ghusto

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by ghusto 3y ago
A data centre or (less likely) their own office. This was the way things were done not that long ago ;)
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by ghusto 3y ago
I know AWS isn't cool or sexy, but shit works.
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by ghusto 3y ago
I'm in the Netherlands too, and I can't understand this sentiment. You're the second commenter to say this. Explain?
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by ghusto 3y ago
> You do it only twice per year Your body has six months to get used to an hour difference, so it sets in nicely, for maximum impact 6 months later. > But how often do you stay late up because of an event or whatever Personally, not o
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by ghusto 3y ago
> "To spell it out why this conference generated fake women speakers," Orosz alleges, it was "because the organizer wants big names and it probably seemed like an easy way to address their diversity concerns. Incredibly la
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by ghusto 3y ago
I have a near foolproof solution for parental controls; it's called parenting, 1.0 If you don't have a close enough relationship with your children where they trust and communicate openly with you, no amount of technology is going
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by ghusto 3y ago
> According to [1], smoking is relatively uncommon in NL compared to most EU countries I don't know, must be regional differences like you say. I'm in the Randstad, though when I go on holiday down south I also experience it.
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by ghusto 3y ago
That is the balancing act I spoke of, yes ;)
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by ghusto 3y ago
This term "Islamophobia", I do not think it means what you think it means. This name-calling and marginalising is damaging. It causes people who may have been open to reasonable solutions to _the real issues of immigration and non
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by ghusto 3y ago
I automatically filtered it out precisely because I believe what the (interestingly downvoted to near white) parent says; it's closer to an entertainment source than a news source. They picked their audience, and the headlines are writ
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by ghusto 3y ago
Shame, though I'd watch that space because I think they're adding more languages.
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by ghusto 3y ago
> With Chrome I just need to make sure that the last focused Chrome window is from the right profile. There's a setting to always open a tab in the same container profile you click on them from. So as long as you open the page with
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Quite sinister I won't say it's not sinister, but surely it's not surprising? Every government with public health care is currently balancing the costs of treating smoking related illnesses with the amount of tax money t
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by ghusto 3y ago
The U.K. did a good job with this. The number of smokers there nowadays is way down from when I was a teen, thanks mainly to simple changes. The most effective of which is where you are allowed to smoke. Public spaces like cafe and restaura
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by ghusto 3y ago
They couldn't, and that's a good thing. There are plenty of companies running non-targeted ads that are doing just fine, and don't cost millions of dollars to run a year. Facebook wants scale at any cost, and that is unaccept
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by ghusto 3y ago
I don't really care about that, it's how ideas have spread through human history ;)
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by ghusto 3y ago
The other claims you make aside, what does "actively supporting a genocide" mean? I'm genuinely interested.
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by ghusto 3y ago
Yes, addons are shared, along with their configuration. Not an issue for me, since that's what I want, but I've heard others complain about that.
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Yes but that doesn't help for domains that I use for both profiles Why not? Since Google's multiple-account handling is awful, I use Container Tabs for keeping my accounts separate. In this case I'm asked if I want to us
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by ghusto 3y ago
Try Container Tabs instead, it solves that use-case in a much nicer way.
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by ghusto 3y ago
You don't need profiles in Firefox, there's a much better solution called Container Tabs. If you're using profiles to keep things like work and play separate, check it out and thank me later ;)
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by ghusto 3y ago
It's build into Firefox. If you're on a page not in your default language, a translate icon will appear in the URL bar. Click, done :)
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Starbucks is bad coffee anyway. It's better coffee than those places that want to make coffee the "proper way", but can't. I understand the "corporations-bad" source of the hate for Starbucks, but their co
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by ghusto 3y ago
That's very good :D Did you just make that up?
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by ghusto 3y ago
Here you go, 15 paragraphs in is the information you're looking for: > found that MEP facilitation, an indicator of increased brain plasticity, is more pronounced in non-caffeine users compared to their caffeine-consuming counterpar
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by ghusto 3y ago
I should have been explicit with the pluralisation I was referring to (emphasis mine): > passenger services were largely in the hands of state-owned _monopolies_
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by ghusto 3y ago
> Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? Sure, he mentioned it. He reserved the name in preparation for open sourcing some projects, but medical and personal issues delayed that happening for a while.
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by ghusto 3y ago
Now imagine not having the internet, and getting a few times a year. Everyone I spoke to thought I was insane (including doctors!), and I was beginning to think so myself. It tapered off and I hadn't had it for years when I accidentall
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by ghusto 3y ago
Is it though? For one thing it doesn't stop squatting, since all an actual squatter has to do is create a repo with some legit looking code. All this does is inconvenience people like the author who have legitimate reasons for not havi
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by ghusto 3y ago
They do indeed: monopoly | məˈnɒpəli | noun (plural monopolies) 1 the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service: the state's monopoly of radio and television broadcasting. • a company or group

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