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by com 2y ago
And if you want an easy pass will you go for the cleanest or the least clean?
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by com 2y ago
Wow. I’ve never had to show ID at Dutch hospitals or clinics. My GP does the referral (!!! great GP!!!) or I turn up at A&E and the (medical) intake has begun. I speak Dutch though, maybe that makes a difference? Edit:spelling and clar
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by com 2y ago
Yes. Live translation services are provided for the minority of formal stuff that’s done in German. Drinking beer in the alternative track, everybody understands each other after a couple of drinks even if they didn’t before.
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by com 3y ago
Which simple considerations to the design of the infrastructure do you recommend to decrease the eventual cost of using DataDog?
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by com 3y ago
I think that while the signal/noise ratio on the internet is much lower when I joined as a wee person in the 1980s, we are simply not prepared for the poisoning of the commons that is coming. The people who began circling wagons in the
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by com 3y ago
Yep! Logo I recall.
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by com 3y ago
I remember when we could use an HB pencil for optical reader cards - no punch at home necessary!
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by com 3y ago
Employed over time, and reading between the lines, lots of part-time and probably temporary workers given how they were hiring and the pressures on those women's time. Normally even co-ownership structures have earn-in periods, so this
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by com 3y ago
I thought that the constraining resource was money in all but the top 1000 or so businesses in the world with effectively 99%+ margins, mostly because they control their markets absolutely and can raise prices or change demand like the big
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by com 3y ago
Criticising someone’s accent, “non-professional” room background comes across at best as snarky gatekeeping. The real question is whether, for the desired audience, the presenter’s accent, the background scene, the delivery of content or an
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by com 3y ago
You know you’ve succeeded in a role when there’s a list of people you’ve supported in growth who are really sad you’re going, worried how they’ll manage without you, but who you know 100% have totally got this. I’ve gone back years later to
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by com 3y ago
With a regular reminder to the reigning monarch just outside the House of Commons in Westminster, a statue of Oliver Cromwell. Apart from the awful, awful acts that he commissioned against the people of Ireland, he also ensured that the con
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by com 3y ago
We did an almost-free registry office thing (the free ones were booked out a year in advance). One witness from each side and a surprise attendee who was literally in town at the time (we didn’t invite friends and family because of family d
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by com 3y ago
But that is highly likely to be a trailing indicator. Some things like door plug blowouts apparently happen a few months after poor manufacturing processes occur, the question is how long do loose screws, cable frictions, or incorrectly bor
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by com 3y ago
“Gardening leave” is the polite fiction - much to do in your personal garden, so you are being given exceptional paid time off to deal with it. I have genuinely spent a lot of time once sorting out the vegetable beds during a period of gard
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by com 3y ago
Fast, feels clean and uncluttered to use and the search results are fairly high quality. I like the “optic” idea. After reading the about page, I’m not sure what the developers are trying to achieve? Perhaps a sort of alternative-Universe G
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by com 3y ago
It looks like a fairly recent post addressing some uncomfortable cultural and political trends: https://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html
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by com 3y ago
Earthsea is so interesting! Ursula K. Le Guin made the bulk of her characters brown, and it’s possible to read it thinking about (unwritten?) fantasy written from the perspective of the Austronesian expansion into the island belts of south-
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by com 3y ago
WriteNow! 2.2 was a word processor of wonder. I do still miss its speed and simplicity. I may have used more than 90% of its features too!
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by com 3y ago
The partial absence of Austria and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and perhaps France in all possible variations of these “concepts” means that a United Germany has never been truly achieved I suppose. Probably a
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by com 3y ago
It’s refreshing to hear about alternative ways of organizing for decision taking and even more to get a thoughtful retrospective on the pros and cons. I’d love to read more of this type of retrospective report on organizing open source proj
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by com 3y ago
If you’re in a business still in control of your own destiny, you could do what we did and keep a weather eye out for sociopathy-aligned behaviours and gently work them out while minimising danger. It worked reasonably well at one place I w
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by com 3y ago
Interesting choice, although “it depends” is the obvious answer. First off, which job would you enjoy both professionally and personally - technology, work/life balance, management, colleagues, salary, other comp, vacation days, flexib
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by com 3y ago
Why correct it? It’s one of the few lovely things about modern tech - the occasionally poetic accidental turn of phrase that surprises and confounds!
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by com 3y ago
Argh. I moved away but am back in NL regularly and the train service has degraded beyond all recognition for me done in comparison to 2021 or so. Short trains, cancellation of 75% of scheduled services for random reasons, regular failures o
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by com 3y ago
I still miss the simplicity and power of the Lightspeed/THINK IDEs for Pascal and C. For me Metrowerks was a big step back in terms of complexity, speed and affordances. The thing that I loved about MPW was MPW Shell and Commando, bril
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by com 3y ago
Having had a date night in Manhattan in a fairly expensive and good restaurant, some time during the first few courses, we had to have a few words with the maître d’ - just to get the wait staff to stop bugging us if we wanted ketchup or wh
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by com 3y ago
The Netherlands is an insurance health system, delivered by a mix of different types of organisations, private, non-profit, religious etc. The insurance market is very regulated and all residents have cover - it’s compulsory. If you are poo
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by com 3y ago
I remember typing “ss” at the shell (tcsh?!) in 1988 on a VAX running BSD 4.3+tahoe and being unable to exit the spreadsheet until someone opened the manpage or something and gave me some ideas. Probably made worse because I was on a monoco
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by com 3y ago
Seems to me that the core of the argument is about payments, and card payments at that, not Fintechs as a general category. The end of cheap money has a big impact on the entire startup and VC worlds of course, not just those sucking on the

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