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New comment by theshowmustgo in "Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging"

theshowmustgo — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:06:58 +0000

"Taycan spends a total of less than 2.5 hours charging on a cross-country drive, the shortest charging time to cross the United States in an electric vehicle – the benchmark being 7 hours, 10 minutes, and 1 second"

What did he do, drive 25MPH average?

It is just advertising for Electrify America (owned by VW, like Porsche), and a worthless Record without telling how long they took to drive the whole distance.

A Tesla Model S crossed the country in 42 hours and 17 minutes.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed"

theshowmustgo — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:55:50 +0000

Yes, this is a thing. And even more frequently, online assessments done by someone else. Somehow Java developers got hired who don't know the difference between Java and JavaScript.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "Dutch government to pay million Euro fine over racist data discrimination"

theshowmustgo — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 07:06:20 +0000

Amsterdam is not reflective of Netherlands, that is saying like NYC or Las Vegas is reflective of the US.

"Non Dutch native working in childcare centres would mean their kids didn't learn Dutch properly". If those non-natives don't speak proper Dutch or with a heavy accent I could understand these parents, kids pick this up and it will influence their learning and future prospects negatively.

I am sorry you felt treated badly but that is not racist, a Dutch person would also get "fuck you" (rot op) if you ordered just for closing, especially because cafes close at 2am in Amsterdam.

You have to adapt to local culture, most people use debit cards and don't pay cash, especially not small items with large bills, if someone tries that, the bill is most likely a fake.

Calling to try to change resident registration?? If you could do that, anyone could easily commit fraud.

Some ghettoisation??? Yes, there are no-go areas, I lived there, try to get a taxi or uber at night going to the K buurt.

An enormous amount (like the average number of people living in a Dutch city) of non-western, low educated immigrants (>80% young men) are coming to Netherlands each year, there is no housing so the government is putting them into camps. This causes a lot of stress and criminality on the surrounding villages. Busses need to drive with police protection.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "Dutch government to pay million Euro fine over racist data discrimination"

theshowmustgo — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 06:27:49 +0000

The tax service paid special attention to immigrants for the day childcare support system because immigrants in average commit more fraud (1) on other areas. This was understandable, not meant to be racist but very wrong and illegal. Also they just clawed the money back and you have to proof that you were innocent and they did not look at the evidence. Tax service uses outdated computer systems which are not connected to local system. Politicians promised to solve it and never did (still not).

(1) Many commit fraud by accident because of language issues and complicated rules. Also there are a lot of traveling immigrants who make mis-use of the Dutch welfare state by applying child credits or unemployment benefits while abroad.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old"

theshowmustgo — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:50:40 +0000

Nice but how do you prevent overwrites? What about directories/folders and the files in that directory/folder?

I have:

  Movie Bla (2020)
    Movie Bla (2020).mp4

But also:

  Movie_Bla_(2020)
    Movie_Bla_(2020).mp4
    Movie_Bla_(2020).srt

Would not like to lose files like the the srt.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges"

theshowmustgo — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:12:26 +0000

Even worse, if you Google my name, the first hit is an empty Facebook page. I don't want to have anything to do with Facebook and I never used any of their products. So somebody (or Facebook themselves) made an account in my name.

There is no way to get rid of it, there is a form where you have to fill in all your personal details and upload a photo ID, but it fails to submit, with "unknown error". Tried several browsers.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "Costco co-founder to CEO: “If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you.”"

theshowmustgo — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:07:32 +0000

Costco killed the combo pizza so I killed Costco from my shopping trips.

Good to see that even Google removed Costco from their search results when you search for Pizza.

New comment by theshowmustgo in "An Overview of Micron’s Automata Processor (2016) [pdf]"

theshowmustgo — Thu, 03 May 2018 12:47:13 +0000

Don't they have spell checker in Virginia? "Reasearch Areas"

New comment by theshowmustgo in "Backdoor in DVR firmware sends CCTV camera snapshots to email address in China"

theshowmustgo — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 03:16:38 +0000

Someone with the same name has some chinese CCTV apps on the Apple appstore, one updated 5 days ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipctester/id870933100

And on Google Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juanvision...

Do they also contain backdoors? Domain and email used: www.dvr163.com caostorm@163.com Screenshots in the app come from this site: http://www.juancctv.com/jishu.asp