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One other difference between Germany and the Netherlands is that the Netherlands also has volunteers at the police. Those people often work 2 days in the week and get a small compensation for it. They are given the option to work fulltime and get paid fulltime when they do that for a few years. Next to that they must follow all the same trainingen en exercises as a normal police officers.

An Example for your Example. Yes i'm one of those people who tried to keep his old electricity meter the longest time possible. I have 36 solar panels installed on my roof and the old disk meter just rotated backwards when I was not using all that electricity during the day. The new meter, that i could only delay a year or 2, is electronic and does not give me anything when I push energy to the net all day. The government in my country can give you money for that energy but that would be the raw price without any tax and the energy you use later on the day still has tax on it so that does not really help, The tax is also 80 to 90% of the price.

So I hope that gives some perspective why people may prever to keep an old system around and not be forced by a big company to change it.

My bachelor study in IT / Sofware Engineering had a required communications class every semester. It was pretty useless it was all about conventions, What does a letter look like. How many words should be in a power point. Just the boring stuff. But one insight that I still remember and use nowadays is that if you find it hard to talk to people, then you should just use more conventions: Say hello more often to get yourself in a talking mood, having nothing to talk about anymore? just look around, observe something and say, hey i see ...

I do not have any book recommendations but I hope these tricks that work for my (tiny bit autistic) brain may help you.

Nice tutorial. One small tip for the website maker. in the header you have the home button as <a href="index.html">Legion CPU</a> instead of <a href="/index.html">Legion CPU</a> so it gives a 404 because its appending it to the url.

Based on the title the first thing that popped in my mind was https://www.aseprite.org/ there source code is freely available to anyone https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/ and if you search some more you can find how to install it at https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/INSTALL.md But none of these links are easy to find and the installation is not that simple either. Is this way of doing things good/bad? I just do not really know how to feel about it. It's partly better then not having the option available, but, i just don't know to feel about it.

I'm using an old version of codium. But thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out when I ever have to use VisualStudio again or when it gets added to vs code.

A lot of IDE's and editors already support autocomplete, intellisense or something similar. I think AI generated code is never going to work but implemented as a autocomplete it can be helpful. I am using https://www.tabnine.com/ for vs code now and that works nice but its very limited The thing that i'm mostly missing are configuration for the aggression and length of the provided options.

1: required health insurance: €120/month but I get 100 euro from the government so €20/month 2: a server at DigitalOcean: €5/month and domain names at TransIP €3.65/month 3: prepaid phone bill (€10 to €15)/year

In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.

If anyone is interested in making a Gameboy game from scratch. Tonc is basically the resource that everyone is using to do that. https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/

For chrome you have a flag chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark It makes thinks dark but for my tastes the contrast is too high so I combine it with DarkReader to smooth it out more. This flag is not perfect, QR codes are for example not readable anymore by any scanner.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

solo it works also great in FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

When you open a new tab you may still get a white flash to prevent this you can use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whiteslash-white-b...

the hand drown styles and specifically the old anime tv shows such as Pokemon always fascinated me. In the last 2 years I have been learning OpenGL and other general Graphics and I hope to do a master in that area after the summer break. In that master i would like to study how a programmers could recreate that style. If anyone has any suggestions or has links to games / resources where they try to recreate that old water color / gouache style than that would be very helpfull.

I can recommend this very much. Together with https://learnopengl.com/ I learned most I know about graphics.

The same thread in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19895218

Go also has good support and Java has http://teavm.org/ and JWebAssembly. There is also the general https://wasmer.io/ for using web-assembly in any language. They claim they have good support for other languages like Python and PHP but I personally never tested that.

The original source article https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kamerleden-spra... has some interesting remarks. Because there are no video recordings its very hard to investigate this situation. The article also asks the question if it was: just an actor, a deepfake or an actor with general video altering software and that there is no way of knowing without the source material.

An other video in the personal time of the Dutch Prime minister https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/23/door-schrijver-gepublic... (disable JS for no paywall) there was a similar situation. Many people thought it was a deepfake or that the voice was altered or copied from an other video but later the government put out an statement that the video was real.

I wanted to share this because I saw multiple people claim that PGP may solve all problems but the problem is both ways. Real videos are also being labeled as deepfakes. So yes PGP will help solve a part of the problem but there is a bigger trust issue that needs to be solved.

USD is the Universal Scene Description that pixar coined a few years ago. it wants to be gltf but more for exchanging files between graphics packages. The general idea is that many graphics packages do things a tiny bit different and that means every package has basically his own file format. So the idea for this format is to store anything you need to open a 3d scene and work on it in the file. So not only all the models and textures are there such as a fbx or gltf file would have, but also all the bones, animations, lights and light settings are in the file.

Because the files can become really big in the graphics world and because it one more standard on the pile of standard developers often use different names for USD. They might add the letter p in front for Pixar. but the most common is to use the USDz extension basicly the file is now a zip file just like a jar is.

When I worked as a freelance webdeveloper a few years ago I always asked a designer to make a design and talk to the client about it. Then i got the design an it would take the sass or less code of bootstrap and change all the variables to match the color and look. Then i would copy and past something together that roughly looks likt the design and i would add custom css and javascript to make it look exactly how the design was.

So my advice would be start with an design or idea and after that is done start coding.

I have some limited experience in naval war ship combat software. There are many systems on a ship that can be fully automatic and that was even true before AI was a thing. The Goalkeeper https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper from the 80's is for example a fully automatic gun that can take out incoming attacks but also make strategic attacks. This system has to be turned on manually and a chief has to approve to the maximum capabilities such as the maximum amount of bullets the system is allowed to use. Other software already can give the operations team the advice to enable it without using fancy AI. But the command still has to travel by 3 people before it can be turned on. This is mostly because of safety. So I expect that the same will happen in other fields. A human probably has to get the advice from the machine and decide if an other machine is allowed to do a thing.

In northern Europe its even more insane. Germany is closing 6 nuclear power plants earlier because of what happend after Fukushima. And they will switch to Lignite / brown coal. The energy companies took the state to court because of potential money loss, and they won 2.4 billion euro in damages. Meanwhile in the Netherlands more and more politicians want nuclear energy in the national energy mix because biomass, wind and solar is not growing fast enough to meet the Paris agreement.

I think it all depends on what kind of software you are making / supporting.

The game industry is a famous example where scrum just does not work. There are to many pipelines and to many disciplines, and everything depends on shipping.

So in the game / VFX industry there is most of the time a strict waterfall structure that does not help you to do scrum. If the hours a team is spening on a sprint is not the same every time then you are just using postid notes to track the progress. (crunch hours are unfortunately very common in the game industry)

So in general I would say, Scrum/Agile is definitely beneficial if you are shipping multiple versions of a product. But if its all about shipping 1 final product or if the time team members are going to work on it is not specified then you are just using it to track you progress and it is therefor not any better then good communication.

Nice website. It was only not clear to me what the home page was or how I could browse a list of examples or other peoples work. But maybe that association is just because i'm used to shadertoy.

I'm not an expert, just an user, and have the Bresser Spica 130/1000 myself. I use it roughly once a month and it works great, but it could have bean any other telescope.

The advice I would like to give you is to start your journey with the question, what do you want to do with the telescope?

- Look at stars planets etc.. - Buy a Reflector based telescope

- Also want to look at animals - Buy a Refractor based telescope

- Do you want to make it a new hobby and take it with you to friends - Buy a Compound based telescope

- Already in photography - Buy a telescope with a camera mount NO phone mounts

- More interested in the journey of making things and testing it - buy a telescope kit

- Do you have more then 400 dollars to spend - buy a cheap one first and then buy a good one with the money that is left after a few months.

I hope that will help you with your journey.

Anything Computer Graphics and tools and websites that i personally have used. I upvote roughly 3 times a week and flag 1 post a month. I visit the homepage multiple times on a day.

edit) I also block a lot of links that are on hackernews. My blocking script removes about 1 to 5 links from the homepage. I use ublock origin with the following trick

news.ycombinator.com##table.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(/ PaaS /)

news.ycombinator.com##table.itemlist > tbody > tr.athing:has-text(/ PaaS /)+tr

The words That I block are the following:

PaaS, ISP, ISPs, sell, city, F#, Delphi, Covid-19, PEP, Perl, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, DNS, Face ID, Touch ID, iOS, SaaS, ECommerce, DRM, firmware, Zoom, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Twitter, Quora, Instagram, Facebook, Uber, TikTok, AWS, GraphQL, Business Model, drugmakers, police, Cloud, Heroku, FreeBSD, Java, Swift, startup, java, React, Angular, Show HN:, Launch HN:, hiring, GPS, Hiring, techcrunch.com, .js, advertising, Caddy, cybernetics, Clojure, leaders, CS50, vice.com, ycombinator.com,

knowing what kind of structure a rectangle on your satellite image is, is also a big problem. A shed or car looks roughly the same. So I would say it's more about getting better Satellite and plain images + combining that with knowledge about the area and government.

My experience with OSM is limited I only contributed a few times to the data in a local city in the Netherlands. I also used the xml data export only a few times for small experiments a long time ago. but from my experience is see the following:

* If many people enjoying or live somewhere they will update it very fast and accurate. Way beyond google and apple will ever have. (If a bench is placed somewhere else on a school campus then it will most likely be update within a few days, from my experience at least)

* Small structures are detectable on air and satellite images but it is really hard to know what kind of structure it is.

* Data from the dutch local governments do, from what I see on OSM, often contain good updates on new buildings. But if something old is changed. (Like a temporary school building is removed then that change is not reflected by a data update from the goverment, and it is often removed by a user after a while) So getting better data from the governments is probably a thing.

* A lot of layers are build on top of OSM. For example if a building is easy to use as a person who uses a wheelchair and if there toilet is wheelchair friendly. My ex-girlfriend was in a wheelchair so I used a app for that a lot. But she never used It. They app was very slow and had a strange UI. So changing the data of custom layer on top of OSM with better tools is hopefully going to be a thing.

* Users use it mostly because they like to contribute. Google has the power to send many people notification questions about places where they have been. OSM does not have this power.

* I would dare to say that OSM is already way more precise then google or apple maps. But users do not always care about that. The big driver for me to keep using google maps is that I often just want to go somewhere, and to go somewhere means that I want to travel by using the train or bus (after covid). In the case i'm in the city I want to know how long it takes to go somewhere by bike or by foot. In the case i'm going to a new city I often want to see how something looks and Google streetview or general images are better then a map. Google prioritizes all that information above having a more accurate map.

So no I do not think it's about getting more people involved. I think it's more about what kind of user does the platform want to have.

I had to use some Mule software to pass a class in university and it was the absolute worst. So I doubt the experience with this tool will be any better.

A nice, I do the same but I convert all books, papers and powerpoints to pdf files with a rondom name or i use a hash of the content as name. Then in use ripgrepall with fzf to search for the information i'm looking for.

My grandma who lives near Amsterdam always told me most people who live in Amsterdam know the museum more from the biking lane that goes through it then the art that is inside it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjgyL6aUOcc this is a video of the Rijksmuseum and the bike line through it.

that sounds interesting do you have any links? or insights to why it did not work out?

Just a random question. But is it common that SWE is used as a shorthand for Software Engineering? In the Netherlands I always have seen the shorthand SE instead.

I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end (but you can add it anywhere) and it automatically searches the same thing in Google.

Some examples of things I personally thing DDG could improve / is different then Google:

- DDG gives the feeling they prefer wikipedia over stack overflow. Stack overflow ranks often second.

- GLSL shaders. DDG does not index websites such as shadertoy. Example search for "Gold Noise Uniform Random"

- indexing Youtube and other videos. It takes up to 2 days before new youtube videos show up if you search for a video. Example a mcdonalds burned down in my city a few weeks ago so I searched for videos and photos. It did not find any videos only photos and articles. Google found a few videos including once on a dutch news website.

- Visual search and reverse image lookup is not that great. Only in Bing you can search for a video based on a image DDG and Google both can not do that. So both could improve that.

- DDG sometimes gives the feeling not enough people have searched for something, This feeling is more a feeling then a real thing. This is mostly because Google finds a lot of spelling / typo's in your search query and DDG appears to only repairs it until it contains valid words. Example search for "A apple a day keps the", Google corrects AN and KEEPS but DuckDuckGo only corrects KEEPS.

- Old websites are not indexed that well. Example if you are developing a gameboy advance game it takes a while before you find Tonc (one of the best resources regarding GBA development). With google this experience is terrible as well but it takes less time to find some good things.