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You're close. It's not Gmail, the product that killed it. It's the business model of "free products." That's because Gmail is not the product - it's a delivery platform that's just useful enough to you to keep using it. The product is ads, and you are not the customer.
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Name and shame.
Yes, but "spit valve" is a misnomer. It is water condensation that collects inside the tubes and have to be removed. For anyone other than absolute beginners, anyway.
Having a single (government ID) is bad, so instead we hand our personal details over to one of a dozen private companies, none of which has any contract with us, the user, and all of whom happily share it with the (20 or so, in Persona's case) other companies they use to farm out bits and pieces of the identity verification job. Sure this is better.
Meanwhile, I have never had any fraud, scam, identity theft or anything else as a result of, or with any connection to my country's national ID. But I can't avoid also having to hand over my details to private (and foreign to me) companies that only exist because Americans can't get act together.
Srsly.
They are designed to survive being recorded by a phone at an angle.
Any idea what this looks like? I assume it's not visible to the human eye, but being able to survive this level of degradation is quite impressive.
the journalists found that it's a 57-year old lady who's never been known in the scene, who was married to a French banker whose parents survived the holocaust, but in the last decade fell into the rabbit hole of white-victimization-theory.
Just to clarify, she fell into the rabbit hole, not him. He divorced her. Your comment can easily be read both ways.
700-ish tonnes - it's in the wikipedia article:
"In 2020, Buquebus originally commissioned Incat to deliver a new ship to use dual-fuel propulsion, capable of operating on liquefied natural gas and diesel, with around 400 tonne of main engines, 100 tonne gearboxes, 100 tonne cryogenic fuel tanks and 100 tonne fuel."
There's a python module for this:
https://pypi.org/project/ffmpeg-python/
https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python
>>> import ffmpeg
>>> video_metadata = ffmpeg.probe('test.mp4')
>>> print(video_metadata['streams'][0]['codec_name'])
h264