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by eythian 3y ago
You should team up with the people who wrote zonopjebakkes/seatsinthesun, which is used for finding bars and cafes that have terraces that are still in the sun, mostly useful in late summer afternoons as the evenings are getting shorte
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by eythian 3y ago
In Dutch, the word for four is also the word meaning "celebrate." I feel like this would make a nicer confusion however :)
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by eythian 3y ago
This is a great book, I'd also add that the TV (BBC I think) mini-series does a surprisingly good job at getting the atmosphere of it.
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by eythian 3y ago
Yes, that is annoying. I live somewhere that isn't natively English speaking and so I mostly only have the option to get subtitles in that language even though I read English much better than the local language. I can follow subtitles
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by eythian 3y ago
I remember covering that at university, I don't think in too much depth, just enough that a few years later at my job I needed to do some parsing of equations and immediately knew the name of what I needed to use. I then proceeded to e
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by eythian 3y ago
You can't use the web version on mobile, it tells you to install the app.
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by eythian 3y ago
Yeah, where I live (NL), it's required to be something like "group people into roles, then let people go in reverse order of seniority (i.e. LIFO) within those roles."
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by eythian 3y ago
In the Netherlands you can get a prepay SIM with no ID. I have a friend that visits for a month or so every so often and buy one then.
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by eythian 3y ago
It's a lot more nuanced than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258684
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by eythian 3y ago
I also just gave it a go. I live in Amsterdam where biking is pretty much the dominant mode, and it wasn't great. I told it to take me to a place in the north of the city (over a river), and it gave me directions over a bridge which is
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by eythian 3y ago
It's not quite the same, but in Google Maps you can switch the language of the app itself. I use this to get navigation not butchering street names into unrecognisability while the rest of my phone is English. It does do the whole navi
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by eythian 3y ago
The carbon dating thing is odd. To start with, "able to draw DNA evidence using radiocarbon dating" is a sentence that makes no sense to me. Secondarily, I wouldn't think that you could apply radiocarbon dating in a meaningfu
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by eythian 3y ago
> But yes it’s ridiculous that I can’t update Firefox snap while it’s still open. Agreed, it really could use some kind of staging installation that it can quickly switch to. > And that it won’t auto update if I just close Firefox aft
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by eythian 3y ago
They do in NZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial#/media/File:New_Ze... This wasn't a problem until direct international dialing became a thing, and then all of a sudden pulse converters had to be
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by eythian 3y ago
They can be a little spectacular when they fail short. My last incandescent (a bathroom light) did it a few weeks ago, exploding the glass of the bulb and popping the breaker for my downstairs circuit.
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by eythian 3y ago
They definitely can be region specific. I never get Wirecutter, in fact I don't think I've ever visited the site. What I do tend to get is tomsguide, tweakers.net (which is local), and such. Though interestingly I just tried your
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by eythian 3y ago
Not a hoax but from memory a very premature announcement of results was that one from NASA about evidence of biological processes in a Mars rock. https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm...
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by eythian 3y ago
I have a Pixel, it has Google Pay. It's extremely seamless, I just wave my unlocked phone towards the terminal and I've paid, I don't know what more can be improved there. I also want to use my phone without constantly tinker
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by eythian 3y ago
> Back then it made a huge difference but now that modern computers have hundreds or even thousands of kilobytes of RAM free it's a bit pointless. Jokes on you, now I'm running IntelliJ, DataGrip, Firefox, and Slack and thousan
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by eythian 3y ago
Gemeente Amsterdam has one: https://social.amsterdam.nl/public/local
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by eythian 3y ago
The Dutch government literally collapsed a couple of days ago.
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by eythian 3y ago
I recall that being reasonably common in New Zealand when I was growing up.
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by eythian 3y ago
In this case, they're not teaching software engineering. They're teaching CS/programming. Having to figure out finnicky tools gets in the way of that.
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by eythian 3y ago
Not even that. I live a little outside the centre of Amsterdam (I could walk to De Wallen in probably 30 minutes comfortably.) Most residents don't go into the centre because it's a mass of tourists who haven't learnt how to
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by eythian 3y ago
> People need to realize that even the Dutch generally have cars and drive. It depends a lot where you are. Live in a major city and very few people have cars, they're expensive and spend a lot of time just sitting around taking up
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by eythian 3y ago
I saw something in the news today that the gemeente has earmarked €100m for the bridge, 1/3rd of the total (another 100m coming from another source, and the remaining to be raised.) Bike tunnels under the IJ apparently (so I recall rea
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by eythian 3y ago
Yes, I also worked with him in NZ for a year or so, some time ago. He is a nice and fun person to chat with.
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by eythian 4y ago
This is normal in the SEPA zone too. Within some countries (at least the Netherlands) there are apps that make it easier, but all they're basically doing is putting the transfer behind a slightly more convenient link that doesn't
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by eythian 4y ago
This is pushing the problem out to an edge that can't really deal with it, i.e. everyone outside a controlled environment. Most people don't know anything about how their DNS cache behaves, and the server-side (where ideally the s
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by eythian 4y ago
Note that DisplayLink is awful and should not be encouraged. It works on Linux with proprietary drivers, but badly and not natively (at least on Ubuntu) and will eat your CPU. It has issues on Macs that DRMed media in the browser won't

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