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by pluijzer 4y ago
I have no affiliation but want to second this. If you want to keep your filesystem in sync across many devices Syncthing fully enables this. It is a use case where you would expect a payed service would be easier or more reliable but with S
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by pluijzer 4y ago
The magic, curiosity and joy I had also faded for me once. Like you say, much of my jobs included lots of plumbing. For work the elegant solutions that gave me joy would be seen as anti-patterns. The languages I enjoy would scuffed at as be
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by pluijzer 4y ago
> Never too late! From your comment and some other comments and the way the article is written I gather that the engineers age is seen as something novel. Do people really see 63 as an newsworthy fact? Not trying to troll, I honestly won
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by pluijzer 4y ago
But that is a different argument. People can have an irrational fear against something new and protest purely from those fears not with logic. That might be the case for nuclear power too. I don't know all the factors but I would also
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Are you stating that the environmental activists that are against nuclear energie are not so because of the possible dangerous but simply because it might be a solution and that would make them obsolete? I am sorry but that argument rings a
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Keep in mind that king Baudouin requested himself for a solution where he would not have to sign the law without I obstructing the democratic process. So it is not fully true that they went against the will of the king.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
var a, b = true; if (a!=b) console.assert(false, "unreachable");
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Even though professionally I use very high level languages like Clojure and Common Lisp I always enjoy coding in C for my hobby project. Something about the simplicity just helps me calm. But there will always be a point where I have this n
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Or just; don't use boiling water.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
This already exists. For a project I worked with a 'house of the future' style project. Which was build in a way that it was a faraday cage that had an option of letting selected frequencies through.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
The N900 was my favorite phone by far. Most of the reason come as a programmer, not all users might value them. First of all ot was a true Linux phone. Running a derivative of Debian, complete with apt etc. Most of the apps on it, even the
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by pluijzer 4y ago
What I know from the Netherlands, at least from the numbers of hospitalisations, is that for the longest time we counted the number of people that had covid while being treated in hospital. This in contrast with most countries that counted
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by pluijzer 4y ago
I've pasted 150 items of this list to OpenAI and let it figure out what my username would be as a Swedish startup, the answer is Pluijzer (Stockholm, social enterprise that develops innovative solutions for a plastic-free future) So
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by pluijzer 4y ago
What the parent post means is that the owners might not have let the rabbit free bit would find an other alternative, like keeping the rabbit anyway because they love it, giving the rabbit to a friend etc. But now they think their is this g
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by pluijzer 4y ago
In countries with proper abortion laws she could have done this legally and more humane.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
I am curious (really, not sarcastic) why you want to play around with PC's from that period. I am facinated by vintage computers. Computers from before that era feel exotic and unique but not so much for PC's. To me a more modern
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Not in the same order of magnitude but this is how I bought my IBM Model M keyboard for 50 cents from a pile of those crappy "multimedia keyboards".
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by pluijzer 4y ago
You can try and talk to your developers with more respect. People make mistakes and don't have to be idiots or stupid for it. edit: mistakes happen always it is better to change the workflow in such a way that a the consequences can be
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by pluijzer 4y ago
It works to print it from reader view.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
I was a paperboy from when I was 12 till I was 17. I had one route early in the morning and another in the evening. 20 years later if I am in my old town I can still remember which houses received a paper and the acrobatics I need to get to
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by pluijzer 4y ago
In Dutch the ij is a digraph. The dictionary sorts words starting with as an i followed by j, though many other places like the phone book sort it together with y. (... after my boss told me he checked our submissions of free time by simply
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by pluijzer 4y ago
a) Your tip actually did make it work. It is really a crazy fun experiment! b) It was maybe about 4 seconds. I stood up and actually only noticed it one second in. I took one more step just from memory. (Like I would for example walk to the
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Apart from the already suggested tip to make your screen B&W (which makes everything just a little bit more boring) I do the following: - I have my phone permanently on "do not disturb" and only made exceptions for important c
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by pluijzer 4y ago
The experiment whit the clock didn't work for me. I see no noticeable delay when looking back to the second hand. Maybe I do something wrong? Small anecdote: long ago in my teens I had a period where I didn't sleep for days due to
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by pluijzer 4y ago
My music player is Audacious (itself a fork of XMMS I believe) with the classic WinAmp skin. Using this just makes me happy whereas using more modern apps or streaming services just make me feel confused.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
In the past I did exactly this, creating 3d models of ceramics made by my partner, with my Xperia xz2 phone. It had some built-in app for this. Though I have nothing to compare it to, the results where quite good, even used it to 3d print c
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by pluijzer 4y ago
It is about 5 years of a minimum wage in the Netherlands. Could spent it on a hiatus and work on a passion project.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
Error 89: Roomba has been running a mission for too long.
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by pluijzer 4y ago
I never heard of Everything2. Regretfully because it seems great. I see it has new articles and Wikipedia lists it as active though everybody here refers to it in the past tense. Why is that?
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by pluijzer 4y ago
I like to take a screenshot too when having just created something. Myself I like to create a screenshot of my whole desktop. Years later I get a nice feeling of nostalgia seeing what theme, wm, apps etc. I used to work with. For the same r

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