Quick test. I typed in "Berlin". First hit was Berlin Stralau (correct), second hit was ... Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands?!
i have to say, it is a good piano there at schiphol :)
Readit NewsiRobbery commented on Show HN: A website to find public pianos pianos.pub/... · Posted by u/qrv3w
Their name makes me think they work on asus laptops all the time, probably just me. :)
iRobbery commented on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier ghacks.net/2022/03/17/eac... · Posted by u/gslin
I switched to Brave - no regrets
little snitch pops up more here for updates checks and others i assume for brave (idle, not browsing) than chrome does.
We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form. People that are getting angry need to point that at the cause, their own government. If more grace time is necessary for some to move, we will provide it. Free speech is one thing but this decision is more about a government that is committing war crimes against innocent people that we want nothing to do with.
You might want to consider terminating for Belarus too now that they are invading Ukraine as well.
iRobbery commented on Why We Banned Legos (2006) rethinkingschools.org/art... · Posted by u/ColinWright
I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it's analogous to physical abuse.
A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it's a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don't know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and/or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).
The teachers aren't physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won't really understand what's happening or what they can and should do about it.
Share the exact same thought, and it made me wonder dont these kids have legos at home which they play with, with siblings?
iRobbery commented on I quit my job to make free web tools nslookup.io/blog/i-quit-m... · Posted by u/pul
gazelle-kopen.nl
Would have expected this could rake in some SEO traffic though, but surprised that didnt work for you. Or maybe surprised isnt the right word, maybe i have the initial high hope for it when you registered it and tried it :)
techcrunch leading me through 'https://guce.advertising.com' when i open links or their site directly... weird
iRobbery commented on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review addictionjournal.org/post... · Posted by u/caaqil
If someone said they got mental problems from regular alcohol/amphetamine/antidepressants/benzodiazepines consumption nobody would question them.
But when they share a negative experience with cannabis, suddenly a bunch of stoners appear and try to discredit their story! Your friend got schizophrenia from smoking weed? Nah bro, he was already predisposed, and by chance it activated after smoking weed. You have memory problems after years of smoking? Nah, you might be just getting old, we may never know!
Don't be so insecure about your drug habits. Cannabis can be harmful, so what? Billions of people smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, eat sugary treats, all while fully aware that it can be harmful (but it might cause no harm to them!). You smoke cannabis because you enjoy getting stoned, even though it might be harmful. You're an adult who weighed the pros and cons, and came to the conclusion that the risks are acceptable for you.
But please, don't try to discredit other people's experiences!
I merely tried to remind the comment poster of the option that there could easily be other causes for his observations of the people has has known. And i can't see why you would instantly label this is discrediting.
Dear friend of mine, who i used to smoke with developed psychosis. So i know consuming cannabis can have negative effects. Cannabis has many compounds, and many studies show some of them have good properties others maybe bad properties. Some science says they cause mental issues other science and study show the opposite.
Again i just find the 'cant do math in head again' a weird statement or things to directly relate to smoking weed. There are plenty of people i know that have never smoked weed and can't do head math as well as they could when they were in high school.
Also to refer to your statement about weed & schizofrenia, there is plenty of research done, but nothing conclusive. e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32839678/
Anything can be harmful, if you use/eat/drink/smoke it enough. And surely not everybody just smokes weed because they 'like being stoned' as you write. Sure does not count for me.
iRobbery commented on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review addictionjournal.org/post... · Posted by u/caaqil
I can confirm, I have known some people who smoked Cannabis basically the whole day long for several years. They lost certain cognitive abilities, e.g. they were not really able to do calculations in their head anymore.
They also got severe problems with their biorhythm by the way.
I stopped cold turkey smoking weed daily after 25 years, i can tell you from personal experience this does not apply to everybody.
It also seems rather strange to take one property of their lives and use it to explain their in your eyes loss of abilities. Not doing something for a long time also has this effect, so perhaps they for many years didnt need to do calculations in their head, or use their high school french and so on.
If you said you knew a twin, and one of them smoked weed daily and they had identical lives, and one of them lost cognitive abilities and the other didnt, i would be more likely to give your reply any credit.
iRobbery commented on Why infrastructure engineers prefer MySQL mikecoutermarsh.com/why-i... · Posted by u/kpommerenke
I manage Oracle, MySQL and, Postgresql (and even one SQLite, but "manage" doesn't quite describe the job).
Postgresql and MySQL are about the same complexity to manage: it's easy. Even compiling Postgresql is quick and trivial.
But Postgresql has a lot of features that make it the best database for an enterprise environment, especially FDW. Oracle has HS, but it is slow and not very reliable.
Overall, I'd say Postgresql and MySQL take hours of my time yearly. Oracle takes months of my time each year. SQLite doesn't take any time, but its use is limited.
I fully agree, but i slightly prefer postgresql over mysql due to their licensing