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SargeDebian··on The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone
Lyon is not in the US.
SargeDebian··on OpenWrt Two Approval
Openwrt ticks a lot of those boxes if you add storage. For me, the location of my router makes using it as a charging pad, speaker, and TV device impractical anyway, and I can imagine I'm not alone in that.
SargeDebian··on Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
What part of the statement is false?
SargeDebian··on The Engineering of Landfills
And sometimes people throw things in that explode.
SargeDebian··on Cryptominers made $100k from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks
This smells a bit fishy. If you make $100.000 from mining for 3 weeks with $1.500 in power, then the power costs are almost insignificant.

With about 500 hours in those 3 weeks, every hour you don't mine is $200, so if unhooking and restarting your mining equipment takes 4 hours one way, you've lost money after moving it back and forth.

SargeDebian··on Our Founder – Momofuku Ando
I don't want to sign up to the product you're advertising, but without doing that I can say that while some packets of ramen may give you 20% of your required daily calory intake, there are more required nutrients than calories. Probably none of the other listed foods can give you everything on their own.
SargeDebian··on Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come
Probably just not available in the EU because they would violate privacy regulations.
SargeDebian··on Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers.
> Two months ago, they replaced the Director of Engineering from India with a Vietnamese Director of Engineering, and things started to change

By te way, I love the negative comments about the level of English proficiency in the Vietnamese team in a post riddled with mistakes.

SargeDebian··on For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad (1976)
Or multiple stock classes, where done have more voting rights than others.
SargeDebian··on Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
Judging from the ingredients, the Big King is more comparable.
SargeDebian··on How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches (2016)
Same. I have the Withings Steel Hr, which looks mostly analog except for the small screen.

The mechanical watches started breaking down and becoming unreliable, and fixing Russian (Poljot mentioned in the article) and Chinese watches is a challenge, apparently.

SargeDebian··on Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices
Assessing the balance between risk and the cost of mitigation sounds like it should be part of the basics.
SargeDebian··on German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
You are not allowed to have access to an open container while in the driver's seat in the Netherlands.
SargeDebian··on Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
It seems like these are different than the ones in the website. These are not really "unexpected" in the way that "PageRank", which is an algorithm for ranking pages, turns out not to be names after the pages it ranks, but the Page that invented it.

The examples in your post are just the source of these names, which may be unknown to many, but are not unexpected.

SargeDebian··on Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
I guess only in those parts of the country where Kliko had a large market share at some point. The Otto brand name is so strong in the east that they have no idea what a Kliko is.
SargeDebian··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
You must have missed a part of your post to make your point: "And all that is entirely uniformly spread out, which is why Amazon is precisely as bad as every other e-commerce website"

Or was that not what you were trying to say?

SargeDebian··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
Every hybrid and EV I've ever been in refused to move if they detect a cable is inserted.
SargeDebian··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
Who's they? There were thousands of shcooters with swappable batteries riding around Taiwan when I was there in November.
SargeDebian··on Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
And you just stated to know where the name came from, even though you made it up instead of looking it up.
SargeDebian··on Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?
It's available for me, in the Netherlands.
SargeDebian··on The art of slide design: Maximise signal, minimise noise
One thing to nuance is that this style is not universally the right way to use PowerPoint in many contexts, a slide deck is the preread and the post-read notes, because it is not considered a presentation tool but a document with the concept of one idea per page at heart. In consulting, it is one of the key deliverables (though what is discussed is condensed and has moved some exhibits to an appendix section). Some clients preferred to also have a Word memo, which works well as a pre-read but doesn't have the intuitive link with the preread looking the same as the document being discussed .

Now I work at a place where everyone makes slides with fewer words, for preread, discussion and reference, and I find they're useless as a preread, because there isn't enough context.

SargeDebian··on Scammers are ruining Facebook marketplace
I read "Scammers are running Facebook marketplace" and that sounded about right.
SargeDebian··on Tesla FSD Timeline
There was an article here recently of someone who settled with Tesla for a refund with interest. I don't know Finnish consumer protection legislation but if they didn't deliver and aren't doing to, that might be something to look into.
SargeDebian··on X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
> you were the one who decided

Most people google everything. A significant number of people google "google" in their browser's search/URL-bar to get to Google.com and search for whatever site they could have gone to directly. Builder Bob isn't going to change the average user's behavior in navigating the web.

SargeDebian··on Average distance to a supermarket in Amsterdam is 400 meter or 1300 feet
Off the top of my head: depending on the chain, usually between 7000 and 15000 SKUs.
SargeDebian··on Why you can't divide by zero
The problem with this explanation is that I should perfectly well be able to divide my jellybeans into 0.5 or -1 groups, though those also make no real sense in this example.
SargeDebian··on Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background?
> Folding@Home<- (? I think that's what the thing was called)

If only the article could help you out in finding its name.

SargeDebian··on Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes
If you intentionally remove functionality, why would any functionality be safe from that?
SargeDebian··on Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU
Not sure if that's a serious question and you actually consider lawsuits by private individuals the only functioning method of law enforcement, but: enforcement by governments or regulators is a thing, and on top of that anyone can still sue Meta, they're just not going to get rich doing so.
SargeDebian··on Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1B cloud tools deal
A: you don't nee a licensed office seat to be a user in AD

B: For warehouse operations, not everyone needs to be a user in AD

C: The comment above said there are a million employees with 2-3 degrees of separation to finance in terms of exchanging spreadsheets, which is what I responded to.

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