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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
>And then in a completely democratic mannner, Europeans said "that's who we want leading us". No, it wasn't. She was chosen by a group of country leaders during a closed doors voting. If it's democratic at all, i
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
Or when you don't care about results being very correct. When I'm cooking meatballs with sauce and the recipe calls for frying them, I'll have an LLM guestimate how long and which program to use in an air fryer to mimic the f
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
In Eve online you used to be able to have people (outside your contacts list) pay some cash in escrow to send you a message.
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
You sir seem to have solved a problem many people here have. Would you care to elaborate a little on how you did it? It doesn't happen that often to me, but sometimes adblock setup I'm using results in such issues.
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
Even if for many years the net value of EU subsidies is close to 0, many people claim that money is still better spent, because of checks and balances forced by the EU system.
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
It makes them burn money with no effect. Doesn't work every time, but still sends a message.
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause... You seem more knowledgeable in how browsers and js work than me. Does the below text still mean that AdNausem is downloading and running all the
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
Since the thread evolved into browser comparisons, I'd like to endorse a better uBlock ('s fork) - AdNausem. It doesn't block ads. It clicks them first, and then blocks them. I don't want websites to loose revenue becau
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
This is very good to know! I always used the "doesn't work on my system". Though, most of the games I've refunded were really not working on Linux the way I'd like and I just didn't want to hack around or have
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
Looks like a super cool feature for disabled players. Regular controllers are good for people with the default number of arms, legs and fingers. But if you have some kind of disability, it's often pretty unique. Regular game/compu
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
>Discovery is a lot more intrusive than people expect. As an outside observer (from Europe), but with all my knowledge of law originating from American TV, Is it the same in other countries, or is American system special in the case of d
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
>interesting. the meds help me in many ways, but often I still need that activation energy to kick things off Similar problem here. ADHD meds have different thresholds for allievation of ADHD symptoms and for negative effects. Usually th
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
Snap recently got much more polished. I used to have to find a script to purge excess old snaps that would fill up my hard drive. Now Ubuntu only keeps two versions of each snap. I was wondering why the script didn't have to ever clean
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by wafflemaker 5mo ago
While methylphenidate is considered milder, I always experienced come up as much more aggressive. And coffee interaction was just crazy. Once drank alcohol free champagne, while adjusting meds. I was on 27mg Concerta - long release methylph
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p/6760642/melitta-6760642... This style, pour over machine that grinds itself, but uses all water you put in, so it's not fully automatic. It's automatic enough, but al
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
I had heart/chest pains from Lisdextroamphetamine (ADHD meds) that went away when I stopped drinking coffee. And I drunk very little, just one half cup in the morning. Much less anxious now too, but that's more likely due to ADHD
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
It used to be. But I consistently got to use more than that. Funny thing (or I just imagined that), when I used ChatGPT for studying, it was quite generous about over usage. When I was just messing around, testing where the guardraila are
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
I had a 12y old Paperwhite 2gen and have an 11th gen one. PDF were just not meant to be viewed on the old one, but the 11th gen handles them surprisingly well.
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
I knew there exist people for whom paying for phone insurance is a good idea! Thanks! In Norway you can get an insurance just for the screen, which is like half of the full one IIRC.
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
Reading this made me think of the 4chan Navy Seals copypasta about a top of the class navy seals trained in gorilla warfare, the best sniper in the whole US marine corps. https://dailydot.com/navy-seal-copypasta
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
Somebody once said that if Stalin had access to television, he would never have to kill 20+ million ppl. What would he do with all that data? No idea.
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
Please explain the second laptop. I'm studying cybersecurity, so think I should know why. Or is it a joke?
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
It might surprise you, but the tutorial nowadays actually gets you blown up twice. It's so strange, that the game actually tells you what to do now and you don't have to ask in help.
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
When playing EvE online many years ago, I was surprised by one enemy militia player. Context: we were living partially in low sec systems where PvP was allowed. That's where PvP players from big alliances came when there were no 5k ppl
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
>Is it simpler to build a better space toilet, or to build a ship with centrifugal gravity and use a regular toilet? !Spoilers ahead - from Daniel Suarez's dV and Critical Mass novels. ==== The second volume (critical mass) talks a
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
I sometimes forget there's good people working at Google too. Sorry for every time I called Google the Satan and didn't add exception for the good people working there!
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
Wouldn't it also mean, that while ⅕ of CS grads initially work as support (for example), the people with just the education needed for that (vocational school) didn't get that job, because it went to someone with a better degree?
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
>This is only an issue for people who do not know months are longer than hours. I'm aware of that, and thought that "downgraded" was the wrong word to use when going from 1h to 5 months.
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
>Federal Reserve having the ability to print money out of thin air at the cost of future generations. As a non-American, it's hard not to notice that it's not future generations. It's everyone using dollars. And since your
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by wafflemaker 6mo ago
Is it meant as sarcasm?

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