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by wartijn_ 5y ago
Well of course, but we all know Facebook isn't a responsible company and Apple shouldn't assume that every app in its store is made by a responsible company.
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by wartijn_ 5y ago
Not according to this stack exchange answer[0]. It quotes a page from John Hopkins University, although that source page doesn't seem to exist anymore. > Though New Horizons will also reach 100 AU, it will never pass Voyager 1, beca
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by wartijn_ 5y ago
But only because it's the fist word of a sentence all those times.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Here you go: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=peace+sign+hand+&t=iphone&iax=imag...
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Does The Guardian have a paywall in some countries? All I ever see is a pop-up and some banners asking to donate. Sometimes those banners and pop-ups explain why they don't have a paywall.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Yeah it's a shame, I get that someone tries to beat the ai, but you would think that it's less fun to draw the eleventh solid color when the top ten is already filled with them. On a more positive note: There are some awesome Gira
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Aren't you falling for the survivorship bias trap? Sure, people have said that about Airbnb. But I think there are loads of that startups that failed because they didn't understand the industry they were in, or because of legal hu
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
That's because his first plan was to sell to consumers. Only when that didn't work out he switched to physicians.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
We're not paying per port, but adding more ports surely adds to the BOM, which influences to total price. And I agree that adding one port doesn't make the device noticeably heavier. But I thought we were talking about adding mult
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I think that's a weird realization. Those other people don't use those port so they want everyone to have a MacBook without them. You want those port so you want everyone to have a MacBook without them. Or wanting either of those
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
I assume most tools will block Matomo as well. I know uBlock origin with the default blocklist does.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
en.wiktionary.org might be good for this. It’s free and marks some words as vulgar.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
A few years ago the podcast Planet Money prepared a peacock according to a recipe published in 1612. This recipe was meant for really rich Dutch people, and apparently being really rich meant showing of how many spices you could afford on y
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
I just tried "a half hour" and "half an hour" and it does understand that. So that might be an option if you don't want to wait an extra minute.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
The site seems to be down. Here is an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201122140338/http://boginjr.co...
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
> "Turns out this day won't exist for you" is never something I'd have considered a possibility. When countries switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar this happened everywhere. Entire counties skipping wee
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Direct link to the announcement: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Nice project :) Too bad it doesn't say how old it thinks you are though (or I missed it) All I know now is that it thinks I lied about my age, which I didn't. I'm just going to assume I look like I'm 20
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
The same link was shared yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24625189
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
> A smartphone, you mean I actually mean a mobile phone, because I don't know anyone who only has a "dumb" phone. A know a few people didn't have a smartphone for a while, but they've all got one now. Maybe some
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
I know WhatsApp isn't supported by everyone, but in some parts of the world it almost is. I don't know anyone with a mobile phone, but without WhatsApp.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Can you point out from where in that report you've got those numbers? I couldn't find them.
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
I'm actually surprised how much the stock is still worth. It looks[0] like they're still worth more than when they went public in June. Btw: when the Hindenburg report was published, it was also discussed on hn[1] [0] https:/
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Do you do anything with them or are you just keeping them for fun or future profits?
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
It's off course hard to find the average typing speed of everybody who types, but Wikipedia says this: > An average professional typist types usually in speeds of 50 to 80 wpm, while some positions can require 80 to 95 (usually the
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Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?(youtube.com)
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Cool idea, but wouldn't it make sense to remove the letter J from the most used letters? If you don't use that letter for Vim it drops from the top 8 all the way to the bottom of the frequency chart (assuming you only type English
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
I don't think these kind ofdevices will use Starlink or an equivalent service any time soon. Starlink needs a "pizza box sized" satellite dish that constantly adjusts its position to stay in contact with the satellites. I as
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
Here is the government website that says so and its translation (with a really long url, but the translation is better than that of Google Translate). Appearantly every shop should have stickers telling customers that they round cash paymen
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by wartijn_ 6y ago
You should be able to pay with 1 and 2 cent coins in The Netherlands. You just won't get them as change and the amount charged will be rounded to the nearest 5 cents in most, but not all, shops. But I wouldn't be surprised if many

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