aden1ne

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by aden1ne 1y ago
> Another case is government bureaucracy. For most of the EU countries I've been to, the official language of the country is their local language and only their local language. This means that government employees are not required t
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by aden1ne 1y ago
> Europe really needs to fix the funding issue and language fragmentation. The language fragmentation certainly is an issue in the general workplace. But academia does use English as its lingua franca throughout most of the EU, though it
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Insanely fast experience.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Those "Flash Answers" are insanely quick. I don't know how they're doing it. But it's amazing.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Shell ads are quite common in the Netherlands. Usually it's shell trying to greenwash itself.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
That sounds like an odd setup. Any chance this was near the airport? Also did you visit the Netherlands, or only Amsterdam? Because honestly, Amsterdam is in a league of its own with the hordes of tourists who have no clue what they are doi
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Dutch cyclists also do all these things. As a driver in the Netherlands, you'll quickly learn that cyclists don't stick to any rules, they will cross red lights, use the wrong lane, use the sidewalk if it saves them 2 seconds, ign
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Yeah, the official docs for python rarely if ever show up on the first two pages of search unless I do `from: python.org`.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
In my first job out of university, I inherited a data pipeline that had been written in Make using ~40 Makefiles. Needless to say, it was a hell to debug.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
This is the default in the Netherlands for many office jobs as well. Usually in the form of 'Subclause 2: The nature of the job may demand work beyond the stated hours in subclause 1. If this occurs, no additional payment shall be made
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by aden1ne 2y ago
This is one of the reasons why I'm paying for Claude and not for ChatGPT. ChatGPT really goes into uncanny valley for me.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Had a similar experience. What killed it for me, is that no statistics can be gathered for JSONB columns. This in turn really messes with the query planner once you do something like `select a.* from a join b on a.id = b.a_id where b.my_jso
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Just tried it. This is the first model that immediately gives me the correct answer to my test prompt: "Hi <model>, can you give me an exact solution to pi in python?". All other models I've tried first give an approxim
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Huh? I'd have said Amsterdam is actually a real good example of immigration driving up rents. When covid happened, Amsterdam rates actually went down, whereas they kept going up in the rest of the nation. Why: the expats stopped coming
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Smaller families? Historically families were large and the entire extended family helped out, across all generations. In the modern age our families are smaller, and we consider it morally abject to have children work, with the elderly bein
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by aden1ne 2y ago
And how are they going to deal with the inevitable disinformation/hallucinations?
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by aden1ne 2y ago
TIL
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Holy cow, that's so unintuitive.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
My main issue with multiple displays on Mac is that the dock sometimes suddenly switches display. Sometimes this doesn't happen for weeks, other times it happens multiple times a day. When this happens, it tends to move the dock from t
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Yes, this is a thing.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Teams has network effect behind it. Because so many businesses already use Teams, in a B2B-setting you're almost expected to already have Teams as well.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Ah yeah that same Dutch policy that made public transport 12% more expensive this year while simultaneously reducing service and with outages up a literal 300% from pre-covid times.
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by aden1ne 2y ago
Names changes are only permitted in a very narrow set of conditions in my place of residence. And this would not be one of them. And I imagine that's the case in many nations.
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by aden1ne 3y ago
Docker on MacOS runs through a Linux VM. Native containerization on MacOS is so badly supported many container runtimes don't even try. E.g. Podman on MacOS also runs through a Linux VM.
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by aden1ne 3y ago
not OP, but I use terraform instead.
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by aden1ne 3y ago
Possession is still technically illegal, tho it hasn't been enforced since the 1970s. That said, since December 2023 there has been fully legally-produced cannabis on the Dutch market. While media tends to call it "state weed&quot
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by aden1ne 3y ago
> you always get free tapwater in restaurants if you ask for it anywhere in Europe In the Netherlands you'd have a hard time. Most places will refuse, especially if that's the only thing you're ordering.
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by aden1ne 3y ago
As an example of this: Americans tend to expect plates being picked up as soon as one is finished eating, even when others on the same table are not finished yet. In my native Netherlands this would be considered (very) rude, with plates on
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by aden1ne 3y ago
Carpets are absolutely unhygienic tho, especially in an environment that sees many different individuals use them. They are much harder to properly clean than hard surfaces, and if they ever get wet due to a leak or spill the entire room wi
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by aden1ne 3y ago
You can extract the DNA and store that instead - and they already had to that to their analysis in the first place. Far smaller volume than the raw sample. Storing this for an effectively indefinite amount is not uncommon. I used to work at

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