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by fy20 4y ago
Last year, one of the district heating pipes in my fairly new apartment block (7 years old) start leaking where it enters the building. Once discovered someone from the heating company came to turn off our supply, and then the next day they
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by fy20 4y ago
I don't really feel the times you refer to in the first paragraph were very good for the people living this. You forgot to mention that this was only really a thing for the lowest classes of blue collar workers. Think people working in
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by fy20 4y ago
I do a type of meditation, which I guess could be considered mindfulness meditation - based on how broad that term is. The difference of ours compared to a lot of other types of meditation in the West is that when you are meditating, you do
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by fy20 4y ago
'Footie' is often used in the UK to refer to foo^H^H^Hsoccer.
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by fy20 4y ago
Same here. I had both Microsoft Sculpt (black, proprietary dongle) and Surface Sculpt (grey, Bluetooth) and ended up replacing them because of wireless issues. Currently using a ERGO K860. The Surface Sculpt uses Bluetooth and in my office
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by fy20 4y ago
Being able to specify the limit, either selecting from a few defaults (€40, €60, €80, €100) or entering a custom amount is pretty standard when paying at the pump in Europe. I wonder why that's not the case in the US.
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by fy20 4y ago
Fun fact: Both NordVPN and SurfShark are run by the same company. It's now out in the open and they have merged (earlier this year), but even from the start there were very close ties. The parent company of NordVPN provided consulting
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by fy20 4y ago
TIL... I just thought "woke" was this generations "cool" or "awesome" and was feeling old.
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by fy20 4y ago
This is how it is in other Gulf countries (if you are not causing anyone to complain it's basically ignored) and honestly I don't see why Western countries are so tolerant. If you are a taxi driver in the US taking drunk people ho
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by fy20 4y ago
I think a better question is "why would you want to?", and for EU based developers I don't really see the point. I'm from the UK, but now live in post-Soviet EU country. Ten years or even five years ago it was seen as a
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by fy20 4y ago
Ryanair is really no different to any other short haul flight where you are flying economy in Europe. You'll get the same service (i.e. being expected to pay for any extras: a specific seat, baggage above the bare minimum, food & d
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by fy20 4y ago
That's like asking why there is a car doing 60mph on the highway when everyone else is doing 75mph. If they are driving a VW, would you assume that means VW makes slow cars?
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by fy20 4y ago
Contrary to what YouTube will make you believe, you don't actually need any power tools to take up wood working as a hobby. You can do everything with hand tools, it will just take longer and often needs more skills. My father was a pr
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by fy20 4y ago
You can connect a 1000W inverter to a Prius and it'll happily run for days until the tank is empty. You probably aren't going to see those at a job site though. https://invertersrus.com/prius-power-inverter/
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by fy20 4y ago
In my country you typically refer to someone by their first name informally, or first and last formally. Newspaper articles often abbreviate the first name, e.g. J. Doe. The only time I see titles used is when someone is a medical doctor, o
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by fy20 4y ago
CEE 7/7 plugs will fit into all sockets in the EU, except Italy (where they can be bent slightly to fit), Malta and Ireland. The only issue is grounding, but things like phone chargers wouldn't be grounded anyway.
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by fy20 4y ago
> Been coding 60+ hours per week for the last 9 years, usually do programming on both weekends. I did the same until I had kids. Now it's rare for me to even touch a computer at the weekend. My side projects never took off, but they
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by fy20 4y ago
In my city there's a few service centres for banks, and the interview process for engineers seems to be "can you spell Python?". I'm sure there are good people there, but there's so many bad people, that having the
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by fy20 4y ago
> I didn't want to be indebted always to food delivery I'd also suggest to actually calculate how much food delivery costs. I live in a relatively cheap European country, but even here getting two good meals delivered (i.e. not
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by fy20 4y ago
That's how it feels in my country at least. We had 21 cases today, compared to a few thousand this time last year. Masks and restrictions were one of the strictest in Europe, and it's all gone now.
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by fy20 4y ago
I really have a thing for transport simulation games. When I was young I played a lot of Transport Tycoon, but it was a bit too heavy on trains. You could just use trains everywhere and be done with it. Also it's nearly 30 years old, I
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by fy20 4y ago
"Highly priced" should be taken in context, for a retired person who has no other income it's worth to go to the effort of selling them on eBay or the like. For the type of crowd on HN who probably have relatively well paying
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by fy20 4y ago
I'd check if they can be donated first, rather than leaving that burden for your next of kin. The phrase also works the other way around: One man's treasure is another man's junk. When we had to clear out the apartment of MiL
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by fy20 4y ago
Now COVID is over I was planning to slowly travel to a few different countries around Europe this summer, and work while I'm there. Internet in certain countries ( cough Italy cough ) is spotty at best, even when you are in big citie
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by fy20 4y ago
In the summer you'll want the surrounding ground to take away the heat, but in the winter that will be too cold, so you'll need to heat your home. There will be some (well quite a lot actually, as you don't have any insulatio
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by fy20 4y ago
The tricky part is these houses are probably already small to begin with. In the village I grew up in, there were old houses with ceilings where I (1.80m) couldn't stand up straight.
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by fy20 4y ago
One thing a lot of white hat wannabees don't seem to understand, is that for some vulnerabilities it's not worth the risk of reporting them. There was an article here a few months ago about someone who found a vulnerability with a
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by fy20 4y ago
The launch vehicle of the Voyager probes could carry 15,000kg to LEO, the Falcon Heavy can carry 63,000kg. If we really wanted to send something out as fast as possible, we could do it much faster than this.
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by fy20 4y ago
In Northern Europe the way new houses are built today is a masonry structure and then that's wrapped with rigid foam insulation on the outside (also under the floor and roof, but wrapping the walls is the bulk of it). My city is in the
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by fy20 4y ago
Same with me. I watched the first seasons of Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix, but this year their contract ended. There is no service available in my country where I can legally watch it. On the other hand nobody cares about torrents here,

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