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bob_lemon

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  • New streaming services give you the same convenience you had in the 90s

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  • A lot of newer shows cannot be watched randomly though because the episodes actually build upon each other.

    If you take older shows like TNG or X files: you could easily jump back in after missing half a season. The episodes were written to be mostly self-contained, because missing an episode or two because of life was very very common. Season finales were often a major exception, and were therefore also majority advertised so people knew to plan around them.

    If you write a show for streaming, however, there is no concept of "missing an episode". So the writers are freed from that constraint, and subsequently write shows that are only meant to be watched in their entirety, in order.

  • Apex Legends hacker says game developers patched exploit used on streamers

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  • Not unknowingly. The hacker turned on obvious cheats (wallhack, aimbot) during their matches. Both players reacted immediately, clearly stating that they have hacks on in voice chat. One of them then left the match, the other player continued, but stopped shooting.

  • It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this

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  • Which only works when timezones exist. Without timezones, the question would need to be "what time of day is it in

    <location>

    ?", 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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    Has anyone tried to leave Gmail for Tuta?

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  • They're also hosted entirely in Germany, and really transparent about how many government requests they receive, most of which they outright deny.

    Also, you can pay by literally mailing them cash, which I find mostly funny, but it does allow for true anonymity.

  • I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is

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  • My hotman

  • Heliboard goes into 1.0

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  • HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customizable open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard. Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.

    First Paragraph of the readme.md in that repository.

  • Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

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  • Not to mention the two sequels World without End and A Column of Fire, set in the 1400s and 1600s, respectively, and the prequel Kingsbridge set around the year 1000.

    Then there's the century trilogy which takes place in the 20th century, and a whole lot of smaller works like A Dangerous Fortune, which manages to make you care for some bankers in 19th century London.

  • Solutions? Where we're going, we don't need solutions.

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  • Yaml is honestly just a terrible terrible format that is neither good for humans nor good for machines.

  • European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

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  • If you brick your car's firmware, at least you can keep driving without unreasonable levels of difficulty or distraction

    That's impossible for a large portion of safety critical systems. Engines don't run without a controller, they literally control the fuel injection valves (and have done so for decades). Brake systems have physical failsafes for when the electronics die (I.e. basic hydraulics without the booster), but you should not be able to move a vehicle without a working brake system after it stopped.

    The shitton of software running modern cars is there for good reason (at least large chunks of it), lots of which is safety, especially in the drivetrain.

    It's completely different for infotainment, which I agree the vehicle should be able to function without (although the dashboard must work)

  • European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

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  • Automotive vim when?

  • Energy efficiency of active travel (walking, cycling, ebike) compared to an electric car

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  • I just did a quick of my statistics. My bike typically provides an average of 100W in my hilly 28km commute (both ways) that takes about 1h15 minutes. That's less than 5Wh/km.

    I'm using a fairly high setting, too, and judging by the fact that I don't break a sweat at all, I'm 100% sure I'm not pedaling as hard as I do on a regular bike.

  • The amount of plastic from a Kinder Bueno 4 pack

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  • That's only half of the issue. In fact, palm oil is entirely very space efficient compared to rape seed or other vegetable oils.

    The actual issue only starts when you take into account that oil palms really only grow in south east Asia and Oceania, and the space required is obtained by cutting down rainforest.

  • Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam

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  • I haven't yet sent my life savings to a Nigerian prince, so there are no scams.

  • 25 years of the euro

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  • Haha, nice. Also, username checks out.

  • 25 years of the euro

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  • 1,95583 is permanently embedded in my brain. It's the conversation rate from € to DM when it was introduced.

  • The fact that firefox updates when I open it instead of when I close it. Has to be the most annoying feature ever.

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  • Yeah, no reason not to. Takes only a couple of seconds to boot, and everything is reset to a clean state.

  • Can money buy happiness? Income may boost emotional well-being more than we thought

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  • And that not only people living paycheck to paycheck. I'm fairly well off, renting a decent flat for a good price. But fuck yeah would I move to a bigger and better place if I could afford it. Would love to have a balcony, less traffic outside, and space for a bigger gaming table.

  • My 6-year old son just told me humans have 9 fingers, not 10

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  • It's just A finger, really

  • Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools

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  • You just ordered a thousand liters milk.