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ChaoticNeutralCzech

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  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • That's what happens when people stumble across that website called GitHub, get hooked and now have unrealistic expectations for the real git.

    "I just installed Git for Windows. Where is the drag-to-upload box?"

    — A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged

    Real git involves a lot of sweat, requires you to clean up any mess you make, and communicate with any partners about their preferred techniques instead of rawdogging it and waiting for issues. The pushing and pulling will come naturally but you need to know how and when to release, and be clear about how you wish to commit. Nightly is an option but good luck getting everyone on board. People might judge you for using the word "master" but it should be alright in private.

  • AAUnited States

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    This happens so often I instinctively press ⌫, C, Z when I see this specific list.

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  • Scrolling through 200 items is easier on a phone than a desktop without PgUp/PgDn.

  • AAUnited States

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  • Or (A)llemagne, (N)iemcy, (T)yskland, (S)aksa, (V)asija (you won't encounter the last two unless you use a website in Finnish or Estonian, however the first three are used in numerous countries including Germany's neighbors).The lists are occasionally auto-translated, sometimes I see "🇹🇷 Truthahn".

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  • I imagine the Australian embassy in Vienna already has forms to handle the situation, and so does the Austrian one in Canberra.

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • Europe's regulations are strict and robust. However, the German Greens convinced lots of people that they aren't enough.

  • Donut Receipt

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  • g-ive

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  • Various flowers, such as tulips, definitely hate moths.

  • World's largest EV never has to be recharged

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  • I know, this one is shorter and has mechanical brakes. Not as great but I imagine the Czech one, one of the largest in Europe, has very few English-language sources that could have pointed it out to him. I don't know whether the Claughton one cannot be ridden or Tom is just squeamish about safety (see description) but the Černý Důl one definitely can, that's how they do routine inspections.

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • The remote was lying around and I just pointed it at an ATmega on a small breadboard with this code when nobody was looking. I muted the TV briefly to check that it worked, and took the device home to make a transmit-only ATtiny version inside one of those promotional keychains that have a coin cell, button and LED. I didn't bother with writing the program the "right" way (sleep mode and pin change interrupt, which would eliminate button contact problems and allow for more complex behavior like more buttons or multiple-press), the ATmega just plays the sequence on powerup.

    The other option is to find the closest possible TV model online (not easy, wall-mounted TVs you can't see from the back barely have any distinguishing features) and check if the listed remote code works. Or use an IR-enabled smartphone, the various apps cover most TV models.

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • I made an Arduino IR cloner, took it to the barbershop and when nobody was looking copied the mute button's code so I now have a little device to silence the long Retro Music Television ad breaks I would otherwise have to endure. I don't really go anywhere with TVs otherwise.

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • It definitely still works in the Czech Republic and Germany. Our pre-2023 president was an avid user. Public TV stations hand-format their own and syndicated news for 39 columns and pick monthly poetry. Commercial stations just automatically jam syndicated news into the format, sometimes overflowing to another subpage just by 1 word, and host huge amounts of banner and fullscreen ads with meh graphics by Teletext standards, mostly for dodgy phone services like tarot and erotic hotlines. They also host "chat24", probably the worst message board ever: imagine a public IRC room but $0.50 per message (by SMS) including setting your nickname and color.

    Pics: https://imgur.com/a/JF3wN6L

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • medival peasant life

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  • Sorry, they reserve the right to implant and delete memories in Section 4.4.2 of the EULA.

  • Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities

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  • Given who Trump considers worthy of detention, the centers will have to be near major cities.

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • I found a cool way of ad-blocking back when I watched TV. Probably does not work anymore, and relies on Teletext page 888 (closed captions, the number varies by country) not being updated during ads.

    1. Mute
    2. Switch to another channel and back to clear Teletext cache
    3. Turn on fullscreen Teletext, any page (I like the 89x test patterns)
    4. Type "888" as the page you want to go to
    5. The TV will now wait for 888 to be broadcast, which only happens after ads and trailers
    6. The program is now running with captions. Disable Teletext and unmute if you want sound instead.

  • French Joke

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  • Not just French. Just about any language calls it ananas or very similar, except...

  • World's largest EV never has to be recharged

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  • An early version of the Petřín ropeway in Prague used to contain tanks in both cars. The upper one would be filled with sewage collected rainwater from the city's hilltop quarter and the energy of the descent was used to pull the other car up. Additionally, the way up cost twice as much so there was an incentive to ascend on foot, which was about as fast despite the incline.

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  • He literally has

    Filmed safely: https://www.tomscott.com/safe/

    in the description. Meanwhile, that fat dude from Vrchlabí jumped into a moving bucket of one that is faster, 2.5x longer, at deadly height, and his only plan of getting down safely was a mattress. He acknowledged how illegal and dangerous it is and yet publishes the video with his full name.

    Just accept it, Tom Scott was being way more cautious.

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  • I hope OpenTTD devs consider adding gravity-based electric transportation of heavy loads as an option