hollander

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by hollander 1y ago
Sorry, but this is nonsense. I'm not talking about photos, but about graphs, line art, tables. Using PNG you can create real small (in filesize) images, like 10-30 kilobytes. The size of the image (dimension) often doesn't matter
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by hollander 1y ago
I know a guy who wrote for tv magazines. He wrote extensive reviews, did nterviews. He can't make a living anymore. He currently is learning how to use AI to his advantage.
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by hollander 1y ago
I'm talking about books I have boought. I paid money for these books and expect some quality.
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Ask HN: Why are ePub images so tiny?
5 points by hollander 1y ago|6 comments
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by hollander 1y ago
> Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government of
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by hollander 1y ago
Google Workspace
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by hollander 1y ago
Enterprise and government don't use random laptops.
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by hollander 1y ago
My 45 yo Technics speakers appreciate this comment…
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by hollander 1y ago
I read that as Haskell and I definitely think HaskellUI would solve all problems. /j
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by hollander 2y ago
That is the problem. He should have contacted them like he did the second time. When he went into their shop, it all depended on that particular employee, and you can't blame that person for not recognizing the issue.
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by hollander 2y ago
In other news, everybody uses a router nowadays, with firewall activated by default.
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by hollander 2y ago
This is typical Microsoft logic. And 'logic' should be quoted, because Microsoft has the most stupid texts in their products. They make translation errors, grammatical errors, use incomprehensible and stupid comments.
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by hollander 2y ago
We want the monitor, not the tablet. Plus the probably needed software for Windows, macOS ánd Linus to handle the color scheme.
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by hollander 2y ago
Boeing joined the chat...
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by hollander 2y ago
We don't want to pay for software? Look at the Appstore! Good products for reasonable prices are worth the money. Affinity offers a good product for a reasonable price. Adobe offers a better product but the subscription model is hated
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by hollander 2y ago
yt-dlp can use browser cookies to get access to Facebook videos. This should have something similar. yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox https://www.facebook.com/1234videos/5678/
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by hollander 2y ago
Monster of Lochness relocated
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by hollander 3y ago
Apple never had a numpad on its laptops. Since the aluminum unibody design, the Apple laptops outshine all Windows laptops because of the touchpad alone. Nothing compares to it. On a Macbook I don't want to use a mouse, on a Windows la
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by hollander 3y ago
In NL we have IDIN. A website can use it to verify age or address information. I don't think that any porn-websites are using it, but technically this should do the job. IDIN is set up by all the Dutch banks. You check in via your own
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by hollander 3y ago
When i hold it upwards isFlat becomes false, but when i hold the phone upwards in landscape mode isFlat stays true. Why do i need to keep the phone flat? Doesn't that depend on the rotation of the earth?
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by hollander 3y ago
But why is this a subscription?
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by hollander 3y ago
Naming should be megaband, gigaband, teraband etc.
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by hollander 3y ago
Hungary is the least surprising.
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by hollander 3y ago
So who is going to use this? Do you see your mom ising it? Your friends and family?
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by hollander 3y ago
Proving it will be very easy. Use the service, take a subsciption, send messaged or data, monitor traffic.
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by hollander 3y ago
A.I. will definitely be used to scan the data
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by hollander 3y ago
The Nobel peace prize is not about who has the worst life. Women in Afghanistan have it - in general - worse than in Iran, I'm quite sure about that. That's not the criterium to get this prize. This is whataboutism, nothing less,
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by hollander 3y ago
> I frankly can't really comprehend what does the mass of an entire mountain condensed into a single pebble mean. Maybe turn it around. On a cosmic level, that mountain is nothing but a fluff of cottonwool, the earth a hot air ballo
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by hollander 3y ago
> Fans ofc screeming loudly all day. Once I worked in a small office and we used ancient but silent servers and we needed new ones. We had a rack in one of the rooms, so without thinking I bought two new rack servers. Worst decision ever
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by hollander 3y ago
Think of what you can do as International Earth Rotation Manager! Probably not much, but what a job title!

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