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by retired 4mo ago
Unfortunately the first TUV inspection is three years after initial registration. In Spain it’s four years. Plenty of time to blind people.
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by retired 4mo ago
Many European active headlights solutions were banned in the US upon release thanks to the NHTSA. Meanwhile us Europeans got blasted by them daily.
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by retired 4mo ago
First generation Audi Matrix LED lights would have a word. Those blind oncoming traffic for a full second before dimming. They were banned in the US, ironically.
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by retired 4mo ago
As an EU citizen, I notice that our regulators tend to target industries that operate outside of the EU. There is a massive car lobby in Europe with dozens of big companies and regulation would have a big effect on them. There are headlight
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by retired 4mo ago
Feels illegal under EU GDPR rules. I believe the accept and reject buttons should be equal size and style. Pay to eject, I’m not sure if that is illegal.
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by retired 4mo ago
I’m talking about a vehicle that you can buy in either two or four door version. In that direct comparison the two door wins in ease to get in to, visibility, weight and less complexity. If you don’t use the rear seat the two door is a no-b
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by retired 4mo ago
> I don’t understand how the practicality trade-off ever made sense. I did over 100k kilometers in two/three door vehicles. Back seat never had any passengers in them. Meanwhile it was easier to get into my car, visibility was bette
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by retired 4mo ago
Got it. I guess some people still use wired mice and keyboards with legacy connectors. But how many of those use them on a $350 board? Seems like a very small use case. I personally use Bluetooth for that, been doing that for the past 20 ye
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by retired 4mo ago
That is now illegal in the European Union. Everything sold is required to have USB-C. > From 28 December 2024, the rules apply to mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-rea
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by retired 4mo ago
Understandable but I would have preferred a couple of fully functional USB-C ports and then have people use dongles for using old hardware on this board. Similar to using a serial adapter.
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by retired 4mo ago
Interesting. I don’t own any legacy USB equipment anymore, everything is USB-C now. I started phasing out my old equipment ten years ago and everything from the past five years has had USB-C as standard. Even my shaver chargers over USB-C.
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by retired 4mo ago
I’m surprised to see those legacy USB ports on a board where space savings is important. Do they do it for backwards compatibility with older cases and housings? And am I correct to see that the USB-C only does power? How do you connect you
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by retired 4mo ago
It’s possible in The Netherlands to charter a private train. I have seen large companies do this for a company retreat. It’s not even that expensive. I remember it being €5000/hour which isn’t a bad way to move 300 employees to the oth
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by retired 4mo ago
Meanwhile nobody bats an eye in Spain if you hire illegal African immigrants, pay them far below minimum wage and house them in shacks without electricity and running water. Places like Almería look like slave towns.
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by retired 5mo ago
Change videogames so they aren't big-bang releases but make them monthly releases. Building a piece software for years and then releasing it all in once reminds me of the 1990s. Nowadays we continuously deliver. Euro Truck Simulator 2
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by retired 5mo ago
Job market in Western Europe isn't doing so well right now. Better not make a big deal out of it.
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by retired 5mo ago
Everywhere. Normally adding an extra endpoint to the REST API would take a sprint. Now PM expects you to do two. Only way to get that done is a lot of vibe-coding and delivering sub-par results.
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by retired 5mo ago
And many employers now require you to code faster, which is only possible with AI tooling. They don't understand that coding faster isn't always better.
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by retired 5mo ago
Retired as well. Hated that dealing with AI was a big part of my job. Hated how half my time was spend clicking through portals, scrum boards, devops tooling. I just wanted to code. Haven't touched code since I retired unfortunately. J
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by retired 5mo ago
There wasn't a signed contract with the previous franchisee from what I can see. And even then, the trail audit goes further as the previous franchisee didn't have a proof of purchase of $200k of inventory.
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by retired 5mo ago
Eating only half a pepernoot and putting it back in the bowl is crazy behavior. In this case the gesture is to not speak with a mouth full of food, which is understandable.
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by retired 5mo ago
Would a simple audit not completely destroy this case? "How did you acquire these sets?" "Uhm... don't know they just appeared out of nowhere" Straight to jail.
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by retired 5mo ago
Due to zoning (not sure how that translates) nobody can live permanently in the bungalow. It is only for recreational use. Has to do with infrastructure, power delivery, sewage, building standards. If it was allowed to live in that bungalow
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by retired 5mo ago
Not in The Netherlands. Plenty of stores that stock chargers identical to the ones on AliExpress and Temu. Action, Big Bazar, SoLow. Edit: Reply to lozenge as I am still rate-limited by HN. Some of them get recalled, the vast majority of th
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by retired 5mo ago
> Clothing for a costume I'll wear maybe twice There was a time where society didn't buy clothes to only wear once or twice but would instead rent them for those occasions.
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by retired 5mo ago
If you ban Temu chargers, people will go to stores to buy the cheapest ones which are identical to the ones on Temu, just for 10x the price. Edit: Reply to Scroll_Swe as I am rate-limited to posting new comments. The chargers in budget stor
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by retired 5mo ago
The Netherlands has a 2.2% tax on secondary properties with a €50k threshold (total wealth, not per-property). So any holiday home, shed, storage locker, garage space, parking spot, bungalow, pied-a-terre, apartment for your children falls
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by retired 5mo ago
You could use mini-ITX form factor.
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by retired 5mo ago
Not if you Airplay to your TV. I get random foreign languages when I watch English speaking YouTubers. No way to enable subtitles or change the language. It's a known bug according to the internet.
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by retired 5mo ago
I fully understand being uncomfortable with a CPU swap, but a GPU swap isn't difficult. Valve also could have gone the Framework route of releasing a motherboard+CPU combo so you can upgrade later down the line just by swapping the boa

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