In Helsinki they have a specific emergency vehicle for clearing tram tracks. It's especially busy during winter as snow takes away some space from the parking and cars tend to start taking space away from the trams.
Article is in Finnish but hopefully automatic translation can get enough across.
CEOs: Finally using software is like talking to an intellectual equal
Most likely not, we're already having trouble with adblue (basically just urea) freezing, especially in the northern parts. There was recently some piece of news where a repair shop in Lapland was up to their neck in repair orders for emissions control systems due to frozen adblue liquid.
Practically all washer fluid sold in Finland uses some alcohol as the deicer, typically just your normal denatured ethanol. I'd also think having urea in the washer fluid would wreak absolute havoc on some parts that get exposed to it – I'm under the impression that it's quite nasty stuff for many different materials.
I could say precisely the same about standard pencils – you have to constantly be sharpening it if you want properly dense handwriting. Mechanical with .2 or .3 and you don't even have to rotate it to get a sharp edge.
1st one, with either .2 or .3 lead. That also happens to be what I main for writing already.
Old-timey equipment has it's own feel – and when the city has a matching aesthetic it can indeed be fairly convincing replica of what it might've looked like. Cars tend to be a giveaway, another is fashion, but just the b&w already does a lot (like in the following example).
Yep – planning to get a Fed 1 at some point as well, I tend to like shooting with rangefinders the most as they're so quick to focus. Maybe some more recent Zorki/Fed variant as well.
Thanks! Was pleasantly surprised how well this thing performs, especially for the price. It was probably this cheap mainly due to the poor driver support.
Yep, precisely.
It's also quite literally one of the recommended methods of installation for e.g. UHB, for which there's even a pre-made script in the repo.
Edit: Also, Chromium devs are aware of this use case and have even added optimizations for it in the past, as visible in the highlighted comment. And the max hosts file size defaults to 32 MiB which is well over the size I'm using (24 MiB). Makes it even weirder for it to bog down completely when experimenting with a ~250 MiB hosts file, as it should just reject it outright according to implementation.
Don't seem to be any disk reads on request at a glance, though that might just be due to read caching on OS level. There's a spike on first page refresh/load after dropping the read cache, so that could indicate reading the file in every time there's a fresh page load. Would have to open the browser with call tracing to be sure, which I'll probably try out later today.
For my other devices I use unbound hosted on the router, so this is the first time encountering said issue for me as well.
You're using software to do something it wasn't designed to do
As such, Chrome isn't exactly following the best practices either – if you want to reinvent the wheel at least improve upon the original instead of making it run worse. True, it's not the intended method of use, but resource-wise it shouldn't cause issues – at this point one would've needed active work to make it run this poorly.
Why would you even think to do something like this?
As I said, due to company VPN enforcing their own DNS for intranet resources etc. Technically I could override it with a single rule in configuration, but this would also technically be a breach of guidelines as opposed to the more moderate rules-lawyery approach I attempt here.
If it was up to me the employer should just add some blocklist to their own forwarder for the benefit of everyone working there...
But guess I'll settle for local dnsmasq on the laptop for now. Thanks for the discussion 👌🏼
Yep, and truth be told if I had the option of paying 90 € for an actual physical copy without microtransactions, DLC instead of having all content in the game from launch, no online access required and no copy protection on the disc, I'd gladly pay that. 100 € even, if it's a particularly good game.
But I have zero trust in that being the case with the increased prices, it's just going to be the same thing we now have, more expensively.