Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 3y ago
"Carry-Oky" Brr…
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Your life should not depend on your phone working, because it will fail sometimes — it's consumer grade electronics, not a pacemaker or milspec ruggedized device with a minimal attack service (i.e., no Bluetooth, but a safer alternativ
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Fairly grey-hat I would think; the fact that they were doing this at a personal risk to themselves makes me appreciate it more.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The more reason to educate people on that front. Don't rely on your single piece of tech in your pocket to work all the time. Society ought to reacquire a bit of resilience on that front. Need to do critical patient care while commutin
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Good job by the hacker on the train. The more people get used to the idea that their smartphone won't always work when they want it, the more they won't exclusively rely on it when there is a more significant risk. It's a one
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I'm still in favour of a fixed subscription one pays for a service like YouTube in the range of €5/month, with 95% of the proceeds going to creators. If you do nothing, the money will be doled out equally based on some set of fair
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
This is not a codepoint in daily use. It never was outside of those few legacy encodings. If it is not deprecated, it is not so because it never was in common use in the first place. The concept of the ij/IJ as a single codepoint is de
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Stop repeating that nonsense! The current Dutch alphabet has 'Y' as its 25th letter. Not 'IJ'. This is a historical thing. The 'IJ' is a letter, culturally speaking, in the sense that it is capitalized as one,
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
It is (sometimes) one letter culturally speaking and in lettering. A Dutch alphabet as taught to children used to end in 'X IJ Z' instead of 'X Y Z', although this is no longer the case ever since people started eating &
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
His first name might be Jésus. That would explain the diacritic character.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
It is mentioned here: https://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#6a > The Unicode Standard encodes these two compatibility characters [0x0132 Ĳ and 0x0133 ĳ] to provide support for roundtrip conversion of the Dut
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
> for instance a Dutch person would spell 'mijn' as 'm', 'ij', 'n' Not anyone under the age of fifty, unless they want to deal with the follow up question too. ("Is that a long or short ij&#x2
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
You are confusing letter with codepoint and glyph. The IJ is one letter, which consists of two glyphs, and in the Unicode implementation two codepoints. This isn't some historic oversight in Unicode, it was implemented like this based
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
To be fair, digitally, Ĳ is simply spelled using the separate letters I and J in Dutch, despite it being a digraph. That codepoint you used is deprecated in Unicode and only there for historic compatibility reasons. Your family members usin
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
At ⅔ scale, does that mean taller seamen are going to find things a bit cramped?
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Dell is definitely weird about this; I had the same experience. Perfectly satisfied with my laptop (an XPS 13 with Ubuntu on it bought a few years ago), but Dell's online store is just bonkers.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Paying off an extra 10% of the loan each year without penalty is usually possible in the Netherlands for a 30 year mortgage. I did it this year.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
You should blame them. Some people do flourish with five days a week, some don't. Which is why it is great to have this as an option. I work four days, 32 hours, and I need that extra day off. Work is mostly out of my head when I sto
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
The communication overhead seems more than balanced by the extra redundancy you have when people do become unavailable (which they inevitably do) and people not burning out in quite as high a rate. But hey, I'm a Dutchman working 80%,
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Do you have an electric toothbrush? It helps with timing and is generally considered to brush better. But really, get back into the habit of brushing your teeth twice daily. It's one investment that pays of hugely in avoided trouble an
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
That sounds eerily similar to the myth from the linked article. Although there is a chance that some enterprising blacksmith came up with a clever marketing scheme for those to convince the nobility that they really needed such a set of sho
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Please; write 'Lucia de Berk', not 'Lucia de B'. She was exonerated in full, and has since indicated quite clearly that she wishes to be known under her full name, not the initialized suspect name.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Quite a bit further than 500 km; think 600 km (Amsterdam–Berlin) to 1000 km (Amsterdam–Wien). And that is leaving out the additional distance one might travel onwards or towards the night train's stations.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Night trains are already competitively priced in parts of Europe if you factor in the hotel night you save. Take Amsterdam to Innsbruck: Travel 1000 km by car, and you arrive late at night, exhausted, go to sleep at your accommodation, and
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
What is stopping you from just using your old phone until it actually needs replacing? I have a Pixel 6 which takes excellent photos. In two years time, it will still take excellent photos, regardless of what the Pixel 8 or 9 or 10 does.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Interesting. I'm sure the photos don't do the end result justice though: the apple mush looks disgustingly vomity, despite the recipe sounding quite delicious.
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I didn't know that. That's way beyond what Just Eat/Takeaway does in Europe. They have a predatory business model of course; restaurants either join them, or loose customers accustomed to seeing every available delivery optio
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
Wow. That's… Totally not done here in the Netherlands. It's not really an issue either, because doors are typically within a few metres from the street, and people answer fairly promptly when food was ordered (because you are hung
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I see the 'food delivery app' come up a few times in this thread. Do you really need an app to use such services in some countries? Whenever I want to order a meal for delivery I just go to the restaurant's website, or someti
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by Freak_NL 3y ago
I actually assembled a photo album using an online service to collect a few years worth of rather piquant¹ photos my wife and I made. I went all out with fancy options (faux leather cover with embossed title and high quality paper on museum

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