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by jeroen 7y ago
> The suffix "-stra" is, like "-ster", derived from the old Germanic "-sater", to be translated as a seater or resident. -- https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra (through Google transl
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by jeroen 7y ago
It’s language and country-specific variants of said language. What is weirder (but not the first time I have seen it) is that the list of languages is sorted by country name. German comes before Danish and Dutch after Maltese.
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by jeroen 7y ago
> But I think it’s pretty implausible to suggest that the “evil people” at Boeing we’re clapping their hands about savings with an understanding that they were trading human lives for those profits. Yet it's entirely plausible that
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by jeroen 7y ago
> make us all like up in one single line for the human cashiers I have encountered these at Decathlon and Carrefour (in Europe). It feels fairer, but standing in longer line feels worse, even when that doesn’t make any sense.
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by jeroen 7y ago
25/(31 * 24 * 60) == 0.056%, not 5.6%.
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by jeroen 8y ago
Not to mention the size. The main reason I don’t have them anymore is their width, which can make them hard to place in a house.
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by jeroen 8y ago
I think google removed that option.
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by jeroen 8y ago
> developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want Users should make the choice to allow that, and they can by buying an Android phone.
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by jeroen 8y ago
Starting prices for a Volvo V60, in euros: The Netherlands: 36,500 Belgium: 35,000 Germany: 37,500 Sweden: 31,000 These may not be exactly comparable feature-wise, but those extra taxes don't seem to have a big impact.
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by jeroen 8y ago
I use one called SkyView.
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by jeroen 8y ago
Is there supposed to be a close button on the yellowish popup? It's not on screen on my iphone se.
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by jeroen 8y ago
> most births in Netherland still happen at home The number of home births is at 13% according to https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/typisch-hollands-fenome...
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by jeroen 9y ago
I'm still using my 17" MBPs. The prospect of replacing them with newer models becomes less appealing with each new generation.
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by jeroen 9y ago
Ironically, I just took a break from work to make a cup of coffee. On returning, I find that my (virtual) pc is "working on updates". It feels like the primary focus of Windows is no longer to do what the user wants, but to do wha
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by jeroen 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16554686
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by jeroen 9y ago
$2 billion, not 10.
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by jeroen 9y ago
They probably mean instructions to create a t-shirt from raw materials.
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by jeroen 9y ago
Restricting access instead of helping them build that healthy relationship just leads to them wanting to do things like go to the houses of friends to watch YouTube. When you limit screen time to x minutes per day, that should include scr
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by jeroen 9y ago
Some options: - Educate your CTO. - Just start writing tests. Consider whether you can pull this off. - Wait for something to go wrong where tests would have caught the problem earlier. That would be a good time to bring testing up again. -
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by jeroen 9y ago
I don't know if you will be reading this, but the easter egg is on the dashboard of the Roadster. ( https://youtu.be/ROnomVVQ2cU?t=453 ) So it has to be something else.
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by jeroen 9y ago
This is what the payload looks like: http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Tesla-Roads...
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by jeroen 9y ago
No, the 3rd burn took it from earth orbit to sun orbit.
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by jeroen 9y ago
Can anyone tell me what the object moving through the right of the screen is at T+9:58? https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2392
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by jeroen 9y ago
> We went from being able to get a web app up and running with an HTML file and a single JS file That still works, though.
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by jeroen 9y ago
Yes, MotoGP uses traction control. I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't really care. Like F1, it's a prototype class, so results are a combination of the rider and the machine.
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by jeroen 9y ago
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and "Andrey Akinshin’s blog" do not link to anything (but _are_ clickable).
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by jeroen 9y ago
> With tinkering, syrup scientists at Japan’s Hayashibara chemistry company finally figured out a novel enzymatic method to make it on the cheap from starch. The method brought costs down to just $3 per kilogram. By 2000—just before the
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by jeroen 9y ago
The map is now called Here WeGo, the company HERE Global, and it's owned by Audi AG, BMW AG, Daimler AG, and Intel.
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by jeroen 9y ago
I still do all my work on a 17" MBP. It's 6 years old now, and I fear the day I will need to replace it.
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by jeroen 9y ago
https://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103710/55/1037105579... That is Charles de Gaulle Airport, but I have seen the same type of soldier at train stations in France. Regardless of what it's called, th

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