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by odiroot 4y ago
I vaguely remember Maemo on Nokia N900 used Prolog to manage the sound system (notifications, priorities etc).
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by odiroot 5y ago
Singapore works because congestion charges are high.
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by odiroot 5y ago
Bingo! I didn't want to name them, to give them free publicity.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I don't really understand the wooden poles. I thought it's a relict of the past but then again, I saw a new wooden pole being erected a few weeks ago, it had the junction box on top, I guess ready to provide the final legs to hous
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by odiroot 5y ago
Southern England is also doing quite well, with multiple competing FTTx operators. But it highly depends where you live (dense centre vs residential districts).
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by odiroot 5y ago
I currently live in England, in a (city) area, where it's pretty much impossible to get ADSL. Openreach doesn't go that far. I assume it used to be a TPON zone. Fortunately, there's a new separate, private operator FTTC netwo
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by odiroot 5y ago
Pebble Time is still my favourite smart watch ever. And mine is working without problems 7 years now. The battery life went down from ~10 days to 5-6 but still much better than any other I tried using. Built-in compass, always-on display an
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by odiroot 5y ago
> I was flying my kite for kite aerial photography and a chinese ((or taiwanese) or japanese) tourist noted my blackened teeth an told that green tea does not color. And it worked ok. I think black (red) tea is very much worth it. I jus
519.
by odiroot 5y ago
> Try the fact that the middle class has been gutted by an unfair tax structure > Our tax structure is insanely out of balance. That's the number one core problem in the United States. This is actually even worse in many places i
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by odiroot 5y ago
That must be great for productivity!
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by odiroot 5y ago
There's never a need to use anything else than Celsius, in Europe. Ok, we do learn Kelvin in school but you wouldn't really use it in a normal conversation.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I pretty much only get southern California and southern Florida with my ideal range. I wish this website supported Europe and Asia.
523.
by odiroot 5y ago
What have you switched to?
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by odiroot 5y ago
Rubber hose cryptanalysis in action.
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by odiroot 5y ago
The democratic world.
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by odiroot 5y ago
It seems to me (a Pole) this language is much biased towards South Slavic languages. Possibly also towards East Slavic. It's not very similar to Polish.
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by odiroot 5y ago
My name is so rare, in my own country, I only get two small spots. And I don't live (or haven't lived) in any of them.
528.
by odiroot 5y ago
I've been happily using Namecheap for years. Now you really impressed me.
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by odiroot 5y ago
> Chechnya war also was very close and nobody cared since they were mostly Islamic Maybe USA didn't care. I remember, as a child, my Polish parents being glued to the TV, watching the situation unfold in Chechnya. As far as I know,
530.
by odiroot 5y ago
This is already a thing on KDE Plasma.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I'd recommend people to read Matt Ridley's book before trusting these "studies". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58647975-viral
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by odiroot 5y ago
I've been using Excalibur/Camelot in production. It has been great (considering how non-standard PDF tables are). You just cannot approach it in a fire-and-forget way. It has two modes of operation and various PDF "styles&quo
533.
by odiroot 5y ago
There's always Telegram. People share channels with friends and family.
534.
by odiroot 5y ago
Still better than letting them stay and show how weak the western liberal democracies are.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I stand corrected then!
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by odiroot 5y ago
> EU and US will use every diplomatic and financial weapon against Russia [Citation needed] The softening of sanctions has arrived already.
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by odiroot 5y ago
Such a lightweight tool at that! Barely any JS loaded.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I don't know which community is toxic and wouldn't even risk using such strong term. Still, I have to say, it's really weird to see (last few months) everything being rewritten into Rust, just for the sake of pride(?). Haven&
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by odiroot 5y ago
I guess the difference is, there was still a lot of substance behind Jobs. And delivering (mostly) good products. Now we're dealing with Elizabeth Holmes et al, who just cargo cult off Jobs' legend.
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by odiroot 5y ago
I'm very careful not to break mine, for the same reason :)

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