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by retired 9mo ago
I’m curious how long it takes for the hands to drift to the point where the time difference is perceivable. Luckily the 30 millisecond pulse time is configurable.
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by retired 9mo ago
Railroads are roads.
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by retired 9mo ago
I was able to install homebrew, install yt-dlp and download some movies to watch during a flight. All without full disk access. I was also able to use sudo to remove /opt/homebrew afterwards.
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by retired 9mo ago
The United States emerged during a period of abundant frontier land, which normalized the idea that ordinary people could own large, independent plots. This contrasted sharply with Europe’s older, land-constrained settlement patterns. That
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by retired 9mo ago
Homebrew also installs through curl | bash but since recent they also offer a .pkg installer.
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by retired 9mo ago
The solution is to enable Full Disk Access in settings.
457.
by retired 9mo ago
I remember that Win32 apps on Windows 10 and 11 can do whatever they want with the users personal files. Has that changed?
458.
by retired 9mo ago
Thanks for reminding me to turn off Full Disk Access for Terminal. I'm not sure why I had that one turned on.
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by retired 9mo ago
I vaguely remember Grand Theft Auto being free to download from the Rockstar Games website about ten years ago. Here is to hoping that Rockstar Games brings these two classics back.
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by retired 9mo ago
Took me around ten minutes of finding a simple username that wasn't taken.
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by retired 9mo ago
I looked at Clawdbot. Perhaps my life is so boring that managing it takes little time but I see zero reasons to run it.
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by retired 9mo ago
I said bank account number. The one they use for billing.
463.
by retired 9mo ago
Made a bash script that calculates the current value of my home using the government published housing price index tables for my region and type of dwelling. Makes it easy to see if my loan-to-value has changed and if it might be worth requ
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by retired 9mo ago
My provider knows who I call, who I text, which websites I browse, my bank account number, my home address, my rough location, which countries I visited for holiday and through DTMF they can even sense which buttons I press on my handset.
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by retired 9mo ago
The VPN that I use for downloading copyright-free videos has gone up with inflation. That is reasonable.
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by retired 9mo ago
You bring your car in for yearly maintenance. They do a 50 point inspection, fix what is worn and replace fluids where necessary. After that they bring it to a shop next door where they do the (government required) yearly technical inspecti
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by retired 9mo ago
That is probably because the ID4s had pre-inspection before their yearly technical inspection. That is what they do in The Netherlands, probably also other countries. That makes their cars stand out in these reports.
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by retired 9mo ago
In The Netherlands, all ID3 and ID4 cars go through pre-inspection before they go for the annual technical inspection. Hence the low failure rates. Going to the yearly inspection on worn tires and brakes is just owners failure.
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by retired 9mo ago
After the first ten years of employment. You also have CAOs (collective labour agreement) that are more favourable. It all depends on your work history, what CAOs you worked under and when you started work.
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by retired 9mo ago
I doubt that you will end up in the red light district but it’s possible that a middle management position will end up in an Amazon distribution center as an order picker or has to harvest strawberries. Not that bad and you might learn some
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by retired 9mo ago
That is what I meant with “until you find a new job”. You must indeed be actively looking for a job. But they are unconditional in that they are not means tested or have other clauses that could cause you to not get paid. You do not have to
472.
by retired 9mo ago
Unemployment benefits is something you build up during your career, not just your current employer. For each year in employment you get one month of unemployment. The limit is 24 months. And with the current job market, someone with ASML on
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by retired 9mo ago
> any forced firings they will be well taken care of under Dutch labour laws Yes. Notice period stays in tact. Transition payment is 1/3rd of a monthly wage per year worked. And then your unemployment runs for up to 24 months at 70%
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by retired 9mo ago
Correct. If you go over €38.478 in savings, you immediately lose your renters benefit. No taper, just a hard drop-off. You can lose up to €5.000 in renters benefit a year. A legal tax avoidance is to just buy a €1000 TV if you are near the
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by retired 9mo ago
I future-proofed myself by moving to a region with a €3M exception. So that I have a long way to go before paying wealth tax. CGT is progressive and around 20%, compared to other European countries that is fairly average. Some Eastern Europ
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by retired 9mo ago
In the process of setting up a company to do consultancy services for Dutch companies, but eventually want to shift to local companies once I get to learn the language, culture and business.
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by retired 9mo ago
Yes, you are supposed to either sell part of the stocks to cover the yearly tax or you need to dip into your savings account to find money to cover the tax. I don't know about non-publicly listed companies, I assume you indeed need to
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by retired 9mo ago
You can write it off against future capital gains, but not against income tax from employment. So if the market is down a few years, you gain a lot of tax credits and you pray that the government doesn't get rid of those credits in the
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by retired 9mo ago
Spain. And I have to apologise, I call myself retired but in reality I'm just unemployed. It's more of a year long sabbatical, but I jokingly call it retirement since I moved to Spain and many Dutch people do so for retirement. I&
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by retired 9mo ago
That is the current system. In the new system it will be 36% on all capital gains, no more assumed gains. And an €1800 a year tax-free threshold. Also it's a bit more, right now you are looking at 36% on 6% or 2.16% per year with a €59

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