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by sugarkjube 2y ago
If you can set the device to "lost", couldn't apple make it beep 100% of the time? Wouldn't that be a deterrent for thieves?
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
I was curious after reading this, so I looked it up. Seems murder rate in china is 12 times lower than usa (source wikipedia). Actually murders rate in china is about the same as people killed by police in usa.
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by sugarkjube 2y ago
Nothing to do with placebo, it's the covering that did the trick, not the talk about miracle cure. (I discovered this myself when I was a kid, any proper airtight cover is likely to get rid of it, YMMV)
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Edgar must feel the same as many software engineers. Clients ask you to implement something. When you deliver what they wanted, they change their mind and come with new requirements they didn't bother to mention before. Every. Single.
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Absolutely love it. Unusual captcha's are great. Reminded me of this one: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Step 1 - support him Step 2 - depends on wether he can and wants to stay involved. Step 3 - go to step 1.
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Well, i think a lot is just not reported any more. As a small example (not a scandal), a local celebrity mentioned in the (local) media last week that she'd put some incorrect facts on her own wiki page in the past, but can't get
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Actually, there is an underlying value. What is the the underlying value if a dollar? Or euro? On first sight, there is none. But when the IRS knocks at your door to collect taxes, you will need to cough up dollars. Or euros when you live i
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
interesting view - as environmentalist around here are promoting initiatives to reduce use of concrete etc to allow more water in the ground -> that would be useless then ? > When you draw down the water table, the ground compacts, an
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> We actually don't know. Actually, i'm pretty convinced we do know, with very high probability of being right. Our knowledge of physics is limited, but seems to be advanced enough (cfr relativity and astronomical distances) to
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> whether there is an giant mass-less invisible teapot shaped like an unicorn circling the outer rim of the solar system. seems easy to check - just send an HTTP request, and see if you get an HTTP 418 back.
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Played a little with Forth back at the time. Even wrote a simple interpreter. Thought it was a great language. However I quickly realised why it was callled a WOL (write-only language - was a pun on RAM / ROM acronyms), as it was hard
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
I wouldnt trust this data that much. I recently noticed many github accounts which only seem to contain solutions for exercises in a programming courses, iirc most from from india. This seems to match this survey. My 2 cts, probably this ju
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
I'd like to add, fosdem talks can be viewed realtime online via the web site or on matrix. Video's will also be published after the conference.
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Unfortunately this year i'm not sure yet whether i can make it (for the first time ever). i will follow some talks online, so you might see me in the chat. Be ready to visit a place crowded with nerds and geeks, hundreds of talks too m
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> The 737 is a 60 year old design with a stellar safety record It isn't. Or at least the max isn't. It's a big change from the original 737, a change that makes the type IMHO unairworthy beyond repair. But that is not even
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
This is hilarious. So the judge forbids him to further distribute the book he wrote, but now publishes and distributes it on his behalf. For free. Go figure. Can the court now be considered guilty of violating copyright ?
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
The suggestion i'd make is to save into browser localstorage, that would at least provide some persistense. There is some persistence now via browser history, but it's a pity that literally every key stroke is saved in there. nice
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> And we use a language you never heard of Which one ?
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> With the deletion of .yu, historians and researchers lost access to websites that contained important historical records. Gone are firsthand accounts of the NATO bombing and the Kosovo War; the mailing lists that scientists used to upd
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
Roomba since 2004. He's always been called "James" (as if he's our butler)
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> I want to run Firefox on my phone. The actual thing Dream on. I use Firefox on my (android) phone and tablet, and it is seriously crippled. Also evolving in the wrong direction. (becoming more crippled)
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> My animator friend is very upset about this because she will lose 10% of her income She won't, if she increases her price with 10 pct as she should. > As a freelancer I can invoice a client with consumption tax on the invoice,
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> Historically, businesses with annual sales of under ¥10 million ($67,500) have been exempt from the consumption tax. This isn’t going away. Tax-exempt businesses technically can continue as they were. > Small businesses that were pr
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
> The huge downside is that VAT is taking money from businesses Businesses don't pay VAT (yes they pay it, but its deducted so they get the money back. The only thing VAT can be accused of regarding businesses is that it's esse
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
No its not. Its not about keeping a swamp of old crap. Its about keeping the url to avoid dead links and 404's. Redirecting an old url to a new one with updated informmation is perfectly fine.
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
I doubt offline cash-like electronic money will ever happen. Like others also already mentioned, we also had a system like this 30 years ago for vending machines and cafeteria in a large corp. Banks want tracking (for customer profiling). G
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
He probably didn't tell you the whole story. Of course, if one has learned to fly, one can. And a license is just paperwork. But there is more to flying, like getting an aircraft, and getting insurance. Want to rent an aircraft? you&#x
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
You can fly a plane without a licence just like you can drive a car without a licence. No problem at all. Until you're caught or in a crash. You can't however, unlike a car, fly a plane without having been taught. If you try, you
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by sugarkjube 3y ago
169.000 ? Funny, I live in a city of 15.000, not even in the city, and think its way too crowded. So much that i'm actually thinking of moving to a 100 ppl village, closest "city" 3000 ppl. Never even been in a starbucks, nor

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