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by gommm 2y ago
Fair point but I'd argue that self defense and knowing how to fight helps but I was a year younger than everyone else (skipped a grade) and was fairly small for my age until I hit a growth spurt (which coincided with when I changed sch
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by gommm 2y ago
I had a strong sense of identity, I had good results, a good family life, my parents had my back, etc.. That didn't stop me from being bullied or pissed on while being held down by fucking assholes. So, I'd say, you either don&#x2
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by gommm 2y ago
I also guarantee you that a teen who is not in the loop is much more likely to be ostracized and bullied in the offline world. So, yes you might try teaching your kid that they're not missing out that they can find more meaningful way
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by gommm 2y ago
I'm logged in and the link doesn't work. So, thanks for the screengrab! I'm always a bit annoyed by people cleaning comments like this to move it to chat when stack exchange chat is so bad and somehow always has messed up tim
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by gommm 3y ago
First paragraph > Today, CFEngine is widely known as the configuration management tool that was replaced by Puppet, Chef, and then Ansible.
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by gommm 3y ago
That brings back memories... I always wondered where they disappeared to.
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by gommm 3y ago
My phone (a samsung s21 ultra) was snatched from my hand while I was using it to check google maps in Barcelona. I tried to remote wipe it 5 minutes later at my hotel but it had already been disconnected. So the thief was very quick at remo
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by gommm 3y ago
Yup, lived in Japan before moving here and definitely matches my experience :) The one other store besides Nitori and Ikea was Muji. I bought a few furniture from them which was decent. Definitely more adapted to the Japanese market in term
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by gommm 3y ago
It also depends on the region. Here in HK, Ikea is very expensive (about double the price I used to see in France), to the point where it's cheaper to get a wardrobe custom made in good quality plywood exactly according to our dimensio
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by gommm 4y ago
Can you elaborate on getting planted with drugs by a deranged cop? what happened? How did you get out of that situation? Were you able to prove your innocence?
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by gommm 4y ago
Thanks for this, easy to remember :)
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by gommm 4y ago
That's Profession by Asimov Great novella (which I discovered on HN many years ago :)) https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
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by gommm 4y ago
I assume he does but he wanted to simulate how a random person who doesn't know his friend could get access to her data.
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by gommm 4y ago
Yup, same here :(
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by gommm 4y ago
The rise of professional airbnb renters have also lowered the quality quite a bit. When a lot of listing were for apartments that the renter used for themselves part of the year and rented on airbnb when they weren't there, you could b
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by gommm 4y ago
Airbnb reviews are well known to be unreliable because negative reviews tend to be deleted for not providing enough details, not being factual etc...
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by gommm 4y ago
That makes sense for cards but if most of the payments are SEPA transfers, then it doesn't make that much sense since there's no chargebacks for SEPA transfers. Maybe the issue is a fraud system designed for cards that's not
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by gommm 4y ago
What differentiates the older Star Treks from the shows that have come out in the last 20 years is the optimism. Instead of a depressing vision of the future, Star Trek dared to show a better future. Instead of only having conflicts drive t
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by gommm 4y ago
I agree, it's not for the average user. I'm happy to root my android (mostly because android backups really suck otherwise) but would definitely not recommend it to most people. I think it took me an average of 2 hours every 6 mon
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by gommm 4y ago
Am I the only one who is very tempted to try it? It looks delicious. Then again, I used to go to a small yunan restaurant in Shanghai that served fried bees which was a great appetizer with beer.
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by gommm 4y ago
I disagree, I have a harder time paying attention to people speaking than reading. Reading is faster, much faster than waiting for people finish a sentence. Then again, maybe you're right, I don't process auditory language and whe
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by gommm 4y ago
> [23] Mr. Ginther responded the same day, directing Ms. Jenkins to “pay the balance on our visa (less the $7500 deposit)”. He added: “Will let you know on the cedar when we make a decision.” That email clearly expressed that he did not
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by gommm 4y ago
Actually, this thread has prompted me to find some time to rewatch it but I remember finding the plot meandering and slightly non-sensical unlike Chihiro's or Mononoke. I thought it was beautiful (like most Ghibli's movies) but it
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by gommm 4y ago
Yeah, another decent alternative I've seen was a test with a few multiple choice questions where each question needed quite a bit of reasoning and where you had to give the reasoning to get the points. The multiple choice question was
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by gommm 4y ago
Exactly, I strongly believe that any test at a secondary education level should be open book. We should be testing for reasoning and capacity to apply knowledge not rote-learning. It's also why I believe that in most cases multiple cho
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by gommm 4y ago
Absolutely, Only yesterday shows the nostalgia for one's childhood in a way few movies do. My Neighbors the Yamadas is also really worth watching
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by gommm 4y ago
it's certainly better in term of storytelling than some of the worst Ghibli's like Howl's moving castle, Tales from Earthsea (to be fair Hayao wasn't involved with the second). In general, I'd place it in the middl
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by gommm 4y ago
I think that animal abuse is not the same thing as littering but that the type of people who litter are also the same type on irresponsible people who will think that leaving a rabbit to fend for themselves is no big deal. Either they are c
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by gommm 4y ago
It's more convenient to send an ebook via calibre to my kindle than to my kobo. I configured send to email on calibre, so it's just one click to send via calibre. On the other hand, I love the pocket integration on kobo whenever I
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by gommm 4y ago
I've never seen a bank accepting more than a single device with an active instance of their app.. I would be over the moon if they did but they don't. So, last time I broke my phone, it took quite a while to get access to my bank

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