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by schrijver 4y ago
Problem patched, more or less: you can easily forget or loose the dongle, and you’ve lost the ability to charge your phone at the same time. It still feels like a step back in functionality.
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by schrijver 4y ago
Headphones meant for audio production tend to come with a 3.5mm headphone jack with screw thread that allows you to securely fit an adapter to full size jack. I find it very likely that people who are into audio production want to use their
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by schrijver 4y ago
I’ve bitten the bullet, but using an adapter is still suboptimal in two ways: - you can’t charge your phone and listen to music at the same time. - it’s really easy to loose the adapter, especially if you use your headphones on other device
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by schrijver 4y ago
I keep hearing this reference on how most (80%?) of women compete for the 20% of men, it just doesn’t make sense to me. It can only be true in a narrow sense… i.e. on a specific dating app 20% of men get messaged by 80% of women (that’s whe
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by schrijver 5y ago
How do you feel about the ethical aspect? Now the home is not useful, except as an investment to you, but if you sold it there’s lots of ways you could make money instead (and in ways that provide value to others!). And the place would be s
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by schrijver 5y ago
This is so alien to me. Why don’t you sell the place? Staying the owner of this place makes it so that you can’t spend your money tied up in this house, and this house can’t provide its roof to someone. Seems like both of you loose.
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by schrijver 5y ago
Or tolerate squatting, which used to be the case in the Netherlands.
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by schrijver 5y ago
The parent you’re replying too has no problem with tenant-friendly laws: rather, these occupation limits are both tenant and owner unfriendly, because you can’t live together in non-family arrangements that you might prefer (as a tenant or
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by schrijver 5y ago
Apparently they went out of fashion everywhere, except the Netherlands, probably because of the strong presence of the ‘FEBO’ franchise from the 1960ies onward, a fast food brand built in part on having these machines. So it’s hardly new to
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by schrijver 5y ago
Right! In Europe cars with manual transmission remain very common, it allows vendors to sell the automatic version at a higher price point I imagine. At this point I’m not even sure they’re that much cheaper to make. And it’s become a weird
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by schrijver 5y ago
You can take it as far as you want to—and then you can still get cancer. A healthy lifestyle helps put the odds in your favour, but is no guarantee whatsoever.
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by schrijver 5y ago
> go to Delft for university Hmm… Well, that only works for degrees in engineering, it’s a ‘Technical University’. Also, Delft is probably a great university, but it doesn’t strike me as more prestigious than the other Universities you m
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by schrijver 5y ago
For sure! It’s just that GP seemed to imply the kind of mosaic shown in he picture to be a tile mosaic, whereas it is not. I agree amazing things are possible in tile mosaics
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by schrijver 5y ago
Right, for these mosaics the fragments that make up the mosaic are cut by hand, each one is different. What are now called mosaic tiles will give a very different result because they make a square grid, more like pixel art. Although there’s
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by schrijver 5y ago
I’d be careful with ev-psych explanations. It often reads as trying to find some rational sounding explanation for what are really just social norms. And these norms evolve: in my experiences in the free-for-all of app-enabled dating, attit
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by schrijver 5y ago
If you read artist’s bios, it’ll often say they’re “based in” a certain place. I’ve always found that a bit pretentious, as if artists don’t simply live somewhere, they need a fancier word. But I’m starting to understand it better, I thin
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by schrijver 5y ago
Thanks, interesting stats. The average length of staying in one place 71 days, still pretty short compared to the norm, living somewhere for a few years to forever. The stats don’t really mention how long people keep up this lifestyle thoug
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by schrijver 5y ago
I don’t live in the country where I was born, and neither do most of my friends…still our apartments are full of stuff… trinkets, art, rescued furniture… to me it’s part of what makes me feel at home and what makes it fun to stay with other
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by schrijver 5y ago
At least for designers who also do print, most of them will depend heavily on Illustrator, inDesign and Acrobat. And since you buy these programs in a package, you’ll also get Photoshop. So it doesn’t need to be the best at what it does… it
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by schrijver 5y ago
I might add that if you’re looking purely for a sample editor, so no multitrack, on OS X, Twistedwave for me feels closest to the CoolEdit I grew up on. Audacity’s is probably the first one to try because FLOSS. I struggle with its UI at ti
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by schrijver 5y ago
Theoretically, the way to go about it would be to save several generated static HTML pages from your blog and work backwards from there, adding the necessary Wordpress PHP. Granted it would be intense work, but then you would no longer have
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by schrijver 5y ago
So your Wordpress host doesn’t allow custom themes? Because theoretically, you should be able to make a ‘modern’ theme that creates the same HTML + CSS as your beloved vintage theme. I sympathise with wanting to keep the presentation. It wa
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by schrijver 5y ago
Have been reading Hacker News for many years, and feel like this kind of headline is quite common from the HN/SV bubble. Paul Graham writes like this too. It’s the language of a software tutorial for novices, applied to life. It’s this
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by schrijver 5y ago
This info is not entirely correct: they cite ‘the bulletin’, which links to sources that say Brussels airlines is planning to make 3000 unnecessary flights, as part of 18.000 flights planned by their mother company Lufthansa. Lufthansa pu
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by schrijver 5y ago
This info is not entirely correct: the sources they cite (in French and Dutch) say Brussels airlines is planning to make 3000 unnecessary flights. The mother company Lufthansa published this news themselves, I presume they also hope the r
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by schrijver 5y ago
That’s a great question. From what this article describes, the movement to reclaim space for pedestrians and cyclists started within civil society, not with city planners. Of course at the time there were still people hesitant about these c
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by schrijver 5y ago
> The digital touch screen ones won because they are so much easier to clean. A current model induction stove is a completely flat sheet of glass. For sure it’s easier to clean, but on the ones I’ve used I find the “buttons” very fidgety
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by schrijver 5y ago
If you’re a native speaker I imagine that’s true, but if you learned the language later in live it remains a pain. I feel comfortable discussing love, art and politics in French but I still dread writing down a phone number!
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by schrijver 5y ago
I would think so too. The advantage is that since it’s part of daily life, you create this baseline of exercise that is always there, also when you lack motivation or time to do other sports.
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by schrijver 5y ago
“That’s all you need to know” is not the best way to put it… “It’s one of the best hacks out there” would be better. It’s kind of “take the stairs instead of the elevator” on steroids… you’re modifying something you have to do anyway, creat

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