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“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…

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 (a…

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, Br…

> 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 th…

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/

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…

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 …

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 mock…

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 require…

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), mechanica…

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 wo…

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 o…

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 m…

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…

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 un…

They never ran Android, it was always a custom firmware.

Netherlands currently has no government, so I'm not sure that's an argument :)

You are right! Bimodal indeed, thanks

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…

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,…

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…

That museum (Escher in het Paleis) is worth visiting if you get the chance.

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…

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…

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 …