Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I use GrapheneOS, and wouldn't have it any other way, but its prolonged existence depends on Google not making any asshole moves in their next Pixels, and on the (highly appreciated) efforts of a few dedicated individuals. And like Lin
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
As a Dutchman from outside of Amsterdam (you know, most of us): Hah! It's not even that they won't speak Dutch, often they can't! Sometimes you'll be hard-pressed to find someone capable of speaking Dutch in Amsterdam
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Don't forget the mandatory '© OpenStreetMap contributors'. https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guideline...
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Then you need to make those functions public, […] That depends on the language, but often there will be a way to expose them to unit tests while keeping them limited in exposure. Java has package private for this, with Rust the unit te
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
For unit testing those sub-sections in a clear and concise manner (i.e., low cognitive load). As long as the method names are descriptive no jumping to and fro is needed usually. That doesn't mean every little unit needs to be split ou
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That short/long toggle in the top-right seems to expand and collapse the article. It defaults to short. Reading this article in its short form I kept wondering if I was missing something relevant (cognitive load++), but with the long f
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That's nice and all, but when you don't believe in their god, it becomes rather awkward.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
If JMAP is to be successful, having support in Thunderbird is a must have first step. It's not helpful if the same party that provides the mail service provides the frontend as well. In that case you might as well leave out the open pr
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
While that is avoidable by sticking to a coding style, that horrid and unavoidable 'fun' instead of 'function' (or 'fn') just saps my will to work on such a codebase.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Electric cars. Although that zany hwooooooooo sound they make is naff.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It seems to have been more nuanced than that: https://www.tintinologist.org/articles/defence.html https://freedium.cfd/bef351e1dfa8
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
True, but unlike Tintin, Astérix is still being published, and (unlike, say, Spirou) the new editions by the writers and artist who succeeded Goscinny and Uderzo are actually good as well.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Everything is an 'app'. No need to understand where the data goes, where it is stored, who owns it, what they know about you and what is shared with third parties, what is costs to provide such a service (even though none of its u
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Who are you to judge whether someone who has lived for over seven decades should go on living or not? If they feel their life is done, have nothing left to live for, and fear degenerating into a husk of their former selves (dementia) stuck
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Lots of things are missing. The kingdom of Frisia (6th to 8th century CE) is completely absent.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Moxie can’t perform core functionality without cloud connectivity. The usual story, and more e-waste generated.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The dates and sovereignties seem in order, but the map is modern no matter how far you go back. The boundaries shift, but the coastline remains in its 2024 state. This means historical seas are missing, and present-day polders are present i
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Right, dados are one of the things that baffle a lot of European woodworkers, myself included. Not that they don't seem useful; just a little on the iffy side of safety.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Good and fairly high, respectively. That doesn't stop people from woodworking though.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Why on earth would you send letters? These are all huge corporations with sizeable legal departments. They either know or they should, and most importantly, are paid to handle this. Moreover, you're not likely to be heard or understood
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The question that bothers me whenever SawStop comes up: why does it appears as if this isn't much of a thing outside of the US? Or is it and I'm just not seeing it from my Dutch viewpoint? Does anyone know of anyone who has writte
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
It's fine. Just be sure to immediately spit it out if you ever taste even a hint of blueberry.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This AI is talking as if it is in the final stages of a multi-day interrogation by a very hush-hush and deniable branch of government. I give it another five minutes before it breaks down and will sell out its mother just to be allowed to s
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
'AI Stole the Joy of Programming' is not quite the title that blog post has.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Oh, this is common. Fun when you have two different dependencies which both use Guava, but different versions, and you can't upgrade them to a common shared one. The solution there usually means having to shade Guava for one of them, w
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Wait, why are your packets of seed arriving empty all the time? Customs declaring them exotic and harmful? Mulberry mobsters? Moths in the delivery chain?
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The conclusion to draw there is that Shakespeare honestly doesn't make for very good reading today unless you are also delving into the historical context or considering the major impact of his works on humanity's culture from the
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Black Friday is one of those imported things we could do without. Did you know shops in the Netherlands are now massively participating in Black Friday? We didn't even have this 'event' ten years ago. Because of our Sinterkla
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> the models being women has no impact on the subject It's part of the context; design doesn't exist in isolation. Was this prototype aimed at women? Was it just sexism or its off-shoot 'sex sells'? Or were there actu
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The future of the past looked so much more interesting. Not practical, but certainly interesting. I'm curious why the author of this piece decided to use the gender neutral pronoun for the women who modelled this odd machine. They wrot

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