SJSque

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by SJSque 8mo ago
Here's an article in English on DutchNews.nl: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/after-record-year-asml-is-t... See also the statement from ASML (linked to in that article): https://www.asml.com&#x2F
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by SJSque 3y ago
I've been 'designing' websites since about 1994, and I remember being very excited when the major browser(s) started supporting background images, so that my webpages didn't have to have the same flat-grey background tha
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by SJSque 3y ago
> not the awful hamburger junction solution that the local area is now saddled with... Do you mean the Canford Bottom Roundabout [1] by any chance? :) [1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/rpTJ3aPhsejWcChV8
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by SJSque 3y ago
For what it's worth: you still write very well.
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by SJSque 4y ago
Ah, no. This appears to be the offending content: https://twitter.com/watmay1/status/1622518097067511811
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by SJSque 4y ago
10E6 = 10×10⁶ = 10⁷, so you can unpick that nit!
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by SJSque 4y ago
I can also highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's treatment of the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY (...which I see now is cited in the video that you link to!)
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by SJSque 4y ago
> Think of a pregnant woman (the Earth) spinning on a seivel chair. The woman gives birth to her child (the Moon) and she takes the child in her arms and extends it at arm's length. Just in case any of you were thinking of patenting
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by SJSque 4y ago
Just a comment on your second and third paragraphs: it's a bit odd that you invoke general relativity ("curved spacetime") for the Moon's basic orbit, and then discuss classical mechanics ("tidal forces are literal
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by SJSque 5y ago
Well, technically ASML is based (as in, headquartered) in Veldhoven, but that's part of the same conurbation really. Meanwhile, check out the 235 (at last count) technology companies located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (where
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by SJSque 6y ago
The video appears to be taken from this spot, facing roughly due west: https://www.google.com/maps/place/19%C2%B046'33.0%22N+96%C2%... After the vehicles pass through the roadblock, they can be seen to turn l
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by SJSque 6y ago
For what it's worth: Al Sweigart's "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" is pretty nice, and it's a good one for lending out to colleagues who show interest in learning Python (especially those poor souls with ted
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by SJSque 6y ago
That appears to be a prerecorded video. The live stream that I can see is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_Olo
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Why are there so few black tech entrepreneurs?(bbc.com)
37 points by SJSque 6y ago|74 comments
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Deepfake detection tool unveiled by Microsoft(bbc.com)
2 points by SJSque 6y ago|0 comments
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by SJSque 7y ago
It's nice to see that they (briefly) mention the half-jokingly proposed artificial mountain in the infamously flat Netherlands [1] towards the end of the article. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Berg_Komt_Er
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by SJSque 7y ago
Submitter here. I'm a British chap living in the Netherlands. You might want to read my comment [1] about what happens after you have a baby over here; it triggered quite a lot of discussion... [1] https://news.ycombinator.c
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Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums(bbc.com)
683 points by SJSque 7y ago|587 comments
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by SJSque 7y ago
Two thumbs up, my friend. Best of luck with it.
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by SJSque 7y ago
Interesting name. :) I worked on developing compact models for the first few years of my employment at NXP Semiconductors, which is (for me, at least) the top result of a Google search for "compact models", defining them as "
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by SJSque 7y ago
> ... I was introduced to the people who built computers at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. It was a type of people I did not know, I found them very strange and they did not inspire confidence at all. Later I learned that I
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by SJSque 7y ago
If you insist! https://www.stevesque.com/
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by SJSque 7y ago
What's always struck me is how large the Dutch Wikipedia is (1,992,551 articles), given the relatively low number of people that speak that language. They would appear to be a pretty tech-savvy/well-connected nation. It's cer
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by SJSque 7y ago
I've never tried crashing my car into the central pole, but as you can see here [1] there's quite a lot of clearance around it, and in my experience the lights are almost always red when approaching the junction anyway, so you rar
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by SJSque 7y ago
Excellent question. Friet, although I have to remember to ask for patat when visiting Oma en Opa.
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by SJSque 7y ago
I cycle over the Hovenring almost every workday, and I drive underneath it often too. Now you know roughly where I live. Ask Me Anything...
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How China plans to lead the computer chip industry(bbc.com)
1 points by SJSque 7y ago|0 comments
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Museum of the Future: The building designed by an algorithm(bbc.com)
1 points by SJSque 7y ago|0 comments
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by SJSque 7y ago
There's also the Wait Calculation to consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
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by SJSque 7y ago
Wallrunning in Doom is another nice one: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Wallrunning

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