Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
LeoCAD is really nice and smooth to work with, and on Linux a much better experience than Lego's own Bricklink Studio. Unfortunately, for instructions you can't really get away from Studio, and while importing the model made in Le
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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
It's a skill, but it's not too hard to get decently good at it. It's mostly a matter of actually building your model in the real world and iteratively improving your digital model and instructions from there, and changing the
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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
Or 'drone accident scapegoat'.
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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
> I could only find 4 names: They haven't published the full list of the 34 researchers accepted so far: > Namen van de 34 bursalen maakt NWO niet bekend, aldus een woordvoerder, omdat de aanstellingsprocedures nog lopen en sommi
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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
I don't really think it's primarily the CoMaps devs and contributors warning others about OrganicMaps. It's mostly OpenStreetMap contributors (e.g., mappers) like myself who followed the relevant discussions and events and de
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by Freak_NL 3mo ago
Quite. At least Google delivers some value to society, despite being mostly evil. Klarna is exclusively parasitic, getting people needlessly into debt and pushing a buy now pay later mentality for luxury products.
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
> How did these people live through COVID and never encounter a QR code they had to scan with a phone? Was that a requirement? I got through it without scanning a single QR code. I had my vaccination status available as a QR code (on pap
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
It definitely reads as a 'fuck you' to me. Is there a group of people that responds well to that last sentence?
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Why refuse Adolf Hitler, but allow Vladimir Putin? I mean, it's not a race, but if you're going to draw a line in the sand (labelled 'no admittance to utter cockwombles' or something like that) I know where Putin would
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
> […] but then we'd have to make sure we get every single saved game for all the various games moved over […] Every single game save? Why? I get it if you are deep into a month long Factorio game or have a huge Minecraft world, but
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Does it say 'don't bother with a regex beyond checking it contains an @ surrounded by arbitrary pieces of text?' This still sounds like it is leading developers to conclude that they should use a too complex regex and then se
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
This all old hat, unfortunately, and also a thing which will be gotten wrong by developers for years to come. Just shouting 'give me a regex for validating email addresses' will make an LLM like ChatGPT happily output bullshit sug
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
The classic 'those guys did something bad, so I am going to go with the guys who are absolute assholes doing several orders of magnitude more bad things now instead' response. That usually means that whoever utters it was just loo
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Outsourced stuff is late and expensive too, just not directly the responsibility of the minister or secretary of state because of the magic piece of paper in between. IT is hardly something we need to do occasionally, so build up a departme
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
“This year's Eurovision winner: Tommy, Käärijä, and Joost, the Euroboys!” “Huh. Israel hardly got any votes this year.”
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
It's an unfortunate Dutch way of doing things. The firm believe that the market will solve it if you have a contract that says thing will be solved. Write a tender, pick the cheapest party, trust in contracts, hope it won't break
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
(Leiden being the town in the Netherlands where Leiden University is.)
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Infinite email masks. Doesn't help much once your real email address is out there though.
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Sending those thousands of requests is something your mail client does for you. Deleting 5000 emails takes a few minutes, but how often do you do that? I can select a bunch of emails in Thunderbird and just do stuff with it just fine. For s
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
I'm fine with the static ads in the digitised print edition and the paper edition I get on Sataruday (even though I find some objectionable), but I block any and all digital ads with uBlock Origin, whether I'm a subscriber or not.
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
Who are those people? Those perpetually amused folk who feel not a bit of rage when a dickover is slapped in their face, and for whom entering their e-mail address in the dickover is actually a thing they would seriously consider?
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
They do. Those are designed to make you click 'Oh for fuck's sake. Just set the fucking cookies.'
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by Freak_NL 4mo ago
It's all fun and games until your neighbour in a terraced house or apartment building unwittingly starts an uncontrollable battery fire. Electric scooters and those 'hoover boards' from a few years ago are notorious when it c
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
So many posters here going on about cheap IKEA tables. Did they ever visit IKEA? I have an IKEA wooden dinner table with the top made from sturdy panels of solid wood bars glued together for eternity. We've only had it for twenty years
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
The DreamLand bit seems off: > DreamLand: another toy store chain with venerable Belgian roots owned by Colruyt group that briefly had a fancy underground store near a new parking lot not even five years ago. Of course it had to go. […]
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
So why are us southpaws a rarity? The article and the linked research paper both point to bipedalism and bigger brains as the cause, and the paper vaguely seems to hint at selective pressures leading to the right hand getting favoured by th
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
'Everyone' is treated as singular (aside from 'everyone are' sounding completely wrong).
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
You can. It just means that the customer has to do the proper analyses and risk evaluation for their own SOC2 (or ISO 27001 or whatever) certification. Just focus on providing a good value application and be frank about what you do, why you
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
Two posters above found that the signal was more like “get ready for a gen-AI article filled with vague woolly sentences”. Wasn't there anything relevant available? Screenshots of the new tools in a before/after collage perhaps?
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by Freak_NL 5mo ago
Sure. In all likelihood ShinyHunters will 'gracefully' point out the weak spots leveraged in the system of the 'customer' upon receiving payment to prevent this happening again next week. They have a rather strong incent

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