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I think that's what was meant with crap


I would have assumed the crap they meant the sad looking meats and cheeses in the refrigerators.

Dollar Stores are hit and miss. I needed some emergency earbuds for a trip. Wow, I didn't know you could manufacture earbuds that sounded that bad, even at the $1 price point. I am by no means an audiophile either.


Maybe ecosia?


S-Bahn means Schnellbahn, not Straßenbahn - so it's probably not ironic.


Fun fact:

“The term S-Bahn was until 14 March 2012 a registered wordmark of Deutsche Bahn, where at the request of a transportation association the Federal Patent Court of Germany ordered the wordmark to be removed from the records of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.[9] Prior to the said event Deutsche Bahn collected a royalty of 0.4 cents per train kilometer for the usage of the said term.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train#Etymology


Thanks. For some reason I brainfarted and thought it meant “Surface-Bahn” even though that’s Denglish not German and therefore implausible given when it was built.


TIL: I thought it meant Stadtbahn.


(Since I'm going to use a lot of terms where I don't always know the translations, I'm just going to write this one in German.)

Eine "Stadtbahn" ist eine Straßenbahn, die auf separatem Gleiskörper fährt, also nicht auf derselben Spur wie Autos. Der kritische Unterschied zwischen Stadtbahn und S-Bahn ist, dass erstere unter die BOStrab (Betriebsordnung Straßenbahn) fallen, letztere aber unter die EBO (Eisenbahn-Betriebsordnung). Das heißt insbesondere:

- Stadtbahnen fahren auf Sicht und folgen den Straßenschildern und Lichtsignalen für Straßenbahnen. S-Bahnen hingegen folgen den Schildern und Lichtsignalen für Züge und fahren ausschließlich nach Signal oder (bei Ausfall der Signale) nach per Funk erteiltem Fahrauftrag.

- Stadtbahnen verwenden das Stromnetz des jeweiligen Straßenbahnunternehmens, also in Berlin z.B. 600 V Gleichstrom. S-Bahnen sind Eisenbahnen und fahren mit Bahnstrom, also 15 kV 16,7 Hz Wechselstrom.


> S-Bahnen sind Eisenbahnen und fahren mit Bahnstrom, also 15 kV 16,7 Hz Wechselstrom.

Wrong, in Hamburg it uses 15 kV AC only on one track outside the city, everywhere else it's using 1200 V DC.


Interesting. And Wikipedia explains that they intend to standardize on DC again. It appears the power aspect is a case of "Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel".


It’s actually “Stadtschnellbahn”.


In Berlin, which is of course the relevant one here, but the meaning of the S- does vary across cities and history.


If the only backups they have are so old that they are deemed obsolete, that's essentially having no backups at all.


How do the Dutch come into play here? I am confused.


So what? This is not the US where people are sentenced to multiple life sentences. It's the UK, which has a different view on crime and punishment.


I think he is saying that it works for people who are either "at work" or "at home". Once you want to have your work notifactions during your leisure time, it gets complicated.


Maybe he has to support a family or relatives - who are you to judge how he spends his hard earned money?


Just because your job is in Manhattan, does not necessarily mean that you need to live in Manhattan (especially not in that $15k/month penthouse).


XKCDs correct horse battery staple earns merely 40% ("Warning: Your passwords are weak and your digital life is at risk!")

http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...


When in fact it should earn a 0%, because it's in most common password dictionaries now?


I like the password checkers which just say, "This password is completely insecure, because you just gave it to a strange computer on the internet."


http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...

Capitalize the first letter of correct and battery. Then you get 100% :)


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