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by rob74 2y ago
I suspect that when he's done working for it, there won't be a (functioning) government anymore, so yes.
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by rob74 2y ago
Depending on a local warlord to protect your independent privately owned city-state (in exchange for a healthy cut out of your profits, of course) doesn't sound like something that is likely to work long term. But at least one well kno
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, they do say it, however they use a lot more words to do it: > We were able to speak to a young woman who had been working in one of the scam centres a couple of weeks before our visit. She had not enjoyed it and been allowed to le
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by rob74 2y ago
Ah, ok, sorry, my bad - unfortunately I can't delete the comment anymore...
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by rob74 2y ago
Thanks (bookmarking)! However: We were able to build in a larger, handier interface, with additional keys and functionality, and build in the ability to tweet from the game. I wonder who at the BBC in 2024 thought a tight and (by the soun
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by rob74 2y ago
I guess potatoes would eventually disintegrate completely and just make the soup/stew a bit thicker. But yeah, soggy noodles sound unpleasant - but when the perpetual stew was actually in use hundreds of years ago (in Europe), noodles
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, if they prefer a black candidate to a white one, the white one can complain of being discriminated against and accuse them of promoting DEI, which under the new administration can have all sorts of bad consequences for them. So they&#
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by rob74 2y ago
According to other Wikipedia articles ( https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorex_lyelli ), almost half of that length is the tail, so that might explain it. Also, I assume most of the "bulk" you see in the photos is
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by rob74 2y ago
The budget for USAID was also appropriated by Congress, but they still decided to freeze everything "pending review" (instead of at least reviewing while initially leaving things running), and then locked out domestic employees an
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by rob74 2y ago
...and don't ask about the first version control tool I had the "pleasure" of using, M$'s Visual SourceSafe o_O
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by rob74 2y ago
No matter if he was actually arrested and for what, it might be important to mention that this is about the former justice minister ("Zbigniew Ziobro — who was justice minister from 2015 to 2023"), not the current one.
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by rob74 2y ago
Interesting that this is always a big topic when discussing VR, but never really mentioned in connection to "traditional" games. I guess more people get motion sickness from VR, but unfortunately the article doesn't contain n
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by rob74 2y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beholder_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons...
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by rob74 2y ago
Yeah, AirPods with cameras. Cameras sticking out of your ears. I can't help trying (and failing) to imagine how cool that would look...
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by rob74 2y ago
Yes, what's center right in the US is "far left" to the far right currently in power.
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by rob74 2y ago
What's most wild about this is that what's happening at the FBI, while plenty scandalous enough on its own, are mostly eclipsed by everything else that's going on - e.g. this editorial https://www.theguardian.com&#
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, the supreme representatives of the judicial branch have just last year given the executive (=Trump) a blank check to largely do anything it pleases ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_(2024) ). S
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by rob74 2y ago
Yes, (very) dry skin can also itch. In that case I would suggest moisturizing cream, scratching definitely won't make it go away...
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by rob74 2y ago
That's the reason why many prefer "batteries-included" languages that provide a standard implementation for all the basic stuff...
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by rob74 2y ago
> An often overlooked positive effect of macros is that the entire community can experiment with new language features. Sure, that sounds positive - but with enough macros, you can turn "your" version of the language into som
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by rob74 2y ago
As the article mentions, because Starship is being launched from Texas, it overflies inhabited areas. If it were launched from Cape Canaveral, it wouldn't - and debris falling into the ocean gathers much less attention than debris fall
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by rob74 2y ago
Neither is Elon. Sure, he's currently his best buddy, but there's no telling how long that will last. There are many intrigues at the court of King Donald...
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by rob74 2y ago
> Swift designed itself right away from what I was willing to put up with anymore. I swear I can't tell if this phrase is supposed to be positive or negative? Then again, I'm not a native speaker...
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by rob74 2y ago
> Also the Baumorgel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAV0i8fGFE Wow, that thing is really a work of art! Also, using bellows instead of a pump is a nice touch...
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by rob74 2y ago
The Air Florida crash had very little to do with the airport and a lot to do with the pilots who took off with dangerous amounts of ice/snow on the wings. Fortunately, de-icing procedures have also improved since then - in the 80s, it
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by rob74 2y ago
> more funding/staffing for ATC More funding? From an administration that is currently doing its best to get rid of as many federal employees as possible and has an extra "department" (led by you-know-who) dedicated to
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by rob74 2y ago
Good luck with that... currently we are failing to muster a global effort for tackling climate change, which is a much more pressing issue than an asteroid which may or may not hit us. I know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by rob74 2y ago
> The current goal is to be many years ahead of competition The problem with this is that one of their competitors (Tesla) now has very powerful friends in the government which are certainly not above using that power in their favor...
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by rob74 2y ago
When taking another look at the Wikipedia articles for the XB-1 and the Overture, I also noticed that both of them mention the fact that the XB-1 still uses the original trijet engine configuration planned for the Overture, which has howeve
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by rob74 2y ago
> Given that they can, they now need to build a larger one, which with more surface area will be more difficult than this one. Not only that, but the XB-1 uses "stock" engines, while for the full-scale Overture they want to d

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