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Heavy rain forcast on Wednesday, with sun the day before and after. Hoping the weather forecast will shift (as often happens here)!

> "Most people write a blog post hoping it’ll change their lives, not just the way they think" Some of us just want an outlet that we control. Even though nobody will ever read it.…

I have a UHK split keyboard with a keycluster module (which has a small trackball) on one the left half and a larger trackball module on the right half. Even though there is only o…

> "And before you ask: Yes, I’m laying this one squarely down before (and partly on the toes of) the tech bros: We could have designed our protocols to be minimally compatible with…

I just recently got a blood test to confirm if I ever had gotten chickenpox as a child (my mother didn't remember if I had). Sadly it came back positive for antibodies. I was reall…

I used to have a character named Fenris in EVE. Probably shouldn't have recycled them all those years ago.

That's not a service they offer everywhere.

Costco's is only a model that works in cultures used to having to drive to get groceries. Having now lived a few years in the Netherlands, I much more prefer the ability to cycle/w…

The amount of entitlement on display here is astounding.

Being now in my late 30s I worry that the ship has sailed on being able to do a masters degree while juggling adult life as well.

> "Another thing that would help is if Europe..." Europe is a continent with a lot of different countries, all with different laws and regulations. Even the ones who are in the Eur…

Yes, but (I assume) that you are old enough to have already gone through elementary school and perhaps further and learned and internalized a model for learning and retaining infor…

What did you replace them with? I am starting to look into alternatives my self as I can see the noose they have around their user's neck's slowly starting to close.

I once worked in a git repository that required those kinds of restrictions. This was within a bank and the code in question was related to enabling Apple Pay from within the banki…

If this report is seeing spices from outside the EU containing contamination then there are organic options available, as I'm looking at my EU made (comes from France) organic cert…

Much easier than putting stuff into space. See project Natick for details. Does it make more sense than ground based data centers? Not sure.

Yeah well as soon as I started seeing it reported that GoPro's were requiring a mobile phone to be used (or at least making it inconvenient to use a camera without one) I lost all …

> "We weren’t entitled because we weren’t paying customers." Having insight into the Dutch university education system I've noticed that the students here are incredibly entitled, …

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> "We need to find a way to deal with Russia with humanity instead of treating them like some boomer-era cold war bogeyman." Are you even aware of what has been going on in Ukraine…

> "Preserve Your Integrity" "Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And so one dies one's self; But a noble name will never die, If good renown one gets." [0] - Hávamál, written ~900-1000 CE…