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by mtts 4y ago
That’s a rose tinted view. For some fields (not unsurprisingly nerdy ones) the quality of the amateur content was good enough. For other fields it was abysmal. I remember trying to look up scholarly material on English literature in 1998
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by mtts 4y ago
You're getting downvoted and maybe that is somewhat justified on account of the snark, but that is unfortunate IMHO because your first criticism is very valid: there are no good Org tools for phones. I've tried all of them, paid f
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by mtts 4y ago
> Even if you strip out the supernatural parts, a religion provides all sorts of notions about fairness, justice, forgiveness, family life, the rules and order, etc. Most people would call that a culture. One were most people do not go t
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by mtts 4y ago
> Hasn’t the growth of Islam in Europe been a large and growing political issue for the past decade? Probably more like two decades by now :-) The political parties in Europe that pride themselves on anti-Islamism are themselves not reli
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by mtts 4y ago
This is very cool, but very expensive. For this money (€230 in EU) there are a lot of other options, however, for getting an oscilloscope that is useful and robust (unlike those €30 DIY kits that ... I'm too clumsy not to break).
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by mtts 4y ago
- The Netherlands is in no way refugee friendly. They tried to ban families from reuniting (which international treaties explicitly forbid) and so many shelters were closed down that incoming refugees has to sleep out in the cold for weeks
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by mtts 4y ago
Yes, the Dutch are incredibly racist (I’m Dutch, btw) but the “no internationals” isn’t because of the color of their skin but because they don’t stay around for long. With “internationals” (meaning expats and foreign students) you have to
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by mtts 4y ago
One of the reasons for this, I imagine, is the piano-centric nature of a lot of (amateur) music since 1800 or so. In small settings, a single woodwind or even a violin isn't all that useful. When you're targeting amateur musicians
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by mtts 4y ago
I appreciate that you’re angry and I agree that for the most part there’s entirely too much privatization going on (railways? really?). As far as healthcare is concerned, however, in the Netherlands (it might very well be different elsewh
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by mtts 4y ago
The difference being that Taiwan is a goose that lays golden eggs (TMSC) so you'd be crazy so invade and thereby kill it. Pretty sure Ukraine had / has nothing that Russia wants to keep alive.
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by mtts 4y ago
Any proof for this? Because in the Netherlands wait times are increasing because, get this, more (old) people are using health care. This increases pressure on the people who work in health care so they burn out, leaving fewer people to pic
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by mtts 4y ago
Not “software engineer”, though. Anyone can be one of those. Maybe because it’s an English term?
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by mtts 4y ago
I've tried to run Emacs this way and quickly gave up. There's just too many packages which don't work at all. Also, it's very, very slow. Finally, for it to be truly useful you need to be able to edit all the text files
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by mtts 4y ago
This definition is not necessarily wrong. It’s easier for them to argue that they need telemetry to provide (and improve) their own services than it is to argue some third party advertising behemoth needs it. The former is perfectly accepta
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by mtts 4y ago
If I’m not mistaken the latest research on this topic incorporates the results of DNA studies that seem to suggest there was indeed a population replacement (made possible in part by the very large number of the Anglo-Saxon immigrants and t
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by mtts 4y ago
Rare how? Charlie Parker famously used it on Jazz at Massey Hall
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by mtts 4y ago
Dunno, NIN (which I love, btw) was always the Disney version of Midwest Industrial which itself was the Disney version of Throbbing Gristle and friends, so, you know, it’a not entirely unexpected ;-) Friend of mine called PHM “Michael Jac
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by mtts 4y ago
This used to be true, but in 2000 (!)the US government enabled the full range of GPS features for civilian use, vastly improving the accuracy of GPS receivers. GPS.gov says single band receivers should be able to get less than 2m accuracy.
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by mtts 4y ago
> I’d be surprised if Garmin were all that much better at putting GPS in a tiny housing than Apple. Given Garmin’s long, long history as a manufacturer of (often very small) GPS devices, I personally wouldn’t be. (I also know for a fact
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by mtts 4y ago
Fear of RDBMSes is quite common. I used to suffer from it too. It’s just so annoying to have to switch your brain to a different programming paradigm every time you need to do something with the database that you start to make up all sorts
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by mtts 4y ago
This is about his fading pigments. There are letters of his where he acknowledges that he uses bad quality paints that are likely to fade, which is why he uses stronger colors than he knows he should. The linked article (which has very few
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by mtts 4y ago
This problem is pretty solved in the Netherlands. https://www.thuisarts.nl is set up by the Dutch federation of General Practitioners and provides good, non-sensationalist information that is guaranteed to be vetted by the likes
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by mtts 4y ago
Spot on assessment of “The History of Jazz” (just finished it myself). It’s probably more of a reference book than anything else. For actual reading, his “How to Listen to Jazz” is probably much better - and covers quite a bit of the same g
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by mtts 4y ago
Yes. Even before the source material for GOT dried up it was borderline unwatchable due to the constant nudity. I’m really not a prude, I hope, but I prefer to keep my intriguing and backstabbing separate from my softcore pornography.
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by mtts 4y ago
The revival we need, urgently, is of recorded music income Why? That ship has sailed. In 2022, as in 1922, 1822, 1722 etc musicians will have to earn their income by playing live.
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by mtts 4y ago
PenStore.nl is like a Dutch version of Jetpens. Really nice. Alternatively something called japanstore.nl has the fancier versions.
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by mtts 4y ago
Very much this. The Netherlands is essentially a frat house kept afloat by dangerously unregulated immigrant labor, a dwindling number of middle class professionals and tax laws that would be an embarrassment to all but the most unrepentant
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by mtts 4y ago
High risk score means you’re under scrutiny. Once you’re under scrutiny every minor thing that goes wrong or is unclear is by default assumed to be fraud and you get slapped with (often outrageously high) fines, payable immediately. You can
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by mtts 4y ago
Yes. In fact the stuff you list doesn’t come from China at all but Indonesia. More complicated components come from Malaysia and Thailand, as do hard drives and the like.
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by mtts 5y ago
The myth of Picasso having been a great realistic painter in his youth is exactly that, a myth, and, in fact, one that has only one source, namely Picasso himself. Picasso was a great self promotor and back before the internet the opportuni

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