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by vr46 3y ago
It's good, but I've shifted over to Keka ( https://github.com/aonez/Keka ) which is much more modern and versatile (and compresses)
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by vr46 3y ago
It is, and they do, and I also sympathize having travelled from Romania to Scotland and seen first-hand the differences that Europe has to somehow reconcile, it's a wonder they pass anything at all, even while I would like many of the
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by vr46 3y ago
His conclusion is somewhat odd, suggesting China writes effective legislation and that is their leverage, as opposed to the real reason which is the size of the market and their authoritarian wont. Which he also alludes to, confusingly. A c
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by vr46 3y ago
I had some of these before I had access to a computer at school, let alone before getting my own ZX Spectrum, but they were the most exciting thing ever, the promise and possibilities! They hold up very well, TBH.
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by vr46 3y ago
Germany must have inspired whoever wrote the Richard Pryor film, 'Moving' when he arrives in Boise to find that the sellers of his new house were not kidding when they said "we're taking everything with us"... And y
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by vr46 3y ago
Ourselves and the landlord are dealing with all the issues, bar a complete rewire, and a new bathroom is the next thing on the cards. There isn't enough money in the system to fund the operational costs of housing here. Inflation and r
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by vr46 3y ago
Yes, well, the kitchen - AND ALL THE LIGHTS IN THE HOUSE - were removed by the previous tenants. This is so fucking stupid it deserves a dedicated room in the Museum of The Stupid. Kitchens are so fitted to the physical rooms they are in, t
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by vr46 3y ago
Hamburg. The previous tenants left a mess, the landlord put in a new kitchen for us, new fences around the boundary, new back patio tiles. Ventilation is a problem as extractor fans need replacing and I’ve replaced a bunch of electric switc
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by vr46 3y ago
The UK has completely abolished fees (I think) for tenants - I am a reluctant landlord - and I completely agree with that, the power asymmetry in finding housing is already bad enough without allowing blank-cheque negotiations. In my sectio
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by vr46 3y ago
This rambling whataboutery is definitely the more tired talking point. BTC really does waste energy and it’s the context for this entire page.
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by vr46 3y ago
Bring in Australian-style compulsory voting then.
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by vr46 3y ago
This is such an irritating feature, the Jetbrains Clippy, let's call it Chuckles the AI Assistant. You can't remove Chuckles after disabling - that was a decision to go against the default setup of plugins - and shows the respect
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by vr46 3y ago
That’s pretty nuts, I thought those were cruiser tyres specifically with softer sidewalls, whereas sports tourer tyres have those stiff sidewalls for better handling. I think all the K1600s I’ve seen, similar weight, had Metzler Roadtecs or
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by vr46 3y ago
Still use it, still rate it, but PGP/GPG doesn’t play as significant a role in much of what I do anymore. We have Signal and 1Password if we need it. I had a little company with two/three others for a few years and we used Keybase
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by vr46 3y ago
I had to convert that but yes, that is a very heavy bike. I have a 1200RT and yours is 100 kg heavier, goodness knows on what. I know that the Michelin Road 6 comes in GT versions with an extra ply for heavier bikes - maybe that's actu
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by vr46 3y ago
Smoke kills, the things you’re describing are a lot to do with stopping smoke spreading. The UK shares a performance based approach with the Netherlands whereas the German and Italians do things in a prescriptive way. There’s no “EU way”.
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by vr46 3y ago
So my general observations, for example, on roads: the lack of speed limits on many highways, or only two lanes on others, which leads to many more lane-changing manouevres between high- and low-speed lanes; or very short-throw entry and ex
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by vr46 3y ago
Yes, same in the UK, I grew up without seat belts and then in the 1980s, they became a thing - "clunk-click, every trip" - and then only much later, compulsory for rear passengers. It's step-by-step, building on top of the pr
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by vr46 3y ago
I was taught by my advanced riding instructor that riding/driving safely was about making sure that everyone inside and outside the vehicle was safe, not just the vehicle occupants. Protection and safety are different concepts in this
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by vr46 3y ago
Having largely moved out of the UK to Germany, I can see that the UK has a care for human life and safety that is unrivalled so far. (Despite the literal shitshow of the last few years as water companies dump sewage) The UK has so much good
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by vr46 3y ago
So much of this coverage emphasizes the software. And blames it. This is not fair - it was very clearly the actions of humans in Post Office Management with support of humans in Fujitsu that committed fraud in order to falsely convict innoc
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by vr46 3y ago
Hmm, maybe - did you see the PDF reports from swissdevjobs/germantechjobs a few weeks ago? Zurich, Zug, Bern and Geneva were out there as around double the numbers of anywhere in Germany. I know Switz isn't cheap to live in, but s
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by vr46 3y ago
And Hamburg has terrible salaries, too, if the €2500/month take home I was offered for a senior engineer role by one of Germany’s biggest companies is anything to go by.
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by vr46 3y ago
I could also kick him in the balls for playing Purple Rain as the FOURTH song in the tribute show in London, no sense of timing. But yes, it was mainly his ongoing evil Jiminy Cricket act pushing Prince into more extreme religious views (se
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by vr46 3y ago
Thanks for links, really need to go listen to that tonight. Took years for Radiohead to play it again after originally getting sick of it, was stunned when I first heard them play it. There’s a band that REALLY understand things.
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by vr46 3y ago
Prince didn’t understand at ALL, but he experimented a lot, repeatedly launching website projects for albums, creating short-lived memberships, failing to deliver e-commerce orders, and generally impatient with both results and his actual f
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by vr46 3y ago
We're only 5 weeks in and people have pretty much gotten to the same level of basic progress, which is far further than Duolingo in 18 months, regardless of homework, no tests - and eventually everyone will have to take a B1 exam anywa
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by vr46 3y ago
All the people who took bonuses while fraudulently prosecuting people ought to be shaken upside-down until the entire bonus has been dislodged from their wallets. My father was a subpostmaster decades ago and I am gobsmacked at how a public
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by vr46 3y ago
That everyone in the class demonstrated the same progress showed that Duolingo provided little advantage, which is what I was attempting to say in the quote. I gave up Duolingo around 18 months before starting the course, which is for compl
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by vr46 3y ago
Class is ongoing and it's for complete and utter beginners, I'm in week 5 right now. Gave up on Duolingo maybe 18 months ago or more.

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