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by wott 5y ago
Cliffs get eaten by the ocean too. Depending on the type of material and other factors, the ocean may get closer to your home by several metres each decade. It has become a problem in several places in France, where they thought they were s
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by wott 5y ago
> You can see that if you take a slow train ride through the French countryside, for example. You'll see houses, barns, trees, grass and small herds of cows busking in the sun, peacefully chewing cud, just like large beef and dairy
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by wott 5y ago
> Even in television broadcasting, they consider audio the most important element. You can got a few seconds without the picture as long as there's audio. I don't know who 'they' are because that's unfortunately
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by wott 5y ago
There is perhaps worse than off-leash: on a bloody 16 feet retractable leash, with the dog on one side of the road, and the owner on the other side... So called "retractable", because you cannot pull anything. A friend suffered a
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by wott 5y ago
It's only a two-party system because voters vote almost only for those two parties. Other parties exist but get very few votes. Other countries also have majority voting systems which immensely favour the first arrived, and yet there a
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by wott 5y ago
> You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1] No, you don't measure the same thing. Those unemployment rates a
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by wott 5y ago
> Aren't they just buying the same components made in Taiwan/China/wherever from a U.S. distributor such as Digikey and then saying 'Made in U.S.A.' in the same way other manufacturers do? Considering how fuzzy t
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by wott 5y ago
> they properly secure books to a bit of backing cardboard (with shrink-wrap and/or rubber bands, usually) and then mount the backing cardboard inside of the packing box so that the books don't slide around and get damaged. Tha
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by wott 5y ago
> But surely “let’s knock off at three today and go down the pub, thanks for all the hard work” is a positive for most people? Definitely not. 1. I am not fond of drinking with workmates. An occasional, incidental, one-on-one or not much
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by wott 5y ago
Nowadays, a lot of products go out of production and are replaced by the next model before they have time to settle and get a consumer reputation. It sometimes feels like they do only 1 production run per model and then bye-bye. So, quick a
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by wott 5y ago
Ah! :) I've seen something a bit like that: moderators who would come down hard on people who ask a question, both in an old thread or a new one (because the first time they were told not to create new threads or not to necropost so th
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by wott 5y ago
> boggles my mind to this day - the concept of "necroposting" as something negative. I never understood it either. I mean, as a religion. What is even sillier, is that as far as web forums are concerned, you have 50% of them wh
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by wott 5y ago
'fiefdom' in English with the slightly redundant -dom suffix, simply 'fief' in French (a term commonly used), and closer to the root, 'feudo' in Italian and Spanish.
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by wott 5y ago
> It's worth explaining that Freenode got in this state because the original owner died Didn't this original owner also have a very er... "personal" way of managing funds?
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by wott 5y ago
> https://c256foenix.com/ Based on 65c816, affordable, powerful and - most important - already available and well tested. I went to the link: Available: it's all sold out. Admittedly, it exists more than the project
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by wott 5y ago
No, outside of programming subjects, he often emits statements along that line.
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by wott 5y ago
Yet it says "the final batch of pre-production Framework Laptop development units just came off of our manufacturing line in Taiwan". If they don't have any idea of the price at that point... Edit: a quick search on their for
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by wott 5y ago
> you do want the staff of 20 No, you don't. Resources are not infinite, and at some point the budget has to be taken from other services which are more useful than a once-in-a-lifetime event. Or you do want the staff of 20, but the
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by wott 5y ago
Sometimes they don't want the software that much that they want the customers.
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by wott 5y ago
I don't know about the study itself, but the title of the article doesn't match its content. It seems to be more about a lack of evolution of the link, than about a lack of link. The article says: "We couldn't tell the
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by wott 5y ago
The analogy is shaky, because 'crime' notwithstanding, good luck with getting anything from your insurance if: 1. there was no breaking in; 2. you didn't take minimum precautions to protect your door (a 3-point lock is often
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by wott 5y ago
:-) Perfect for quarantine.
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by wott 5y ago
> Regarding the eyesore and clutter, just designate one parking space every 500m or so to be scooter space and the problem is solved. Not quite, when people say they use them for 0.5 mile rides.
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by wott 5y ago
> But, compared to c99, you get nice things like generic expressions I'd have a hard time calling the way they designed _Generic "a nice thing" :-)
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by wott 5y ago
I'll fix your sentence a bit: > It's pretty common in the US industry to have these type of IP clauses.
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by wott 5y ago
> https://goo.gl/maps/4Rk3DPdtnnRQuGd69 Do they hold contests for the most complicated roof building, in this area?
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by wott 5y ago
> So I looked up the Raptor Talos II. It's a $7k (starting price) There are cheaper models, "down" to $4k, probably around $3k if you build it yourself; that's still expensive of course, but less :-) (I wasn't ab
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by wott 5y ago
> YMMV but the only time I ever experienced the myth that "working over 40 hours a week is the norm" was when I started working at a US-based company. Even in France, where the base legal hours are only 35 hours a week, intelle
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by wott 5y ago
> Yes, the laptop card has free firmware: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k . No, it hasn't. You're confusing driver and firmware, again. What it has, and what you are showing me, is a free driver. The former is exe
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by wott 5y ago
> There are no wifi cards supporting free firmware except this one. I think this one doesn't have free firmware either, it's just that the firmware stays on the card and thus is not loaded from the OS. IMO the driver is free, b

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