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by eythian 6y ago
Depends, I used to have one of these: https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=114... Though the chart is still wrong according to that, however it (the chart) does match what my Android phone's dia
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by eythian 6y ago
AH also doesn't accept credit card. Not sure what non-locals are supposed to do if they don't have a maestro card. I guess there aren't many non-locals at the moment, but it must be weird for cash-accustomed Germans visiting.
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by eythian 6y ago
Depends where you are (like most of these things.) Where I've lived, card-only isn't uncommon because cash is an expensive hassle for smaller businesses to deal with. Also a potential security risk if it has to be left on-premise
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by eythian 6y ago
It's not that uncommon to get a tourist visa to scope out a country, apply for a fixed term working visa to get a job, and then where possible transition that into residency and onwards. It's definitely not an easy path, but I kno
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by eythian 6y ago
> Does this distinction actually exist in how people use the words "expat" and "immigrant"? A lot of the time, immigrants will have accepted their job offers already before entering the country, and if they did not sw
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by eythian 6y ago
> This exemplifies my point perfectly. Even though you go on to write that some were born in the country, they are still "Turkish immigrants" not "expats" or [that country's] citizens. Some may be considered expa
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by eythian 6y ago
I was addressing the original point which was "Notice how only white people ever choose to consider themselves to be "expats"", which in my experience is not true. > people will most likely first find out where you&#x
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by eythian 6y ago
It does look like it's improving at a rate of knots though. Hell, even Rutte got on the bandwagon recently which is not something I thought I'd see. A friend of mine was talking about it recently (her family are from Egypt, but sh
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by eythian 6y ago
That's certainly not my experience, as someone who relocated to a European capital for work. I work with people from all over with various skin colours, and pretty much everyone everyone self-identifies as an expat. The main difference
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by eythian 6y ago
So, from my memory (I started with Linux in 2000 or so, haven't really stopped.) There was a flash player for linux, I want to say it corresponded with about version 5 but don't trust me on that. It never really got any updates ex
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by eythian 6y ago
The second paragraph is: > And yes, it is a spoof, obviously. That is obvious from its content alone, and it follows a long tradition of similar spoofs. However, enough people must have fallen for it, because Bjarne Stroustrup has felt t
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by eythian 6y ago
I'm not sure if it was the same antitrust thing, but there was a lot of stuff in the background that did happen along these lines. I knew some folks working on Samba, and all of a sudden they were going to workshops run my MS and getti
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by eythian 6y ago
I used to use konqueror years and years ago set to ask me about cookies from all sites. It got so tedious. These days I'm much happier with firefox/privacy badger selectively blocking stuff behind the scenes for me. Though I do wi
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by eythian 6y ago
I'm not surprised. My company has also done this. Basically it's because we don't have an agreement with them about data protection, and we can't have company information going over 3rd party systems without a contract.
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by eythian 6y ago
Nah, thousands of km off :)
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by eythian 6y ago
> This is a deeplink into technical documentation, what did you expect? I think better question would be: why is a deeplink into technical documentation without context being posted here? > This is like complaining that the Java Class
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by eythian 6y ago
Do we need internet giants though? Are they a good thing for people? Perhaps a system that encourages a handful of really big companies in de facto control of large swaths of our communications infrastructure is not something that's ac
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by eythian 6y ago
The "polderen" one is a bit weird, but I think if I said "poldering" everyone where I live (the Netherlands, but I'm from an English speaking country) would know what I meant. The Dutch term for the process is &quot
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by eythian 6y ago
It's not really a usable English word. But "[feeling of] no way out" is perhaps idiomatically close.
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by eythian 6y ago
In my dialect, "yeah nah", which means no. Or "yeah nah", which means yes.
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by eythian 6y ago
The harder thing with them is that the parts can be in different places in the sentence. "Clean up your room", "Clean your room up." Note: Dutch does it worse (IMbiasedO, as a native English speaker learning it), where t
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by eythian 6y ago
Cheers, but the configuring of it would be more hassle than it's worth I suspect. As it is, using AWS is very cheap as I can have it use spot instances. So hundreds of CPU-hours used for in the order of US$10-20.
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by eythian 6y ago
Only 40% of people have iPhone in the Netherlands, for example. Everyone uses whatsapp.
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by eythian 6y ago
Depends where you live. No one I know uses SMS or iMessage. Everyone uses whatsapp. SMS is a weird appendix of a thing on your phone contract, used only for automated reminders from companies. And iMessage is pretty much useless because the
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by eythian 6y ago
Signal does.
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by eythian 6y ago
Well, that's interesting and useful to know. Thanks!
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by eythian 6y ago
I have lately been working on a genetic algorithm system, written in single-threaded Perl. When I started off wanting to do, say, 20 simulations, I just used parallel, and it worked great on the 8 threads of my desktop machine. Now I'v
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by eythian 6y ago
Reminds me a little of Squeak Smalltalk: https://squeak.org/ It starts up its own environment, and everything that's there can be interacted with either by writing code, or by clicking on things and inspecting/mod
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by eythian 6y ago
> Not to imply you're not ready, but in response to "I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically" To add to this, I thought the same would apply to me when I went to uni.
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by eythian 6y ago
Fonterra, New Zealand's largest company runs along these lines. It's a dairy company, so basically gets milk from dairy farmers and puts it on the market. It is a co-op owned by those farmers.

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