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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Linus Tech Tips did a video on one of those things: https://youtu.be/3frnBoqqI_Q tldr: it seems to work as advertised but he can't find a valid use case for it.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
I heard it slightly different: French people work to live and German people live to work.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
The old mobile reddit site [0] is _amazing_! No whitespace, no padding! [0] The one which you can still reach by adding '.compact' to any reddit url
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
What about the situation where I don't like my neighbor and I put an ugly virtual sculpture on their property? Nothing insulting or offensive, just something ugly. Should the neighbor have any rights over their virtual AR property?
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
This will bring up very interesting questions about who owns real-life property in AR: In the real world: Burger King is not allowed to enter a McDonalds property and plaster their ads all over the place! But what about AR? Let's assum
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> No one voiced concerns? Or, more specifically, if they did, no one listened? Based on experience I would say that the engineers had concerns but they knew that upper management was not interested. It's all about that short-term pr
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
For me the answer is any random book from Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchet. Both authors basically shaped my understabding of humour and the state of the world.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Finally someone mentions this! If Apple would really care about the environment they would make their devices easily serviceable!
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
I am still using several T61 and T420 for web browsing and light work. Compared to those thin and flimsy modern ultrabooks those the old T series are almost indestructible. And if something breaks you can easily replace everything with a s
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
For those who are wondering about 'changed my life': Tom Scott uploaded a video about CO2 and its influences a few days ago. it's a good palce to start research: https://youtu.be/1Nh_vxpycEA
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
How do you discover such content? I use Telegram just for chatting and never saw such 'blogs'
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Is it just coincidence that Tom Scott uploaded a video about CO2 and its influences at almost the exact time the gwerns link was submitted? https://youtu.be/1Nh_vxpycEA
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
The last part should have been a separate book!
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Removing headphone jack speeds up uptake of wireless headphones 1) And by doing this we create even more e-waste! 2) I do _not_ want wireless headphones! I almost exclusively use headphones when I am traveling by bus and train. This ha
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
In my opinion KDE Connect is one of the absolute core applications of the whole KDE project! > [...] while the desktop rots in its instability and lack of polish This is not true at all. Yes, the KDE desktop has a few rough edges but for
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
KDE Connect is by far the most useful tool I have discovered in the last few years. If you use Linux and Android you should give it a try! My personal highlights: - shared clipboard (share urls between devices, write long text on PC and the
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Munich is an amazing town but it is literally one of the most expensive places to live in Germany. Getting an affordable flat close to downtown is a nightmare.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Are they still almost impossible to repair? I remember that iFixit gave the previous generation a 1/10 when it came to repairability.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
The sun will explode in x million years. When that happens the current inhabitants of earth _have_ to escape earth.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Faster than light travel, if possible, would really screw with causality Well, the assumption abiut causality is based on our current understanding of physics. Perhaps we just don't understand the problem well enough and there are
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Personally I still think that we've just scratched the surface of the laws of the universe and it's not impossible that we'll have another wave of theories that will make our current understanding of physics seem hopeles
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
When it comes to car channels you also need to mention Project Binky from Bad Obsession Motorsport. They are building a 4 wheel drive classic mini cooper and it's both high quality metalwork and high quality very dry British humour. If
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Maching/shop: This old tony and mrpete222. Ave is entertaining but not too educational Please also check out Abom79, Keith Fenner / Turn Wright Machine Works, Keith Rucker / vintagemachinery.org, Tom Lipton / oxtool
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Imagine the "pollution" caused by civilizations [...] Destabilizing solar systems or even entire galaxies, maybe even violating causality.. If you are interested in such a plotline you should read the "The Three-Body Pro
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> "always finish his project, no matter how much you disliked it". Yeah, I wish my parents would have taught me this when I was young.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> I love these stories of engineering and science from the trenches. I wish there was a website collecting all these stories and articles. They could also ask the authors for permission and offer epub/pdf downloads of these stories.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
Thank for posting this! I recently had quite a few discussions about this topic with people who insist to _always_ use if/elseif/elsif/... constructs in such situations. I tried to argue that in most situations a "if (a)
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. I am pretty sure my main reason for p
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
For me it is Zodiac, Snow Crash and Diamond Age.
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by yoodenvranx 8y ago
> I've heard lots of good things about KDE lately Modern KDE (e.g. 5.12+) is amazing! It's slim, it's fast, it lets you configure tons of stuff and it looks beautiful. If you haven't used it in the last two years you

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