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I used to constantly have a webcam on from moosegarden.com just to have banckground moose lounging around. Sadly cam is gone but I recommend visiting them if you get a chance.

I became an unwilling victim of such feature in my Razer gaming keyboard.

One day a friends child was visiting and I put some games on for her. The little bastard somehow reprogrammed the 'r' key to empty macro, it took me weeks to find out what it was.

Websockets still not generally available, ticket opened in 2009 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35886348

Do not forget the Toilet Principle, which applies to majority of software UI: Your user wants to be done with your thing ASAP, get what their came for and leave. Any visual style is a bonus, if it doesnt get in the way. I guess it applies to majority of buildings and other things too.

Never heard of those but if it makes you money instead of charging you then its the same.

When do you think that happened? For me it was around 2012. Thats when I exited crypto and never looked back.

I actually built an app before that which would easily transfer money between countries, by finding matching local trades. Unfortunately to turn it into a service, it requires the currency to both be popular and stable.

The article I read it in (in independent Polish press, cannot find it now) said physical exertion makes you more susceptible to radiation, and cited figures around the weight of shells which are apparently quite heavy.

None of these articles seem to mention WHY the tanks are designed this way (although I admit I just searched for keywords).

As far as I know, it is because the current gen of Russian tanks were designed for how they envisioned WW3 40 years ago [1]. Basically the tanks would follow nuclear strikes, and making humans load the ammunition would make them die a lot quicker from radiation, so they made an autoloader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine

The whole thing is barely in the news

I've got an external HDD with battery and its own small WiFi, it makes its contents available through DLNA. It works great, I usually connect through VLC or a gaming console.

I was effectively in isolation for months due to some health issues (pre covid). I knew I was depressed as well and decided to take some LSD. I've taken it a few times before, never had a bad time. This time, I had. I repeated this a few times with the same results, its gonna be some time before I try it again.

Nobody should just expect psychodelics "cure depression". Its possible they can deepen it in some conditions and we do not really understand it (I hope we will thanks to studies like these). They can help, but the lesson I got from this is they cannot replace support from fellow humans.

Best advice I can give is try to only do this with some good company, outside on a sunny day, and it is highly likely it will be an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Yeah, I wish there were more local bakeries in UK, I mostly gave up on trying to find good inexpensive bread.

Dunns Bakery in Crouch End is decent if youre close.

Wasnt Canada viewed as potential enemy for a long time after Independence War? Both Canada and US had plans for invading each other IIRC, with the Canadian forces hoping they would hold on long enough for UK to arrive and help. Though at that time UK was already seeing US more as a partner.

Can't wait for them to fly a drone into one of those things

The non-offensive way would be not to lie.

Please tell me you don't heat/cool your house 24/7. Other than that I can't agree with you more.

You are correct. Lidl pays their staff more than any other UK supermarket. But this might not be the case in other countries, plus doesn't mean they don't abuse their staff in other ways.

Source: friend who was a market researcher for Tesco

IMHO when a game centres around competitive play, and said game also allows you to buy competitive advantage for real money, that is a problem. A situation like this is called "pay to win" and is tempting enough for some game companies to ruin their game with.

This is partially true but Putin and Xi dont happen in a vacuum. Stalin or Hitler didnt happen in a vacuum. The sanctions put on Russia are also meant to affect civilians, as they are partially responsible for the war. And the west will pay some price for the sanctions too, because they share a part of the responsibility too.

However, I agree the author should have picked a better domain name.

To some people, this may seem stupid, but too me it is really just a civil protest, not unlike blocking a road.

The US is a country with the strongest Imperial streak in the west, that is true, but youre still comparing apples to oranges. The Russian brand of imperialism is something from colonialist times, and involves eradicating entire populations, nationalities, to replace with their own. They forcibly resettled over 20 million people last century (or maybe that was just Stalin), countries with rich history which simply do not exist anymore. And the Russian society allows this, because the imperialist mentality is so prevalent that the state gets away with it, because they cannot do wrong, and because the mental slavery of a large part of the population is unshakeable.

And just because these conflicts existed doesnt mean imperialism guides everything. If it did, and the US practiced full imperialism they would own half of middle east by now, and millions of arabs would be dead.

Yeah, thats the imperialist mentality. The west didnt care as much until recently due to being imperialists themselves, but this is no longer the guiding policy (though still a sentiment present in politics and societies).

True, but when you get an entire fighting age group in front of draft commission, you can assess and pick those who have a chance to do well.

Draft only makes sense if your country is actually being invaded. Otherwise it is a massive waste of resources to force people into service they do not wish to perform, nobody gets anything useful out of that.

They may come back for more than the car.

Give his some credit. Maybe he tried and failed, just like he failed in business many times.

The title made me think this is about theft of actual rail tracks, which is a practice not unheard of in many parts of the world.

Unfortunately this is very common. The source to most classics is lost forever.

Tbf its hard to find specific things/tweets you're looking for on Twitter even if you do have an account.

At least that's how it was until I stopped logging in about a year ago. But I can still access linked content. On mobile, I just have to paste the url into the browser address bar and it works.

Ironically, most of Russian money is in London. And whenever a high profile person from Russia needs to leave the country, whether a friend or enemy of Putin, he tends to surface living in UK. An interesting coincidence.