englishrookie

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by englishrookie 24d ago
I agree with the spirit of your comment. 20261209 Is a much better way to express the date than the 9/12 Americanism.
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by englishrookie 4mo ago
The fear is that the US will use control of critical infrastructure as leverage. Given the Greenland debacle, I'm inclined to agree.
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by englishrookie 5mo ago
Well, there are also noises about the SaaS company preferably not being American. Apparently there's a US law that compels US companies to divulge data on their users even if the data is hosted outside of the US. (I'm not sure thi
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by englishrookie 6mo ago
Almost everything about societies except cities is just pretty words. Countries and most borders are just an abstraction. We fight for them because someone convinces us with words to do so. We could do the same for the UN and it would be a
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by englishrookie 8mo ago
I don't have a voice in my head when I read. Knowledge of West-Fries helps though.
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by englishrookie 8mo ago
Well, for a native speaker of Dutch who doesn't speak English at all (not many left since my grandmother died in 2014), I'd say old English is actually easier to read than modern - starting around 1400. Around 1000, English and Du
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by englishrookie 11mo ago
I'm in the Netherlands and I DO find it bad. Probably also has to do with my age (early fifties) - your eyes adjust with more difficulty the older you get, it seems.
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by englishrookie 11mo ago
Do you really believe Europe would devolve into actual internal warfare, without the US? What about the EU? I believe it has successfully kept the peace ever since its predecessor, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was created -
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by englishrookie 11mo ago
Right now, Russia's hands are conveniently tied by their incompetently fought war in Ukraine. In the mean time, most major EU countries have increased their defense budgets. Some of the larger ones, most notably Germany, are considerin
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by englishrookie 11mo ago
I would certainly call it a Germanic dialect.
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by englishrookie 11mo ago
By your reasoning, English isn't a Germanic language since over half of its vocabulary comes from Latin or French.
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by englishrookie 1y ago
Cool! I may have used some of your applications on my Atari 1040 ST back in 1988. Which ones did you work on?
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by englishrookie 1y ago
Would you mind sharing your setup (LLM model, IDE, best practices)? Personally, I'm struggling to get value out of Continue.dev in VSCode (using Gemini 2.0 Flash by default, with the option to switch to more advanced models). I still r
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by englishrookie 1y ago
You do that by voting people into power who pass laws which provide a framework for these agencies to operate in. Putting these agencies under direct control of a central government (the federal government in this case) will inevitably erod
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by englishrookie 1y ago
Don't Look Up...
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by englishrookie 2y ago
Introduced into English most likely through Nieuw Amsterdam / New York.
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by englishrookie 2y ago
I would give all US passport holders the advice to think more carefully about who they vote for...
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by englishrookie 2y ago
You might consider hiring yourself out as a contractor. This is especially interesting if you're specialized in some vertical where you can bring consultancy skills to the table. Be the guy who's brought in when there's a pro
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by englishrookie 2y ago
> Rich person toy. The Mac, yes. But my father was a construction worker earning a below median wage (definitely not middle class) in 1988 when we bought our Atari 1040 ST. This was in the Netherlands, Europe. (Although admittedly we we
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by englishrookie 2y ago
Then the language area in your brain is activated separately for the comment parts.
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by englishrookie 2y ago
Amusingly, there are languages where the word for bank and couch are the same: bank (Dutch).
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by englishrookie 2y ago
There's a Holborn 6110 terminal on display in the Home Computer Museum in Helmond, Netherlands, apparently: https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/collectie/holborn/holborn-...
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by englishrookie 3y ago
Could you explain why not? Technically speaking it's nothing special as Moodle is completely built on the LAMP stack (although WAMP is also supported, as well as PostGreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB and MS-SQL).
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by englishrookie 3y ago
Except that Chemours, the company behind the pollution, already knew about the toxicity of PFAS in the 1990's. Source (in Dutch): https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/chemours-wist-dertig-j...
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by englishrookie 3y ago
I assume you compile the source code because you want to be sure you don't use any compromised binaries? But how can you be sure the source code wasn't compromised with some obfuscated C code? (Honest question, I'm just a hum
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by englishrookie 3y ago
The European Commission is not funded by lobbyists. Unless of course you believe the EC members are corrupt.
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by englishrookie 3y ago
What part of Germany are you from? Isn't there a clear distinction between Wolke (cloud) and Volk (people). I ask this as Dutch speaker (so, speaker of 'West Germanic') where there is a very clear distinction between volk and
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by englishrookie 3y ago
Spanish in Amsterdam? That sounds refreshing. Whenever I eat at a restaurant in Amsterdam, I get served in English about 80% of the time.
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by englishrookie 4y ago
Well, you can say "het is fris buiten", meaning "it's chilly outside".
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by englishrookie 4y ago
No transliteration: Dutch uses the Latin alphabet.

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