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The fear is that the US will use control of critical infrastructure as leverage. Given the Greenland debacle, I'm inclined to agree.

Well, there are also noises about the SaaS company preferably not being American. Apparently there's a US law that compels US companies to divulge data on their users even if the d…

Almost everything about societies except cities is just pretty words. Countries and most borders are just an abstraction. We fight for them because someone convinces us with words …

I don't have a voice in my head when I read. Knowledge of West-Fries helps though.

Well, for a native speaker of Dutch who doesn't speak English at all (not many left since my grandmother died in 2014), I'd say old English is actually easier to read than modern -…

I'm in the Netherlands and I DO find it bad. Probably also has to do with my age (early fifties) - your eyes adjust with more difficulty the older you get, it seems.

Do you really believe Europe would devolve into actual internal warfare, without the US? What about the EU? I believe it has successfully kept the peace ever since its predecessor,…

Right now, Russia's hands are conveniently tied by their incompetently fought war in Ukraine. In the mean time, most major EU countries have increased their defense budgets. Some o…

I would certainly call it a Germanic dialect.

By your reasoning, English isn't a Germanic language since over half of its vocabulary comes from Latin or French.

Cool! I may have used some of your applications on my Atari 1040 ST back in 1988. Which ones did you work on?

Would you mind sharing your setup (LLM model, IDE, best practices)? Personally, I'm struggling to get value out of Continue.dev in VSCode (using Gemini 2.0 Flash by default, with t…

You do that by voting people into power who pass laws which provide a framework for these agencies to operate in. Putting these agencies under direct control of a central governmen…

Don't Look Up...

Introduced into English most likely through Nieuw Amsterdam / New York.

I would give all US passport holders the advice to think more carefully about who they vote for...

You might consider hiring yourself out as a contractor. This is especially interesting if you're specialized in some vertical where you can bring consultancy skills to the table. B…

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> Rich person toy. The Mac, yes. But my father was a construction worker earning a below median wage (definitely not middle class) in 1988 when we bought our Atari 1040 ST. This wa…

Then the language area in your brain is activated separately for the comment parts.

Amusingly, there are languages where the word for bank and couch are the same: bank (Dutch).

There's a Holborn 6110 terminal on display in the Home Computer Museum in Helmond, Netherlands, apparently: https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/collectie/holborn/holborn-...

Could you explain why not? Technically speaking it's nothing special as Moodle is completely built on the LAMP stack (although WAMP is also supported, as well as PostGreSQL, Oracle…

Except that Chemours, the company behind the pollution, already knew about the toxicity of PFAS in the 1990's. Source (in Dutch): https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/chemours-wis…

I assume you compile the source code because you want to be sure you don't use any compromised binaries? But how can you be sure the source code wasn't compromised with some obfusc…