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casparzon Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically

Haha, never noticed it on my PC when submitting it. I could not find an English article anywhere, finally stumbled on this page. The Wikipedia page has a short paragraph as of yesterday, so that might be a better source.

casparzon Dutch storm surge barrier closes automatically

The Maeslantkering closed automatically for the first time since its completion in 1998.

casparzon Hostage Situation at Apple Store in Amsterdam

These guys are so dumb, the apple store is literally 600m from the police headquarters in Amsterdam. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/52.3684774,4.8780756/52.3638...

casparzon Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

Exactly this. I don’t have published numbers to back the following, but we expect them after the weekend. Over half of ICU admitted covid-19 patients in the Netherlands are <50 years old. I get this information from friends and colleagues working in several hospitals. If this turns out to not be a fluke, the young are much more affected by this corona virus vs normal flu.

casparzon Rubber concrete that self-seals and is cheaper and more environmentally friendly

They already do, with mixed results. This[1] is a coverage of a collaps of a parking structure in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Although it appears the plastic-ball filled concrete was not the cause, but they way they incorporated it into the building was. 1. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/technical-cause-of-...

casparzon The Horror of Microsoft Teams

A classmate did the same, although the outcome was far worse.

We studied at university in the medical faculty, which happened to be housed in the academic hospital. We found out the hard way that the network was not segregated, his netsend command crashed all the ICU terminals...

casparzon My smartphone as a shortcut helper

Exactly. What I'd like to have is a tool that analyzes what I do, and reminds me what shortcuts I can use to be more efficient. It would be awesome to have that on my smartphone screen like the solution on display here.

casparzon How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft

I got the same at first, seems some script removes it though. I see the content flashing by, i saved the content using wget and got the original page.

casparzon How Not to Encrypt a File – Courtesy of Microsoft

Luckily we have a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20170327154501/https://support.m...

casparzon The woes of Windows 10

Stopped reading at: "There is no question that Windows 10 is an impressive piece of software, and quite the most secure operating system ever devised."

casparzon A Plan for a Long-Term Stock Exchange

In addition to that, they are well underway to supporting HL7 FHIR (the new version of HL7).

casparzon Chip Credit Cards Give Retailers Another Grievance Against Banks

Come visit Holland. Chip+PIN takes as long as it takes to enter the pin (max5s). Only some mobile terminals in low reception spots take between 10-20s.

And now with wireless PIN transactions less than €25 are instantaneous. And above again take the time to enter the PIN.