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by brnt 2mo ago
Discover the headlines in each European country today.
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by brnt 2mo ago
80% will be in the laundry bin, your first task before doing anything is either shouting around the house to bring in the other 80% right now or go on expedition yourself. 10 minutes later you are at the washing machine, where you'll n
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by brnt 2mo ago
I didnt know I wanted this job. Well, not right now anyways.
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by brnt 2mo ago
Typical bot!
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by brnt 3mo ago
It _is_ criminal and illegal. It's how authoritarian coups of democracy works: move fast and break things. It looks like America needs to find out the hard way how much worth breaking it actually accumulated.
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by brnt 3mo ago
Never start a fight but always finish one.
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by brnt 3mo ago
Maybe there is a parable here: don't fear the man that wants thousands of gigabytes, fear the man that only wnats 3 MB.
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by brnt 3mo ago
The European Commission published its own language guide. In terms of English it's only a small deviation from en-GB, but my first thought was indeed: when can I set en-EU?
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by brnt 3mo ago
Does the entire surface need to be grass to be able to walk about? What about some grass pathways through a variation of shrub, trees and meadow?
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by brnt 3mo ago
HSR is more towards airfare than metro-like train services though. The latter which is basically the Dutch rail situation: it's more of a national metro service than a method for voyaging. The fact that 95% of all travels are commuters
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by brnt 3mo ago
HSR in France, Italy, Spain can be very cheap. Also, they have generous discounts for 'young people' (up to 30 I think) and 60+. Living in NL, I have fond memories of the kind of travel enabled by Ouigo when I lived in FR.
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by brnt 3mo ago
That means you never leave your town of residence. I am Dutch too, and I walk and cycle (of course), but I have friend and family elsewhere too, want to visit other nature, cities and countries as well. I mostly use a car since it's so
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by brnt 3mo ago
How do you educate them though?
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by brnt 3mo ago
If you can find any European university without an AI lab, I'd like to see some names. Meanwhile we have places/initiatives like this, making open models https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/research/research-fie
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by brnt 3mo ago
Comparative GDP based on more current methods (well, decades too at this point) rather than the graphs you are probably seeing show a stable co-trend over the past quarter century. https://jacobin.com/2026/03/us-eu
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by brnt 3mo ago
> Europe is fucked by both high debt, and lack of innovation Spoken like somebody who has no idea what they are talking about. Apart from the large share of fundamental science which Europe has always been bigger in and better at (I mean
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by brnt 4mo ago
This in itself is a problem. I only need a credit card for car rental. (Been refused a debit card, which would technicallt work, but reasons?) Why? Because it's a poisened industry.
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by brnt 4mo ago
Ryanair are not fine for people who arent short (me), and for the dark patterns mentioned here. Also, I don't like they have a lot of MCAS aircraft, I prefer Airbus.
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by brnt 4mo ago
> Rental cars That's a whole new can of worms though. Their scams can be a lot more expensive, and are usually after the fact (although they'll try them at the pickup counter too). It's one of those things I will specifica
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by brnt 4mo ago
I've bought Ryanair tickets twice, but never flown with them. I used _them_ as insurance for possible issues on my preferred connection or for having a minimum viable travel path while I have time to look for a better flight. Because t
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by brnt 4mo ago
I really wonder what all this fast charging means for battery longevity. In general, nothing good, right?
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by brnt 4mo ago
My son does not care about video (yet?), which is good. But sometimes when I'm alone and I just must do the chore and they just won't play on their own for 10 minutes (which thankfully they often do), I don't see another way.
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by brnt 4mo ago
> We understand that some parents in our milieu rely on YouTube for when they need to get stuff done Certainly is, I can't get around this sometimes in order to do chores either. This is why I have a variety of kids movies, shows, s
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by brnt 4mo ago
Somehow finding the Frontpage HTML editors down at the bottom makes it feel slightly better. At least it bring a fond memory while navigating our corporate Sharepoint horrorfest.
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by brnt 4mo ago
AV360. AV365. AV2030. AVXP. AV8. AV10. Perhaps some here will be around for AV95. Young AV?
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by brnt 4mo ago
Moving goalposts and a sneer in 10 words!
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by brnt 4mo ago
Since developers are a subset of users, it's actually possible to calculate which is more open.
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by brnt 4mo ago
StreetScooter
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by brnt 4mo ago
> Sköda If IKEA ever bought Škoda.
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by brnt 4mo ago
Like Latin, C++98 was just a v1. By the way, what we call Latin now is already an evolved version, slightly tweaked from what Romans used. And before that, Latin itself was derived. My point is that C++ lets you write in very different lang

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