eythian

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by eythian 19d ago
Applying for/getting a permanent residence permit in NL didn't require going anywhere.
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by eythian 29d ago
I think it's the sort of thing Master Boot Record should do
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by eythian 1mo ago
“The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus s
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by eythian 3mo ago
I lived in mildly rural NZ back in the day and it was the same, addresses were "name, street, RD# (rural delivery route number), town" and your mailbox had your name on the side (and a flag you could put up if you wanted mail coll
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by eythian 7mo ago
That's not really true. Especially in the more touristy places, credit cards are generally accepted and it'd be unusual for it not to be. If you're out in a village in, I dunno, Brabant, then sure. But the places that visitor
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by eythian 7mo ago
> My colleague took a train regularly in the Netherlands a few years back that was cash only. I don't know what a few years back was, but I can't believe there was a train in NL that was cash at all for quite some time. In the
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by eythian 8mo ago
There was a "shadyurl". The site itself seems to be long gone, but this'll give you some context: https://www.mikelacher.com/work/shady-url/
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by eythian 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure Turbo Pascal/C/etc and perhaps vim had syntax highlighting (though perhaps not the other bits) before the first VS release, I'm surprised they hadn't encountered it already.
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by eythian 11mo ago
I've been on the other side of that (not google), taking people to lunch who are interviewing. Usually you're picked because they're from the same country as you or something like that. At least where I work it's not lik
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by eythian 11mo ago
In NZ there are restrictions on what you can't name a child (titles that represent royalty e.g. "king" or certain positions, e.g. "justice", or ones that can lead to excessive mockery, e.g. "sex fruit"), b
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by eythian 11mo ago
In NZ someone I know has a single name. Due to the constraints of the system, effectively he has no first name and only a surname. In things where a first and last name are required (I think the drivers licence system needed it), he uses &q
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by eythian 1y ago
It's a minor point, but it's interesting that they used having AC as a proxy for mechanical ventilation and conclude that it's rare in Europe. At least where I live (NL), mechanical ventilation is common - I think required in
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by eythian 1y ago
I was not aware there was an RFC for CSV, but the concept of "simple comma-separated UTF-8 CSV" is, in my experience, not something that exists. In a previous job, a chunk of my work was taking CSV files that were given to us and
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by eythian 1y ago
It depends on the region and specific needs, but a common reason for not encrypting is that it adds complexity in an emergency (where, e.g., people might need to communicate from other regions nearby, or ambulance needs to talk to fire, may
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by eythian 1y ago
I noticed in the 3.20 release notes they said they're working on this, and to contact them for early-access. https://remarkable.com/business though you'll have to scroll past the marketing guff for a bit.
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by eythian 1y ago
I run a few low-stakes hobby things, and LE cert automation took the "once a year or so figure out how to do this because I haven't done it in a year and I should write it down but when I'm done I just go to the pub instead&q
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by eythian 1y ago
My feeling, without evidence, is that a lot of the hate is vocal people who don't like this thing that does stuff differently to what they're used to. I get the feeling, I still understand /etc/init.d and runlevel symlin
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by eythian 1y ago
They never ran Android, it was always a custom firmware.
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by eythian 1y ago
Netherlands currently has no government, so I'm not sure that's an argument :)
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by eythian 1y ago
You are right! Bimodal indeed, thanks
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by eythian 1y ago
In my (limited) experience, programming classes, especially intro level, often end up with a binomial-ish distribution anyway. I was casually assisting some research on why this is when I was helping teach labs and such so was interested. I
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by eythian 1y ago
In my undergrad, a few decades ago, it was typically the case that assignments and exams both were a part of your final score. Often it was something like 40% exam/60% assignments, but this could change. However what you mention about
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by eythian 1y ago
Interestingly, I have a server that only has IPv6 SSH open to the outside world, and it has exactly zero that aren't me fat-fingering a password. It does have an externally visible hostname, which says to me that the bots aren't l
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by eythian 1y ago
That museum (Escher in het Paleis) is worth visiting if you get the chance.
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by eythian 1y ago
I have 1.1Gb/100Mb on Ziggo in Amsterdam. I've had no real issues with them, at least for me the reputation is undeserved. I pay a bit more than that, but like €20 or so. They also give me a /57 or something which is nice (if
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by eythian 1y ago
My feeling with privacy extensions is that it's more to prevent enumeration of a network by looking at outgoing traffic. It may have a degree of tracking protection too, but that's probably less important, and is about equivalent
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by eythian 1y ago
I wouldn't say that's generally true, at least in NL the work language in IT is often, probably almost always, English. I know people who have worked here for ~10 years who barely speak any Dutch.
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by eythian 1y ago
I don't see .lib being all that common, but it might just be what I'm used to. `.so` or `.dll` or such sure (though to be fair, the latter does include the word library.)
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by eythian 1y ago
Dutch, which has a pretty reasonable sound-to-orthography mapping (some exceptions of course, but not all that many) also has spelling bees. Often won by the Belgians.
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by eythian 1y ago
I thought it was moderately well known. A couple of decades ago a friend would take some red candy when hiking as it could give her (at least the feeling of) a significant short-term energy boost if needed, more than just regular sugar woul

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