roel_v

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by roel_v 7y ago
For years I thought I had to do it the way the big boys do, studying university text books and referencing papers in the field and putting a bunch of mathematical notation in my designs and emails. While also knowing all the foundations und
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by roel_v 7y ago
You mind sharing? My home grown solution also focuses on generating physical documents, but I'm not so happy with my Markdown + custom formatting engine solution.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Picking apart a sentence in a foreign language and making sense of the structure is a lot like programming so it’s a transferable skill" ... yeah no those are nothing alike at all...
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by roel_v 7y ago
I built a trebuchet once when I was 10 or 12. It was about as high as I was tall at the time, and it was on a platform with 6 wheels. I shot some of the neighbors' prunes into a meadow next to our house, and then when I went for a mass
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by roel_v 7y ago
Lots of hotels have pancake 'robots' ('machines' is probably a better word, they don't have arms or anything, just look like a big toaster) at their breakfast buffets.
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by roel_v 7y ago
Well sure and there are soccer players without any form of degree who make 10x that, what's your point?
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by roel_v 7y ago
"from property" In my Dutch town, there are churches that have been converted to hotels, a night club, several bicycle parkings, an award-winning bookshop that promptly went bankrupt, an indoor playground and a slew of restaurants
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by roel_v 7y ago
Maybe not as in 'having a beer at each others houses', but when you go to each others fights as a team, go to seminars/camps together, or just work through your fight prep together at 4 or 6 week periods at a time, you develo
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by roel_v 7y ago
I wish it would have better color profile support, so that it can be used to send graphics straight to a printer. This seems like a basic thing but I could never get it to work. So now I have to use Scribus which has its own problems.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"The proposed 31.6 billion pounds cash-and-share transaction would only go ahead if the LSE’s takeover of Refinitiv does not proceed, HKEX said."
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by roel_v 7y ago
I have a 4 year old Yoga (a Flip or something I think?) that still works great. My wife has an (admittedly $5000) Thinkpad (yes not Yoga but still Lenovo) that works great (although the ordering was a mess - but we did get a 10% refund in t
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by roel_v 7y ago
Yeah I was referring to girth/width...
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by roel_v 7y ago
I can somewhat see how being American-sized in a European car could be uncomfortable...
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by roel_v 7y ago
While I don't 'believe' every bit of bro-science I hear (as in, take all claims at face value), let's just say that I'm not very worried about overdosing most supplements and I rather try things out than spending ho
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by roel_v 7y ago
Oh I'm not skeptical, I don't know anything about this - I asked to learn if you had any more advise when it comes to buying the product, what to look out for, what to combine it with or not, and how to 'measure' or at l
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by roel_v 7y ago
Did you research the product more at the time? Is it just a matter of googling 'vitamin k2' and buying from the first reputable source? How did you notice that plaque came off when brushing?
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by roel_v 7y ago
2 other numbers I read today on HN that made me look at things differently, although I knew them in other units but those didn't 'click' as much: air (including the water in it) weighs about 4 kg/m3 (much more than I wou
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by roel_v 7y ago
True, but we can fail many times, and we need to not fail only once...
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by roel_v 7y ago
" You can put the same kind of GUI or web interface on top of a Sieve file" From a quick google, there does seem to be a Roundcube plugin for managing Sieve filters, but man yet another dependency (or two, as it seems you need a s
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by roel_v 7y ago
There was a lawsuit about the publication of this book a few weeks ago. The Dutch intelligence service had redacted parts of it, if which they said it endangered lives. The journalist thought they redacted too much, the court disagreed. So
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by roel_v 7y ago
... Can't tell if you're serious or not - but if you are, just looking at man sieve is enough to understand why no sane person would give an average end user access to that. I mean I used it for many years but I'm a nerd we
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by roel_v 7y ago
You're a much braver soul than I have ever been :)
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by roel_v 7y ago
So despite your claim that it's 'very easy to do', in the very next paragraph you are basically saying that you need to be around people who 'mention in passing' obscure details of email server configuration, otherw
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by roel_v 7y ago
"I also get daily reports from Google how well it behaves" Do you ever read them? If so, how is daily (!) routine maintenance of your email setup not a massive (well, relatively speaking) headache?
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by roel_v 7y ago
The config file format is the least of your worries (unless you're running Sendmail, ofcourse). It's about havimg to know about DKIM/SPF/dns weirdness/ etc, and having to stay up to date; about blacklists and greyli
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by roel_v 7y ago
It's not 'hard', it's 'a gigantic pain in the ass' which is (in normal word use) one form of 'hard'. Which is why most sane people stopped doing it themselves say 15 years ago. Especially for the few
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by roel_v 7y ago
OK so I undown'ed you to ask - how?
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by roel_v 7y ago
A 'stick in the mud'?
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by roel_v 7y ago
Well as a programmer, it seems stupid for me to write mind-numbingly tedious electronic instructions for a computer all day every day, and then in the evening go home and do the same thing but in an even more convoluted, artificial and non-
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by roel_v 7y ago
Shrug Why would that be high? It seems to include the required yearly checkup, and a 450L brake change that wasn't necessary. My (diesel) BMW X3 cost a little bit more than his car to buy, and I expect to average the same maintenance

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