the "rules" that is has to be cached/re-served from Googles servers as well? That is a rather problematic one, especially wrt antitrust issues...
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by cyxxon 8y ago
O, definitely. Anecdote, but count me among these people. I had 4 or 5 iPhones, and 1 Android phone sometime in the middle (before my 6s). I am currently on the Xs, but if Apple keeps this pricing strategy I will not buy another iPhone agai
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by cyxxon 8y ago
I would argue that VR is the next step like this. Even taking an "old" title like Skyrim drives home that no matter how nice the renderer makes it look on a screen, it is still flat. With VR you are in the place. Does the raytraci
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by cyxxon 8y ago
One web annoyance I have recently discovered is moving the current tab. So far only one website I know uses it, but that is really annoying... when you click on specific links on that site, it suddenly moves the ative tab to the very right
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by cyxxon 8y ago
No, that was probably just crickets: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/acs1zv/the_sound... Thread includes sound samples.
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by cyxxon 8y ago
Indeed. I upgraded from a 6S, and was going to order a XR, when I finally, in the last minute, actually measured the dimentsions out in comparison to my current phone. Then I basically said WTF and waited for some deal on the XS and bought
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by cyxxon 8y ago
Just a quick comment: I use MiniKeePass on iOS. It is not that nicely intergrated etc., but you can at least keep using your files etc. You will have to manage the file on your "cloud server" though, two-way-sync is not there yet.
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by cyxxon 8y ago
In case you are not joking... in metric countries we still say the same sentences you say, with miles and inches. That doesn't mean we use the olde units to actually measure something...
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by cyxxon 8y ago
In Germany, almost no one buys cars new except for really wealthy people, car aficionados, or corporations. Most people buy used cars. That is also a reason why the German car makers have such a high end portfolio that doesn't make sen
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by cyxxon 8y ago
During my university years I orked as IT support. We always joked we could just steal computers off campus, nobody of the security team (or students) even looked at us twice when we took computers from offices and walked out with them...
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by cyxxon 8y ago
Also note that there actually is a team hard at work improving the console, so fixes will probably come. See the last two entries in this blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/tag/console/
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by cyxxon 8y ago
While probably true (not checking the real law right now), that list is weirdly misleading. For example it's not forbidden to drill on a sunday or tune your piano at night, you are simply not allowed to disturb other people too much at
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by cyxxon 8y ago
Yes, I do that too: last year I explicitely checked potential vacation hotels for "terrible and lacking entertainment" because I wanted a quiet hotel. Had a great stay in an adult-only hotel without any entertainment at all, exact
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by cyxxon 8y ago
I didn't know that was possible, so I used to do the same thing via IFTTT, that probably still works.
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by cyxxon 8y ago
> Nobody makes an electric commercial vehicles of the type electricians, plumbers etc. drive. Maybe not exactly a copy of that type of car, but because none of the big car companies wanted to build one DHL started their own electric car
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by cyxxon 8y ago
Also interesting: the laptop in the slides is a MacBook, not a laptop running Windows. It might look like a generic aluminium device, but see the window decorations...
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Sure, maybe they did the math, maybe they just couldn't be arsed. But whatever the real reason why they didn't take the job - someone else (DHL itself) actually did the correct math and is now actually a viable competitor fo
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by cyxxon 9y ago
This one [1] was linked on another blog in Germany on a discussion of the same topic, seems more like a Google Maps type application and is not as heavy to load (also misses some legend, but... well). [1] https://openinframap.org
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by cyxxon 9y ago
In Germany, It's the other way around - I'd love to continue using Google Play Music, but Spotify is included in the T-Mobile zero-rating, and GPM is not... :/
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Just as a single counterpoint: Spotify has Mixtape of the Week and two similar auto-generated playlists, and the songs in there are at best vaguely related to what I listen to on Spotify - I haven't found anything interesting in there.
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by cyxxon 9y ago
As another German native this is it, yes. I am not sure I saw it before in English, but it is a fairly common abbreviation, at least in chats (although I think my iPhone automatically replaces WE with Wochenende even though I never set it u
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Even the earplugs you can get for around 20 protect your hearing enough with their 12dB reduction, and there are models do not noticeably change the sound. Plus: most are simply transparent plastic and hardly noticeable at all. I wear some
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Counterpoint: as a German, I know that when a sign says 50kmh, everyone goes 60, and when it says 70, everyone goes 80, etc. If you go as fast as the sign says, you will most likely cause traffic.
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Thanks, that is one of my main gripes with most recommendation engines, and since you like metal, the examples really resonated with me. For me, it was Wardruna - an ambienty, folky acoustic group. Listeners often also like the "typica
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by cyxxon 9y ago
I just finished listening to his narration of Stephen King's The Dark Tower on Audible (the main books, 1-7), and was actually disappointed to find out that King himself has read the (optional?) 8th/4.5th book.
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by cyxxon 9y ago
That is a big question, sure. I did not mean to handwave that problem away. I do not wish unemployement on anyone. Still, the industry itself does not need to be saved just for the sake of saving the industry. In that particular interview o
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Some days ago I read an interview with one of the more important politicians in Germany's conservative party, where he complained about millenials not buying into consumerism as much, and also about his political opponents not protecti
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by cyxxon 9y ago
I also never get why these sites don't change gradually. I mean, Slashdot tried - their code was a mess, and it looked really old. But it took them ages to rewrite this, and they did it all in one go. Bam! Community was pissed. Why not
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by cyxxon 9y ago
How do you add sugar or corn syrup to pasta in the US? Shouldn't it basically be just wheat? Or do you mean the sauce you eat with the pasta? Honest question!
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by cyxxon 9y ago
Yeah, I actually hated when that went away. I had several RSS feeds on there, my inbox, my calendar... never found a good replacement. I used Netvives for a while, but it was somehow not the same (can't really put my finger on it, thou

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