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HN why did you change so much? Did Yahoo! become an investor?
Re:You can change your number on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:16AM (#30255152)
You chose your username here and in most other places. You can even change it easily on many platforms. Your username doesn't require you to show your ID and have your calls tapped and traced towards your person.

Do you want me to continue?

Opposite of my experience, helps you have the proper mechanical info to learn the basics, skipping marketing nonsense and mumbo jumbo. Knowing how to lift something heavy safely goes beyond the practice of strength training, it's a life skill.
Starting Strength by Rippletoe

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:21AM (#30231136)
emojis mid text, emojis mid text, emojis mid text.

pictograms, pictograms, pictograms, gu gu ga ga.

also, this is going to make your address reputation plummet, if you enjoy convincing (often in exchange for a 30$+ commission) 100+ different blacklist operators that you're not a spammer please use this tool

t. grumpy, no-fun, old fart

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? on Sunday January 30, 2022 @03:53AM (#30135166)
Why worry about mainstream crypto adoption to the point you want to remove the freedoms that brought you there in the first place?
Re:How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts on Sunday January 30, 2022 @03:50AM (#30135146)
> Most designers will cringe at the thought of showing users a fallback system font.

Explaining them that web is not paper, helps removing a lot of this childish behaviour.

The "digital plaza" ownership and total control on one's own community is a literal 2.99 euro/month VPS running mastodon away.

Shitposting one's thoughts by arranging pixels on a public forum is NOT a necessity, it's a luxury. If you value it as a necessity consider funding your own for yourself and others you care about, it would end up costing about 7 euro/year if you find even just 4 other like-minded persons.

If there's a community that's going to hunt you down until they find the info they need in your ultraspecific, obscure, niche blog, it's metalheads.

Open a quick forum and work on it, build SEO articles, ask people to share articles on other pages, and grow your community double the one you had on FB instead of despairing and worrying about stupid upvotes. Best of luck

Re:Make Front End Shit Again (2018) on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:51AM (#30006828)
This faked nostalgia is becoming irritating.

Websites which were like that didn't last long, and mostly were hosted on free webservers.

If you want to get rid of nostalgia please spend 60 whole minutes making sense of HTML+PHP5.6+jQuery copy pasted code. And make it IE6 compatible. And use tables for layout. And don't use stackoverflow, caniuse, or an IDE. You'll soon understand how we reached the current state of things.

t. Boomer that spends 8+ hours straightening PHP5.6 sghettis for a living, who still swears by FTPZilla and jQuery scripts.

Re:Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:42AM (#29943896)
I wholeheartedly disagree with this defeatist attitude, which is supposed to magically lead to change more than actually planning and actioning chance itself.

Nowhere in life change happens without trauma. Get good at trauma and you'll get good at life.

I suggest to learn one's own limits through suffering and systematically repeated failure. It's the only way to build not only a map of current yourself, but also a trail towards your future self.

Time is ticking, memento mori, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Re:GravityLight – Light from the Lift of a Weight on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:28AM (#29943829)
Update title to use "nowlight"
Re:Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:23PM (#29910825)
Finally someone mentioning this, it's a gem of an article in a gem of a website
Re:Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown on Sunday January 09, 2022 @08:24AM (#29862977)
Albania also has great sea, amazing food and welcoming people
Re:Bulgaria Freelance Taxes: Detailed Breakdown on Sunday January 09, 2022 @08:21AM (#29862965)
I'm all ears, if you want to explain how this is possible without breaking multiple laws and cross-country agreements
In EU companies have to appoint a medical expert that checks worker's health (for free) upon joining the company, and routinely (1-2 times a year, depends on country I guess). Edit: Could be something that only companies whose workers have to do physical labour ("blue collar" jerbs)

If you call in sick for more than three days you usually go through your own doctor, so that you get a certification that you're taking X days off in order to cure yourself

Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:44PM (#29828852)
Then lose your knife ok.
Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:15AM (#29823139)
Wool is known to take longer to dry, while retaining isolation properties even when drenched
Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:14AM (#29823132)
Problem is that they're bulkier.

Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.

Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:12AM (#29823115)
Not in most European countries, where what matters is whether the blades are lockable or not
Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:10AM (#29823088)
Just put it in any small cardboard box and have it shipped as you would do with a small bag, then collect it from the baggage collection place upon arrival.
Re:OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:03AM (#29823019)
This website has taught me so much about travelling when I was in my early 20s, and I've been living out of a backpack ever since.
That's why "to galvanize" is a thing.
It's not about left and right, it's about being a journalist that has done extensive research and can provide sources, or a spammy clickbaiter.
UK is not part of the EU, and the Express is hardly a newspaper
Finally some sources, thank you. Point b of chapter 2 seems to be the most interesting for this kind of discussion

2. Intelligent speed assistance shall meet the following minimum requirements:

(a)

it shall be possible for the driver to be made aware through the accelerator control, or through dedicated, appropriate and effective feedback, that the applicable speed limit is exceeded;

(b)

it shall be possible to switch off the system; information about the speed limit may still be provided, and intelligent speed assistance shall be in normal operation mode upon each activation of the vehicle master control switch;

(c)

the dedicated and appropriate feedback shall be based on speed limit information obtained through the observation of road signs and signals, based on infrastructure signals or electronic map data, or both, made available in-vehicle;

(d)

it shall not affect the possibility, for the drivers, of exceeding the system’s prompted vehicle speed;

(e)

its performance targets shall be set in order to avoid or minimise the error rate under real driving conditions.

A copy of a zero hedge article with little to no sources, in the homepage? Ok
They can barely get them to pay taxes, let alone pay fines. Give it time and keep on avoiding sites which break the law
Re:How South Korean TV took over the world on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:33AM (#29792974)
I'm talking about CIA funds to get Italy out of the soviet area of influence (aka the Italian Economic Boom of the 50s), why would you pull the Roman Empire or the Renaissance out of your hat.
Re:How South Korean TV took over the world on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:31AM (#29792959)
Ask the American missile bases and navy stations in central and southern Italy, conveniently placed right in the middle of the medkterranean.

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