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by ht_th 6y ago
Maybe not forks for eating. But when I buy a pitchfork, I do care about the source of the handle's wood because I do not want to contribute to deforestation. I also look at the repairability. For example, would any standard handle fit?
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by ht_th 6y ago
In my locale, the public library has shrunk in size to about 40% of its size 20 years ago. And it now includes a coffee bar and lunch café. The current selection is mostly popular books. For all topics I know something about, the non-fictio
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by ht_th 6y ago
> I have an instant negative reaction to the idea that "if it has defects, it may not be shipped ". Any moderately complex piece of software is guaranteed to have bugs. Yes, but if there is a known defect in your software, do y
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by ht_th 6y ago
> Then why are they not massively ramping up ICU capacity? Because you cannot. Even if you have the space and the materials, you do not have the qualified and experienced personel to run it.
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by ht_th 6y ago
Taking home exams or assignments are great, but they need to be assessed as well. Here too, the number of students is a limiting factor. With too many students, the best a teacher can do is summative assessment and generate a reasonable gra
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by ht_th 6y ago
Sure. Have at most ten to twenty students per teacher. Then the teacher can spend a couple of hours per student to assess their understanding. Unfortunately, in education quantity seems to be prioritized over quality. When you have over 50
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by ht_th 6y ago
> Who throws away a perfectly fine washer? Why? A new model has nothing new inside technology-wise, I can promise you that. When I first moved in my house I didn't have a job, so I bought a lot of cheap appliances. Most of them stil
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by ht_th 6y ago
There is an "Underline" type in pandoc's definition ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-types-1.22/docs/T... ). In Pandoc's format, this works like: This word is [underlined]{
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by ht_th 6y ago
Possibly, yes. If I am unfamiliar with the restaurant, or I have a question regarding their menu or my dietary restrictions, if they do not have a website with an email address or contact form AND they do not react in reasonable time, I wil
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by ht_th 6y ago
It is? I haven't tipped in years, whereas I did in the 1990s. Maybe because I never pay with cash anymore. Then it was common to round up to the next multiple of 5. Even so, I never have had wait staff asking for a tip.
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by ht_th 6y ago
Except in a programming language designed for learning programming. Ideally, we would have a good educational language with a clear path mapping the notation from that language to more common notation used in programming languages designed
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by ht_th 6y ago
> A small village would typically have a train station Having been born and raised in a typical small village in The Netherlands (population then ± 12000) with a lot of smaller and slightly larger villages around, there were no train sta
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by ht_th 6y ago
I use it as a local Java program and you can enable / disable all kinds of rules. You can also write your own.
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by ht_th 6y ago
I use https://languagetool.org/ for that. I have integrated this Java program in Vim as well. Every time I think I finished a piece of write, I run the ":LanguageToolCheck" command to learn that my writing still l
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by ht_th 6y ago
My first laptop was a Toshiba T3100e from the late 1980s. It still works! I remember the fun I had playing games, learning to program in basic, and writing reports with WordPerfect 4.2.
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by ht_th 6y ago
You are taking it to the other extreme. Sure, in 8 hours I will not write something "unusually beautiful". But if I spend two hours solving a problem and hacking together a solution, I come to better understand both problem and so
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by ht_th 6y ago
As an engineer many political compromises make no sense to me to the extent I cannot support it. Compromising between, say, quality of a solution and the available resources to implement said solution makes sense to me and it is clear what
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by ht_th 6y ago
The whole restaurant experience is not very enjoyable to me. There is a lot of noise, either because it is crowded and people talk loudly or because of music. Chairs, tables, and tableware are often not comfortable. Service is not that grea
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by ht_th 7y ago
Sure. I have a place at https://heerdebeer.org . I use it to share my work in history, education, and software engineering. I do not update it often and there is not much traffic, but it has been a stable place for things I care
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by ht_th 7y ago
> A lot of those are nice additions, maybe in the third or fourth generation of the application when you got the data structure nailed down you can look at skinning and things I have been here. Retro fitting a skinning / theming sys
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by ht_th 7y ago
For me, the separation between hobby and work is more of a matter of responsibility than pay. If I feel responsible for some activity/task/project I would classify it as work. It does not matter if it is taking care of kids, growi
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by ht_th 7y ago
Two things: Either move your departure slightly, or, if that is not an option, use a rainsuit. These rainsuits are very good and easy enough to take with you. I always have one in my bicycle bags which are fastened on the rear rack of my bi
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by ht_th 7y ago
All text-based input fields. Like this text-area element I am typing in now. But also for elements with the contentEditable attribute set to true. This is one of the features I appreciate a lot. I am not a native speaker of the English lang
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by ht_th 7y ago
Unfortunately, with the advent of electronic learning management systems and corporate content management systems in universities that are as much as required to be used, this seems to be declining fast. Currently I work as a lecturer at t
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by ht_th 7y ago
Just like you might learn to play the guitar in 4 months. Depending on your goal, in 4 months you can become a novice programmer who could be hired by a company to grow into a junior position.* You could spend the same amount of time to sol
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by ht_th 7y ago
I have had a (paper) subscription to this and other quality news papers, but in my experience most of the content is news, opinion, sport / entertainment / culture, or advertisements / infotainment, and only a very small part
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by ht_th 7y ago
It might be interesting to include "pine" and "mutt" as well, as a baseline of mail clients that do not support HTML out of the box. (At least with mutt you can set it up to automatically render HTML emails via "w3m
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by ht_th 7y ago
I like the GDPR. Since its introduction, removing my account and data has gotten easy. More importantly, in my experience people and organizations have started to ask for (irrelevant) personal information less and less. Furthermore, I now c
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by ht_th 7y ago
Furthermore, if organizations are explicitly accepting penalties to keep on violating the law, that law will be adjusted accordingly. It might take a while, but it will happen. Laws with the intention to change behavior / culture canno
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by ht_th 7y ago
> Anyone else have good luck with non-leather steel/composite toe lace up workboots? As an alternative: I like to wear wooden clogs whenever I am working outside or doing some heavy lifting or other stuff around the house that might

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