aden1ne

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by aden1ne 6y ago
I've always found the English language to simply be lacking here. In for instance Dutch there is a very clear distinction between half-open and closed intervals: "x tot y" is always half-open, "x tot en met y" is al
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by aden1ne 6y ago
Additionally, a lot of people use a knife that is considerably too small for the task. I used to be one of them. It may look intimidating at first, but a bigger knife chops so much better!
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by aden1ne 6y ago
This. There is no way to socially untangle yourself from Whatsapp in the Netherlands, unless one wishes to live as the modern version of a hermit.
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In the Netherlands it's so pervasive, it isn't only the default form a personal online communication anymore. Rather, it is quickly becoming the default form of online customer interaction as well.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
Migrating from poetry 1.0.10 to 1.1.x has unfortunately been major pain for us. Some of our dependencies do not yet fully support PEP517, which means we're stuck on 1.0.10 for now (e.g. mypy, which had a fix merged but not yet released
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by aden1ne 6y ago
Poetry 1.1 introduced parallel downloads. Even before that, it was an order of magnitude faster than its competitor Pipenv.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
It probably means NFS.
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> cant stay within eyesight of a permanent resident The fact that this is practical is a consequence of low population density. In places like the Netherlands there practically are no localities where one is outside eyesight of a permane
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by aden1ne 6y ago
There is a high chance you have been typing that message on a device with a chip that was produced by one of ASML's lithography machines.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
A Mediterranean climate is actually pretty rare in the world. The only large areas with a Mediterranean climate are the actual Mediterranean, the US West Coast, and some parts of Australia. Apart from that there are only a few scattered spo
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by aden1ne 6y ago
I use the sidebar a _lot_ for switching between languages.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
> Most landlords don't even allow their rent to be paid online. This just completely flummoxes me. The US really is a third world nation sometimes. Here in the Netherlands it is unthinkable to pay your rent in cash. Most people pay
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by aden1ne 6y ago
In large parts of Europe, an entire aisle is reserved for these types of productsin many supermarkets. Typically near the bread spreads section. Not sure whether this is common in the US.
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Covid has severe effects on the cardiovascular system, with myocardial injury being a frequent occurrence of those covid patients admitted to hospital.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
Anecdotally, it seems computer literacy is actually dropping over time. I taught an entry-level scripting course aimed at medical graduate students for several years, and each year the number of students who did not comprehend even the conc
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by aden1ne 6y ago
This ignores the reality that one will ultimately have to interact with people who have no understanding of any of these tools. Unless you happen to work in a pure computational biology group, one _will_ have to interact with lab workers, b
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by aden1ne 6y ago
Such workloads are typical in bioinformatics, as the majority of tools do not support running on GPUs. Data parallelization (e.g. run the same tool on every chromosome independently) is a common strategy used in that field.
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by aden1ne 6y ago
NPO is the public broadcaster umbrella organization. It could very roughly be compared to e.g. BBC, with the big caveat that NPO itself does not create any content. Instead, its member broadcasters do. That's a relic of the Dutch pilla
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by aden1ne 6y ago
I am getting an SSL error for this page. This website serves a self-signed certificate for/by "odin.com" in Russia.