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  • From personal experience in Europe, I can tell you that it sounds great in theory, but it's horrible in practise. I get routinely blinded by headlights here and I feel like it has only gotten worse with the advent of LED headlights.

  • PDFs
  • I think you misinterpreted what I meant. It was written from the perspective of a person who gets job offers in word files, mostly on LinkedIn. Like, just write it out in your message. I'm not opening files random people send me via any platform, much less LinkedIn, get real.

  • oh no! think of the stock market!
  • How does it damage the PN junction of the panel is open circuit or barely loaded? It doesn't seem logical that this would damage the panel, but I'm open to being proven wrong.

    There are all kinds of follow up questions to ask as well, but I think the main one is how big an effect are we talking?

  • PDFs
  • The number of times I got a word doc with the job description in it is ridiculous as well. Yes, I am judging you if you do that.

    A PDF is also editable, sure, but at least everyone can open the goddamn thing without any problems.

  • The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell
  • What you need are good laws, not so much a 4 day work week. I just go to the doctor during office hours and tell my employer I have to go. I even get paid time off for it, like everyone else working in this country. Same for the dentist or any other kind of medical thing.

    Sure, it's not always optimal if you work in some sort of shift, but they are required to make sure you can go.

    By the way, not that I wouldn't appreciate a 4 day work week, but this seems like a bit of a stretch to say that this is the reason why you would need one.

  • Organic Maps got removed from Google Play Store.
  • I have looked at the routing on routes I regularly drive and it seems like Magic Earth has a better routing algorithm than Organic Maps. At least it doesn't try to send me through the middle of a town when there is a route around the town using the highway as Organic Maps often tries to do.

  • EU limits anonymous cash payments to €3k and all cash payments to €10k. Pirate party reacts.
  • In my experience, charities try to get you on a recurrent donation nowadays instead of taking cash or transfers (although I am in the Netherlands, not Belgium). It's terribly annoying because they take the "being lazy and forget about it" and weaponise it against you.

  • There's European countries who can have several different prime ministers in the span of three months
  • One positive on the Dutch coalition talks. We can always say that our southern neighbours take even longer...

    On a more serious note, the last three coalition talks in the Netherlands took over 200 days, with one taking 299 days. Sure, not even close to over 500 days in Belgium, but how the hell does this happen?

  • Rethinking Apartment Buildings
  • That I agree with. The specifics of how they build are not suitable to places like Norway (or most of Europe for that matter). That does not mean one cannot look at the concepts and apply them such that it makes sense in the context though. Many buildings in for example the Netherlands (where I live) are mainly built for keeping the heat in nowadays and overheat in the summer. Especially housing stock built from the 80s through the 2000s have overheating problems with the changing climate. This is mainly due to lack of window shading and night ventilation options. And instead of seeing a move towards shading, you see a move towards airconditioning instead, which is generally not needed if you design a building properly.

    I thought you were against implementing the concepts and did not expect you to interpret the suggestion literally (aka, to build Moroccan style homes in Norway).

  • Rethinking Apartment Buildings
  • That's why you make it so that you can do passive cooling in summer but don't do that in winter. There are quite a few solutions that essentially boil down to opening windows during the night while keeping people, water and insects out.

    It's often called night cooling or night flushing. See for example this company explaining it.

  • Comment on a YT video about Windows on ARM
  • Nowadays I just roll my Linux installation back to before the updates using the BTRFS integration with the package manager. It works great and I'm never at a point where I can't use my computer because updates broke it. Heck, even if I bork it myself it's no biggie.

  • Is Backblaze a reliable provider?
  • I use them as well. Cheap, reliable and easy to use. I only had trouble once, where I was caught in some sort of anti-spam measure and they blocked my account. An email to their support fixed the problem pretty quickly though.

    One thing to look out for is to determine where you want your backups. You can't change your account's server location after you create your account afaik.

  • The most cost effective measure to beat climate change is building bike infrastructure
  • Slowly? It's already dead in most parts of the country, save for the bigger cities. For example, where I live, I can take a bus between 6am and 6pm, once an hour. Most people wouldn't be able to get home using public transport. The city has no bus lines in the city itself that aren't volunteer run.

    Luckily the bike infrastructure is pretty good, otherwise it would've been a car dependent hell.

  • The most cost effective measure to beat climate change is building bike infrastructure
  • Wat een vervelende catch 22 oplevert. Stad waar ik woon wilt een nieuwe wijk realiseren en die zoveel mogelijk autovrij maken. Maar er is niet genoeg werk om al die mensen binnen de stad aan het werk te brengen en OV is ruk (lees, binnen de stad kan je nergens komen met OV, verbindingen naar steden en dorpen eromheen zijn ook slecht). Dus, iedereen zeurt over hoe er meer ruimte moet zijn voor de auto of dat het OV significant moet verbeteren. Waarop de gemeente antwoord dat ze niet over het OV gaat, dat is aan de provincie.

    Om gek van te worden...

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