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Same with tradeshows: I have many times been on tradeshows on buildup days. It is a huge mess, full of crates and packaging. Next day, everything is glorious and neat. Just for 3-4…

Also similar: Join a local Toastmasters group. This is a global organization where you learn and practice to speak in front of a group, both prepared speeches and spontaneous. It m…

I live in The Netherlands (actually in the same city as the photo's were taken): There is a very large difference in traffic density and complexity between the larger cities such a…

I do sleep 8+ hours each night (Netherlands): Up at 7.30, leave at 8.15, 30m commute. Leave work at 5.15, get to sleep around 10.45.

Looks very good on examples, but testing a few Ikea chairs or a Donald Duck image gives very wrong results. You can test here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-fast…

I use nextDNS to block all ads on my iPhone X, works like a charm

Also fun debugging VoIP traffic to the local network, and seeing dns-queries from collegues PCs on the network, then asking them: Are you visiting xyz-webpage, and seeing their rea…

Such a great tool and 100% free. Use it often to debug network issues and see where devices connect to. Like someone else said: a multimeter for networks. Also used it to learn abo…

Nice, these are located less than a mile from my home and nicely situated along a stream, just like a bunch of mushrooms in a forest. They have been around for decades and were an …

I would add biocyclic vegan farming: Vegatable farming without use of manure or artificial fertilizer. https://www.biocyclic-vegan.org/

Author here. Thanks for all the great and different insights and experiences. Especially also about 'feeling being listened to'. To be fair, I was a bit short in my description: I …

I am 40+ years old and have never had weekly 1:1s with my manager in my career. I think I can manage myself well enough and when I need his help or vice versa, I just schedule an h…

Maybe not what you are looking for, but I do it the manual way. Low-end, but reliable once in a while: USB3.2 external SSD (example 60usd on NewEgg for SanDisk 1TB)

My kids worried about this as well when they got a smartphone. Turns out there is not much of an issue, some of their friends are on the phone a lot of the time, some of them not. …

Embedded HW (commercial): https://www.cnx-software.com/ Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/

Author also wrote a post on the design process, very interesting I think: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...

CTOUCH | Senior Backend Developer | Eindhoven, The Netherlands | ONSITE (hybrid) At CTOUCH we develop large-format, Android-based touchscreens for education and business up to 86".…

I like what Steven Covey writes: "Love is a verb". I find that both my wife and myself, and myself and my kids get closer by doing things together that we all enjoy. This ranges fr…

In my family and friends group, friendships and partners can often orthogonal: You do different things with different people and they add to life experience, not substract. I can i…