hobbes78

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by hobbes78 4y ago
But it's not really Philips anymore... It's the same with some TVs with the Grundig brand, which is also very strong. It's just some Chinese factory licensing the brand name... Grundig went bankrupt a few years ago...
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by hobbes78 5y ago
Maybe this is a way to achieve that? "So, for the different apps to be interoperable, no encryption is allowed" Again, I would prefer the market to sort it out without interference from politicians.
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by hobbes78 5y ago
In elementary school I remember hearing the planets move in CIRCLES in THE SAME PLANE around the Sun. In an atom, electrons would also move around the nucleus like a mini-solar system. For seven and eight years old children, it's a fai
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by hobbes78 5y ago
One system based on semiconductors will eventually fail, as their failure rate follows the bathtub curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve As much as I call cryptocurrencies a cancer, I admit storing on Bitco
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by hobbes78 5y ago
In train accidents, usually the first compositions are the most badly hit. The train driver is the most susceptible to die. You're better assisted by a remote operator...
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by hobbes78 6y ago
a) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with AZ+Moderna+JJ+PB, then 1/4 of the population will be barely protected. b) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with Moderna+JJ+PB, then all the population will be prote
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by hobbes78 6y ago
Regarding the organic food, I wish it were that simple, but organic isn't better than conventional. It can still use pesticides, if they have a biological origin, and these are more aggressive than the synthetic ones. To feed the same
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by hobbes78 6y ago
There's a TV series watchable on-line about him. Only in Portuguese, though... https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/alves-dos-reis/
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by hobbes78 7y ago
In most of Europe, the company doesn't pay anything, so it isn't tough for it. Every worker contributes a percentage for the Social Security, so basically the cost gets diluted among all tax payers.
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by hobbes78 7y ago
I have the opposite experience! The image on the right is almost pixelated; the image on the left has almost perfect diagonal lines!
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by hobbes78 7y ago
> google will now have the DNS data It wont necessarily be Google... From what I understood from the article, if you're currently using OpenDNS, Cloudflare DNS, etc., after the change you'll still continue to use them, only the
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by hobbes78 7y ago
Not very well known? It was even the subject of a TV series some years ago! https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/alves-dos-reis/
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by hobbes78 7y ago
The amount of time I spent exploring it! What a rabbit whole to wonder into!
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by hobbes78 7y ago
Then I prefer the unexpected and incorrect behaviour of Windows, which freezes the offending application and continues to be responsive, allowing me to kill it if I wish to do so...
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by hobbes78 7y ago
In civil engineering, all construction contracts are usually based on FIDIC's Red Book. This way, everybody is used to a standard contract, from lawyers to judges, in whatever jurisdiction, nationally or internationally...
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by hobbes78 7y ago
Infineon not exactly... Intel's 5G chips were being developed by the former Infineon Wireless Solutions unit, which was bought by Intel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Mobile_Communications
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by hobbes78 8y ago
I see this will only shift the timings some offset. But many times it isn't enough e.g. if the video source is NTSC and the subtitle were meant for PAL. In this scenario I use Subtitle Workshop, which allows me to specify two (or more)
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by hobbes78 8y ago
Only five probes were launched with the ability to leave de Solar System, but the Voyagers are still the fastest ones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
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by hobbes78 8y ago
I believe this to be the biggest problem of nuclear power, not the risks of an accident. So while we have cheap energy today, the cost of containment will be paid throughout thousands of years. This doesn't make any sense from the econ
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by hobbes78 8y ago
Amazing that nobody has so far mentioned "Mission Impossible Rogue Nation"! There's a scene where Benji has to pass a corridor where people are identified by the way they walk!
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by hobbes78 8y ago
It's interesting that every single article about graphene shows a 3D model of a plane of molecules, but never a photo...
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by hobbes78 8y ago
Japanese videos still render correctly, at least the relevant parts...
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by hobbes78 9y ago
Although the country is nowadays irrelevant on the international arena, it's always a shame to see represented only four of the five then-big players of the colonization race, missing Portugal. It's like a game about space explora
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by hobbes78 9y ago
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
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by hobbes78 9y ago
This is a clear example of a culture clash. Funny in Brazil, unacceptable in the US. I'm from Europe (neutral point-of-view?) and I find it pretty funny... Nobody should have been fired.
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by hobbes78 9y ago
I still believe instant.io is better, as it's P2P and uses bittorrent underneath (actually, a web version of it)...
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by hobbes78 9y ago
Most civilised countries already have a < 1 growth rate, which means they'll have populations smaller and smaller as time goes by. So if you want to decrease the global population, you'll have to target essentially Africa. Just
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by hobbes78 10y ago
On "Octane score" you can see the vertical axis reads 0 at the top and 40000 at the bottom, so it seems it's always "lower is better" across the three graphs, which also means Safari is the fastest browser, if you c
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by hobbes78 10y ago
If it's any indication, you can read 113 km/h on the dashcam overlay. Besides, the Opel Corsa, at least for the few seconds before the crash, seems to roughly maintain the same distance from the Tesla, so it should be travelling a
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by hobbes78 10y ago
Even my cheap Android phone allows writing an email whilst watching a YouTube video: http://imgur.com/a/s9MpE It's a Galaxy A5 (2016) and it's a fraction of the price of a Galaxy S7 or iPhone 7...

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