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by rob74 2y ago
Canada may say "you're welcome", but does the US say "thanks"? Not under the current administration! Ok, they might care about the bald eagle, but other than that, Republican economic interests (real or imagined) wi
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by rob74 2y ago
Or otherwise said: Surrogate Pairs are used in UTF-16 (which uses two bytes per character, so it can encode up to 65536 characters) to encode Unicode characters that have code points that can't be encoded using just two bytes.
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by rob74 2y ago
> I’m sure it has been decades since it was last used, but I plugged it into the wall, cycled the on/off switch a few times and there it was—a bright, red 0. The calculator is now 45 years old, but it still works. Ah, so you could
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by rob74 2y ago
Er... that chart shows the UK GDP per capita about on par with France's (even slightly higher) until 2018, and from then on it has been consistently below France - not by a lot, but still noticeable...
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, the AfD wants Germany to withdraw from the EU, and the only reason why ruling right-wing populist parties in eastern Europe (e.g. Hungary) don't do it is because it's the hand that still feeds them money (despite them contin
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by rob74 2y ago
> Given that European countries and the EU except a few outliers runs on proportional representation it is way harder for the extreme right to win a majority. Harder, but it still happens. That's why Trump is a big fan of Viktor O
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by rob74 2y ago
And this is just one of many ways the US is currently shooting itself in the foot (or, if you prefer, cutting off its nose to spite its face). Thanks, Elon! Putin and Xi must be cheering... > Europe will gladly do take backsies on their
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by rob74 2y ago
Besides, depending on your location, touching a tree might also be more hygienic than touching grass (e.g. if you happen to be in an area used for dog-walking).
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by rob74 2y ago
You can (try to) consume 420 kg of Ketamine one day, but you surely won't be able to repeat it the next day...
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by rob74 2y ago
Let's take the other two branches that could theoretically stop the executive from doing what it does: - the legislative (Congress): both chambers have a Republican majority, and all Trump critics in the Republican party have long sinc
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by rob74 2y ago
From the FAQ: > “Cot” is pronounced similarly to a Polish word “kot”, which means “cat”. Cats are known for their agility and flexibility, and also this is where the logo comes from. Also, if I might add, the author's last name (M
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by rob74 2y ago
Looks like the author noticed and changed the title to "Direnv - and reinventing the wheel with envloader". Going by the TLD I initially thought that he's from Germany, but no, "de" are just the last two letters of
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by rob74 2y ago
That coin is not even in the top 10 of the worst things he did recently. My personal "worst of" is (in no particular order): - siding with Putin and scolding Ukraine for being attacked by Russia (although this follows a tried-and-
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by rob74 2y ago
Or, to put it in another way, the amplitude of the pork cycle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle ) is higher for software developers than for other jobs.
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, it'd better continue to be available, seeing that Amazon's devices don't support the Google Play store...
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by rob74 2y ago
Yeah, if we (even in other countries) weren't all personally affected by it, I couldn't stop laughing. The way things are, I'd rather go with Max Liebermann, who reportedly commented on the previous wave of fascism with the w
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by rob74 2y ago
Or, as JD Vance wrote, "Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power." ( https://x.com/JDVance/status/1888607143030391287 ). You really have to read it twice to understand ju
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by rob74 2y ago
> Way ahead of its time. MSX homebrew games like Mini Ghost, The Cure, Invasion of the Zombie Monsters, etc. really show what it can do. Too bad that at the time, TI actively discouraged third party developers from developing software
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by rob74 2y ago
That's another plus! If you ever get to the end of the fusion reactor's life (which is not very likely), it's literally end of life for you (and everyone else who might still be around) too, so no need to worry about decommis
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by rob74 2y ago
OTOH, the concept proposed by OP is already implemented and has been working reliably for billions of years with trillions of successful deployments, while this newfangled technology you are proposing still has to be demonstrated to work...
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by rob74 2y ago
Actually you don't want the transmission process to be 100% efficient. If you really captured all the fusion energy transmitted (or even just the small part of it reaching Earth), all sorts of people would complain, trust me! But fortu
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, it's a bit of both. Java is of course very influential, and because it uses a framework for web applications, many languages/communities started imitating that (Ruby/Rails, PHP/Laravel, JS/[Framework_of_the_da
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by rob74 2y ago
40 € includes one year of updates, if you want lifetime updates, you have to pay 200 €. Good old Total Commander, the all-time classic alternative file manager for Windows, costs 42 € + VAT with lifetime updates ( https://www.ghis
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by rob74 2y ago
Yeah, as long as the RF modulator and the antenna cable are properly shielded, you should be fine. I mean, back in the 80s almost everyone had a home computer or game console which used RF modulators (all FTC approved of course) to connect
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by rob74 2y ago
... and the article doesn't even mention the concept of +/- infinity and the fun things you can do with that!
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by rob74 2y ago
With analog TV gone almost everywhere ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition#... ), you sadly won't be able to use its coolest feature anymore...
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by rob74 2y ago
The standard time for evacuating an aircraft that has to be demonstrated for certification purposes is 90 seconds with only half of the exits usable. It generally helps that the fire is (at least initially) outside the cabin most of the tim
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by rob74 2y ago
... after they've completed all their checklists and are ready for takeoff, of course.
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by rob74 2y ago
Many airplanes (not sure about the CRJ) also have a center wing tank, which is directly under the fuselage, so would be kinda hard to separate cleanly. Also, explosive bolts might start a fire that wouldn't have started without the bol
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by rob74 2y ago
Trump intended to stay in power although he lost the election. As long as we agree on that, I don't see how you could not call it a coup. It only failed because there still were some people with a backbone around, among them Mike Pence

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