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by rypskar 6y ago
You might not expect them, but the Spanish Inquisition did also have witch trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Witchcraft... . And if you see witch trails as a way to get ride of and blame someone y
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by rypskar 6y ago
2004 is a long time ago. I don't remember threading discussed any place when I started learning game development on a hobby and university level at that time. Probably because multiple cores wasn't a thing, so threading mostly wou
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by rypskar 6y ago
It is incredible what some used to do, I once used a day or two trying to document an old logical system that was using 20-30 relays and contactors by tracing the wires. Did end with giving up and had it rewritten in PLS-code. The old syste
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by rypskar 6y ago
This brings back memories. The first "programming" I was exposed to at school was using pneumatic. I remember one task was to construct a system to act like the doors on a buss, where one button is used to both open and close the
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by rypskar 6y ago
Might be a language thing, but Europe the continent is the only definition of Europe I know about
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by rypskar 6y ago
Where are all the ads in Windows? I have Windows on most my computers and Ubuntu on one. The only place I see ads are in Ubuntu when connecting through ssh. Right now there are ads for MicroK8s and Canonical Livepatch.
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by rypskar 6y ago
I find ETS to be relaxing, I like long drives in real life to. I let my mind wonder while looking at the landscape and listening to music.
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by rypskar 6y ago
There are even new games that reminds me of ports of call, like https://store.steampowered.com/app/501080/Fishing_Barents_Se... and https://store.steampowered.com/app/227300/Euro_Truck_Si
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by rypskar 6y ago
That is probably because you have been on another site that emmbeds Spotify. I have had internal services blocked by Privacy Badger because it was included in two different internal test-sites.
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by rypskar 6y ago
They are getting there, at least for lawnmowers. Robot movers are getting close in price to traditional mowers. There are a good selection of chainsaws for gardening and light usage that are electric. But if you, like me, use 2-3l of bio-fu
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by rypskar 6y ago
Thing you are forgetting about the Mongols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China
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by rypskar 6y ago
Always might seem a bit strong, it is always according to shareholder capitalism. But many companies find that shared value creation [0] works better for them in the long term [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creating_s
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by rypskar 6y ago
I had a case with another company. They required a letter to cancel, so I sent an email. Got automated reply that they have received it and later an email that they required a letter. I sent back an email pointing to the law. After some wee
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by rypskar 6y ago
But do they remember your position in the PDF between restarts? I some times read books or lecture notes in PDF format, and dedicated programs works much better for that than the support in browsers
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by rypskar 6y ago
>> And at some point, companies are allowed to make their own decisions about how they want to instrument and monetize their products. No, they are only allowed to monetize according to laws and regulations. There is nothing magic abo
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by rypskar 6y ago
I remember some sites had a captcha where you had to count something, maybe it was kittens. Think I managed to solve them 1/3 of the time
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by rypskar 6y ago
That is funny. The thing that annoy me most when writing in Norwegian on DDG is that most results are from Denmark, often including did you mean "Danish spelling for the same word"
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by rypskar 6y ago
I think it also is about not understanding the difference in the media it could be used in. The video is of the type you could see as an ad on YouTube or before a movie at the cinema, this video is one of the few I might watch without skipp
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by rypskar 6y ago
When did Alaska become the land of the midnight sun? I think it must be something more to it than only the sun. I have lived north of the arctic circle in the land of the midnight sun (Norway) most of my life, potatoes and carrots grown her
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by rypskar 6y ago
Do we know how much of their ad revenue is from ads on their website and ads in the paper version? From what I have seen from other places it is ads in the paper version of newspapers that are hit the most
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by rypskar 6y ago
I would say only giving the first voice direction when using maps to find a location is not working. I was using maps to find a place the GPS-map in my car didn't find, maps told which direction to start, but after starting to drive it
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by rypskar 7y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_(car) a spoiler can reduce drag by changing the airflow around the car and reducing turbulence. A wing, like what the Daytona and the Superbird have is mostly for down
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by rypskar 7y ago
This is only a variant of the old "that big group of peoples are much larger than our group, so they need to change first". The others are always larger, so easy to accuse. Total for a country is maybe not the best metric to use.
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by rypskar 7y ago
Don't DST in practice make school start an hour later parts of the year? Where I live it don't get dark for 2-3 months during the summer and it was never easy to get up in the mornings. The same at the middle of winter there is no
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by rypskar 7y ago
At least in my part of the world electrician and other crafts are learned at high school level and not at university, so probably not that much difference. Most of construction, installation, and maintenance don't require higher educat
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by rypskar 7y ago
How many do actually work in coal industry compared to how many works in the renewable energy industry?
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by rypskar 7y ago
How is the accuracy of sign recognition on the LED signs stating the current speed limit? My experience is that it is not so good, maybe other cars are better at reading LED signs. For the car to react according to how other cars drive, you
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by rypskar 7y ago
How much can you trust that data? My car tell me what the speed limit is by using a database and reading signs. On my commute to work there is a part where it tell me the speed limit is 5km/h when it actually is 80km/h and another
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by rypskar 7y ago
>> than a short hop which would be better done by train. Train is better for short hops between highly populated areas, but not so much between islands with 10k peoples. Many short flights are between places where only other option is
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by rypskar 7y ago
Not sure of that. I have never watched standup and Netflix still recommends lots of standup comedy

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