roel_v

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by roel_v 8y ago
How many people are you?
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by roel_v 8y ago
The fun in making bread is not in the kneading. Kneading is brainless work. Bread enthousiast forums are rife with talk about bread machines - both kneading machines and full bread making machines. I understand the picture you're tryin
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by roel_v 8y ago
No sane person would do so in any country that doesn't have the bicycle infrastructure we have in the Netherlands. I live in Australia and/or New Zealand a few months out of the year, and I've taken my kids to school there -
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by roel_v 8y ago
I get why people hate on ORM's, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater here - I don't want to go back to the time where you had to write object definitions for each table the database, and manually sync them. Nor
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by roel_v 8y ago
That depends on how you define 'admins', doesn't it. When you have two classes, 'academic' and 'admin', and only professors are 'academic' - well then everybody else is 'admin'. It may
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well yeah, sure. That's how it works when scaling any organization. I'm not sure what I'm arguing here; I know for a fact that most universities have too much admin staff, but it's not like they all sit around all day wr
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by roel_v 8y ago
shrug I was just responding to the GP with 10 'academic staff' and 70 'administrative staff'. It's not like every professor has 7 secretaries there. Every university divides things differently. I was just pointing
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by roel_v 8y ago
"If that is true, then your researchers are effectively managers here. The real workers are lab techs, programmers etc." Well yeah. Professors are like business unit leaders/managers, acquiring funding for research and settin
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by roel_v 8y ago
Programmers are not researchers; lab techs are not researchers; many other people who do work for the academics are not 'academic staff' (and can't be paid as such). It's not hard to imagine what that sort of structure l
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yeah I get similar mails - my email address is the same as that of an insurance company, but with two letters switched. I only get one every week or so, I just reply and say 'you probably meant to send this to [correct email address]&#
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by roel_v 8y ago
I had to write a 10k word undergrad final paper for law school (in Europe, law school is a regular university study, with a 3 year LLB and 1 or 2 year LLM). At around 8k or so, I went to my supervisor and said 'look, I've said eve
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by roel_v 8y ago
No this can be diy'ed, especially easy, straight rails.
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by roel_v 8y ago
It's actually 3 devices behind one plug - Xerox Phaser 6600 printer, Brother MFC 7840 multifunctional and a ScanSnap ix500 scanner. I don't quite remember, I think they used 20w in standby (combined)? I remember being shocked at t
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by roel_v 8y ago
I don't quite remember, but e.g. this online shop https://www.hashop.nl/Shuttle has them for e460 = USD533 (includes 21% VAT). But it must depend on the length, and on whether you need special shapes (e.g., I have two
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by roel_v 8y ago
Aha those are exactly what I was looking for a few years ago when I tried to do the same, I only found tiny ones with difficult to use interfaces. Thanks!
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by roel_v 8y ago
I use Forest drapery rails ( https://www.forestgroup.com/ ). They're awesome, they have a zwave interface build in (the ones I use - they have multiple systems) and they have been 100% rock solid for 4+ years for me. The
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by roel_v 8y ago
"i built a bed occupancy sensor so hass knows if we're in bed or not," Do you use a pressure sensor or PIR for that?
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by roel_v 8y ago
In addition to most of the things other people have reported above, I have: - Scripts that open/close curtains depending on sunset/sundown and whether we're on holiday (presence simulation) - My seedling box - it's an Ik
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by roel_v 8y ago
If you're the new hire and the first you you're doing is pester everyone with extra work they don't see the advantage of - that'll just get you the reputation of a know it all, in my experience. That's why I suggest
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by roel_v 8y ago
Here's a hard earned tip. The first few months, nobody's going to expect much from you anyway. Try to stretch the time you're 'getting up to speed with the code' as long as possible. But in that time, write as many
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by roel_v 8y ago
The article says "The reason the early developers at OpenCV chose BGR color format is that back then BGR color format was popular among camera manufacturers and software providers. E.g. in Windows, when specifying color value using COL
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by roel_v 8y ago
As an American you won't get a visa (to the EU) with a story of 'I'm going to support myself by looking for a teaching job and doing some odesk'.
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by roel_v 8y ago
In Amsterdam, scooter usage (not electric, just scooters in general) skyrocketed when a famous criminal was shown riding one in some pictures surrounding a heavily publicized case (meaning, these pictures were in the news for literally year
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by roel_v 8y ago
The cannons are still there, they're down the street from my house. The general who was then in charge of Maastricht was much despised by the locals because of his decision then to be loyal to the Dutch king. So when his remains were o
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well just the last week, the Dutch highest administrative court ruled that Pastafarianism is not a real religion. Do you at least see why (you don't have to agree, just understand)?
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by roel_v 8y ago
I think the dynamic was more that that software was slow when it was written, but had a long shelf life, so after a hardware upgrade or two it seemed very fast. I remember using Norton Commander (in DOS) on an 8086 and it was laggy scrollin
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by roel_v 8y ago
It's the Guardian. It's the British equivalent of Fox but from the other side of the political spectrum. I don't understand why so much Guardian drivel is upvoted here every day.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Nr of cars vs congestion follows an S-curve with a very narrow/steep middle section. Removing a single digit percentage of cars/passengers can mean the difference between 'busy but only a little slow down' and 'comp
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by roel_v 8y ago
If this one works, they can do similar projects in places where they can build, own and charge for huge parking garages. Build parking in cheap location, then provide a way for people to get to the location they actually want to br (downtow
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by roel_v 8y ago
For me, using wrists supports makes all the difference. I switched to an 'Ultimate Hacking Keyboard' today which has wrist supports as an option; before this I've used an Ergodox for years which I used foam wrist supports wit

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