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sndrtj,

Oil lamps are not very complicated to make. And could be useful.

sndrtj,

I also feel she’s more and more contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.

sndrtj,

I’m a backend dev. I needed basically a single js function for my personal website that called out to some NPM package. I thought: I’ll do this the proper modern way, typescript and everything. Result: under 10 lines of code, but 12 config files (and 1.5h of fiddling with ES Modules vs CommonJS).

sndrtj,

a.unwrap_or(b)

sndrtj,

That English natives have so much trouble distinguishing effect from affect keeps surprising me.

As for Dutch, the dt-issue is presented as if it is this hugely complicated set of rules. While in reality it is dead simple. Third person in the present time is ALWAYS conjugated as stem+t for regular verbs, except in ONE case: when the stem already ends in t. Dt isn’t special, it’s just the rule applied to all stems.

sndrtj,

This gets really confusing if you’re from Limburg. In Limburgish, “daan” (the cognate to Dutch “dan”) only exists as the time indicator. With comparisons the correct Limburgish is to use “es” for differences (e.g. “Jan is groeter es Maria”, “John is bigger than Mary”), and “wie” for equivalents (e.g “Jan is eve aajd wie Maria”, “John is as old as Mary”). Now “es” is cognate to Dutch “als”, but using it in Dutch as in Limburgish is wrong. So yeah this gets confusing.

sndrtj,

But again, there is no special exception for dt. Again it’s the regular rule applied: second person conjugation in questions is just the stem for regular verbs.

sndrtj,

The second person during a question is still no special rule for dt. It’s still very regular. For all regular verbs it’s just stem (without the +t).

Examples:

Praten -> stem = praat -> praat jij? Worden -> stem = word -> word jij? Surfen -> stem = surf -> surf jij?

No irregularity for stems ending in d.

sndrtj,

This somehow reminds me Altered Carbon

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

sndrtj,

Gun-related violence is going up because all violent crime is going up. Most Dutchies still underestimate how much of an influence organized crime has become, almost all of it narcotics related.

That said, due to strict gun laws most violent crime happens with knifes, and worryingly increasingly with explosives.

sndrtj,

No, it’s that the actual ibuprofen has that horrible tangy taste.

If LED bulbs are supposed to last for 10 years, why do I still need to replace them every 9 months? (hexbear.net)

I’m in a nasty frame of mind right now, and this is what my 'tism brain decided to laser focus on for several hours. I’m mad that my light bulbs cost 10x more than they used to, and don’t last any longer, and my power bill is higher than ever....

sndrtj,

I already have USB sockets.

sndrtj,

Autoplaying ads for other communities that keep popping up no matter how often you close them, would be one thing that seriously irks me about Fandom these days.

sndrtj,

Excel is never ever going to break backwards compatability. In fact, quite some “features” in Excel are just there to stay bug-for-bug compatible with existing systems.

Example: Excel stores dates internally as a float - called the serial date, you can view it by running DATEVALUE on any cell that contains a date. It is supposed to be the number of days since 1 January 1900. However, since early Excel versions had to be compatible with Lotus1-2-3, Excel had to be compatible with a bug in Lotus123: they had erroneously assumed 1900 to be a leap year. In addition, the indexing is off by one. So the actual 0 epoch of an Excel serial date is 30 December 1899 for all dates starting 1 March 1900.

sndrtj,

This was a seriously good shitpost. Had me for a second.

sndrtj,

And nothing of value was lost.

sndrtj,

That’s the exact problem OP is referring to.

sndrtj,

Also certain fields (cough cough medicine) needs to consider more than just the p value. With any large sample size you’re almost guaranteed to find a “significant” result in some test, but the effect sizes are often so tiny to be basically meaningless.

sndrtj,

Flat design. I don’t know what a button is anymore. Often I randomly click through an UI to see if it’s a clickable element or just a text box. Please give me back skeuomorphic design.

sndrtj,

It’s soo simple, but soooo good.

sndrtj,

Telegram is rarely used in my country anyway.

sndrtj,

I would certainly love Bluetooth to be higher bandwidth, for things like high-fidelity audio.

Currently Bluetooth pairing usually works quite well on almost all devices. Conversely, wifi-based pairing is mostly a disaster. So much that even respected brands can’t get it right.

sndrtj,

I uninstalled it when they started forcing logins. It’s basically a glorified curl anyway.

sndrtj,

Sync stopped working on reddit.

sndrtj,

It’s just an elaborate scheme for Facebook/Meta not to pay any taxes.

sndrtj,

That’s about time.

sndrtj,

This is far more likely to become the Do Everything App for the Western World than X/Twitter is.

sndrtj,

I’m so sorry for your loss!

sndrtj,

For the Netherlands: Katwijk, even had a genetic disease named after it.

nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katwijkse_ziekte

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog (blogs.microsoft.com)

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sndrtj,

I am so glad my PC does not support windows 11.

sndrtj,

I have never seen a fridge with an exposed loop like that.

sndrtj,

Absolutely not.

sndrtj,

Well my instance was defederated from lemmy.world last week - now restored - and that certainly was a lot less content. Otoh, I found some new communities in the meantime that previously got swamped out by lemmy.world content.

Maybe people should not use the defederation option so quickly. Try to find an amicable solution first.

sndrtj,

Lycophytes aren’t ferns.

Also tree ferns - not trees, but superficially resemble them - still exist.

At the same time, the largest extant lycophytes are maybe several tens of cm large, with most being far smaller.

sndrtj,

I’ve found that basically every topic I’m knowledgeable in is usually portrayed badly in most media. I imagine it’s the same most basically all fields.

sndrtj,

I once visited the church in Paris that features in the Da Vinci Code. They were absolutely not happy with all the tourists asking about the book.

sndrtj,

And the vvd is seriously flirting with the idea of 6.

sndrtj,

Gooseberries are found in several traditional recipes from southern Netherlands, but most supermarkets no longer carry the fruit.

sndrtj,

Since this week I get some form of ad in the github diff viewer. “Copilot is available for purchase for you organization”. Horrible.

sndrtj,

Well flights are indeed way too cheap.

sndrtj,

Mostly in a corporate setting.

sndrtj,

Same!

What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?

For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

sndrtj,

Chitin is not produced by mammals.

Fingernails are composed primarily out of keratin (same as hair and skin).

sndrtj,

Anecdata I know, but all my purchases with Temu have been a positive experience so far. Yes dirt cheap with questionable quality items, but delivery is much quicker than e.g. Amazon. That said, I didn’t use a credit card but iDeal instead (Dutch system, much harder to fraud).

sndrtj,

We have these breaking news tv screens all over the lunch room. I absolutely hate it, can I please enjoy my lunch in peace?

sndrtj,

That is a really good analogy.

sndrtj,

Oh it hurts how many of these are recognizable.

sndrtj,

That’s already pretty likely, given multiple devices per person.

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