Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Mostly because, and this is the kicker, that does not matter to the vast majority of people buying coffee . If I buy a cup of coffee with a listed price of €2, I pay €2. I know that 9% of that is value added tax (here in the Netherlands),
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The 90s is completely and utterly hot right now for anyone born after it. Embrace the faux nostalgia or make a mint on Vinted.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Yup. Same with wood and fabric. Those kind of parts or components I can replace and work with. Plastic? That's a whole different ball game due to the potentially low tolerances in terms of dimensions and the nature of the type of plast
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Not even the date of birth is necessarily stable. The exact date is of course, but in some cases it was registered wrongly; this happens sometimes with immigration. National identification numbers should be opaque; just a number unique in i
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
When writing about medical issues, spelling matters. If you don't like being corrected, then just ignore the helpful hint and move on. Doubling down on a typo is just weird.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Odd. My Pixel 6 is really quite a good camera. The stock app on GrapheneOS is great when you just want to take a quick photo, and OpenCamera is full featured and very useful when you want to tweak the settings and fiddle around with various
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Effectively. There are two PRs (one a stand-in minimal solution, another a fully worked out one) which solve this problem; neither has gotten merged or even seriously considered. If you dig around a little the gatekeeping patterns become ob
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The title of the article is 'Your Fast Food Is Already Automated', not 'Fast food is already automated?'.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Absolutely possible; that's not the problem here. The deeper problem is that Carto gets a free ride on the website as the incumbent house style. You can fork it, but doesn't make it the default style shown on openstreetmap.org. Yo
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
> causing pains that discourage mappers from contributing Like not rendering (bus dedicated) roads despite them being tagged as (bus dedicated) roads using a tag approved by the community three and a half years ago. The openstreetmap.org
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I've read (and engaged with) everything in that issue, but I still don't understand the vague 'well the tag is just too loosely defined' argument. I mean, sure, there is some ambiguity around the exact limit of this tag,
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Also don't forget about apps like OrganicMaps and OsmAnd, which bring their own styles and technology, and, of course, downloadable off-line maps. For people on Android: get OsmAnd~ from F-Droid instead of Google's app store, and
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Yeah, there was a bad bit of vandalism recently. The data was quickly restored though. This is not too different from vandalism on Wikipedia, but instead of facts getting mangled, navigation can be impacted. Odd that that company hit one of
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Note that the author of this piece is also directly responsible for blocking the acceptance of many new features in Carto, including community-developed and broadly accepted features like highway=busway: https://github.com/g
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
That is exactly the economic reason this idea doesn't work. Pawnbrokers know the value of things and how much effort they can invest in any one item. Selling anything they won't take yourself usually means that you'll have to
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
That's heavily locale dependent advice. This is not something you can do without it getting reported and treated as trash everywhere, and in many places you'll just anger your neighbours and inconvenience the municipal trash depar
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The market price for two used hypothetical coffee makers¹ (same manufacturer/type/age) is rarely the same. One has scratches, stood in direct sunlight for years, and has a few parts in need of replacing soon, the other was used tw
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
It seems to have gotten imbedded as 'just the way you ask users things' in UI developer's mindsets: Do you want to enable push notifications? [Yes please] [Later] How about [No]? Just add a note that I can alway
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Literature is not really art appreciated through vision. It is a mental exercise. Reading by seeing the text is just one form of uploading the text into your brain; Braille and audio are two others. The layout and appearance of the text can
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
> If anyone knows Mark Zuckerberg, please tell him to return our account Facebook Account, please. I'm surprised no one at Meta fixed this yet. The Perry Bible Fellowship is a really established web comic.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Exactly. My key is on there because we have a shared password-store synched in a private git repo encrypted with the keys of select number of colleagues for some work credentials and keys. It is useful to be able to find each other's k
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
That makes this whole SawStop thing so confusing to me. I'm sure some fingers are lost in Europe by table saws, but that doesn't seem to be anywhere near the 'must mandate auto-breaking saw tech' level.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Those people from the modern day province of Frisia (or Fryslân ), myself included, are called Frisians in English though. Same linguistic borrowing, but different time period, so the horses ended up Friesian and the people (and ever
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
From the article in The Register: > "It's clearly causing confusion for some portion of users. We recognize that the average user doesn't have a law degree," Kardwell said. Making a mistake by stuffing their terms of
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
For this I would only consider something client-side encrypted a proper back-up when using the cloud.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Oh absolutely. Don't forget about the giant mess Microsoft made in countries like the Netherlands, where Excel will refuse to automatically open comma-separated values files (you know, CSV), unless the separator is a semicolon — beca
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Whether axes are drawn or not is partly a typographical concern too. If those facilitate easier reading of the graph, than foregoing them because the distance to the axis of a data point isn't relative seems a bit strong. For cases whe
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I was surprised by how complete some sets of mine where when they came over. I don't doubt the 99%, although in my case they are not mine any longer as such, but my five year old son's. Lego stashes do indeed get hoarded for a gen
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
A local toy store here has one set of shelves filled with Sluban (about ⅓ the size of their Lego offering), and it's just bleak to see. The shop focused their Sluban offering on military hardware for some reason (perhaps because Lego d
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
There is a difference between straight up porn and fan-service (OnlyFans) and the adult artwork and erotic educational content on Gumroad. I would be surprised if these suffer from the same amount of chargebacks.

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