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by mtts 2y ago
Not just as a cyclist. As a pedestrian in one of those huge Asian metropolises with absolutely bonkers traffic, you should never ever make eye contact either. It’s the only way drivers will stop for you.
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by mtts 2y ago
> Also, for whatever reason, European clothes cleaning systems are insanely harsh, and your clothes don't last nearly as long when washed there. I think it's related to the energy efficiency requirements; the dryers are much mu
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by mtts 2y ago
The article also alludes to this, but doesn’t make it specific: It doesn’t necessarily say much if a paper cites a paper that has since been retracted. > Unlike (retracted, 2015) we found … Or > While (retracted, 2021) focused on … th
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by mtts 2y ago
This. In my student days, thirty years ago, you would have to be careful buying wine from a supermarket as it could be borderline undrinkable. Nowadays? Not so much. Even the cheapest swill is drinkable. Not really nice or flavorful, but ce
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by mtts 2y ago
Sounds like you’re not in NL. I am, and for the past ten years or so new varieties of locally grown tomatoes have appeared that are markedly better. Not as good as fresh Puglian tomatoes during harvest season, but much, much better than the
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by mtts 2y ago
p is the chance that you would have gotten this result if the null hypothesis were true.
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by mtts 2y ago
This. R2 is not the correct measure to use. This article is a perfect example of the principle that simply doing math and getting results is not necessarily meaningful.
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by mtts 2y ago
True, but while they're not building more housing at least in this case they're making it so the people who do have a house to live in don't have to contend with it being surrounded by hotels.
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by mtts 2y ago
While Tangible Waves' BRAEDBOARD is cheaper, the advantage of this thing is that it's compatible with Eurorack, which someone who is interested in learning how to prototype modules is likely to already have a lot of. But yeah, it&
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by mtts 2y ago
Correct, but “not tracking personal data” is in fact not a rule in the GDPR. “Only store personal data you really need” is, qualified with “and don’t share it with others”. Cookie walls exist because companies insist on handing over their
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by mtts 2y ago
Not only is the GDPR not difficult to comply with (just use only the personal data you need to provide your service - and don’t share it with others), it’s also nothing new: it’s just a bunch of previously existing privacy laws bundled toge
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by mtts 2y ago
Do you only update your grocery lists at home or in places with good WiFi? Because I can reliably cause iCloud to choke if network coverage is less than excellent (a plausible use case for grocery lists, I’d imagine). Dropbox, on the other
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by mtts 2y ago
Once a year I do some tests to see if the wife and I, with only our grocery list shared between us, can switch. And once a year I find out the answer is “no - and it isn’t any better than last year”. iCloud is extremely slow. Updates in fil
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by mtts 3y ago
It used to be this way. Cycling was doped, everyone knew that and everyone was open about it. There’s an amusing story from those days where two top contenders in a multi stage race agree to skip the drugs for one day. They arrive at the fi
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by mtts 3y ago
People think that, but it’s not true. The majority is migrant workers, and a substantial portion of them do white collar jobs.
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by mtts 3y ago
And pilsener beer. For some things the artisan skill is in approaching machine level efficiency. (of course in many cases, such as with baklava, hummus and pilsener beer the temptation then arises to cheap out on the ingredients, causing th
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by mtts 3y ago
I’m sure one could learn to appreciate all the different aromas, yes, and hat doing so would be an amusing and interesting pursuit. However, I have enough hobbies and interests already and don’t need another one. I just want coffee that sor
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by mtts 3y ago
Right, but "uniform espresso" is exactly what I mean when I say Italy has "decent espresso at every corner". In the Netherlands, where I live, it's "every place has a different variation of awful slop", ex
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by mtts 3y ago
Nigeria is all the way on the other side of the African content while the Arabian peninsula is right across the very narrow Red Sea. So it would make less sense for Ethiopians to speak a language that’s related to languages spoken thousands
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by mtts 3y ago
Education in the Netherlands uses Microsoft quite heavily as well and so when the pandemic started it was also either Teams or nothing at all. However, the reason for this wasn’t so much MS being evil as Google and others basically ignoring
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by mtts 3y ago
There’s also the mod for the HD-439 where you cut away some tape that covers up some holes and you get markedly more bass.
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by mtts 3y ago
The upgrade kit contains a battery pack so it's user replaceable.
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by mtts 3y ago
The price is quite reasonable. You shouldn't compare it to a MacBook Air but to other stand alone boxes with built in controllers like the Akai MPC X which is €2400, the Akai Force, which is quite Ableton-like and which costs €1200. It
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by mtts 3y ago
The common solution in this case is simply to also GROUP BY owner.name. That said, if owner.name has different values and you didn’t actually care which one you’d get ANY_VALUE could maybe be useful. Though in that case you could also just
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by mtts 4y ago
If a business can only exist if energy prices are unrealistically low, then, yes, it is inefficient.
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by mtts 4y ago
Hahaha - never thought of it that way. Given how dirt free a lot of modern greenhouse agriculture is, it could conceivably be done.
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by mtts 4y ago
This was the promise originally but it turned out to be impossible. As it turns out, data center waste water is nowhere near warm enough to use for heating.
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by mtts 4y ago
The agricultural lobby puts this out a lot, but it’s not true. The pig farmers and the dairy farmers that are causing the most problems require vast imports of fodder grown elsewhere. The efficiency of a lot of greenhouse agriculture is que
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by mtts 4y ago
Maybe that’s just setting a low bar. Dutch agriculture is anything but a bucolic idyl, instead consisting of very large industrial operations owned by an ever decreasing number of companies that produce vast amounts of food for export using
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by mtts 4y ago
Don’t know about Sweden but the Netherlands does not have a “big violent gang problem”. It has a problem with a few small and very violent gangs that occasionally gun down people in broad daylight, in the middle of the street, completely

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