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by schrijver 1y ago
I don’t think there’s any single way to be sure, but it sure reads like ChatGPT to me. Which I’m not sure is such a bad thing—I presume the author used an AI to help them write the story, but the story is real. Or maybe they edited it thems
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by schrijver 1y ago
Mirrors are great, but most bikers don’t have them. And even then it might still be your ears that alert you that there’s a car behind you (electric or not — I still hear them), after which you can keep tabs with your mirror. I don’t unders
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by schrijver 1y ago
> I really wish there was a simple solution for streaming audio in a stereo like box You can turn any normal hi-fi setup into streaming speakers in various ways. I’m using a fifteen year old Airport express right now. Works well, lossles
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by schrijver 1y ago
Then you set your alarm to fifty minutes ? Surely the max twenty minutes the laundry spends in the washing machine won’t make a difference.
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by schrijver 1y ago
> My Alexa Echo Dot 4 sounds better than my home audio setup from the 90s I have a hard time believing this… yes today’s small devices sound better than small devices ever did. A lot of work went into that because people appreciate the r
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by schrijver 1y ago
Thanks for your work. The photo ones are much more practical as a reference though! I would imagine for long term traffic that still counts. You can browse through them quickly and zoom in easily. I’ve been using photo teardowns often as a
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by schrijver 1y ago
Hobbyists aren’t forced to buy anything.. I blame youtube for turning hobbies into an exercise at buying stuff. Affiliate links are one of the few ways to make money online and the reason why the majority of videos in the hobby space seem t
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by schrijver 2y ago
The suite is $60 / month, which is not peanuts, especially since the vast majority of self-employed creatives aren’t exactly raking in cash.
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by schrijver 2y ago
In Dutch: https://www.politie.nl/informatie/mag-ik-met-mijn-vrienden-r... Legally it’s still the exception, the municipality has to make it illegal (although I imagine it happens far too often). But hanging in front of
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by schrijver 2y ago
A lot of dialogue in movies is dubbed for this very reason, it’s very hard to not pick up noise. What you can deal with is how close the mic is to you (which is why news reporters rely on hand held mics, not just the boom mike) and the patt
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by schrijver 2y ago
Interesting we get so many likes here, as I can’t stand this style. It’s the same annoying pretentiousness Paul Graham’s peddles. Karlsson even calls his blog posts essays just like PG! These authors have this habit of reflecting on their l
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by schrijver 2y ago
Another thing I like in Spotify is that you can play over any device connected on the same network, so your phone can control the spotify app on your pc, that’s connected to speakers, for example. Tidal only offers this on dedicated hardwar
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by schrijver 2y ago
In my experience, cars are discouraged from city centres, but not banned. You can drive your car all around Amsterdam, although you’ll have many one way streets and parking is going to very expensive for non-residents… and it’s hard (but no
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by schrijver 2y ago
I thought the larger public was starting to accept subtitles so I was hoping we’d rather see the end of dubbed movies !
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by schrijver 2y ago
I imagine these were Dutch tomatoes—I’ve heard the best ones don’t actually get sold in the Netherlands, as the Dutch consumers don’t care enough to pay a premium. These get exported to the south instead, where the costumers are more discer
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by schrijver 2y ago
I’d say there are three groups: A) casual photography for capturing memories B) casual but with a desire to take better quality pictures C) enthusiastic amateurs and pros. Now only C will buy a dedicated camera. But in the late 0’s and the
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by schrijver 2y ago
That’s shooting in burst mode, it shoots separate photos rather than short videos. In sports you typically use short shutter speeds to freeze the action. If you would stitch these photos together into a video, the results would look jittery
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by schrijver 2y ago
From the Netherlands, UK Office, as that one was broadcast on Dutch television already before the American version existed. So I guess the answer depends on your age :)
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by schrijver 2y ago
While right to repair is in part about getting consumers to care it is just as much about getting regulators to care. They can do things like force the availability of replacement parts etc. The right to repair movement seems to have its ef
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by schrijver 3y ago
Uhm, no ? Chat as in cat is pronounced sja. Or sjaht for a female cat (chatte). The tsjaht pronounciation is when using the english word chat in french.
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by schrijver 3y ago
Isn’t that the common definition?
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by schrijver 3y ago
It’s like the city fails the poor twice: first they have to enjoy substandard living conditions, and whenever this changes, they get priced out. Gentrification refers specifically to this displacement, and it shouldn’t be hard to understand
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by schrijver 3y ago
Not so sure about that, mixing engineers have to do very precise manipulation of sound and there’s plenty of them working well into their 40ies and beyond. While of course aspects of your hearing deteriorate, it should still be pretty simpl
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by schrijver 3y ago
If you prefer listen to music on excellent studio monitors that already makes you more discerning than 99% of the general public. You could very well apply the label audiophile to that, no? Maybe we need two words, one for people like you a
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by schrijver 3y ago
Today I binged the Youtube of House & Garden, an upmarket English interior design magazine… now I was aware that in the mainstream minimalism has peaked, but I learned that all along there’s been this whole subculture of posh English pe
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by schrijver 3y ago
How it worked in Amsterdam in the 90ies is that the government also started to provide the drugs (Methadon) for the heroin addicts… The addicts were responsible for lots of petty crime in order to fund their habit (stealing car radios, mugg
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by schrijver 3y ago
Musicians are less gullible than “audiophiles” because they know how the sausage is made
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by schrijver 3y ago
Don’t see the problem with different pronunciations… I have a first name like Jules, I like it… indeed depending on whether people are French or English speaking they pronounce it differently—but that doesn’t bother me at all! It still feel
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by schrijver 3y ago
Thanks! I feel cheated though, there’s plenty of punctuation! If you switch on the subtitles, it features periods commas and question marks more or less where I hear them. It’s just someone talking annoyingly fast.
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by schrijver 3y ago
Even if you properly backup everything and can downgrade after an update, you’re still burned by an update if it breaks your software. Which is why most musicians will be at least a major OS version behind, giving vendors the time to update

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