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by majewsky 3y ago
By default, it's even right next to what's playing now. It's only below when you're in theater mode.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Enshittification is entrenching your monopoly position as a platform or marketmaker in order to claw back all profits for yourself. Neither part of the definition applies: Firefox is not a platform dominating any market (they neither have t
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by majewsky 3y ago
Can someone copy-paste the text, please? I cannot read it because Google hates Firefox users apparently. EDIT: The Internet Archive has a functional copy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230810094255/groups.google.co
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by majewsky 3y ago
> I don’t know whether or not its possible to “microdose” on a recreational amount of heroin Heroin was for some time used as a cough medicine. Does that qualify?
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by majewsky 3y ago
Tangential question from a German: You said "when my lease is up". What does this mean? The way I know it is, if you want to move to a different apartment, you just cancel your current lease. There's a period of notice, usual
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by majewsky 3y ago
> There are per-employee overheads (training comes to mind, probably tax & conditions law too). The more significant overhead is internal communication. Recently, after coming back from a week-long vacation, I spent an entire day cat
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by majewsky 3y ago
For rice cooking, the following works well for me. Add to a pot 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water, 1 pinch of salt. Turn on the stove and let it cook with lid on until the water is gone (i.e. soaked into the rice). If I understand correctly, t
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by majewsky 3y ago
> We used to have a system where parcels are brought to your towns post office by train, you get to the post office by feet. Fixed that for you.
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by majewsky 3y ago
> Emergency vehicles need a grid of arteries with two lanes in each direction so cars can pull over in normal traffic conditions to let them through. I've seen emergency vehicles handle two-lane roads (i.e. one lane per direction) w
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by majewsky 3y ago
Sort of, yeah. When GP says "it's almost impossible to measure", that does not mean that upper management does not in fact have some sort of metric that says "productivity" on the label. But what they're measur
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by majewsky 3y ago
Oh, so that is why my own no-rules typing method is working so well! I never made that connection.
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by majewsky 3y ago
I am a BC100 owner. Work pays for it in lieu of a company car, so I only have to pay taxes on it, which comes out to about 160 euros per month. Like you say, I'm in the "it doesn't pay for itself" camp, but like the thre
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by majewsky 3y ago
I would like to continue moving the goalposts and rebrand this particular type of "Linux enthusiast" to "douchebag". Signed, a Linux enthusiast.
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> but prices also fall in Country A to make up for the fall in lost wages I feel like the problem is that this part is usually skipped over.
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by majewsky 3y ago
That's like asking what Microsoft does. SAP has lots of different products, many from acquisitions, but the core product (what people think of when they say "SAP", although it's actually called S/4 HANA) is an ERP s
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by majewsky 3y ago
> I prefer a static height desk and a padded piano bench to sit on. I have a similar setup, though with a height-adjustable desk. Instead of a piano bench, I got a simple stool from Ikea [1], which apparently they classify as "stand
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by majewsky 3y ago
Do you have any experience using Wiktionary, and if so, where does it fall on your spectrum? I personally use Wiktionary a lot because it seems adequate from what I tell and it covers all the multiple languages that I'm interested in.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Most uses of LLMs for development that I've seen are for writing code , when the majority of dev time is spent reading code . What offerings exist to read through an existing codebase and ask questions of it? Do contemporary LLMs hav
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by majewsky 3y ago
> They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings. From experience, many people can truly not tell the difference.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Wow, this gas leak looks really bad. Let's hope my sore throat gets better quickly so I can call for help about this.
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by majewsky 3y ago
> Most reasonable people agree accommodations for the disabled are both smart from a business perspective, and kind to patrons in general. If that were true, then given the evidence presented in the post and in this thread, the corollary
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by majewsky 3y ago
Your argument appears incomplete. Either there is some method of obtaining "a true expression of public views in the wide", in which case: What is it? Or there is no such method, in which case: Why do you specifically advise to dr
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by majewsky 3y ago
They were suggesting that this is a question that is going to be on people's minds, which is very different from suggesting that the answer is yes.
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by majewsky 3y ago
How about "the app formerly known as Twitter", to make the acronym read nicely? I think I'm indeed going to start calling it TAFKAT. :)
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by majewsky 3y ago
I'm German. Here's a better translation: "A sentence with X: That evidently didn't work." The "sentence with X" part hinges on the alternative spelling of "nichts" (nothing) as "nix".
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by majewsky 3y ago
Fun fact: A subset of the linguistic community conjectures that Japanese and Korean are part of the same family as the Turkic languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages
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by majewsky 3y ago
How is being the market leader by a wide margin anything else than "very high market share"?
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by majewsky 3y ago
In my work Outlook, it's similar to what GP says. There is only "New Meeting" (not "New Teams Meeting") and the message starts out with a Teams link, and then I actively have to opt out of that with an extra button
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by majewsky 3y ago
Link to the actual Fira Mono homepage: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
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by majewsky 3y ago
This sounds like a really good idea... if you want to hide subtle backdoors in innocuous-looking code.

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