fogihujy

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by fogihujy 6y ago
Yeah, 1) seems to be much more cost effective. Building the equipment on off-the-shelf hardware and software could potentially reduce the costs quite a lot, and there's no reason all the stuff around the lander shouldn't be able t
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Well, the general idea seems usable enough; X time units from a specific reference point. Conversion is then done to whatever local time-keeping system you might have. Leap seconds are based on conditions here on Earth and wouldn't rea
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by fogihujy 6y ago
This applies to most of the Nordics as well; once you get outside city limits getting around becomes quite difficult unless you have a car. Once you get further out, it's simply not possible. Many areas simply lack access to public tra
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by fogihujy 6y ago
I suddenly feel like it's a good idea to print everything and store it safely. Just in case someone survives.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Not really. It's not like gambling and friends in high places are the only options when it comes to laundering. All you need is something that allows you to funnel small and untraceable revenue streams, while spending as few money as p
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by fogihujy 6y ago
They don't really have to be common. All you need is a single machine and a disgruntled employee looking the other way. The most blatantly example I've seen was in Copenhagen, where small gambling dens with slot machines are prett
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Or just use slot machines like everyone else.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
It's not too different from the real thing. It's one of those "don't try this at home" things. :D
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by fogihujy 6y ago
It looks more like being an attempt at getting a slice of the second-hand market and not to kill it.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
The irony in it all is that there are businesses specializing in new furniture that looks old and worn because people like the look. But nobody seems to be interested re-using an existing piece of furniture.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
> Have you thought about the consequences if everyone bought furniture like that? There's a reason why solid wood furniture is more expensive, it's a LOT more resource intensive and wasteful during manufacturing. Imagine if eve
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by fogihujy 6y ago
`AllowTcpForwarding No` There are ways around it, of course, but it prevents the scenario described above.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
I don't think the point is to create new giants, but rather to coordinate smaller players' efforts against the old giants. Obviously, there would have to be innovation taking place for that to happen, but it doesn't seem to b
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Please don't compare anti-consumer behaviour of US mega-corporations with the atrocities that intelligence services behind the Iron Curtain committed on their own peoples. It's simply not in the same ballpark.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
> A second wave is starting in Sweden. This. For all the debate about the Swedish approach, Sweden isn't really any better -- or worse -- off than comparable countries. The one thing that could improve the situation is social distan
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Not going outside a 5 km radius from home would barely allow me to visit the neighbours. I can imagine the situation is similar for quite a lot of people Down Under. On the plus side, we were doing social distancing before it was cool.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
It does happen; I've met a few older Swedes that used actual butter, but nowadays most people seem to be eating Lätta or Bregott. The situation's the same here in Finland -- butter on bread is mostly an old people thing and most p
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by fogihujy 6y ago
I'd say the more user-friendly Linux distros like Mint actually beat Windows installation experience; Windows has lagged behind recently, and there's little incentive to improve it since it's pre-installed anyway.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
If you want to go down the rabbit hole, you need to ask who gets paid for the clean-up instead of who gets to pay. But yeah -- it does indeed seem far-fetched.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
I would _love_ to ditch Windows, but it's simply not possible to use the Linux-equivalents everywhere. Client requirements and all that.
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by fogihujy 6y ago
It's possible. The combination shrooms/weed definitely turned me around on the spot, and while I can't say if the trips changed me, or if I just learned more about myself, or if I just got lucky, but the result was clear; I w
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by fogihujy 6y ago
In the old days, the number of available channels for mass-distribution of opinions was low, and people were in general restricted to face-to-face communication with a crowd, or possibly calling a radio show or sending a letter to a newspap
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by fogihujy 6y ago
Yep, older printers are the best bet. I have an old laser that simply just works (it's connected with a parallell cable, though). Consumables are readily available, and many, many older printers support ESC/P and works with any op
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by fogihujy 6y ago
That is often the case, yes, but every now and then one finds a gem that is still worth playing. I have an entire emulator setup solely for playing Sub Trade: Return to Irata. :D
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by fogihujy 6y ago
It's pretty much the same as with other pop-sci stuff that is being shoveled down the throat of people who still watch regular TV; sensationalized bullshit in most cases. We know there's something out there; it's occasionally
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by fogihujy 6y ago
There is definitely something to be said about the quality of pictures taken in photo booths, but the study specifically used pictures that were all of sufficiently high quality: > Photos of politicians were collected from parliaments ar
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by fogihujy 6y ago
But... why would you not just set the correct collation?
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by fogihujy 6y ago
I keep ending up with USB3 equipment connected through a USB2 port because it won't work in USB3 ports. It's not often, but common enough to be annoying. An interesting question is if the USB2/micro-USB connector era was peak
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by fogihujy 6y ago
And chickens!
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by fogihujy 6y ago
How common are moves like that, really? Sure, it must happen since people keep bringing it up, but how many businesses actually avoid rewarding individual contributions that have had a measurable, positive impact?

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