sparqlittlestar

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   by sparqlittlestar 8d ago

   This looks awesome and just what I need, with the difficulty of ARC in my corp environment
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   by sparqlittlestar 10d ago

   I'm however so confused by Windows' top level of the hierarchy. Like the Desktop contains the computer which contains the Desktop, yet that one doesn't have the computer in it. And likewise for the bin, the Configuration Pane
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   by sparqlittlestar 16d ago

   It was still there in spring 2026!
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   by sparqlittlestar 2mo ago

   I onve saw a €500 note when I was exchanging guilders at the fentral bank and asked if I could see one. They showed me, from behind the glass. It's big
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   by sparqlittlestar 2mo ago

   > over-protecting from a risk is as bad as under-protecting How would protecting ourselves against 50 °C summer heat (122 °F) ever be as bad as keeping 40° heatwaves or better yet, a return to the 35° summers? 50° means a human mass exti
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   by sparqlittlestar 2mo ago

   Doesn't your argument hinge on the fact that roads and sidewalks are public works anyway? The fact that compliance costs outprices some smaller companies rather shows that we as a society prefer to have accomodations, than live in one
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   by sparqlittlestar 2mo ago

   I believe I read somewhere that WhatsApp gets awoken by a silent notification with the cyphertext from the Notification Service, which it then needs to decrypt before generating a local notification that actually gets displayed to the user.
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   by sparqlittlestar 3mo ago

   If not reimbursed 100% (like my public transport costs are), your public transport costs are tax-deductible at a staggered rate up to €0.29 per km. https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl&#
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   by sparqlittlestar 3mo ago

   Well, I'd like to tell security that
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    by sparqlittlestar 3mo ago

    You know that's not a good thing, right?
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    Famously not including drivers. Expanding on just a snarky comment, Uber stated to have north of 7M monthly drivers ([1], OP mentions 10M, but with no qualification), so 32k/7M = 4.5 employees for every thousand drivers. Even with the
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    Interstingly, since 2008 Dutch bankers need to take an oath and whilst I don't think that in itself deters fraud, being fired for fraud would preclude going back to work for another bank (tuchtrecht / disciplinairy law)
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    The very light it emits, the liquid glass lensing animations, etc
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    I looked at Luma, but the website shows that for the part of Western Europe I'm in, it only supports Amsterdam or Brussels. Not even Cologne. Or am I using their website wrong?
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    I've only ever had `first.last@company` as a username or email address, so this `last[:5]initials#` scheme is bewildering. Must lead to strange looking usernames.
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    My CarPlay with Apple Music shows a QR-code so others may add to the car's playlist. Never used it, coz why wouldn't you trust friends to just open the Music app and add something, coz they rarely have iPhones anyway
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    by sparqlittlestar 4mo ago

    "That password's already been taken by user 'mekdoonggi'"
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    by sparqlittlestar 5mo ago

    Press Option to immediately show the close button
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    by sparqlittlestar 6mo ago

    In the Netherlands, its over €2,50
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    by sparqlittlestar 8mo ago

    Honestly, ceteris paribus for the US
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    by sparqlittlestar 8mo ago

    XSLT 3.0 does JSON https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#json
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    by sparqlittlestar 8mo ago

    I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but it's the Office mobile app that was renamed to Copilot 365. They haven't yet thrown away the entire Office brand
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    by sparqlittlestar 9mo ago

    Metros may have electrified third rail, but the ones next to DB train tracks are all with a top covered third rail. Usualy power deliviery is via catenaries.
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    by sparqlittlestar 9mo ago

    I require the VNet integration, but my region (Europe West) isn't supported (yet, over a year since I requested it) https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/con...
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    by sparqlittlestar 10mo ago

    1. Because fonts are works of art and any artist deserves to be paid. 2. Because there may not be a freely licensed font with the right aesthetics 3. Especially because Japanese fonts require much more work than Latn fonts, with not some
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    by sparqlittlestar 11mo ago

    Because Omarchy is a Linux distro by DHH and therefore you can also call it a "fascist and openly racist" Linux distro. DHH was someone I kinda read him online, but he's been going full-in on these racist talking points, e.g.
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    by sparqlittlestar 4y ago

    tbf, SEPA direct debit is across the Eurozone a both common as well as easy way of transfering funds.
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    by sparqlittlestar 4y ago

    Thanks, related to Safari and privacy: on my iPhone I couldn’t load HN comment pages, unless I turned off”hide ip from trackers and webistes”.
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    by sparqlittlestar 4y ago

    I recall that GitHub used to be localised in several languages, but no more. And I can’t seem to find any references to it anymore, either. “GitHub interface translation” gives search results about code, not about GitHub’s interface