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by timonoko 4y ago
Apropos. 37 minutes ago I paid taxes with QR-code. First time ever. Took aboot 15 seconds. Almost painless .
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by timonoko 4y ago
Sorry but correct spelling is Ænglish from the norman word æng.
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by timonoko 4y ago
Nitter lists work so much better. Almost never use real Twitter, unless I have something to say. https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/kenshirriff,curious_marc,Tita...
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by timonoko 4y ago
It is not. It is pure capital gains tax. Actually it is worse than that, because it can be difficult to prove what your true gains are. Loan costs for example are not easily tax-deductible, you must establish a firm for that. I gave up land
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by timonoko 4y ago
Only difference between Sweden and Finland is that Finland stopped all rent regulation in 1985. I was a landlord during that era, and after few years of turmoil, most rents started go down. Nowadays the rents are mostly costs + 40% -(32% ca
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by timonoko 4y ago
Not related, but James Bruton just invented the way to use animal muscle tissue as robotic actuator.
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by timonoko 4y ago
Samsung CL-310 colors cost 10€ / kilo @ ebay. In a bucket. Cheapest color in cassettes are 1000 € / kilo. Assuming you manually reset the introductory cassette print counter before 1000. So any old CL-310 does not work.
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by timonoko 4y ago
roundedcube is all you need. -- Build the model only from roundedcubes as it is also a sphere and cube .
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by timonoko 4y ago
I found a better example. Only solution aptitude ever gives is not to install paprefs. Please solve that. $ sudo aptitude install paprefs Keep the following packages at their current version: ... 11) paprefs [Not Insta
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by timonoko 4y ago
Then community-solve this: $ sudo aptitude install wine-stable --- 5 pages of useless garbage removed and then: 62) wine32:i386 [Not Installed] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: 65) wine64 recommen
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by timonoko 4y ago
Aptitude does total fix-my-system . I have tried it several times. The suggested fix is always: remove everything and then reinstall the broken package. It does not even try to reinstall those packages it has just destroyed.
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by timonoko 4y ago
When your break your fancy apt-architecture beyond repair aka You have held broken packages (whatever it means), you will be very thankful for snaps and flatpaks.
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by timonoko 4y ago
There seems to be some clueless discussion about cursor-keys and such. This is how you make termux-emacs totally touch screen friendly: (xterm-mouse-mode 1) (global-set-key (kbd "<mouse-5>") 'scroll-up-command
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by timonoko 4y ago
I made one adaptive morse receiver in 1970s already and the key property was to measure average lengths of dashes. All other issues are trivial.
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by timonoko 4y ago
This sucks. I remember letters my of name, after training 2 months in the army, but it fails to understand. - .. -- --- -. --- -.- ---
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by timonoko 4y ago
"Can I connect Kaffeine to DVB dongle in other machine via wifi?" Totally understood what I was asking and offered several solutions. 99.99% here do not understand the question and remainders do not understand why.
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Baikonur seized. End of Russian space age looming(twitter.com)
23 points by timonoko 4y ago|0 comments
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by timonoko 4y ago
Darwinian selection happens only from neck down.
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by timonoko 4y ago
https://github.com/timonoko/Context-Aware-Auto-Brightness/bl...
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by timonoko 4y ago
Final solution is to use the back LCD only as a light blocker for the Blackest Black. Keyword is "scrot" in Linux. I have various solutions for Context Adaptive Brightness in Github. Depending on machine construction, they can a
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DIY Dual-Layer LCD monitor – can it match OLED?(youtube.com)
4 points by timonoko 4y ago|3 comments
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by timonoko 4y ago
Some previous discussion on HN. All who mentioned some Norwegian study from 1950 were voted to oblivion.
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by timonoko 4y ago
WTF? I thought we all agreed "Negative Flynn Effect" does not exist.
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by timonoko 4y ago
Only necessary rule of English seems to be "double negative". But that just academic posing, everybody understand this is just colloquial emphase. When yelling "No! No! No!" you have to do it odd number of times, otherw
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by timonoko 4y ago
Invents lots of arbitrary and illogical rules, calls it "massive amount of knowledge".
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by timonoko 4y ago
Pirate Bay is the best literary critic, quote Palahniuk: "Nobody steals a bad book". It has happened that I have paid for the stolen book and bought more books from the author because of free sample at Pirate Bay.
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by timonoko 4y ago
Yes. One. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_sock This was immediately candidate for deletion. All other contributions on this field were deleted by persons, who know nothing about these issues. My original "foldin
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by timonoko 4y ago
Ænglish is the language of Ænglanders, who live on Ængland, an island with lots of Ængs. They used have trees, but fools burned them all down. Reason for this is of course that there was too many Ænglanders for normal slash and burn agricul
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by timonoko 4y ago
"Creepies Thing" because Swedish Ericsson made already their exchanges with super high level languages like Erlang. Very embarrassing, but I could not move to Sweden, because unsolved tax issues from 1975.
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by timonoko 4y ago
But it does suck. Downvote all you want.

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