apurtbapurt

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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
So what you gonna do when you grow up? :-)
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
I disagree (and am European, and a union rep for many years). Subordination is what I expect from an employee and obedience from a dog. Subordination is a role you opt into. Obedience is something you can't get away from. You take a jo
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
The EU is an alliance of shared interests and some very basic shared ideals. We are allies, not soulmates or lovers. That is not intended to defend people who speak ill of their neighbours. Bad manners are always ugly. Just pointing out tha
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
Ok? Some military guy in Ukraine has a patch with a skull and... drumroll THE NAZI:S ALSO USED IMAGES OF (not-quite-the-same-looking) SKULLS!!! If you are into this kind of scary stuff, I can warmly recomend a documentary from 2012 called
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
I still prefer taking and giving traditional paper cards when meeting new business acqaintances. Need to order a new batch soon, actually. Any recomendations for high quality printing services? Preferably one that can do all the stuff they
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
Revolutionary is of course an extreme stretch, but they do add unique convenience to the checkout process. No user account creation, no entering of address and credit card number. Just click purchase and confirm with BankID. I also like tha
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
Of course it is shallow. But it can be OK anyway. A bit of vanity is present in most of us. You don't need to fight it, it is fine to embrace vanity as a hobby or profession. If the baldness goes beyond being a minor nag in your vanity
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by apurtbapurt 4y ago
Of course stay away from crowded, public, indoor spaces. But keeping your kids indoors is not considerate towards anyone. It is simply abusive to your kids. Let them out in the garden/park/street to play.
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
As a fan and random stranger from the Internet, your Anandtech byline and twitter handle are how your public persona introduces himself to me several times per months over the course of multiple years. Your actual person I of course know no
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
This is the way, that is naively sortable.
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
I maintain some code that rely on Python AST for finding and packaging modules with appropriate class signatures when building customer specific distributions. It works really well most of the time. And, it is a lot easier to maintain than
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
Extremely different. Sweden has 20% foreign born inhabitants.
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
Population density in the inhabited parts of Sweden is similar to the Netherlands, only slightly less than Denmark. Norway and Finland are much lower. It is no Hong Kong for sure, but not quite as sparse as it is often made out to be.
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
So, it is really easy and almost no one manages to do it right even after instructions? And after failing to do it right after instructions, it is the other people who are arrogant for asking to use something they are able to pronounce, not
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
In Sweden the QR menues tend to be based on Facebook messenger. The restaurants that use this system also tend to push very hard for avoiding manual orders and payments. It is a complete farce every time, since most of the people I go out
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
It's the blessing and curse of Dutch people, as a collective, that they really don't mind telling you what they think.
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by apurtbapurt 5y ago
It's hard to jump straight to friend-level, without first socializing and making acquaintances.