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by laurensr 4y ago
To learn more about Belgian efficiency, watch the video "Belgium for beginners" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwHotpl9DA
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3DTV(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by laurensr 4y ago|0 comments
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Shaped Compact Disk(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by laurensr 4y ago|2 comments
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by laurensr 4y ago
I could only access this website after removing the WWW from the URL: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/
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Tech Data acquired by Synnex and changes name(stpetecatalyst.com)
1 points by laurensr 4y ago|0 comments
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by laurensr 4y ago
Correct, as Apple forces all 3rd party browsers to use their rendering engine. It's like using a winforms webbrowser control in .NET and giving the window a title with your own brand name.
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by laurensr 4y ago
That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places). Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.
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by laurensr 4y ago
As a kid I used to have, what I thought, was WordPerfect 6 on MS-DOS 6.22 It did not have a blue background, but looked graphical like MS Word today. It even had some clipart such as an alpinist. Does anyone recognize the software I'm
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by laurensr 4y ago
It seems this is a competitor to RADbasic: https://www.radbasic.dev/
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by laurensr 4y ago
Suggestion: create a temporary user account for new users which allows them to start the game immediately without creating an account. The 'anonymous' account can then be upgraded to a 'real' account if the user wants to
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Ask HN: Hotmail password recovery using landline
3 points by laurensr 4y ago|2 comments
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by laurensr 4y ago
Starfisk | Java or .NET engineers (multiple teams) | Bruges, Belgium (EU) | Full-time & Internship | https://starfisk.com/en Starfisk helps organizations and other software companies in their digital transformation, lev
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by laurensr 4y ago
As a not very skilled CAD drawer I went with Designspark Mechanical, which makes it very simple to go from a 2D sketch to a 3D model. I believe it is freeware but does require registration.
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Mute button in conferencing apps may not actually mute your mic(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by laurensr 5y ago|0 comments
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by laurensr 5y ago
It was being used in production on TI-84+ [1], haha [1] https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/139/13949.htm...
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by laurensr 5y ago
This name is associated with a lot of nostalgia for me, as it is the same name as the shell launcher for Texas Instruments' TI-83/84 graphing calculators.
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by laurensr 5y ago
04[5-9][0-9](+6 digits) are Belgian mobile numbers in national notation. In international notation the leading 0 is ommitted and +32 put in front.
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by laurensr 5y ago
I stand corrected, thank you.
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by laurensr 5y ago
In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analys
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by laurensr 5y ago
In Java the leading [1] newlines are stripped as well as the trailing ones [2]. [1]: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/Strings/TextBlocksGuide... [2]: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/S
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by laurensr 5y ago
This project reminds of what Wikidata does: organize facts as semantic triples [1] using inheritance in the way OOP does. Example about our planet: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.
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by laurensr 5y ago
Belgium is currently handling a huge pollution scandal with PFAS [1]. The media are using very different terminology, covering up the fact that they'll be along "forever". [1]: https://www.brusselstimes.com/be
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by laurensr 5y ago
Trivia: the recently posted PostgREST project was written in Haskell.
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by laurensr 5y ago
Shut down the internet in Windows 98 style: http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/
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by laurensr 5y ago
Is it just me or do the sliders lose focus after the slightest change? This prevents me from dragging the slider to different values using my cursor to view the changes smoothly.
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Belgian retailer shipped gaming PCs with racist hostnames(lalibre.be)
1 points by laurensr 5y ago|0 comments
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by laurensr 5y ago
You made me realize again how much I miss the 1920x1200 screen of my HP 8740w. I'm on a ZBook now, and even though full HD, or a multiplier thereof, is more standardized, I still miss 16:10 enormously.
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by laurensr 5y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly. Although an AI engine would probably consider this 'better' and 'more efficient' this doesn't mean it's morally the right thing to do.
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by laurensr 5y ago
Docker on WSL2 kind-of runs on the host, though.
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by laurensr 5y ago
Do note that the created map is immutable. However, you could pass the created map to the constructor HashMap (or another type) to obtain a mutable copy of the Map created using Map.of

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