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Combining them is even more "fun", see also: "Nuclear Fracking: Repeatedly Nuking Yourself for Commercial Reasons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsu0lHkOIFg

I'm German and in the rare instance I eat out in an actual restaurant, I still do that "rounding up" if I've been happy with the service. Cash or card is not really an important fa…

Simple: NOOOOOOO! How is this even a question?

Since the title on here is "Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee [...]" I assumed that there would be more to it the simple outright subscription plan(s), making me scroll down to th…

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Got a recall notice about my few-months-old 20.000mAh Anker power bank from Amazon, went through Anker's verification process and found out that the S/N of mine isn't in the range …

Not an expert on the topic by any means, but IIRC: - Those designs have been in parallel R&D for decades - Tokamaks are conceptually simpler, thus might be easier/faster/cheaper to…

AFAIK some automakers also cut down on the number of sensors by doing stuff like reading the already implemented sensor(s) for the ABS to provide the tire pressure warning function…

Obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gi…

That's why my go-to way of closing that editor has become Ctrl+W+Q (add more W if more than one tab is open in the editor).

Over the last few years here in Germany many, many food products have gained a little note next to the "MHD" (Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum, [1]) which says something like "oft länger g…

Ah, found the reason [1]: > No more books. At one point I was selling the BOFH 'books' on Amazon, but it got to be a royal pain. Every month or so I'd get some warning about the bo…

The problem is those "games" are still praying on people with addiction issues even if they have no payout.

Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/so…

> In France it's mandatory in a company to have a "company union", after 10 employee it's one representative (employee who has part of his paid time dedicated to employees support …

Even if you have tarnished silver things, like silver(-plated) cutlery etc. the "un-tarnishing" is stupid easy and cheap to do: - take some container and put warm/hot water and a l…

As someone who had cataracts and even after the corrective operations still has the significant sensitivity to glare, dark mode is not just a nice-to-have, but an absolute necessit…

Oh no , the horror of the cost of doing business when you can't get away with a get-rich-quick-scheme fast enough to cash out and disappear.

> if there is a button you have to push every five minutes for the plane not to explode Instantly reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifa

Title: > Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air I bet they do and the FAA should rightly tell them to fuck off if they're not willing to go through…

Rule of thumb I once heard as a German: "Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".

Same thing in the German supermarket I'm working at. Sending "feedback"(?) about the deliveries (e.g. about missing/broken/etc. wares) back to the chain's warehouses/depots is also…

> Wall Street isn't happy that employees will have more freedom in their choice of employer "In other news, water continues to be wet."

> – unusable profiles – in Chrome different profiles have different history and extensions, so for security purposes they are above Firefox's containers; I actually don't get the p…