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by outsidein 5y ago
It seems some people may prefer it the tesla way to get automatically charged with potentially astronomical prices on your credit card, see https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41826/tesla-owner-billed-over-...
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by outsidein 5y ago
In Germany, we use the same word „Steuern“ for both taxes and steering. The purpose of taxes in many cases is to change (steer) behavior, besides generating state income. Same can apply for customs, which are often intended more to protect
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by outsidein 5y ago
What is missing is a guide how to replace the bad pattern bey a good one. Add a function that the user can login, create his individual API key, and store in a a secure way on his client (e.g. any credential store)
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by outsidein 5y ago
The list of side income of elected members of the German parliament (2019) (German only) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Nebeneink%C3%BCnfte_...
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by outsidein 5y ago
It is a low temperature scandal, and goes into media whenever there is something news worthy. In Germany it is totally normal that former politicians switch sides and get high profile jobs in private corporations, often as influencers. Even
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by outsidein 5y ago
Interesting to read GIMP should add live adjustment layers from Photo. Using Affinity for 4 years I’m getting more and more to the point of dropping it completely. So many nice features in theory, put in practice the number of never-got-fix
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by outsidein 5y ago
This might apply for the use in a car having ICE. The electric motor itself could be optimized for efficiency, too. Efficiency adds range and indirectly reduces weight by smaller batteries. To rate the efficiency, we would need more data ab
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by outsidein 5y ago
There is one positive environmental aspect of high power electric motors if they are capable of recuperation: you can recuperate a larger portion of the kinetic energy which would be wasted otherwise as heat using breaks. This counts even f
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by outsidein 5y ago
Really? In Germany, 79 cities > 100000 In Ireland, 3 (including Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) My comment was not meant to express any valuation or disvaluation of Ireland. It’s focus is about differences in age structures, p
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by outsidein 5y ago
Sure. It is disconnected from power 99.9% of the time. I only fire it up when required. For convenience I used a dedicated external network print server (you know, the printer is centronics only, and centronics long ago vanished for thevsak
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by outsidein 5y ago
Or use 1 dice 1..6 and one dice 5..10 The result should be (excel syntax) mod(d1+d2;12)+1. You can adjust the lowest start number of dice 2 to control which result gets the highest probability
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by outsidein 5y ago
Why not simply take the dice result not literally, but as index to a mapping table there 2 or 12 is swapped with 7?
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by outsidein 5y ago
The HP Laserjet 2100 M (PCL and PostScript) is still running. Someone interested into the original PCL Language book which came with the printer?
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by outsidein 5y ago
Last year I finally ditched some spare i386 CPU and memory modules (sort of 1, 2, 4 MByte) after getting no response on eBay.
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by outsidein 5y ago
To add a fun story where Linux saved my live. Back in the 90‘ we had a Clipper / dBASE based DOS app used for capturing orders in a call center after TV commercials. In this case a prime TV show to generate donations. Full house with &
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by outsidein 5y ago
Remember the days back in 90‘ (Must have been 1994) when installing Slackware distribution on 486 DX from about 15 floppy disks to the internal HDD. Had running Linux as web proxy until about 2001. Interesting to see that what was quite no
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by outsidein 5y ago
Ireland has a younger population (age structure) compared to all other EU states. Vaccination priority was strictly based on age (oldest first). This decision is no suitable template for other countries with different age structure and vac
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by outsidein 5y ago
Maybe this? https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/11/15256008/3d-printed-titan...