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Pommes_für_dein_Balg

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  • xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs

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  • That's called a sea anchor.

  • xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs

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  • I think the only similar thing that would work is shooting a sea anchor in the direction you want to go from a deck gun, then pulling it back in.

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • Just be aware that using a VM without telling IT can jeopardize your company's IT insurance in case of an attack and can get you fired for cause.

  • xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs

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  • Could the keel rig work in principle?

  • [@alexkrokus] Elders

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  • My 10yo laptop is faster than my wife's new one.I mean hers is a lot more powerful obviously, but fuck if I know what Windows does with that power, cause it sure isn't using it for the stuff she wants to do.

  • Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days

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  • "This will be repeated every 4 weeks"

    This sentence alone tells me it's not really going to be made open-source.You don't need to open-source something repeatedly.

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    Google Still Owns Search

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  • Where's Baidu? With a >50% market share among China's >1 billion internet users, it should sit in second place.I'm guessing they aren't connected to statcounter at all.Also, the fact that the only European search engine with a measurable market share is Russian frustrates me.On the other hand, with the way statcounter works, any search engine without tracking won't show up here at all.

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • Around 2009 I predicted that very soon, Linux smartphones you can plug into a docking station to use as a desktop PC would become the standard consumer computing device.

  • Scientists discover a treatment that will let you live to be 1000 but it also turns you into a reptile. Do you do it?

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  • No. Being a reptile might be cool, but I'm now 40 and already think that being at the half-way point is fine with me.

  • The next time they call you lazy, remind them of this

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  • Maybe those who died were just too lazy to climb back down.

  • Spare cat box

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  • "Damn, I need this couch scratched to shit and covered in hair right now, and I'm all out of cats."

  • I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings

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  • You take a self-propelling machine and put a hydraulic arm on its side that can be adjusted to be very close to the ground.Mount a chainsaw at the end horizontally. Then experiment with blade lengths and different methods to keep it level over uneven ground.

  • Spare cat box

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  • Are you this guy's neighbor?

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  • Damn, being a lemmy mod is more demanding than I thought!

  • That escalated quickly...

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  • Next: Stop using computers

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  • I work from Monday to Friday, 8:30 till 4pm with a half-hour lunch break, 3 weeks in a row.The fourth week I work from 9:30 till 5, and then I'm on call from 5 till midnight and all day during the weekend.On average I get 1 call per week that requires 15-30 minutes of actual work (remote). I can live my life normally during on-call time as long as I stay sober, within cell phone range, and within a 1h drive to work in case of an emergency.As compensation for doing on-call, I get a company car, about 20% more salary, and 12 additional vacation days, for a total of 42 days per year (plus unlimited sick days).

  • What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?

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  • You stop making new friends, and the friends you've had move away, don't have time anymore due to family and job, and eventually start dying off.If you don't make a conscious effort and invest time into creating new friendships (with considerable difficulty since you yourself are tied to "adult" obligations), you can end up alone with withered social skills before you realize it.

    There's also the danger of collecting bad memories or feelings of regret tied to certain activities, like "I should start playing the guitar again...but I already tried to get back into it multiple times, so why bother?"If you aren't careful that will lead to stopping doing the things you once enjoyed, with no new hobbies to take their place.

  • Artist: David Revoy

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  • Cause it's pretty difficult to paint a selfie.

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  • Planets are round, naturally formed bodies orbiting a star. (I know no planet is perfectly round and you can call any defined tolerance "contrived", but at that point there are no useful and universally fitting definitions for anything in nature. Definitions are always categorizations by human standards)