GrumpyNl

611 karma · joined February 21, 2016

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GrumpyNl··on Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

That page inserts a lot of pages to hijack the back button.

GrumpyNl··on The vital art of talking to strangers (2021)

Walking your dog ( its cute and small) makes a big difference.

GrumpyNl··on Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown

I did not mean it that way, i was just mentioning the first comment, because it gives a good view on it.

GrumpyNl··on Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown

With crypto comes ransomware, how would they pull that off without crypto?

GrumpyNl··on Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown

You should read the first comment on that article.

GrumpyNl··on There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other

Thanks, i just registered with Wise.

GrumpyNl··on There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other

I would like to know that to, lots of my payments go through paypal.

GrumpyNl··on The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

Listening to a few of them, im amazed in what bad shape text to speech technology is. After all these years it still sounds robotic.

GrumpyNl··on People Sitting on Stoops on a Fine Day in New York City in the Late 1970s

Had to look it up, but stoop comes from the Dutch word stoep, pronounced exactly the same.

GrumpyNl··on Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall from Grace

Whenever there is money to be made, people corrupt. Why do you think Sothebys would be any different?

GrumpyNl··on Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples

You can just click continue reading without leaving your email.

GrumpyNl··on West Point discovers time capsule from 1828

Its a empty box.

GrumpyNl··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox

Why the big panda at the top, i dont get it.

GrumpyNl··on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

When your queries become slow because of joins, you havent designed your table structures properly.

GrumpyNl··on The process of making fake food [video]

Thats the good thing in Japan, the food you buy actually looks like the food on display. I have never had a hamburger from McDonalds that looked like the hamburger advertised.

GrumpyNl··on EasyDropzoneJS – open-source JavaScript library for drag&drop files

Looks good, i would hide the button and make the dropzone area clickable.

GrumpyNl··on Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

That's me, got fired 4 years before retirement. Made them rich. Young guys came in, it all had to be rebuild in microservices. Last press release, they have tripled their staff, financial turnover went down, the new system is working but is lacking the functionality of the old systems. All the pitfalls i warned them fore and got me fired, became reality.

GrumpyNl··on Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time

Whats the url, maybe we can help.

GrumpyNl··on The force that shapes everything around us: Parking

This is a real USA problem.

GrumpyNl··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain

Free market has destroyed the affordability of healthcare.

GrumpyNl··on The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge

There is no magic, they are illusions, good ones, but not magic.

GrumpyNl··on 3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems

When its only a financial fine, nothing will change. Things will change when criminal charges would apply to the ceo's.

GrumpyNl··on Thunderbird 115

Looks like you didnt read the article.