DrSiemer

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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Sorry, but no. As someone who is a bit obsessed with language and the exact meaning of words, I have to stress that this is incorrect. "Gezellig" always implies having a good time with other people. Being alone, no matter how comf
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
As a Dutch person I would not. "Gezellig" generally implies people physically being together. The spontaneous atmosphere it usually refers to is nigh impossible to emulate in a virtual environment.
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
They might try to force developers to offer Apple IAP as an option for centralized in app purchases. I don't think they can enforce the default setting though. And developers will have the right to offer a cheaper non-centralized in-ho
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Kids today have it easy. To pull this prank on a highschool teacher (who had me sort out some CAD software, in exchange for skipping boring classes) I had to modify autoexec.bat and recreate a virus message in there, based on something I ha
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
There's plenty of ways in which we could improve on the current setup. Everything could be so much easier, for one thing. Basic things like animation, drag & drop and responsive design all require libraries or extensive knowledge t
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Supporting legacy constructs forever can be hugely detrimental to progress though. Something completely new would fasttrack innovation. It could leave out all the quirky workarounds and get advanced features built in or easily extensible. W
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Note: the Chrome-only stuff I mentioned runs in a sandbox environment and will not make any difference to the global market. Public projects will work just fine in FF. But of all the things I am actively fighting for, like decreasing the em
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
If it's where your passwords and addons live, switching takes effort. Besides, what is the big advantage of Firefox? Chrome has 65% of the worldwide market share. Firefox does not even have 4 [1]. About half of the stuff I build will l
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
The new Chrome tab group is not great, but it does help. One group for things that are being processed (handle asap), one group for "stuff to check", one for each project I'm working on and one for entertainment. All with sho
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Nice, that was our first as well! Fortunately my dad kept it, so in theory it should still work. One of my oldest memories is hearing that digitized guitar intro of Mach 3 for the first time. I've played so many hours of Digger on that
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It was not allowed to use notes on your presentation in this class. It was a very demanding school. The curriculum for French was to learn everything you learn on a normal school in the first two years and then spend the next 4 learning mor
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One of my proudest cheats was cramming the keywords of an entire presentation in French on a tiny round piece of paper, stuck to the glass of my wrist watch, so I could literally cheat while the whole class and teacher were watching me. Som
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Digging up and purifying your own water source is a bit more effort than installing a widely available and well documented crack
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Nope, confirmed. Dubs were done by ZDF and they did that with Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies. Also the Persuaders (die Zwei). Now I finally understand why they are always raving about those crappy old westerns on a German image board
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
The top comment on the telemetry commit [1] indicates it is disabled by default, and on compiling as well. Their reasoning for adding it sounds legit. Am I missing something here, what is the point of this fork? [1] https://githu
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Compared to your aliens, observing the entire history of earth, 400 years is relatively short. You keep comparing the colosseum killings to events that transpired over large geographical areas, for different purposes than entertainment. As
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Well, we are talking about many killings in a single location over a relatively short period of time. We are also specifically dealing with a historic artefact that symbolizes these killings. Pointing out how bizarre this is, according to t
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All of this started with this simple remark: > 10000 people and 30000 animals in the first 100 days. I would guess that millions of lives were lost there. Nobody was analyzing or defining history here. It was not a judgment on Roman mora
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
So just because it is a long time ago, it is not allowed to be in awe of the staggering amount of deaths that occurred in one single location? You appear to argue that there is only one valid attitude when it comes to historic artefacts; tr
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Ah, yes, thank you, I was a bit unsure about that word!
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
> Please don't put word in my mouth as I never said what you just mentioned. I didn't, I specifically wrote "appears to" to prevent doing that. But where do you get this idea from that nobody is allowed to have any ki
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
In the context of discussing the value of the colosseum I used the wrong word here. The simple remark that started this was just someone expressing wonder over how many people must have died there, purely for the entertainment of the masses
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Most of the people here will be aware of all the examples you link to, and are generally appalled by them. But the fact that the world is still not perfect does not somehow prevent us from looking at the past through the lens of today'
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Not really. Preservation creates job and history inspires people, especially when it can be experienced directly like this. I seriously doubt it inspires many to build their own though.
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Preservation. Research. Also, it's not that beautiful, it's basically large crumbling catacombs without a ceiling. Visitors could already walk directly above them and see most of it.
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Archeologists and historians can see it. Mass tourism often does have a detrimental effect.
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A huge amount of people being slaughtered in a single location purely for entertainment is not really something you can offset by the amount of lives lost for the "benefit" of half a continent. It's a useless comparison. Besi
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The Netherlands. You'd think that a country that has most of it's important urban areas literally below sea-level would be a little more concerned about the changes to our climate. But nah, most of us still ignore it. A Dutch expr
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by DrSiemer 5y ago
Butterflies. I miss the fields full of multicolored butterflies I used to play in as a kid. High grass used to be green in the summer, now most of it is dead and yellow. Driving an entire day for vacation and finding just a few dead bugs on
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More than any of his previous shows I can't think about anything else since I've seen Inside. Sometimes you will laugh, but this is not comedy. It is so much more than that. The review is flawed, as it is clearly written by someon

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