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Coworkers that are cyclists often tell me they are always afraid on the road because the car drivers don't keep the proper distance.

I myself have experienced some close calls and I only ride a few times a year.

Crypto is just gambling now.

Every day I'm watching my coworker spend all his "the boss is not around" time looking at the black screen of the Binance charts. It's sick.

I haven't seen a blue screen of death on Windows for a long time.

But today my 1 year old Windows 10 laptop crashed during work hours and just the day before it also appeared on my coworker's desktop PC. The dump showed problems with DirectX graphics.

Exactly.

Every now and then I hear on the local news that someone died because he disassembled his microwave and was playing around with this.

Mine got stolen by baggage handlers from checked luggage when I first flew to France 5 years ago. I now use the Camping version I bough when I was in grade school.

Victorinox Cybertool

https://www.victorinox.com/global/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Kni...

I bought the Anycubic Predator delta 3D printer with a 380mm bed from China 3 years ago for 480€. I have learned to design replacement parts for the things I break. I think it has paid for itself by now. Just yesterday I printed hands for an old cuckoo clock.

3D design stores are still in infancy. There are either no items when I search for them or they are way too expensive.

Croatia has lost 9.25% of its population since 2011.

The Croat president has publicly said he will veto new members if the status of the Croat minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not improved legally.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/croat-p...

It's not in English. It was a collection of solved examples of every concept.

That was maybe true in the past. I was bad at high school math and survived it because I was gifted a really good book by my aunt. Now you have Khan Academy and all sorts of legal and illegal online libraries.

I have tried to contact them several times for at least 7 years because they have a bug on the orders confirmation page for my local language. It displays HTML code instead of the translated text.

One time someone even answered that they are aware of it.

I walk 2 km a day with my dog through a golf course, usually at dusk. I sell the golf balls for coffee money.

If you were taught English as a second language in school like me, this is both helpful and hilarious:

https://www.worldaccent.com/blog/2011/05/british-translation...

Exactly. I don't agree with Chomsky about much lately, but he sure is right about postmodernism. It's nothing but posturing and obscurantism.

When my fellow countryman Žižek says something interesting every now and then, I always view it as a broken clock being right 2 times a day.

I don't get why some missed work for "wife bleeding"?

I tried Lineage on my Xiaomi 10T Pro a while back, but some of the apps I use the most (NFC pay/credit card double verification for online shopping, gasoline payment with a QR-code) just don't work with it, so I had to revert to a stock ROM. The developers seem to have a whitelist of acceptable Android versions.

I'm currenlty building the (mostly) 3D printed one from this website: https://repalmakershop.com/

Thanks. I also found ELAN through a comment on a forum and installed it just minutes before you posted your comment.

I've been looking for desktop software to make comments/bookmarks on audio files for a while. Does anyone know something like this?

VLC is inadequate and I'm tired of manually adding timestamps to Notepad.

I really don't get the appeal. It's not even mechanical.

You're paying just for the branding.

I wrote the same two points in the comments of the article when it was published. I'm really disappointed with the NYT, having subscribed just a week before.

It's great, but the hole is too wide.

The ball shouldn't go in easily if you hit too hard.

Inflation is not good, obviously.

The cure in the past was to basically destroy some of the jobs so that people won't be in a position to bargain for a higher pay.

There is an ongoing argument if the cure is worse than the disease.

He is a tech influencer with half-baked ideas. Girls post bikini photos on Instagram, he posts coding sessions on Youtube.

It won't be long before he starts pulling Techlead-like scams. The article is already pointing to it.

If you read the book, you will see that Coppola really didn't have to do a lot of adapting for the movie. It's pretty much all there.

My problem with The Godfather is that it makes Italian gangsters look like some chess-playing intellectuals, when in reality they were the crazy low-lifes that you see in Goodfellas.

I had a relly nice free seaside summer vacation because of a Python script.

In our country we got vouchers to take a holiday because of Covid, but I couldn't use Booking.com because not all landlords had the proper paperwork to be able to redeem the voucher.

I wrote a script to e-mail all the properly registered landlords from a government list in a particular region with my requirements and then manually selected the best offer. I had a really good time.

I recently wanted to add bookmarks/keywords to a recording of a lecture, but was amazed I couldn't find any software that does that. And yes, I've seen the VLC bookmark plugin.

I ended with writing timestamps with comments using Notepad.

What measures does the Russian government take to prevent access to foreign media?

This language is very similar to my mother tongue Slovenian.

There was even a theory in the 19th century that Slovenian was the ancestor of Old church Slavonic (Panonian theory).