gpvos

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by gpvos 2y ago
> Hasn't been best practice for a decade. This entire thread is about places that clearly have no clue about best practices. > I haven't come across this. You sweet summer child...
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by gpvos 2y ago
I generate five random words and store them in the comment field of my password manager. It ensures they are at least pronounceable when asked over the phone.
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by gpvos 2y ago
The question would then become why a company would impose such paperwork on itself; but someone else replied that it has to do with unions, which I guess could explain it although it's still weird.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Yeah but why would there be paperwork mandated by law?
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by gpvos 2y ago
Why would a company allow that, can't they put a limit on that themselves? All my employment contracts in the Netherlands had a clause about that.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Assuming it is paid vacation, why is the special paperwork required? Governments over here require minimum amounts of vacation out of health concerns, but I can't imagine how giving away more or even infinite vacation days would concer
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by gpvos 2y ago
Well, this site was started and is still run by YCombinator, so that tension has always been there, and is in fact part of what makes it so great. (I sympathize mostly with the wide-eyed undergrads though.)
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by gpvos 2y ago
Yes, it's a good way to lose respect.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Ah right. My suggestion would have been to use a small Perl or Python script or something, assuming there would be a zip library that would let you set the proper flags.
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by gpvos 2y ago
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by gpvos 2y ago
I understood they just need to be recent enough.
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by gpvos 2y ago
> Currently, the Git version used to produce the release tarballs (on the above-mentioned “clean” box) is too old to create reproducible .tar.gz tarballs, but it will create reproducible .tar.bz2 tarballs. What is different about gzip
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by gpvos 2y ago
Not strange at all, most people do that most of the time.
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by gpvos 2y ago
I don't currently use Stylus, but it breaks for me too; it looks like CSS isn't applied at all: I get some big logo images, and the text uses standard fonts. Not sure which extension triggers it, probably Dark Reader. I could stil
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by gpvos 2y ago
I admit I scanned the article first and wondered what it was all about. The actual argument is not very clearly presented.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Have you read the article? The point is that the definition of the metre, which is used in g, originates from the length of a pendulum that swings once per second in the gravity field around Paris. So it is a matter of definitions, and the
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by gpvos 2y ago
Increasing timetable ride time between stations too (beyond actual needed time). The Dutch railways do that a lot.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Some people do. Linguists on the whole don't, and it will be a long while before they do. Literature is still completely shared, and we can read each other's newspapers with zero problems. It's good to distinguish between Fle
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by gpvos 2y ago
The prestige dialect in Flanders, as spoken on the main news and public affairs programmes on public television (I don't know about the schools and courts), is already very recognizably different from that in the Netherlands, with its
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by gpvos 2y ago
I think that's what I wrote? Sorry if it wasn't clear enough.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Well, it used to be correct until about 1600 or so. There are a couple of words like bijzonder where it is still pronounced as English "ee", and in the suffix -lijk it is reduced to a schwa.
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by gpvos 2y ago
It is neither umlaut nor diaeresis, but just an i and a j with each their own dot smushed together into a ligature, which can take either the form of a y with both those dots on top, or a more rounded form that more resembles an i and j joi
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by gpvos 2y ago
The few Welsh and Gaelic speakers that remain entered the chat.
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by gpvos 2y ago
Dutch has an amazing variety of dialects. Strong dialect speakers from the southwest and northeast corners of the language area will not be able to understand each others dialects.
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by gpvos 2y ago
My favourite parts are (1) how you can see a capital U with a small cutout at the bottom of the left straight line used as IJ, and (2) how some foreign words are mangled by Dutch people who are not so good at spelling, like bijoux spelled a
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by gpvos 2y ago
It's a sound that does not exactly exist in English, somewhere between the diphtongized a in maze and eye. Quite many dialects kept the old ee pronunciation.
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by gpvos 2y ago
That is indeed pretty close, but not exact.
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by gpvos 2y ago
It could be in several Dutch dialects (which did not take part in the sound shift I described), but not in the standard language. See the sibling replies.
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by gpvos 2y ago
That's strange. Standard Dutch pronunciation of that name, transliterated back to English spelling, would be Ee-vonna.
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by gpvos 2y ago
The Dutch digraph ij originated from the same custom. Originally written ii, later ij, and pronounced as a long i (English "ee"), the sound later shifted to be similar to English "eye", see the Dutch names for the cities

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