bob_lemon

@bob_lemon@feddit.de
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Joined 1 years ago

Decent game to quit about 30h in because while it's good and fun to play, it's incredibly repetitive.

Sad times for everyone that still believed in antitrust.

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As far as I know, the "logic" is as follows:

  1. The ionosphere is very important for the weather
  2. HAARP is doing something with it
  3. Obviously not just studies, these antenna arrays use lasers or radiation to influence it directly.
  4. Pew pew
  5. Tornados
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Cheaper labour in the most expensive town in a country that is well known for high labour costs?

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I think we should consider the feelings of Hexbear users when posting or commenting.

If you think they'll dislike it, it's probably a good post.

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They're trying to accomplish a joke.

Yet.

Not American, bit my understanding is that filling taxes in the US is complicated and confusing to the point where most people use paid software to do it. There is an obvious lobby of tax filing software companies keeping it that way.

I remember showing up for tenth grade, looking at the list of assigned classrooms in the first day of the school year. Instead of the usual the digit number, it said "C1". My classmates showed up, and we're just as confused as I was.

The C turned out to be short for "container", which we found in a corner of the school grounds.

That said, being able to quickly go outside in every break was pretty neat. And the school actually did get a second building only a few years later.

Here's the criteria that the score is build on.

From a quick glance, I'd say US is majorly lacking in:

  • Equal opportunity to participate, vote: from felons bring denied voting rights to gerrymandering to Wisconsin votes being worth 4 times as much as California votes in presidential elections die to the EC, there's a lot of fundamental issues here
  • Independence of the judiciary: the supreme court is not independent, and presidential pardons are a mockery of any justice system

Markdown (.md) could and should be used for simple, somewhat structured text files. It's easy enough to learn, and WYSIWYG editors are abundant as well.

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Not really. The amount of people that are still on Facebook but care about data privacy should be negligible. The rest will just accept personalized ads.

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The use of "unstoppable" is such a massively strange thing in this context. It somewhat implies that this is a bad thing, that should be stopped.

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If the IT departments of any major corp allows anyone within their network to enable this feature, they and everyone the work for need a permanent waning label for idiocy and utter incompetence attached to their resume.

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Until you have people who get a yearly bonus. Or 13 or 14 monthly salaries a year, which is quite common in Germany (basically a bonus, but the employee is entitled to it).

Fun fact: there was an attempt to ban the NPD years ago, but it was deemed unnecessary because they never got enough votes to be a serious threat to democracy.

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To be fair: if your HR department can link your Lemmy posts to you, they are insanely bored and presumably over funded.

Uhhh... Every single airbag is computerized. There is always some software involved in the evaluation of the acceleration data.

And noone trusts the software to not have bugs. That's why testing exists on many development levels.

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If you see someone pirate proprietary software: No you didn't.

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AR is short for Adult Rifle

Asking for ID when buying cigarettes is not exactly an outlandish proposal. It's already done around the current legal smoking age.

Arguably, this proposal makes it easier, since there's a fixed cutoff date of birth instead of calculating their age.

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Genius. If you export some of the apes, the remaining population requires less habitat, leaving more room for plantations! /s

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If he fires a high ranking employee now, they can put "ex X exec" on their resume.

I mean, Sunak is a complete and utter bellend and cancelling half of HS2 is a ridiculous and nonsensical move.

But I think that the good old idiom about broken clocks might just apply here. Smoking bans are a good thing.

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map(lambda princess: princess.rescue(), [castle.get_princess() for castle in castles])

Baldurs gate is a DND based CRPG

Although DND games usually handwaive encumbrance with bags of holding.

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Yes. Which is why the latter is not happening.

I'm not defending the subscription model, but that check is very obviously not done during the crash, but during startup, when a couple of seconds delay is not fatal. And if it fails I assume the entire thing just turns off completely.

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Clearly you haven't watched NCIS

NCIS 2 IDIOTS 1 KEYBOARD

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It works, but it's still a workaround for a thoroughly confusing notation instead of just using 24h time.

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Although I bet she could pull off an amazing Yzma, what with her being scary beyond all reason and all.

As long as us Germans get to keep using our "Schw. Tr. d. Le.-En. W."

(The German translation for "weak potion of restore health" was too long for the UI, so they just put this absolute butchering in instead)

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Getting the tick command from carpet into the base game is a big improvement, too.

Pathfinder was created as an updated version of D&D 3.5, which was very complex. PF food streamline parts of it, but ended up just as complex at some point, mostly due to the massive variety of options available through splat books.

Meanwhile, D&D 5e was released to be much less complex by getting rid of stacking bonuses and the vast majority of math.

Parhfinder 2 (which I have not actually played yet) did not do that. They opted for streamlining the existing system by combining several similar subsystems into one (i.e. everything is a feat now). But the math is still there.

I'd start by disabling all add-ons and check if that helps. If not, there's something wrong with Firefox itself.

If disabling them fixed the issue, I'd continue with a binary search to see if there's a specific addon causing issues. I.e. enable only half the add-ons and re-check. Then continue enabling/disabling add-ons until you know which addon causes the issue.

That said, it could be the combined load, or a combination of add-ons, which is significantly harder to fix.

Which only works when timezones exist. Without timezones, the question would need to be "what time of day is it in ?", and you'd get "morning" or "afternoon". Any answer to that question is inherently more fuzzy than 8:25 or 17:16.

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Especially since you could pull this scam with a whole lot of other businesses that wold not result in cutting down trees.

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A quick search does not yield a single site backing up your claim. Do you have a source?

I mean, that's not exactly news. Windows 10 came out in 2015. It will stop receiving updates after 10 years just like every Windows version has.

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Log in to your GitHub account and click on the review button off that pull request (see below). Then select approve and maybe add a comment.

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They're also just a total of 77 people doing this in their spare time instead of a team of at least 300 full time devs.

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