shermozle

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by shermozle 1y ago
I've actually been a test subject for sunscreen here in Australia. It involved having sunscreen put on different parts of your body, hopping into a Jacuzzi for an hour or so, then being zapped with UV on both sunscreened and clear skin
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by shermozle 1y ago
Great. One of the worst things on the modern internet is more resilient than the actually useful things.
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by shermozle 1y ago
This from the team that brought a tool to recover files corrupted by Office, rather than fix the causes of file corruption. Then it becomes a "feature" you can trumpet, rather than a bug you squashed.
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by shermozle 2y ago
Last time I did this through LAX (flying onwards to Toronto) it was pretty minimal. You pick up your bag, go through immigration, then on the way out of there drop your bag off with an airline agent and on it goes to your destination. Befor
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by shermozle 2y ago
30 degrees and she's dressed in a puffer jacket? Wut?
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by shermozle 2y ago
Tell me that you've never visited a city outside North America (and Australia) without telling me...
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by shermozle 2y ago
Hilarious illustration of carbrain thinking.
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by shermozle 2y ago
Yeah was thinking just this. Looks like I do 600-900 searches a month with Kagi!
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by shermozle 2y ago
Seems to have been memory holed: https://web.archive.org/web/20250128092802/https://www.fresh...
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by shermozle 2y ago
What planet are you on? He did a Nazi salute. And then did it again, in case you missed the first one.
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by shermozle 2y ago
I have four of these around my house and they're a massive improvement on plain PIR for human presence detection. I use them to turn lights and screens on and off and to notify when someone is at the front door. https://www.
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by shermozle 2y ago
WTF is this Weather Score? Sydney has the same score as SF. Have you ever been to SF? Cold, damp and grey. In June. Weather in Sydney is GLORIOUS. Mild and short winters and summers where you can wear shorts and t-shirts from September to M
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by shermozle 2y ago
I visited the supercomputer centre at UEindhoven back in the 1990s. All the hardware was up on the first floor, which of course meant serious load bearing construction. But this is why.
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by shermozle 2y ago
Geez I get that innuendo is the national pastime of the British but that video goes on and on about it. Looks like a pretty good system though!
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by shermozle 2y ago
The inevitable "find out" phase that always follows the "fuck around" phase.
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by shermozle 2y ago
Drove a rented Kia in Central Australia recently that had this. It was fine: just stick below the speed limit. "Dangerous" to someone who continuously rides the speed limit perhaps.
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by shermozle 2y ago
The Canva of its time...
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by shermozle 2y ago
The hire bikes are great but if you don't have a North American phone number you can't sign up in their app! (I relied on a friendly stranger who offered her phone number for the confirmation code.) Great city to ride around! Surp
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by shermozle 2y ago
But the flip of that is that if the manufacturer doesn't think it'll work longer than 2 years, that needs to be disclosed forcefully at sale time.
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by shermozle 2y ago
The question I ask straight back at you: how long do you think an oven should last?
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by shermozle 2y ago
When the CEO of Nvidia gets mobbed and ends up signing a woman's boob, yeah.
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by shermozle 2y ago
He sued for defamation against the media organisations who exposed him and he lost _hard_. So all the facts that might ordinarily be in dispute and have tiptoe-around language to avoid being sued for can be stated plainly.
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by shermozle 2y ago
> I'd say Jobs would have blown them away. If nothing else, the stench would have blown them away. He didn't bathe for _years_.
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by shermozle 2y ago
And here I was reading that headline and thinking it'd allow me to be notified when creepy adtech is stalking me. Of course not.
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by shermozle 2y ago
Cops ask, cops get. Same as America.
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by shermozle 2y ago
"It's my company's policy for international travel"
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by shermozle 2y ago
My partner worked in Harrods and had people (mostly Americans) all the time asking the shop staff if they spoke English.
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by shermozle 2y ago
I tried to buy the game on Playstation's site a couple of weeks ago and kept getting this inscrutable error: Something went wrong. After digging into the network tab, seems I'm failing a fraud screen somehow. No way to get around
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by shermozle 2y ago
Some years ago I had one of these calls and the guy told me to turn over my card and call the phone number printed on it, then as for a specific extension number. I got back through to him in moments. This isn't that hard. However the
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by shermozle 2y ago
And the future of text is definitely not having an autoplay video of something completely unrelated follow you as you read down the page.

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