Freak_NL

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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> (Presumably you want the issues goy care about to be fixed!) Is 'goy' a typo? I only know of its meaning as 'non-Jewish person'.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I'll never understand how people can think 'Gruyère' and then imagine cheese with holes in it… A fun fact: the Dutch don't usually think of Emmentaler when you say 'Zwitserse kaas', but of these paper shakers f
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Yep, the municipality decides on such matters. Places do still occasionally have their names changed (rarely of course, because it involves a lot of work including updating addresses), usually aligning with local use. In the case of De West
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Correct. Frisia (or Fryslân) is a bilingual province. Frisian is an official language of the Netherlands. Someone called in front of a judge in the north of the Netherlands has the right to be heard in Frisian, for example. Fun fact: villag
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Reading something like the Canterbury Tales is interesting as a Frisian, because old English really is close to Frisian — much closer than Dutch.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I don't like the 'fear' part. You should respect your tools, not fear them. Fear makes you do stupid things, respect stops you from doing stupid things.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Radial arm saws fall in the category of dado-blades etc.; woodworking tools really on the far end of dangerous, and not even commonly used in a lot of countries (excepting the US for some reason).
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
This article highlights exactly why a HSM may be potentially elegant, but also really really dependant on embedding the process for using it in your operational processes (which would include performing that operation regularly to ensure it
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
For 7 × 5 using a calculator should not even be a thing for most people. Sure, some people just can't do the basic tables, but most people should be able to tell how much seven €5 items cost in a supermarket. If you could do this as a
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> We are all consuming content in this “second screen” era, during which producers of shows are told to keep things basic because people are probably reading their phones while watching TV. Unfathomable. Yet it seems to be quite common t
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
He landed in Australian territory in September 1939. The war had just started on the 1st of that month. Even if he had met someone during those days/weeks, chances are they hadn't heard of Hitler's invasion of Poland either,
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Bricklink seems like a pretty lousy place to sell counterfeit Lego bricks. Sellers get reviewed by the buyers (and vice versa), and the buyers there are pretty much committed to genuine Lego bricks (and vocal of sellers not keeping up their
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Are you deliberately being obtuse? Do you have an axe to grind? 'Open source' has a commonly agreed upon meaning, 'source available' has a meaning. You are mistaking open source for just source available.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Every image feels fake. Like picking up and biting into a petit four to find it is fondant all the way through. I find no creativity. No human touch. Little red riding hood looks like a Chinese knock-off. We had fake images aplenty of cours
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
A good IMAP client (in combination with my own domains) gives me freedom. I use Fastmail, I like it, and your support is great, but I don't want to tie my usage of your service to your UI. That would tie me down to your service. So I u
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
It does. Why wouldn't it?
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
I am not implying that at all. People should be free to choose when to die, and people should be free to set conditions for their future wherein they no longer wish to live even if they could not express that at point. That's a persona
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
> That said, there is a problem in at least some places where assisted suicide is available where it keeps getting recommended to disabled people who don't want to die. Where? This is a thing which always pops up in these debates be
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
It doesn't seem pleasant for the person themself either. Constant frustration, gaps in your memory growing ever larger, disorientation, loss — periodically augmented by brief flickers of recollection of what you used to be — and yet no
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Does anyone know why the newest Firefox isn't showing the button for the reader view on this page? The shortcut doesn't work either. It seems to work fine on plenty of other articles on other websites. Normally I don't rely t
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Wait, why are things getting buried to the extent that the ground level seems to rise? Does the snow level just gradually increase there? Does the station sink?
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
There are a lot of interesting (or concerning) things about this saga, but the Guardian surprised me by simply showing the whole photo, tiny winkle and all. Over the course of this slowly unfolding case media have often opted to censor the
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
The album was Nevermind of course, and the title said so, but I had to lose three characters so I substituted it with 'album'.
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Nirvana again defeats alleged child sexual abuse image lawsuit over album cover(theguardian.com)
10 points by Freak_NL 1y ago|2 comments
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Apple? Now I'm curious. I mean, they suck obviously (but so do a host of other big tech companies), but what has Apple done to you specifically?
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Although overuse of ellipses leads to text which generates the impression that the writer is constantly sighing. I find that exasperating and tiring to read.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
Oh please, yes. And AI voices must sound like Twiki. Let's keep the world sensible.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
There is, of course, quite a bit of tongue-in-cheekiness in that article.
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by Freak_NL 1y ago
In Dutch I have the luxury of being able to use the semi-colon in a similar capacity — useful to avoid the em-dash stigma I suppose — but I refuse to relinquish it in English. Fortunately, I can always just point to evidence of prior use he
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Not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it's stealing my em dashes too(theguardian.com)
66 points by Freak_NL 1y ago|61 comments

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