alokir

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[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't either)))))))))

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If you're in the EU and Indian VPNs are slow for you, Hungary has the same price. Around €7 for the family plan and €4.5 for individual premium.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Why? Many European countries struggle with not having enough people.

 
 
[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Before buying your fitst home:

  • bring someone with more experience than you to have a look at it, maybe even a professional
  • scout out the area (on foot) during the day, evening and night
  • visit local businesses like cafés, restaurants, bakeries etc.
  • look at statistics like crime and air quality
  • have a talk with the neighbors, get a sense of the community if you can, otherwise just observe while taking walks
  • if applicable, call the home owner's representative (or whatever the equivalent is where you live), ask them about the home, neighborhood, community, expenses, plans for the future etc.
  • have a set budget of how much you want to spend on it before you move in, don't overstep that amount
[–] alokir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, I hate that. Standup comedy is so overrated, what I want to hear is your phone call!

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Using engine brakes can cause your car to not use fuel in some cases.

I've read and heard this from different sources (even driving instructors) and I don't get how it's possible. Your engine is still running, doesn't it use at least as much as it does while it's idling?

Edit: thank you all for your answers. I knew how the engine brake effect worked, my confusion was about exactly why the engine didn't consume fuel in the process. I now understand so thanks all.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how Svelte's code is built to make this tradeoff worth it. I've been using TS for a long time and in every project the compilation part was the shortest task in the whole build process, especially when you compare it with bundling or running unit tests.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recently found out that the suburbs in the US have NOTHING other than single family homes.

No small grocery store, no hair salon, no post office, no pub, no tiny kebab place around the corner, nothing. There are areas where you have to drive 30 minutes just to buy bread.

Now I understand why 15-minute cities are such a buzz among Americans.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Identity theft. Not as serious as the real life version but imagine that I make an account with your username on another instance, maybe under a domain that's very similar to yours, and start stirring up trouble. If you're someone people recognize I could hurt your reputation or scam people.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You misspelled pacman

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it's more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It's not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don't even come close to communities on Lemmy.

The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid "the other side" is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.

[–] alokir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was working on an enterprise web application, there was a legacy system that everyone hated and we replaced it with a more modern one.

We got a ticket from our PO to introduce a 30 sec delay to one of our buttons. It sounded insane, but he explained that L1 support got too many calls and emails where users thought said button was broken.

It wasn't, they were just used to having to wait up to 5 minutes for it to finish doing its thing, so they didn't notice when it did it instantly.

We gradually removed that delay, 10 seconds each month, and our users were very happy.

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