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by eythian 6y ago
Being from NZ, I thought the same. But now I live in the Netherlands in a modern building with radiators for heat. In the colder parts of winter, just taking damp outside air in at around 0° and warming it up to room temperature lowers the
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by eythian 6y ago
Tangentially related, in Amsterdam a few years back they were digging into a spot in the central city for a new metro station. They made a display of all the archaeological artefacts that they found, which you can see along the escalators.
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by eythian 6y ago
They did, you can do this from the page viewing the artwork itself, put onto a poster, canvas, aluminium, or a gallery print.
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by eythian 6y ago
FWIW this also exists in the Netherlands, it's very handy when I have visitors as I can go along to most of the places they go without having to pay, or just when I have an afternoon free and want to go do something.
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by eythian 6y ago
I think scp can do stuff like this, I remember occasionally hitting it when wanting to move a file between two servers that can't talk to each other, expecting it would use my bandwidth/route for the transfer.
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by eythian 6y ago
"Mock the Week" if you want a more comedic take on the news.
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by eythian 6y ago
It does depend a lot. Where I live there are many expats who haven't learnt anything beyond the basics of the local language, and get along fine in English. Even a lot of government departments here will send letters in both languages.
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by eythian 6y ago
In the Netherlands, where I am, it's a requirement of companies over a certain size to have a "works council", which is something like, but not quite, a union. It's made up of employees and they are legally empowered to
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by eythian 6y ago
Yes, that was an interesting culture shock when I moved to the Netherlands. It didn't help that where I'm from it was much more common in a bar to pay as you go, or in a restaurant for everyone to pay a share (either listing off w
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by eythian 6y ago
I use them for some personal stuff. No real issues. I do also have one of their baremetal systems (through online.net or something) which I'm considering moving away from because it's quite slow, but excluding that they seem good.
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by eythian 6y ago
A note that if you use Telegram, there is @scihubbot which you can talk to and will send you papers if it can. In my opinion it's faster/easier than using a web interface also.
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by eythian 6y ago
Define "average Joe"? I haven't been in academia since I finished university years ago, but I'll sometimes want to do some digging around on some topic and get a lot of mileage out of sci-hub then.
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by eythian 6y ago
You said: > So roads are as narrow as possible and congested, which in itself is not great for bikes but also makes bike lanes near impossible. They replied: > Do you think the centre of Amsterdam has wide roads? It does not. That is
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by eythian 6y ago
Mine also, my heating is often running at ~40° unless it's bringing it up from being off overnight or something. Recently I installed a Nest thermostat and doing reading around it suggested that in the US (I'm in the EU) OpenTherm
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by eythian 6y ago
> "a lovely old little green rectangular French silver whittling knife" As a native speaker, but without any editorial training, this feels slightly off to me. My first edit would be something like "a lovely little old&quo
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by eythian 6y ago
Interesting, I know quite a number of people who have motion sickness issues. I find in general they just don't tend to play games, or at least 3D games, so much, so I guess it doesn't come up all that often.
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by eythian 6y ago
My totally uninformed opinion is that they haven't, for whatever reason, had the marketing success that some other brands have. I'm aware of ZaReason because I have a laptop from them, but I've rarely seen them mentioned anyw
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by eythian 6y ago
That's a bit sad. I still have one of their laptops that I bought over eight years ago, and it's still going pretty strong (as an almost-always-plugged-in beside the couch machine, anyway.) Happy that I bought it for what was at t
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by eythian 6y ago
In New Zealand they can have in-person meetings if they want.
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The Nintendo Switch store also. I can't convince it to give me game descriptions in the system language rather than the language of the country where my account is registered.
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by eythian 6y ago
When I was young in NZ, they were zebra crossings. But then I noticed that they started more and more to be a pair of lines across the road than the zebra patterns, and the name seemed to gradually fall out of use.
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by eythian 6y ago
> So even if we have the speed and bandwidth, Apple insists you can only update on Wifi. I hit that with Android once too. Had unlimited mobile data, and was in a pub with broken wifi, so it wouldn't let me do the update at all.
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by eythian 6y ago
I had one that asked for pedestrian crossings. Now, I've visited enough places to know that they change a lot, and that usually when you're there with context you can spot them. But from a weirdly angled photo I can't tell if
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by eythian 6y ago
Does it though? Where I live there are probably three different supermarket chain stores within about 500m, so easy walking distance. If I expand that to 1km because I feel like biking a short way, there'd be dozens of more shops and p
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by eythian 6y ago
Yeah, in NL people with mobility issues can use Canta cars or mobility scooters on the bike lanes, though there has recently been some pushback as people who don't need the mobility aid have sometimes been using Birò cars (similar in s
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by eythian 6y ago
I'm not aware of one, but here is one for startups that get bought out, promise nothing is going to change, then it does: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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by eythian 6y ago
I don't think that's really true. Years ago, I maintained a Java desktop application, using SWT as the graphics library (not even mentioned by the post author which is weird.) It wasn't a big application, but also not stupidl
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by eythian 6y ago
It's not really registering with the police, though they probably get access to the information. When you do it you go to the council building and register there (at least when I last did it several years ago), so it's more like r
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by eythian 6y ago
It doesn't, generally, exist. Here's something I found in Dutch: https://www.politie.nl/themas/kort-verblijf-vreemdelingen-20... Machine translated, then lightly edited by me: > Short stay in the Netherlan
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by eythian 6y ago
In a number of places in Europe (I can't say how many, I've only researched the one I moved to, and know that some others are similar), you need to reside there lawfully for a number of years, in my case five, pass some basic test

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