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by lb1lf 3y ago
Not necessarily; I find it doubtful a person can stay alert and ready to take the wheel at a moment's notice after the car has minded its own business for however long. Hence, either /you/ drive, or /the car/ drives
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by lb1lf 3y ago
Toyota is first and foremost a manufacturing company; they go to absurd lengths to ensure their supply chain is as robust as can be and that the product they deliver is reliable. It just happens to be cars. (And forklifts. And probably lot
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by lb1lf 3y ago
>> (Do you think we can offer up Morrissey's soul in exchange for bringing Andy back?) -What would the market value of Morrissey's soul be? Heck, even Satan rejected it! This was very sad news indeed, The Smiths bas
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by lb1lf 3y ago
Surely there must be a law against this? You buy a product capable of using any toner, then the manufacturer disables this feature without your consent to push their own margins up?
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by lb1lf 3y ago
A former colleague of mine, born and raised in the USSR, liked to quip that there was only one minor difference in the way freedom of expression was implemented in the USSR and in the West. Both places guaranteed the freedom to express ones
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by lb1lf 3y ago
While everybody in Norway (including the citizens of Bergen) like to quip about the Bergen downpour, it really isn't that bad. Annual precipitation is approx. 2,500mm, distributed over some 230 days. The wettest place in Norway, on ave
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by lb1lf 3y ago
-This would be an escape tunnel for the Bybanen, a light railway more comparable to the S-Bahn than a tram as such.
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by lb1lf 3y ago
Dark was terrific. Time travels and parallel worlds. Deutschland '83 (in particular) but also '86 and '89 were quite decent - about a young German becoming a Stasi superagent of sorts. Oh, and while you're at it, get Das
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by lb1lf 3y ago
The Finns did the same thing on a grand scale - out in the boonies, there are many stretches of main road where they suddenly go straight and go wider, to be suitable for use as ad-hoc airstrips in case the Russians came knocking. Brilliant
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by lb1lf 3y ago
They've got a ceremony for that! https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/
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by lb1lf 3y ago
>> One day, Linus accidentally attempted to use his hard drive to dial the university, resulting in his master boot sector starting with "ATDT" and the university modem-pool phone number. After recovering from this, he
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by lb1lf 3y ago
>> Homesteading is a dream of mine, but I may be too rooted in the comforts of working in tech for it. Maybe if I win the startup lottery. -I guess that depends on how you define homesteading; I quite enjoy myself living on a farm wit
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by lb1lf 3y ago
> You work for Aker/Kvaerner, by chance? :) Oh, heavens, no! I used to work for Rolls-Royce Marine, but have since jumped ship (or walked the plank!) and now work for a smaller, independent company manufacturing all sorts of offshor
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by lb1lf 3y ago
Oh, it is no secret, I believe everyone lives well with this approach - it is a tacit understanding, I think. Customers work hard to bring initial cost down as far as possible, even bringing up in contract negotiations that 'Hell, you&
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by lb1lf 3y ago
I considered bringing up that point, but figured it was implied by the post - believe me, no small-time farmer makes anywhere near $149/hour, I doubt it would even be $14.90/hr - so effectively, you can assume your work to be wort
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by lb1lf 3y ago
While that is true for most smaller farms - there simply is no way a small farm can afford the capital expenditure of someone who could be working day-to-day spending years in study, it still holds true that farmers by necessity are excelle
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by lb1lf 3y ago
-This is very much my (anecdotal, but from several companies in the subsea business, ranging from huge multinationals to small fry almost mom-and-pop shops) experience, too: Service work is basically seen as a licence to print money. Contra
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by lb1lf 4y ago
The problem, cynically speaking, is that you're not the customer. Their revenue is ad-based, so you're the product.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This. I lived way up north a few years ago - near 70N - and the winters were a breeze. What wore me down was the summers - you could work into the evening and still have plenty daylight left to socialise outdoors after work. If you weren&#x
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Oooh, favourites, let's see... 9K2ZZ, Bob, in Kuwait City, methinks. To my untrained ear, he sounded like a Texan expat and he was always 20dB over S9 when I heard him on the bands c.2000. Always kept the QSO rate up - a typical exchan
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by lb1lf 4y ago
Incidentally, I just took a break from getting my QSL duties up to date - only to find this article on everybody's favourite procrastination site. Oh well. Some 50-ish cards to go.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
There's an awful lot of room on a cargo ship. They don't care too much about size. They only care about total cost of ownership. Edit: ninja'd!
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by lb1lf 4y ago
In Norway, the authorities had a problem with our SSN equivalent a few years ago - for decades, it had been SOP to assign any immigrant with unknown birth date the birth date January 1st. Eventually, they ran out of valid SSNs for Jan 1st b
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by lb1lf 4y ago
This is an important point; rather than just serving as a supplier of the raw resource, local industry has developed lots of equipment which is used within the oil&gas sector worldwide, ensuring we have something to fall back on when we
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by lb1lf 4y ago
>> Even better: let the IRS prepare your taxes for you. Accept their filing or file your own (optional) return. That's the way it has been done in Norway (and probably a host of other countries) in later years. I received my tax
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I am using a Panasonic unit a little south of the Arctic circle. Even at -20C outside it works fine.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I believe Antarctica are also behind the Amargo (bitter) tonic-like soft drink - a favourite whenever I am in Brazil (along with Guarana, of course!)
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by lb1lf 4y ago
The same holds true for the Texas Leica, the Fujica G690.
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by lb1lf 4y ago
I went hybrid a long time ago and haven't looked back since, though YMMV - I develop B&W film in Paterson tanks and a light proof changing bag, reducing my darkroom setup time to seconds. I then scan the negatives. Once every blue
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by lb1lf 4y ago
My parents, living in rural Norway, received a postcard simply addressed to their first names, Norway. It turned out they were the only couple with that exact combination of first names, and someone at the Norwegian Post were bored enough t

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