MrDresden

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by MrDresden 6d ago
I had no idea there had been more than one Lemmings game. Remember playing the first one a ton back in the early 90's.
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by MrDresden 8d ago
European, living within the EU, who loves the idea of the conmon market. But it is badly implemented and in need of drastic improvements. Just see recent comments made by EU President Von der Leyen and head of the ECB Christine Lagarde on h
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by MrDresden 10d ago
As someone who also has to deal with the review process on the Playstore, I feel your pain. Reviews timelines have been all over the place for the past year. I greatly appreciate that I can now get Signal via Obtainium directly from your VC
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by MrDresden 12d ago
This kind of reminds me of Foursquare from back in the day. Now a days I just have a few group chats where I can drop this kind of announcement in and see if there are any takers.
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by MrDresden 15d ago
> "Native devs are the old-school ones. Shipping is expensive, so you better get it as right as possible." Exactly this. After close to two decades building for the platform, the mindset is really to be cautious and make sure
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by MrDresden 18d ago
I can't speak to your situation, but I know that in mine the main blocker for a LAN party with adult friends wouldn't be a lack of interest nor lack of friends (though I don't have a giant pool, and can't even count 18 p
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by MrDresden 20d ago
The fact not many launches happen from continental Europe has nothing to do with capabilities of the space industry or lack of expertise, but rather location. Europe is far from the equator and densely populated so rocket launches from ther
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by MrDresden 22d ago
How does this compare to being beholden to a single cloud providers like AWS or Google Cloud? Has there been a sea change in how investors view these things in general, or is it only AI?
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by MrDresden 24d ago
I pay forced (happy with it) 11%, add extra and get extra from employer up to a total of 15%. Used to be in a union (in a sector I don't work in anymore) that bumped that up to 18%. 7.5% is woefully little.
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by MrDresden 26d ago
Not saying that Dutch farmers don't use a lot of water overall, but they have some of the most effective farming practices on the planet when it comes to water usage.
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by MrDresden 26d ago
The Rhine, which becomes the Waal in the Netherlands, has been exceptionally low now for most of the summer and caused major issues for shipping. It has only a single waterlock and so there is no retention of the water in it when a period o
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by MrDresden 27d ago
Take a look at docker-socket-proxy as a somewhat of a counter to this issue: https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy
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by MrDresden 28d ago
> "Iceland's fishing industry makes up something like 40% of their export." That number includes everything involving the fishing industry, such as equipment manufacturing. The size of the actual fishing and value-addati
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by MrDresden 1mo ago
No one can reasonable think that someone who makes a few hundred artisan sales a year and ships them within the bloc should be monitoring what rules and regulations are coming down the pipe.
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by MrDresden 1mo ago
Due to the intent system on Android allowing a pinned application to open another one (for example by sharing something), I prefer instead to create a guest user and add the app in question to that account. That way no other applications ar
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by MrDresden 1mo ago
While you aren't wrong, in my experience when the amount of nesting starts giving me bad vibes it usually indicates that something can be refactored out as a standalone widget. Still, Flutter now feels ancient to use compared to someth
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by MrDresden 2mo ago
> " It means nothing except your boss didn’t like you." And in some cases, especially in our industry, that the funding ran out.
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by MrDresden 2mo ago
Heavy rain forcast on Wednesday, with sun the day before and after. Hoping the weather forecast will shift (as often happens here)!
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by MrDresden 2mo ago
> "Most people write a blog post hoping it’ll change their lives, not just the way they think" Some of us just want an outlet that we control. Even though nobody will ever read it.
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by MrDresden 2mo ago
I have a UHK split keyboard with a keycluster module (which has a small trackball) on one the left half and a larger trackball module on the right half. Even though there is only one cursor it's been a really powerful way to work, bein
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by MrDresden 2mo ago
> "And before you ask: Yes, I’m laying this one squarely down before (and partly on the toes of) the tech bros: We could have designed our protocols to be minimally compatible with “a nation of laws,” but the tech bros insisted tha
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
I just recently got a blood test to confirm if I ever had gotten chickenpox as a child (my mother didn't remember if I had). Sadly it came back positive for antibodies. I was really hoping I had somehow evaded it, and could get the vac
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
I used to have a character named Fenris in EVE. Probably shouldn't have recycled them all those years ago.
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
That's not a service they offer everywhere.
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
Costco's is only a model that works in cultures used to having to drive to get groceries. Having now lived a few years in the Netherlands, I much more prefer the ability to cycle/walk by one of the myriad of grocery stores in my d
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
The amount of entitlement on display here is astounding.
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
Being now in my late 30s I worry that the ship has sailed on being able to do a masters degree while juggling adult life as well.
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
> "Another thing that would help is if Europe..." Europe is a continent with a lot of different countries, all with different laws and regulations. Even the ones who are in the European Union have different rules and regulati
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
Yes, but (I assume) that you are old enough to have already gone through elementary school and perhaps further and learned and internalized a model for learning and retaining information. I think that is what is at risk.
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by MrDresden 3mo ago
What did you replace them with? I am starting to look into alternatives my self as I can see the noose they have around their user's neck's slowly starting to close.

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