sandman1906

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Re:Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:05AM (#37810540)

I've taken that route in a couchette car twice. I haven't had any issues and didn't find the quality of the service to be any different than other NightJets. I mean, it's not exactly luxury travel (in a couchette car), but I have nothing to complain about.

I'm not a fan of the fact that ÖBB couchette compartments don't have locks on their doors. But the sleeper cabins do. Were the people who were robbed in a sleeper?

Re:Symmetry in Chaos on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:54PM (#37112286)

Do you remember the title of it?

Re:Tell HN: Books Printed by Amazon on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:34AM (#36630156)

These were all books that were quite recently published and I have seen all of them in bookshops.

In the past, I have received n>1 books which were sold by marketplace sellers but fulfilled by Amazon. Same inscription "Printed by Amazon", but these clearly had things wrong with them, like font issues.

Tell HN: Books Printed by Amazon

Posted by sandman1906 on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:57AM
from the self-post dept.

I buy a lot of books from Amazon (EU). Recently, more and more of the books I received were printed by Amazon themselves with the message "Printed in Poland by Amazon Fulfillment" on the last page.They are of decent quality, though sometimes the cover art might be lower-resolution than that of an equivalent book from a bookshop. I double checked and all of these were sold by Amazon themselves...

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Re:Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia... on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:48PM (#30471495)

Jens Stoltenberg is Norwegian

Re:Ask HN: How do you track your billable working hours? on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:03AM (#28301118)

Toggl

Re:Google to require Covid vaccines for workers returning to office on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:00PM (#27989647)

Proof of prior infection? Positive antibody test?

Re:How the heart influences what we perceive and fear on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:06PM (#23874886)

Have you considered that it might be costochondritis?

I'm 23 and healthy. I went into ER a few months back with high heart rate, chest pressure, and palpitations. They couldn't find anything wrong with my heart, monitored me for a few days and discharged me without a diagnosis.

For 2-3 weeks after that I still had that same occasional chest pressure/tightness. This might be a coincidence but it started easing away when I started doing various exercises meant for costochondritis.