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gerryflap

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  • How did you treat COVID-19?

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  • Maybe this is part of Dutch culture, but both me and most people I know aren't to big on taking any medication unless necessary. Doctors will also generally advice to just take some rest an dget better, unless there's medicine that is really necessary.

    So idk, both times I just laid in bed feeling very tired and fucked up for a week, maybe took some paracetamol every now and then, and just waited for it to blow over. The second time I got it, which was during omicron, things did get a bit spooky. At some point I started struggling a bit with breathing. I noticed that I was getting tired just from breathing, so I told myself that of this stayed for too long or got worse I'd call a doctor. But luckily that didn't happen, and it all got better again after a few days.

    For me the main focus was getting good rest and energy. Using (good) nose spray to make sure I could breathe well when sleeping, using paracetamol when sleeping, and eating and drinking enough even if I really didn't want to. I also slept around 10-14 hours per day at the peak, just because I was super duper tired

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    When Hexbear finds out Nazi stands for National Socialism

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  • Tankies are definitely also authoritarian, and they also oppose anything western and democratic, but that doesn't make them Nazi's. Don't forget that the Soviet Union also murdered a lot of people out of the name of communism. These two ideologies oppose each other in many ways, even if the end result in both cases is horrible.

  • Spelling wasn't part of the curriculum

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  • Where can I enroll for the non-binary nap time?

  • 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030

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  • When I was a student I never understood how something like this could happen. "Just rewrite it" I thought, how hard can that be. But working in a corporate environment I now totally understand it. Everything you write will at some point become part of code that, to the fast majority of colleagues, will just be a black box that they've never touched and don't intend to. Despite my urge to test and document everything, I've already more than once complained about my own code, only realizing later that I wrote it myself. Often you can still find out what it does, but the "why" gets lost and because of that people are afraid to change it.

  • Do you prefer the headphone jack to be at the top or at the bottom on a phone, and why?

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  • Honestly it doesn't really matter to me. Depending on whether it's on the top or bottom I'll just put my phone in my pocket to make it point upward when I use it. I tend to use Bluetooth anyway most of the time, so the headphone jack is mostly there as backup and for connecting other audio devices at parties etc.

  • What is your idea of a perfect day off?

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  • I have nothing else to do, no external worries, and I feel motivated to work on my hobbies (programming, music production). Then I'll spend most of the day working on said hobbies, learning some new things and creating/adding something cool. Then in the evening I'll do something fun with friends. Maybe at some point I'll go for a walk or run.

  • How do we tell him ?

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  • Do people really constantly copy-paste code? If I don't know something I'll look it up, but then I'll read the answer and apply it to the code I'm writing rather than copying it directly. I rarely see a piece of code that I can copy over directly into what I'm doing, and even if I can it's usually not thr best idea because the naming etc would be inconsistent

  • Machine Learning

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  • I like how specifically this relates to my experience with the discount factor gamma in Reinforcement Learning. Like, pretty close to the exact numbers (though missing 0.99 and 0.999)

  • What’s the last thing you’ve done that’s made you ask “Am I stupid?”

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  • I'm a programmer, so this is pretty much a constant thing haha. Sometimes you write the smartest shit imaginable, and sometimes you waste 4 hours on something extremely simple.

  • Jan Smit

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  • The Dutch John Smith. Very common first and last names here.

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  • Right now I'm basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It's a game in the Total Annihilation "tree" of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can't believe it's an open source game. It's still in alpha, but it's been way more stable than most AAA games I've been playing recently.

  • Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

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  • Isn't it to make sure that you're not mixing two incompatible chargers? I have 2 Philips chargers that do fit (as far as I can see), but are not the same voltage. I've previously also had something like this where 2 fitting chargers were completely different electrically, one 12V AC and the other 9V DC. One time a family member mixed them up, bit luckily the extra voltage didn't fry anything. I don't mind having to get an extra charger of it prevents me from doing something dumb and frying my electronics.

  • Functional bros be like

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  • Ngl, it'd solve a lot of bugs

  • Automobirule

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  • Imo it's more the other way around, but that's not necessarily bad. Arch (and Linux in general) gives you a lot more control, while windows tries to block the user from touching the internals. In my experience Arch breaks more often though, but when it breaks I can usually fix it. In Windows things usually work, but when they don't work you might be kinda screwed because the internals aren't that easy to reach.

  • Meat.

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  • Yeah because everything in the world is binary and there can't ever be nuance.

    I'm reducing my meat intake, but I do still eat meat every now and then. When I do, I tend to consider the impact on animal welfare and the environment. Eating meat from an animal that has lived relatively free and happy life is a lot better to me than one that has been locked inside for most of it's life.

  • Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down

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  • I don't have the data to back it up, but as someone who lives in the Netherlands I can tell you that e-bikes definitely seem like a problem. People who ride a normal bike to go somewhere definitely don't go faster than 15 kph on average. You totally can do so if you want, just like you can run everywhere instead of walking, but then you might arrive sweaty and out of breath. E-bikes allow people who don't usually have the physical strength to cycle that fast to suddenly go 25 kph without much effort. Especially children and elderly are a problem. The bikes are heavy, meaning that they're hard to control for these groups. And children and elderly also both often lack the awareness of their surroundings needed for driving this fast. I've seen many dangerous situations where these groups on an e-bike yeet into a crossing, suddenly have to brake due to other traffic that they failed to account for, and then almost fall over or crash.

    E-bikes have a way too large speed difference with normal bikes, and imo they're definitely a danger. Anything that makes them slower is imo a good thing.

  • Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders abandons PM bid

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  • This doesn't change that much. They're still forming a cabinet, it's just a different construction. The prime minister doesn't have any extra power or anything, his party is still the same size and will still have the same influence

  • are you a rule?

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  • Shit, another existential crisis. At least I'll forget about it soon

  • This shouldn’t be normalised

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  • Ridiculous. How can someone write "we value your privacy" and then share data with 807 partners. If I share anything with 8 people I pretty much consider it public information already, unless I have a very good reason to trust them. Sharing something with 807 companies is probably less private than taking all that data, putting it up on a billboard, and placing that billboard next to the busiest place in town.