> 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…
Those "Flash Answers" are insanely quick. I don't know how they're doing it. But it's amazing.
Shell ads are quite common in the Netherlands. Usually it's shell trying to greenwash itself.
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…
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…
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.
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…
This is one of the reasons why I'm paying for Claude and not for ChatGPT. ChatGPT really goes into uncanny valley for me.
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…
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…
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,…
And how are they going to deal with the inevitable disinformation/hallucinations?
TIL
Holy cow, that's so unintuitive.
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.
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.
not OP, but I use terraform instead.
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Philips lighting is no longer Philips at all. They spun that off to Signify, who holds the brand name for Philips lighting.
That site uses some wild assumptions about what constitutes household income.
Because it's the only way to buy new property in my location.
Note this isn't merely a Chinese thing. A variation of this is in fact the default way new units get build and sold in the Netherlands, for example. Personal anecdote. I had a mortgage for 2 full years before being able…
> 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…
Those "Flash Answers" are insanely quick. I don't know how they're doing it. But it's amazing.
Shell ads are quite common in the Netherlands. Usually it's shell trying to greenwash itself.
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…
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…
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.
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…
This is one of the reasons why I'm paying for Claude and not for ChatGPT. ChatGPT really goes into uncanny valley for me.
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…
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…
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,…
And how are they going to deal with the inevitable disinformation/hallucinations?
TIL
Holy cow, that's so unintuitive.
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.
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.
not OP, but I use terraform instead.
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Philips lighting is no longer Philips at all. They spun that off to Signify, who holds the brand name for Philips lighting.
That site uses some wild assumptions about what constitutes household income.
Because it's the only way to buy new property in my location.
Note this isn't merely a Chinese thing. A variation of this is in fact the default way new units get build and sold in the Netherlands, for example. Personal anecdote. I had a mortgage for 2 full years before being able…